European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes monday february 11,1991 Warin the Gulf at a glance a child cheers at a hero Day rally. Down to Earth Job sgt. Tyrone Tillery believes that if he and the other maintenance peo pie from the 1st tac fighter Wing did no to do their Job the pilots  do theirs. A Page 4 a. A ��.�����. A a a a a a a embargo ignored a German Magazine reports a Cologne based construction company broke the . Economic embargo of Iraq about 70 times delivering goods Worth $350,000. A Page 4rallies Back troops a tears flowed Down the Cheeks of former Vietnam prisoner of War Jeremiah Denton on saturday As he was greeted by College students waving american flags in one of dozens of rallies around the nation to show support for . Troops. A Page iraqis feeling pressure Kuwait s exiled leadership claims iraqi occupation forces in Kuwait enraged by constant Allied bombing have increased civilian executions and begun robbing families at gunpoint for food a a a a Page 6dod reports found lacking members of Congress say they done to know much More about the War than do careful followers of newspapers or television. Despite Pentagon briefings two or three times a week Seri. Nancy l. Kasse Baum r-kan., said a i done to know that we be Learned a lot More than we would have by watching the Pentagon briefings of the  a Page 7taking it to the top Matthe Tomczyk did t think writing to service members in. The persian Gulf was a bad idea. He just Felt that More could be accomplished if he wrote to the president. A Page 8 Fasching season a bust fear of terrorism spawned by the Gulf War has All but killed Germany a Winter  cancellation of the pre lenten carnivals is adding up to huge losses for Fasching carnival committees and the cities a Page 21 not your typical phone Booth Medio Pool Superman might find it difficult to change clothes without a tent that serves As a field1 Telephone Center. The satellite dish Telephone Booth but . Marines willingly line up outside a beams the marines Calls Back Home. Hard lessons of Quot Vietnam shaped Outlook of . Generals in Gulf by Ford Fessenden new Day for the cadre of top commanders in saudi Arabia operation desert storm is the crucial test of a Long drive to emerge from the quagmire of Vietnam. From the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Colin l. Powell 4o Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf to the two and three Star generals below them the commanders of the . War Effort were folded in a common Crucible a the trauma of Vietnam and a two decade struggle to recover from it. Virtually to a Man the generals in saudi Arabia served As Young lieutenants and captains in Vietnam and they watched the military a especially the army a suffer through drugs racial problems and popular condemnation. A the sense of seeing the army disintegrate is very Strong a to go from the army i saw in 1966 to just a drug Ridden rabble by the late �?T60s,�?� said retired col. Harry Summers author of a on strategy a critical analysis of the Vietnam War Quot and a contemporary of Many of the desert storm generals. A most of our generation blamed the senior leadership. We were determined that it would never happen to  the desert storm generals stayed in the service when Many demoralized colleagues left in the 1970s. They believe they have Learned the lessons of Vietnam defense experts and military historians said and Are eager to demonstrate it in Kuwait Quot they became convinced the civilian leaders were to blame for Vietnam. This War the civilian leaders gave it to them to win or lose. This is their War. No excuses a said George Friedman professor of political science and military strategy expert at Dickinson College in Carlisle a. Whether they have Learned the right lessons from Vietnam maybe determined in the Days to  already there has been some friction bom of the generals self assuredness. Air Force Gen Michael Dugan was fired in september for his  potential targets in the air Campaign. And Schwarzkopf a Deputy it Gen. Calvin . Waller created controversy when he said flatly in december that if asked he would Tell the president he did not think the troops would be ready to fight by the United nations Jan. 15 deadline. Schwarzkopf Heads a a unified pm Nianda Gen integration of assets from the four services under a single authority. Under him is a Headquarters command a Waller and the chiefs of the four service contingents in the theater it. Gens. John j. Yeosock of the army. Walter e. Boomer of the marines and Charles a. Horner of the air Force along with Navy vice adm. Stanley r. Arthur. Below y Yeosock and Boomer is a tier of mostly two Star generals. Virtually All of these top officers were tempered by Vietnam. Boomer commanded a Marine battalion. It. Gen. Gary e. Luck commander of the army so xviii airborne corps served three Tours. Some were wounded a it. Gen. Frederick m. Franks jr., a West Pointer who commands the Vii corps in saudi Arabia lost a leg while serving As a major in an armoured cavalry battalion in 1970. But even those who weren to wounded carry scars from Vietnam. Most served a first tour before 1966. A they rotated out went stateside and when they came Back to their old commands in Vietnam a few years late they  believe their eyes a the defeatism the drug addiction the anarchy a professor Friedman said. The army a went into a state of Shock in the 1970s, he said. Many promising officers left and those who stayed began a period of soul searching. A the . Army War College that had been teaching a management suddenly starts getting a strategy in its curriculum a Friedman said a but not Vietnam strategy. A a a it a world War ii. Its All oriented toward that kind of mid intensity conventional mechanized warfare a said William Mcbride a military historian at James Madison University in Harrisonburg a. That is the kind of Battle they arc preparing to fight in the Middle East. The generals believe in a strict construction of the military a role a to fight and win. They contend that fuzzy considerations such As politics that prevent them from exercising that role Are someone else s province a but at the same time they Are extremely sensitive to political implications