Complete Seize within 48 HOURS

Simultaneous Campaign in the Air and on the Ground = Time Magazine described the second Gulf war as ‘Big Bang’, The plan is launching around 3000 of smart, satellite-guided bombs attack, almost simultaneously followed by U.S. land troops heading Northern and Southern Iraq and then advance to Baghdad. Land Troops would pour into Iraq through 3 directions from Kuwait, Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq and Jordan seizing all directions.

Their biggest goal is to dismantle Scud missiles which has high possibility of firing at Israel, Kuwaitm and Saudi Arabia and protect oil wells in Basra, Kirkuck, and Mosul, etc.

Also dismantling the concealed weapons of mass destruction by sending U.S. special-operations forces is important. Minimizing deaths of human shields and civilians is also important. They would also carry out psychological warfare such as distributing leaflets to Iraqi troops and recruit from civilians.

As described in the film ‘Black Hawk Down’ to avoid street fight where friendly forces’ damage is big, the plan is to attack main targets such and military sites and presidential palaces.

Biological and Chemical Weapons= The relatively weak Iraq’s means of counter attract would be using anti-war public opinion in the globe, and biological and chemical Weapons. The first resistance line would be Nasiria adjacent to Southern Basra. It is told that civilian costumed army are on standby. Strategy of Iraq is delaying the advance to Baghdad as much as possible by missile and rocket attack.

Saddam Hussein is depending on is 60,000 republic troops, in particular on the 15,000 Special Republican Guard and the Special Security. He has already sent 10,000 republican troops to his hometown of Tikrit. The worst scenario is Iraq’s using Biological and Chemical Weapons. Although if they are used, they will do enormous damage, but as Saddam Hussein has claimed Iraq does not have biological and chemical weapons, it will only give more justification of war on Iraq to the US and Saddam would no longer be able to rely on global public opinion on anti-war.

The civilian carnage broadcast where Iraqi solder fakes to be allied possibly would appear on al-Jazeera TV or they may use western journalists and relief workers in Baghdad as their human shields.

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