BBC – What interests me most, coverage-wise, are the front-line reports from correspondents. Here are the combined Weblogs of the BBC’s front-line correspondents. I am checking this several times a day???
Background – Shock and Awe – Where the term comes from???
- Daily Telegraph: Shock and awe ‘kills will to fight’
Background – Strategy – Thomas Ricks reviews the battle plan.
- Washington Post: A Daring Race to Baghdad
Background – Strategy – John Keegan reviews the battle plan.
- Daily Telegraph: Battle plan on the road to Baghdad
Background – Strategy – Ralph Peters on the challenges facing Iraq’s generals; and how the decapitation strike against Saddam portends a revolution in how wars are to be conducted.
- New York Post: Revolutionary War
Background – Diplomacy – Ralph Peters on how this war will help change diplomacy in the future.
- New York Post: The War That Will Change the World
Background – Information War – How the US is waging its information war.
Background – Information War – James Dunnigan on how Saddam is waging his information war.
- StrategyPage: Saddam’s Information Weapons
Royal Australian Navy – Australia discovers mines before they are laid by Iraq in the Gulf.
US Navy – Aboard the USS Harry S. Truman.
- Virginian Pilot: Carrier Truman readies for war roles
US Navy – The Navy is playing a key role in the airwar through its Tomahawk cruise missiles.
- Associated Press: Navy Launches 320 Cruise Missiles at Iraq
Royal Marines and US Marines – The battle for the port of Umm Qasr.
Royal Marines and US Marines – The battle for the oil fields in Southern Iraq.
- Daily Telegraph: Key victory as oilfields secured by allied troops
- Daily Telegraph: Marines defy hail of fire to lead assault
- Washington Post: Marines Seize Major Iraqi Oil Facility
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