Before he took over the Army's top post in November 1998, Shinseki spent his career with U.S. armored forces.
As a practical matter, Saddam Hussein had to move his massed armored forces through Kuwait to get at Saudi Arabia in any meaningful way.
More than a dozen Egyptian soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded in an August 5 attack near the Rafah border crossing, when assailants with semiautomatic weapons and hand grenades stole two armored vehicles from Egyptian forces and tried to enter Israel.
The raid comes a week after 16 Egyptian soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded in an attack near the Rafah border crossing, when assailants with semiautomatic weapons and hand grenades stole two armored vehicles from Egyptian forces and tried to enter Israel.
After the shooting overnight, Macedonian police remained in their trenches and armored personnel carriers, and NATO forces patrolled the areas.
Dubbed Operation Thunder Blitz, it involved U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, and Iraqi forces from the 1st Battalion, 2nd Commando Brigade (Wolf Battalion), the military said.
In such a scenario, the United States would have needed to provide not only a significant, possibly the largest fraction of air and naval forces required, but also significant armored formations, air defense units, and even logistical formations.
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Then, to cap it off, we find out that DHS, through the U.S. Army Forces Command, recently purchased and retrofitted 2, 717 Mine-Resistant Armored Protection (MRAP) vehicles formerly used for counterinsurgency in Iraq.
Long convoys of armored vehicles are making their way back from forward bases as combat outposts are closed or transferred to Afghan security forces.
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