Unlike its highly leveraged competitors that gorged on loans to build up land banks, Godrej Properties has an asset-light business: It owns only 15% of the land that it is currently developing.

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The experience in Desert Shield demonstrated that limits on lift assets and the lack of prepositioned equipment affects the ability to deploy any but light land forces to halt the aggression.

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