Condition Zebra: The Next War - 2025 (Kirov Series Book 49) by John Schettler

Author:John Schettler [Schettler, John]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2020-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

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Needless to say, after this first great butting of the heads between the armies of Iraq and Saudi Arabia, the Royal Family in Riyadh was somewhat nervous. The new front line was now just 120 kilometers from the big oil center of Al Jubayl, where there were oil refineries and terminals at Port Fahd, pump stations, tank farms, power generation facilities and two airfields, Abu Ali and a much bigger field at King Abdul Aziz AFB. Fifty more kilometers south on the coast was the even bigger terminal port of Ras Tanura and the major supply hub of Dammam.

General Scott looked over the map, thinking the new defensive front looked solid. It was shorter, more compressed, and this time largely composed of Saudi troops, without a weak center, as the Kuwati troops were mostly off the line now. The US was now making a full court diplomatic press to get Qatar and the UAE to commit to the support of the Saudis. Qatar, with a small army, nonetheless agreed to send five battalions, but the Emirates came through in a much bigger way, with five full brigades.

News of that commitment was a great relief to the General, and in spite of a nervous King Salman, he assured the Saudis that they had the means to hold. US advisors were being moved forward to the front to coordinate with Saudi forces, and see if they could not impart something of the fine art of mobile combined arms combat to them. The first thing they advised was that the Kingdom’s good armored brigades needed to be integrated with mechanized infantry at all times, and never fight without it.

That night, the 2nd BCT of the 82nd Airborne Division would land at Prince Sultan / Al Kharj AFB southeast of Riyadh, and it would soon be given orders to get moving north….

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