Into the Storm: A Study in Command by Tom Clancy & Frederick M Franks

Author:Tom Clancy & Frederick M Franks [Clancy, Tom & Franks, Frederick M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Suspense, Thrillers, History, United States, Military, Biography, Strategy, War on Terrorism; 2001, Persian Gulf War (1991), Persian Gulf War; 1991
ISBN: 9780425196779
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2004-05-30T23:00:00+00:00

It is also important to note that Third Army HQ in Riyadh was three miles away from the CINC's underground war room. Most communications between Yeosock and Schwarzkopf were by phone.

Later commentators--including General Schwarzkopf--have claimed that from virtually the first moments of the G-Day attack, the U.S. Army should have been in "pursuit mode" rather than in what we call "movement to contact." More bluntly: they have accused VII Corps of failing to go into pursuit when we should have. However, you go into pursuit when your enemy is in retreat or fleeing. Though that's what Iraqi units elsewhere were doing, that was not the case with the RGFC. They were setting up a defense. Even if the CINC had told us to go into pursuit (which he did not do), it would have been a mistake. His concern should have been to isolate and cut off the RGFC, mostly by air, so that VII Corps and XVIII Corps could destroy them. Instead, he flew into a rage about how fast we were going, based on blue lines on a map in Riyadh that probably were not even accurately posted.

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