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In article <EGGERTJ.92Aug11134057@moses.atc.ll.mit.edu> eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug11.011856.26074@bony1.bony.com> jake@bony1.bony.com (Jake Livni) writes:

>>   They would've flown lower and recognized the decoys.  The Americans blew
>>   up a lot of decoys.  Israeli air tactics, as demonstrated in the attack 
>>   on the Osirak nuclear reactor, are characterized by precision, not 
>>   by the sledgehammer approaches regularly utilized by Americans.  While
>>   sledgehammers make lots of sparks fly and sure do smash things up,
>>   they often miss the point.

>Now Jake, certainly you recognize the vast difference between
>attacking the Osirak reactor and attacking the scud launchers.  The
>Osirak reactor doesn't move, scud launchers do.

Which is why low-flying, precision bombing as perfected by the Israeli
AF would have been effective here.

>The Osirak reactor is
>big, scud launchers are little.

Which is even more reason for the Israelis to have done a better job
of it.

>The Osirak reactor attack allowed
>considerable planning time, the scud launcher attacks did not.  

What do you think Bush and Schwarzkopf did for 6 months?  Before it
was know as Desert Storm, it was Desert Shield, you know.

>The
>Osirak reactor site was infiltrated by Israeli spies, the scud
>launcher sites probably were not.

Firstly, you don't know this for sure (or else you're going in with
Pollard tomorrow.)

Secondly, the kind of ElInt (Electronic Intelligence) that the US has
come to rely on more and more is becoming quite unreliable.  HumInt
(Human Intelligence), something the US has screwed up on big in 
recent decades, not just in the Middle East, is something that the
Israelis are pretty good at (and used to share with the crooks in the
White House and Pentagon, until Pollard pointed out that Israel was
being cheated in the deal).  Therefore, it seems likely that Israel
would not have wasted as many smart bombs with pin-point accuracy as
the Americans seem to have done on plywood mockups and inflatable
plastic decoys.

If you recall during the war, almost every day the Pentagon claimed
that Iraq only had one or two dozen SCUD launchers and that almost
all of them had been destroyed on that day.  After a few days of this,
with more and more Iraqi SCUD attacks, it became obvious that the
Pentagon didn't have a clue where the SCUD launchers really were.  In
the end, the UN will have destroyed more SCUD launchers than the USAF
ever could.  Sorry to disappoint you.


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Jake Livni  jake@bony1.bony.com               Pat Paulsen for President
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