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BRIEF HIATUS I'm out of

BRIEF HIATUS

I'm out of town working this weekend. Posting to resume Sunday afternoon.

NOTES FROM THE MORNING TV

NOTES FROM THE MORNING TV NEWS

CNN reports the Guard's Hammurabi Division is shifting to face south, and the Adnan Division is coming down from the north. The Medina Division, the main roadblock to Baghdad's perimeter at the moment (see map) is reportedly at 65 per cent strength.

The Marines' secondary thrust from Nasiriyah to Kut has reportedly reached Qal at Sukkar. Map updated. They should be close now to the Republican Guard Baghdad Division, which I believe to be in positions in and north of Hayy. The main Marine thrust is now northwest of Diwaniyah, and may have already cut that city off. Marines with that formation report they're down to one meal a day's rations.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Meanwhile, COSCOM itself has only 150 heavy transport trucks for an operation that Army planners estimate requires 700. 'We're going to war not with what we need, but with what we have on the ground, so we threw away the doctrinal books on this operation a long time ago,' said [logistics commander Brig. Gen. Charles] Fletcher, noting that his transport units also have far less maintenance support than normal." --seen on Carter's site.

HERE'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

HERE'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

In eight days of warfare we have yet to see a confirmed report of an Iraqi T-72 tank being destroyed. Not one. They have somewhere over 500 of them that can still move, as far as people can tell, all in the Guard divisions. The Medina Division, the one Guard division that's been engaged at all, certainly had 100-150 of them at least. They've been seen... just not engaged or killed yet. Not that the T-72's so special, but it is somewhat more dangerous than the tanks the Allies have been busting up, which have been only the 40 year-old T-55s so far. Just something to think about.