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#3707963 - 12/28/12 11:29 PM Re: General Schwarzkopf has died [Re: oldgrognard]  
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#3707976 - 12/28/12 11:51 PM Re: General Schwarzkopf has died [Re: oldgrognard]  
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#3707981 - 12/29/12 12:08 AM Re: General Schwarzkopf has died [Re: shan2]  
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The man changed the doctrine of all former Warsaw Pact (and their allied) nations with the butt-kicking he planned and executed. We're lucky to have had him in our service.


I can't think that's true.

General Donn Starry, not at all a household name, gets the credit formulating modern warfighing doctrine on a high intensity battlefield aganst a Red opponent before ODS. It doesn't make sense that Szhwartzkopf did anything to change the Warsaw Pact, since it dissolved just a few months later anyway- not as a response to ODS, but because the USSR collapsed.

It's really a moot point- maybe the USSR would reacted after observing such a one-sided victory, at the same time, they could have reasoned that Iraq did as reasonably well as it could have against the Coaltion, given the options available to them. It's doubtful that the Eastern Bloc would have changed their own theory of warfare from the bottom up. Their doctrine was based on fighting a war in Europe under different circumstances, with much different options available to them, not on Iraqi tactics.


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#3707994 - 12/29/12 12:31 AM Re: General Schwarzkopf has died [Re: oldgrognard]  
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#3708004 - 12/29/12 12:47 AM Re: General Schwarzkopf has died [Re: oldgrognard]  
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A great soldier and strategist. Jeez 78 isn't old, he's gone too soon.

I read a few histories of the Desert Storm campaign and Schwartkopf comes across as a hugely demanding CIC, treated his direct subordinates like Franks with zero tolerance for any error in speech or deed.

He was different with the actual combat troops, as another poster points out above.


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#3708764 - 12/30/12 01:16 PM Re: General Schwarzkopf has died [Re: oldgrognard]  
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