kimerajamm
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 Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 9:01 am Post subject: Wafra oil fields, |
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As the air campaign continued, the Coalition's expectations of an Iraqi offensive decreased. As a result, the United States redeployed the XVIII Airborne Corps and the VII Corps 480 kilometers (300 mi) to the west. The Coalition's leadership believed that should an Iraqi force go on the offensive, it would be launched from the al-Wafra oil fields, in Southern Kuwait.[18]
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Coalition and Iraqi units deployed in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations, as of 24–28 February 1991
The Iraqi Army had between 350,000 and 500,000 soldiers in theater,[19] organized into 51 divisions, including eight Republican Guard divisions.[20] Republican Guard units normally received the newest equipment;[20] for example, most of the estimated 1,000 T-72 tanks in the Iraqi Army on the eve of the war were in Republican Guard divisions.[21] The Iraqi Army in the Kuwaiti Theater of Operations (KTO) also included nine heavy divisions, composed mostly of professional soldiers, but with weapons of a generally lesser grade than those issued to the Republican Guard
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