ys consists of different military strategies examined as possible methods of stopping Hussein. Other ways the United States explored include Flexible Response, Forward Defense and Containment. General Norman Schwarzkopf quickly led the United Nation Coalition into the middle-East. The forces are the military resources of the Means. The US force alone included over 527,000 personnel.Protecting and enforcing the National Security Objectives required Military Strategy. The United States used the strategy of Sequential and Cumulative. Imposing sanctions on August 6, 1990 the United States crippled Iraq. The sanctions, were then made more forceful by the naval blockades, and embargo. Disease was the direct result of starving people in Iraq. The United States knew that by controlling the level of medicine being imported, cholera, typhoid and dysentery would grow to epidemic proportions. All trade to and from Iraq, medicine and food became weapons. The next step was the declaration of Desert Storm.The cumulative approach utilized air raids and Cruise missiles. An article in Time magazine discusses how targets are chosen for raids, Within a week, the bombers began zeroing in on what allied commanders calculated to be Iraq’s center of gravity... the allied commanders decided that in this war the center of gravity is the Republican Guard, the well-trained, highly mobile 150,000-man force that Saddam relies on for operational flexibility near Kuwait (Fischer, Peterzell, van Voorst 36).Iraqi air bases, communication systems, and command control centers along the Kuwait and Saudi boarder were also hit, in order to degrade Iraq’s command. Triumph Without Victory states, “On the final night of the war, two U.S. Air Force bombers dropped specially designed bombs on a command bunker near Baghdad in a deliberate attempt to kill Saddam Hussein- despite repeated denials by the White House...” (3). Many people, includin...
