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- ATTACKED POWER PLANTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES

  -- OVER 65% OF IRAQ'S ELECTRICAL GENERATING FACILITIES ARE

     COMPLETELY INOPERATIVE AND ANOTHER 30% SUFFER DEGRADED

     OPERATIONS

  -- THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL GRID IS NON-OPERATIONAL

  -- CIVIL SERVICES HAVE BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTED IN BAGHDAD DUE

     TO DISRUPTION OF ELECTRIC POWER.


- OVER 75% OF IRAQ'S COMMAND, CONTROL AND COMMUNICATION FACILITIES

  HAVE BEEN STRUCK DURING OUR AIR CAMPAIGN

  -- AT LEAST iL2 OF THOSE ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED OR INOPERATIVE

  -- SADDAM HUSSEIN HAS BEEN FORCED TO SWITCH TO BACKUP SYSTEMS

         ARE FAR LESS EFFECTIVE

         MORE EASILY TARGETED

  -- WITHIN THE KTO;

         C3 IN THE CORPS HAS BEEN ROLLED UP.

         TACTICAL LANDLINE COMMS HAVE BEEN DISRUPTED
         DESTRUCTION OF VEHICLES AND LOCS IS HINDERING COURIERS


AIR DEFENSE
- DESPITE RECONSTITUTION EFFORTS, THE NATIONAL AIR DEFENSE NETWORK

  REMAINS SEVERELY DEGRADED.

  -- AIR DEFENSE C3 DEGRADATION HAS CAUSED A SHIFT IN STRATEGY FROM

     THE NATIONAL LEVEL TO LOCAL AREA.

  -- DESPITE REPAIR EFFORTS, THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF A

     RECONSTITUTED NATIONAL AIR DEFENSE C3 SYSTEM.

  -- RELIANCE ON AAA HAS INCREASED DUE TO THE IMPROPER USE OF SAMS.

     SAM CREWS CONTINUE TO LAUNCH MISSILES BALLISTICALLY (UNGUIDED)

     FOR FEAR OF DRAWING ATTENTION TO THEIR POSITION AND ATTRACTING

     ANTI-RADIATION MISSILES.


- F-117 REMAINING VIRTUALLY INVISIBLE WITH MORE THAN 1,300 SORTIES

  FLOWN OVER IRAQI AND KUWAIT.


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(INFORMATION CURRENT AS OF 27 FEB 1991)

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