CENTCOM BRIEFING

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Subject: CENTCOM BRIEFING

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CF~i'W~I B~i~ring
Otneral Nc,r:nan Schwa~npf, ~SA
~riS. C3en. Du~ter Glosson~ USAF
Riyad*h, Saiidi Arabia
W~C!')C£day, January 30,199)   ):OOp.n~. ~ST)

O~mcraI Schwarzkopf: ~ood tvtrun£ ?~dics ~nd gcnLIcmcn. ~bank you far c~ning.

       At 3;OO o'clock tomonow ~nOTflIj)£1 Operation J)cs~ri Sioni1 will coinpicte its sccoi~d ~cek.
Last      AL ~ cnd of ~ Co;uplcb.on of ~ ~in~ w~k, S~cretary CI)Cflty and Ciencral Powell ~avc
~U ~lramssm~rn crn ~vbejt ~~ ~t~ ~L fli~i tin~e. T?~ ta~ta£t~~ ~nc :o~ye yDi) a £trnil~
assessment at d~ cnd of Lhc sccond wetk

      ~ti~c start ~y cOv~in~ ij~ carnpaign obj~ti~ts 10 ~~tc. (Ct)ans ~hown) I it~1izt t1~at ~tm~e
of~s~ ~ay be difficult to ~~ SO 1'fl ~o Ovtr 11:c~ ~uickly.

            In our ftrst phasc, what wc want~J to do was distupt lcadcrsl~lp coti~;jiaiid ~1t)d control;
      dostr~ ccn(r~lia~d U(~eC~isecomtizatid aiid tonrrol; attack ct,rnbai Alicrafi ~fl 110C air~nd on the
      ~`I ioac~t~i~vc ~ 5L~pUi()!ity; ~na£e nucJcar~ biolo~ca1. and chemictil £tata~ anci production
      capabflity; and conuucncc attack on (l~ Republican Cu~1s. Oncc wc bad that donc~ we planned io~o
      into a iecondplutse, wiuch was to(!est~y the air dcfen~ radars and rni£~~~s in flit Ku~aiti Iheater
      of operation LO achiev~ undisputed control of tl~e nir some peopic call thai air Supremacy; flfl(I
*)    fIIA1Jy. to scv~ supply )in~3 in' the Xu~aiii tl~eater of operation. Once that pl~ase was cofl0plcIed1 wc
      planneci then to Isolate th~ Kuwal~i tl~eater of operation, continue Oul' aLtacks on (lie Republican
      O~aard. and we had ot~ ob~tivts which I wiU 1101 ditcuss f'mJ~er. In macr io n'c~sur: our £ucccss
      tod*tt, I tt'iitk 1 will fl)eft£ure ii aSainsi tile ot~~ec'tive~ ~`vcju~t di£cus~~<~.

      ~~~£, first of all1 s~ri with tlic leadership ot?jective. You know In tlie early (lays of ihe
11a1n~~ wtdki~~kgnai~ ~de~sJiip iar£ets. Twenty-six ~adersl~ip tar~ets were ~truck --60
pcent oT ~fl ~moec wc~ sc~re)y dama~ed or destroyed  We also a~acked pcywer plant~. ~d
.`ClcWrnn~wiicab'on facilities. One-fourth ~f Jrnq's electrical generaung facilities iane completely
~bptntav~ oud ~oth~r ~O ~rtcnt ~4ift~C: depa6ed operanons. ) Lh)D~ I shovid point out t'it~t
tere that wc ~`er hati ariy intention ~r~~~0~~~~ 1(K) percent crt~ (be Iraqi cloc~caJ power.
Because of our Interest in wakin£ Sure that civilians did not suffer unduly. we felt we had (()Icave
some of Lbe electrical power in effect, and we've done that.

      Seventy-f'ive percent of Iraq's C0Infllai)d, control, at~d cotlin)unicatioji facilities have been
struck durin5 our air campaign, and one'tl)ird of those are completely destroyed or inoperative. As a
result, Saddan) Hussein asid tile Iraqis have b~cn forced to switch to backup systems, and thoqe
systems are far less ef(eetjvc and iiiore easiiy targeted.

     1-et me talk bilefly about air defense. Fi~st of all, the F-! 17 rerl)ains vinually invisible. aJ)d is
?u'~hly effective. IBUL fuit!~er1 we've attacked flil dcfei~se nerve systeflis, striking 29 targets and morc

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