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- ATTACKED POWER PLANTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES

  -- 60% OF IRAQ'S ELECTRICAL GENERATING FACILITIES ARE COMPLETELY
     INOPERATIVE AND ANOTHER 20% SUFFER DEGRADED OPERATIONS
  -- THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL GRID IS NON-OPERATIONAL


- 75% OF IRAQ'S COMMAND, CONTROL AND COMUUNICATION FACILITIES HAVE
  BEEN STRUCK DURING OUR AIR CAMPAIGN
  -- AT LEAST 1/3 OF THOSE ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED OR INOPERATIVE

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

         ARE FAR LESS EFFECTIVE
         MORE EASILY TARGETED


AIR DBFZMSZ


- F-i 17 REMAINING VIRTUALLY INVISIBLE
  -- ATTACKED HIS AIR DEFENSE NERVE CENTERS, STRIKING 57 TARGETS
     WITH MORE THAN 950 SORTIES


- APPROXIMATELY 2~3 OF OUR PRIMARY OBJECTIVES HAVE BEEN PARTIALLY

  OR COMPLETELY ACHIEVED


- HE HAS ABANDONED CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF HIS AIR DEFENSE WITHIN

  IRAQ
  -- ENEMY RADAR GUIDED SAM ACTIVITY IS ALMOST NON-EXISTENT

  -- ACCOUNTS IN PART FOR LOW U.S. AND COALITION AIRCRAFT ATTRITION
     RATE (PILOT SKILL ALSO)


- WE HAVE FLOWN MORE THAN 45,000 SORTIES

  -- LOSS OF ONLY 22 AIRCRAFT IN COMBAT
         15 U.S. AND 7 COALITION
         IN LAST 5 DAYS WE HAVE LOST THREE AIRCRAFT TO HOSTILE
         GROUND FIRE (ONE AC-130 ON 31 JANUARY; ONE A-6E (USN) ON 2
         FEBRUARY AND ONE A-10 ON 2 FEBRUARY)

              B-52, AH-i, AND tm-iN LOST ON 3 FEBRUARY WERE NOT
              COMBAT LOSSES


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