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difficulty and time required to build such an infrastructure from

scratch, and think about how many other places in the world we

might find it necessary to operate Without the benefit of such
infrastructure.
                         -- SLIDE 19--
     Combining our present understanding of the capabilities of
the Iraqi Army with five and one-half months of planning and

preparation, and an uninterrupted and unchallenged logistics
train, -- we enjoyed, as analyst Jeffrey Record has noted ??   . a set

of circumstances so fortuit6us that it is highly unlikely it will ever

be duplicated again.11 Put another way, DBSERT STORM,

despite its overwhelming success, was not a prism through which

all future conflicts will be viewed.
Was it important?  Yes.  Is it,definitive? No.


     Regardless of wheh the DBSBRT SHIBLD forces return

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