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A 3 page paper arguing the thesis statement, “Over the years, it has become obvious that the U.S. Army’s use of tactical artillery and smart bombs in city combat saves lives.” The paper uses examples of Hue, Vietnam and Baghdad in both the Persian Gulf and Iraq Wars. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: CC6_KSmilBomCit.rtf
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18, 1991, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin L. Powell told Pete Williams, spokesman for the Defense Department, to tell the press "to cool it. This
is the beginning of a war, not the end of a ballgame" (Powell and Persico 508). The reason for the reporters glee, of
course, was the intense success of the beginning of the Persian Gulf War, specifically the beginning of the air campaign that targeted several specific sites in downtown Baghdad. Though
this was the most successful assault on a city that did not involve large numbers of ground troops, it by no means was the first. Neither would it be
the last. Over the years, it has become obvious that the U.S. Armys use of tactical artillery and smart bombs in city combat saves lives. Urban Combat
Traditionally, combat in and around cities has been costly in every way associated with war. "From World War IIs battle of Berlin to the
struggle for Hue in Vietnam, urban combat has proved a brutal, slogging business" (Grier and Bowers PG). Before the Armys 2003 assault on Baghdad in the Iraq War, the
last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. The US and South Vietnamese troops
took more than three weeks to gain seven city blocks of territory, and superficially casualties were heavy: 147 American soldiers and more than 300 South Vietnamese soldiers died in
the effort. The North Vietnamese far outnumbered its opposition, however, and there is little doubt that US and South Vietnamese casualties would have been far higher without the artillery
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