New PressInfo on TFF's site from September 25, 2002


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September 25, 2002



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By Jonathan Power, TFF Associate


The U.S. should try now to put itself in Saddam's shoes. Unlike last time Saddam now knows that he is at an immense disadvantage. His air force has gone, half his navy is destroyed, and half his tanks. He probably has no nuclear weapons, but does have chemical and biological weapons with fairly primitive means of delivery. How does he turn the tables?

Urban guerilla warfare, and chemical weapons used. The U.S., deeply engaged in the cities and towns of Iraq, could not reply in kind, even if wanted to, since this would stymie its own forces as much as the enemy's. Big nations lose small wars and what can go wrong will go wrong...

- Save this analysis. It may not be the first time a TFF Associate makes an unwanted prediction about disastrous consequences of the arrogance of power.

Read the analysis here
http://www.transnational.org/pressinf/2002/pf161_Power_IraqDefeatUS.html



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