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- <text id=91TT0819>
- <title>
- Apr. 15, 1991: Thumbs Down From Stormin' Norman
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 15, 1991 Saddam's Latest Victims
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- Thumbs Down from Stormin' Norman
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- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> General Norman Schwarzkopf privately has been harshly
- critical of the military performance of America's Arab allies.
- Using U.S. soldiers as the standard, he told Washington
- officials that only the Egyptian and Syrian armies displayed an
- adequate level of combat competence. But the general asserts
- that even the best Arab divisions were only about half as good
- as his own troops, who evidently rated a 10. The Soviet-trained
- Egyptian army, for example, was unable to adapt rapidly to
- fast-paced ground warfare. On one occasion Schwarzkopf had to
- request Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to order his troops
- into battle. Schwarzkopf also calls the Kuwaiti and Saudi ground
- forces the worst in the coalition, and he saves special
- criticism for inept Saudi army commanders, many of whom are
- members of the royal family. The allied chief preferred to deal
- almost exclusively with the Saudi air force.
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- </body></article>
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