AAR 1ST MARDIV IN SWA

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Subject = AAR  1ST MARDIV IN SWA                                          

Parent Organization = MCCDC       

Unit = WDID        

Folder Title = AFTER ACTION REPORT 1ST MARINE DIVISION IN SOUTHWEST ASIA   WDID SWA 0073                       

Document Number =          1

Box ID = BX600145



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                                   1ST MARINE DIVISION
                                     Briefing guide
                                         Center


   FOCUS ON THE ENEMY

   Destroy the Iraqi's will 'to -Fight and convince the Iraqi commanders that they

   have lost even before we attack! (In fact, we succeeded, because in documents

   we captured as we at@.zciecl north, one Iraqi commander remat-k-cd in his joLtrnE-.I,

   "There are tanvs attac@ ing an both sides, 'w-- have lost."   That joltrnal entr@y

   w@s dated prior to G-Day)

   C-RIETJTATION (Sheet Map)

     - Escarpment, bay, Kuwait City, coastline, KQ/SA border, elbow, heel

     - Southeastern I'LtWalt 1-i littered with oil-FiLIds (Al Burgin, Al Wa-Frah, Al

   r4.oqwa)


       lst/2nd obstacle/mirei,@L-@d belt


       bluelrer, at-rows, bui'5tinq bumb


   !F!AOI FORCES


     - Mzjorit,,, of 11 divisions in SE Kuwait (I armor-,   mechanized, 6 in+antl-v)

   Plus a Cot-Ps worth oc artillery

       Tliree tiered defense


       • Infantry screening forward of, but defending north of each belt

       • Mechanized division as mobile reserve +or each Corps

       • Armor division as mobile armor reserve for SE Kuwait


       • Three significant artillery concentrations

   IRAQI PLAN
     -@"r-annelize out, attacking forces with natural and man-made obstacles into

   well-desi.Sned firesacks

       Blunt the attack with his mechanized reserve divisions

       Pummel us with artillery once he has stopped us between the obstacle belts

       Maneuver his armor division which included a brigade of T-72's to destroy


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