US/IRAQ: Resistance mounts as forces approach Baghdad
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- Campaign elements
- Simultaneous air and ground attack
- Relatively small ground component
- Relatively extensive use of airborne assaults
- Rear area security
- Key uncertainties
- New US weapons
- 'Friendly fire' deaths
- Mobile targets
- Psychological warfare
- Iraqi WMD stocks
- Iraqi resistance
- Northern Iraq tensions
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