Monday, September 17, 2001 11:30:28 AM
Pentagon Issues Order To Elite Units In Infantry
Military Action Could Involve Ground Troops
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41006-2001Sep16.html
By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 17, 2001; Page A13
The Pentagon issued a "warning order" late last week to some elite infantry units to prepare for a possible imminent combat mission, indicating the administration is moving closer toward taking wide-ranging military action that will involve ground combat troops, a defense official said.
The order was issued after planners on the staff of the Joint Chiefs last week worked intensely to produce several possible "courses of action," as the military calls tentative plans, to retaliate for the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon. A senior officer on the Joint Staff then notified the Army that most of the missions being contemplated could require ground combat forces, as well as combat aircraft.
A warning order involving the deployment of troops overseas requires the approval of the secretary of defense.
President Bush is expected to be briefed on the tentative plans today by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and may approve one for execution, defense officials said.
Rumsfeld also indicated that multifaceted missions are being planned when he said on Fox News yesterday that "this isn't going to be a few cruise missiles flying around on television for the world to see that something blew up." He said that "there very likely will be" military action.
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:=) Gary Swancey 
Military Action Could Involve Ground Troops
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41006-2001Sep16.html
By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 17, 2001; Page A13
The Pentagon issued a "warning order" late last week to some elite infantry units to prepare for a possible imminent combat mission, indicating the administration is moving closer toward taking wide-ranging military action that will involve ground combat troops, a defense official said.
The order was issued after planners on the staff of the Joint Chiefs last week worked intensely to produce several possible "courses of action," as the military calls tentative plans, to retaliate for the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon. A senior officer on the Joint Staff then notified the Army that most of the missions being contemplated could require ground combat forces, as well as combat aircraft.
A warning order involving the deployment of troops overseas requires the approval of the secretary of defense.
President Bush is expected to be briefed on the tentative plans today by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and may approve one for execution, defense officials said.
Rumsfeld also indicated that multifaceted missions are being planned when he said on Fox News yesterday that "this isn't going to be a few cruise missiles flying around on television for the world to see that something blew up." He said that "there very likely will be" military action.
more...
:=) Gary Swancey :=) Gary Swancey
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