FALL OF BAGHDAD DASHES OLD THEORIES TAKING A LARGE CITY SHOULD COST ATTACKER DEARLY, DOCTRINE HELD.(City Desk/Local)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: April 11, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Lou Kilzer

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

Three months after the Persian Gulf War, Russian Duma delegate Sergey Tsyplyev, a nuclear physicist from Leningrad, was dining with an American reporter.

Tsyplyev pointed to some general officers who sat nearby and said that many of them refused to believe what the Americans claimed to have done to Saddam Hussein's army. The American success had to be, somehow, a CIA deception.

You simply could not kill that much Soviet armor at such a small price.

Tsyplyev, no stranger to Western technology, knew better.

But ...

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