The perfect enemy: Assessing the gulf war

IT IS RATHER common for American military analysts substantially to ignore the enemy when they assess a war, and this pattern seems to hold for the Gulf War of 1991. When asked why the war had come out the way it did, commanding General H. Norman Schwarzkopf neglected the enemy entirely, crediting America's great success in the conflict to weapons, modern technology, excellent training, high troop quality, and "fantastic host nation support."

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