Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
26 Feb 2021
The War Horse | By David Chrisinger
Gen. Thomas G. Rhame never thought for a second that he'd lose 30,000 troops -- or anything close to it.
During the six-month build-up to Operation Desert Storm, U.S. News and World Report reported that the Pentagon expected upward of 30,000 American troops would be wounded or killed if a shooting war with the Iraqis erupted.
Even the deputy commander-in-chief during Desert Storm, Gen. Calvin A.H. Waller, said he expected a casualty rate of between 20 and 40% of his frontline units and that the war would last just over a week -- two days to breach the Iraqi frontline defenses followed by six days of tank battles against the elite Republican Guard.
That was 20 to 40% of more than 500,000 U.S. troops.
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