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Article: WAGON TRAINS IN IRAQ.(Editorial)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 3, 2004
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Byline: David Ignatius
CAMP NAVISTAR, Kuwait -- As a cold rain falls on the desert here near the Iraq border, Sgt. Allen Maresh briefs the drivers of a convoy that's carrying urgently needed spare parts to a base north of Baghdad. He's a big, plain-spoken man from Dodge, Neb., and when he tells his drivers to "saddle up and get going" for the dangerous journey, you can't help but think of a wagon train heading out into bandit country.
The 30 trucks rumble off into the gray morning for the 900-mile round trip. They are part of what might be called the "logistical war" in Iraq -- a vast but often-invisible side of the conflict. Between 700 and 1,000 U.S. ...