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If you were Saddam, how would you defend Iraq against an American onslaught, given the vast inferiority of your forces?
Here's my plan:
It's hopeless to even contemplate victory, the best that can be hoped for is a glorious, rather than ignominous, defeat.
Build fake everything, fake tanks, fake command centres, even fake troops. It worked for the Serbs, but the US may be prepared for fake stuff because of this, so it had better be well-faked, maybe even with a fake heat signature.
Hide everything important in nondescript buildings or underground. Turn barns into command centres, wells into ammunition stores, etc.
Stockpile resources in every urban area, place tank defences, trenches, barbed wire and booby traps all over the place.
Use floodlights to spot the initial wave of stealth fighters, even though floodlights are a sitting duck to normal aircraft, stealth fighters don't have enough firepower to attack them all. Mount the spotlights on trucks and keep moving them around, switching them on and off. An additional use of spotlights could be to attract enemy planes into a trap by using them as bait.
Use oil as a weapon, start a burning oil slick to prevent marines landing, fill trenches with burning petrol to slow down American advance. The pall of smoke will also give aircraft problems. Equip troops with flame throwers.
Rather than using civilans as human shields, cause a huge refugee crisis, sending them fleeing in all directions, spreading propaganda about American brutality. Refugees get more media coverage than corpses anyway. Set up a 'government in exile' in some sympathetic state.
Pull off every propaganda trick in the book, refer to the US (and Britain)as the infidels, try to stir up revolt across the Arab world. Recall past Arab victories (or heroic defeats).
Use gas in a battlefield setting only, and do not attack Israel under any circumstances.
Here's my plan:
It's hopeless to even contemplate victory, the best that can be hoped for is a glorious, rather than ignominous, defeat.
Build fake everything, fake tanks, fake command centres, even fake troops. It worked for the Serbs, but the US may be prepared for fake stuff because of this, so it had better be well-faked, maybe even with a fake heat signature.
Hide everything important in nondescript buildings or underground. Turn barns into command centres, wells into ammunition stores, etc.
Stockpile resources in every urban area, place tank defences, trenches, barbed wire and booby traps all over the place.
Use floodlights to spot the initial wave of stealth fighters, even though floodlights are a sitting duck to normal aircraft, stealth fighters don't have enough firepower to attack them all. Mount the spotlights on trucks and keep moving them around, switching them on and off. An additional use of spotlights could be to attract enemy planes into a trap by using them as bait.
Use oil as a weapon, start a burning oil slick to prevent marines landing, fill trenches with burning petrol to slow down American advance. The pall of smoke will also give aircraft problems. Equip troops with flame throwers.
Rather than using civilans as human shields, cause a huge refugee crisis, sending them fleeing in all directions, spreading propaganda about American brutality. Refugees get more media coverage than corpses anyway. Set up a 'government in exile' in some sympathetic state.
Pull off every propaganda trick in the book, refer to the US (and Britain)as the infidels, try to stir up revolt across the Arab world. Recall past Arab victories (or heroic defeats).
Use gas in a battlefield setting only, and do not attack Israel under any circumstances.
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