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                                                    MARCENT><


     Marine Expeditionary                                         ARABIA
      Force In Kuwait,
    24-27 February 1991

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                                  SAUDI ARABIA


the enemy would never fight.   That's how it looked at division level, anyway.
Overall, I tend to agree with the President: If we had pursued the retreating
forces into Iraq, we'd still be in Iraq now--and would probably be there for the
next hundred years.  We didn't manage to nail the major culprit in all of-this,
but we did what we had set out to do.

Proceedings: A few questions still linger, after the war. How effective was your
intelligence support?

Keys: At the strategic level, it was fine.     But we did not get enough tactical
intelligence--front-line battle intelligence. The RPV [remotely piloted vehicle]
worked very well, but we needed many more of them,                 plus systems to
disseminate their information to all units that needed it. In my opinion, the RPV
is going to be our best tactical intelligence-gathering vehicle in the future, and
we need to develop that program.