摘要：Officially, Third Army's 2003 Iraqinvasion phase was called Opera-tion Cobra II in honor of WorldWar II's Operation Cobra, thebreakout from the Normandy beachheads. Itwas a complex, two-pronged attack fromKuwait that essentially sent Army forces upthe left side of Iraq and Marine Corps forcesup the right to converge on Baghdad.Baghdad was the overriding objective¡ªtakeSaddam Hussein's capital and it would beover, and that's pretty much how it turnedout. From the public relations viewpoint, thegenius of the plan was to embed hundreds of
