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Franks had taken on his assignment with enthusiasm, drawn up force requirements, tested the 1003 plan in computerized war games, spent considerable time in Kuwait, and worked on plans for a new headquarters that would command all of the allied ground forces in the event of war.

The president and his men would not only be evaluating the Iraqi war plans, but taking the measure of the man who might command the invasion.

Contingency plans for a Turkish front--clumsily code-named Pilgrim--were drawn up, but the White House would be asking a lot from the Turks.

If the Generated Start took too long, CENTCOM could invoke the Red, White, and Blue air strike plans and use them, in effect, as a bridge to a land war.

Michael Boyce, the head of the British Defence Staff, described the two plans Franks had put before the White House.

The existing war plans that derived from the experience of the Gulf War were put aside even when they had proved successful, if unimaginative to Rumsfeld.

There would be a two-day session involving Franks and his air, land, and sea commanders on December 7 and 8, a get-together that was dubbed a Rock Drill, an allusion to the days when commanders sketched out their war plans with rocks and sticks in the dirt instead of with PowerPoint.

Transportation Command, and had been given an earful on how the transportation plans had been severely disrupted.

The doctored plans indicated that the war would not begin until a large invasion force was in place, a force much larger than the one McKiernan planned to initiate Cobra II.

Bush administration during his successful campaign for reelection by deriding American plans to topple Saddam Hussein and declaring that his country would not participate in the war.

CENTCOM, the military was so persuaded that Iraq had and would use chemical or biological weapons that Buzz Moseley was drawing up plans to strike suspected WMD sites.

In briefing his war plans at the White House, Rumsfeld would routinely retrieve the slides and take them back to the Defense Department.

Fuel would have to be made available and another Rock Drill should be scheduled to examine plans to distribute water, food, and fuel, Whitley said.

Holding up a folder for top secret documents, Keating told the sailors that he had the classified plans that would have allied jets and missiles hurtling toward Iraq to unseat Saddam.

McKiernan finalized the plans to move up the ground attack, he had scheduled the invasion to begin at dawn on March 21.