In the Ytororó engagement, which occurred on 5 December, the allied objective was to take a bridge over the Ytororó River.
The allied objective to secure Iraq's oil fields in the south was mostly successful, General Franks said, adding that only 9 of the 400 oil wells in the strategic Rumaila field had been set on fire before Iraqi forces withdrew.
The allied objective was to encircle Humaitá and force its capitulation by siege.
'It is with the Iraqi leadership and above all, with Saddam Hussein.' In a dramatic conclusion to a day of high political drama and continuing sharp military confrontation which culminated in US successes on the battlefield and at the UN, Mr Bush declared that Kuwait, invaded by Iraq on August 2, was liberated, that Iraq had been defeated, and that the allies' objectives had been met.
Once the Elector and his co-commander, Marshal Marsin, knew of the Allies' objective, they dispatched Count d'Arco with an advance force of 12,000 men from their main camp at Dillingen to strengthen and hold the Schellenberg heights above the town.
The war continued regardless, while allied military strategic objectives were increasingly coming into question.
The objectives for the allied force, which was combating hypothetical invaders, would have been out of reach for ground forces alone.
What was needed, according to the soldiers who formed the U.S. Army's Test Parachute Platoon at Fort Benning, was an outfit that could be launched by air using parachutes -- and, later, gliders -- ahead of an allied assault to seize vital objectives or simply create chaos in the enemy's rear areas.
And no wonder: the west is militarily, economically and diplomatically allied with these often brutal regimes, and our media all too often reflects the foreign policy objectives of our governments.
My understanding of the larger objective of the allied enterprise in Afghanistan is to bring into existence something that looks like a modern cohesive Afghan state.
By reading subsequent pool reports and talking to their military sources, Martin and NBC correspondent Fred Francis eventually figured out the secret objective of the allied military's surprise "Hail Mary" rush north into Iraq--Nasiriyah, a town near the Euphrates River, where the allies eventually cut off the Iraqi retreat.
