Two heavy divisions now based there, and the soldiers' families, would return to the United States.
"A force adequate to that task could involve two heavy divisions and 10 or 12 air wings," he said.
He called all five of his senior commanders together and told them to fire up the heavy armoured division.
The division was organized and activated as a heavy division in 1942.
Whatever the exact casualties, the majority of three heavy Iraqi divisions had been destroyed.
Maintenance was going well on the six heavy divisions based in the south-central part of the country.
Each corps was subdivided into two heavy and one light divisions.
The same is true of their heavy divisions in America.
Among them were five heavy armored divisions and four light ones, a "modern battle cavalry" such as no other nation possessed.
This was the cause of heavy internal division within the party.