P.20美国政府担心在攻打伊拉克时将可能陷入伤亡极大的“巷战”之中。今年8月,美国海军陆战队约980名士 兵正在“佐治亚空军基地”陆军上校迈克尔·贝切尔的率领之下进行了为期5周的艰苦巷战训练。之后,这些陆战队员又参加了“千年挑战2002”这一美军历史上规模最大军演,并在8月初进行了4天的模拟巷战,以检查其前一阶段的训练成果。演习中,“巷战”时可能面临的问题一一浮出水面…… P.20 The U.S. government is worried that it may plunge into “heavy casualties in the” street fighting “when it attacks Iraq. In August of this year, about 980 U.S. Marines were undergoing a five-week hard-fought street warfare under the leadership of Colonel Michael Bechel of the Georgia Air Base. After that, the marines took part in the ”Millennium Challenge 2002“, the largest military exercise ever conducted in the history of the U.S. military. In the beginning of August, they conducted a four-day simulated street battle to examine the training results of the previous phase. During the exercise, the problems that may be faced during the ”street fighting" are all surfaced ...