The country should brace for increased deployment of American forces and equipment in the months ahead The United States never goes into a conflict unprepared. It prepositions its supplies, equipment and military forces in an area close to a conflict area before launching an attack against a hostile force. Before it started to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait in the early 1990s, the US deployed tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of tanks, and armored vehicles in nearby Saudi Arabia and then mounted Operation Desert Storm in January 1991, a two-pronged offensive to liberate Kuwait. The US and allied forces...