26 JANUARY 1991, page 12

The Coming Ground Battle

John Keegan sees difficult times ahead for the allies before Saddam Hussein's defeat AIRMEN fighting a war look for a 'target system' — something valuable to the enemy which......

After Saddam, What Next?

Edward Mortimer forecasts a resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism when the war is over THE WAR may be just, necessary, and on balance worth fighting. But to anyone who knows and......

One Hundred Years Ago

IT APPEARS that the Duke of Bed- ford, who was supposed to have been killed by the recent burst of cold, shot himself in his bedroom. He had latterly become so pronounced a......