How to Surrender
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Steps to demonstrate a genuine troop stand-down are well known to military officers around the world.
Iraqi forces could:
* Shut off air defense radars, a step that would be evident to the allies’ airborne electronic listening posts.
* Transmit clear radio messages saying they intended to cease offensive activities.
* Drop their weapons and leave defensive positions, coming out into the open so that they could be clearly seen by allied observers.
* Pull camoflauge nets from tanks, artillery batteries, and troop emplacements.
* Withdraw front-line troops so that allied forces could take over portions of Kuwait and monitor larger troop departures.
* Make major troop pullouts over a stated period of time so movement toward Iraq would be seen.
* Place remaining Scud launchers in the open for observation.
Source: Pentagon
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