Widger, nicely put. Bravo!
COCL: what you present in re Iranian chemical capability squares with much of what we got briefed on at the time, as my memory serves. Thanks for the refresher. We were also getting a lot of briefs on lasers used against both ground and air opponents, by both sides, but I don't know if both sides retained the same capaiblity, since I think most of our intel briefings were based on damage done by Iraqis using Soviet origin laser weapons (CO2 based, IIRC). Memory is not serving as well on that bit, sadly.