India, June 27 -- In a speech in January 1991, the then Iraq i President Saddam Hussein had invoked a popular idiomatic expression, exhorting his military and simultaneously warning the US against intervening in his invasion of Kuwait by threatening a "mother of all battles." Hussein had under his command supposedly the world's fourth largest Army with over a million and a half in uniform and reserves - a number larger than the US Army and Marine Corps combined. Iraqi forces were also battle veterans of the decade-long Iran-Iraq war and had displayed complex helicopter-borne assault-like commando capability in seizing the Kuwait Emir's palace much before Iraqi armour columns rolled in. However, there were clear chinks in the Iraqi narrati...