How plausible is this....
IMC I had the smaller Gulf States side with the US/UK (FWIW I have a slightly larger MEFF with one Armd Bde, one Abn Bde, one Cdo Bde, one Gurkha Bde)
Saudi's stay out of it and eventually "invite" the French in to help them keep Neutral. The French in turn convince the Saudi's to divest themselves of all their non-French made equipment, promising that they would provide French made equipment in return. The French then "donate" this equipment (plus ammo) to CENTCOM (the French definitely DO NOT want the Soviets controlling any oil). However these shipments to the Saudi Military keep getting mysteriously held up. So by 2000 the French have full control of Saudi and her oilfields while the Saudi Military is essentially de-fanged of any heavy equipment.
I also was wondering if Egyptian factories were producing their M1's or were they just putting them together from kits sent over from the US. If they were producing them would it have been more cost effective to have CENTCOM
purchase them from Egypt and then have the US shipping over uparmour kits to maintinence units in Theater to add-on ?
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