The prewar planning for a joint Austro-German war with Russia entailed an immediate offensive.

Just prior to the opening of the war the situation developed largely as prewar planning had expected.

The Senate report was also critical of the Bush Administrattion's prewar planning, saying that the White House missed a chance to topple Saddam Hussein.

Mr. Bremer said he participated in no prewar planning and was never told of General Garner's plan.

Phillips's book is a recollection of a year's work on the Future of Iraq Project, the State Department's much-praised but little-used prewar planning document.

American officials said the possibility that Mr. Hussein would loose huge amounts of oil into the gulf had been anticipated and included in prewar planning.

"People have said the prewar planning was no good," he said.

The fact that the administration embraced their encouragement to go to war but apparently discounted their warnings is an insight into the Pentagon's prewar planning.

In prewar planning, the T-50 was intended to become the most numerous Soviet tank, operating alongside the BT fast tank.

This prewar planning did not contemplate major territorial acquisitions.