The U.S. prepares for war.

• Position: Deployment of troops positioned in countries around Iraq

Here is a snapshot of the American military forces near Iraq as the U.S. prepared for a possible attack. About 50,000 soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen, as well as hundreds of warplanes, were in the region early this month, and another 50,000 were headed that way. The buildup was intended to put pressure on Iraq to disarm, and perhaps to push Saddam Hussein's generals to defect or rebel against him.

TURKEY

PERSONNEL: About 1,700, mostly Air Force.

EQUIPMENT: About 60 aircraft. The fighters that patrol the northern no-flight zone over Iraq are based at Incirlik Air Base.

KUWAIT

PERSONNEL: About 17,000, mostly Army and Air Force.

EQUIPMENT: Prepositioned equipment for two brigades, with a third arriving from Diego Garcia. Each brigade set includes 88 Abrams battle tanks and 54 Bradley fighting vehicles. Two Patriot antimissile batteries. Aircraft include Apache helicopter gunships and pilotless Predator spyplanes.

SAUDI ARABIA

PERSONNEL: About 5,000, mostly Air Force.

EQUIPMENT: Two Patriot anti-missile batteries. About 75 aircraft. A sophisticated air operations center is at Prince Sultan Air Base, where the air campaign in Afghanistan was managed.

DIEGO GARCIA

PERSONNEL: About 1,900, mostly Navy and Air Force.

EQUIPMENT: Stockpiles aboard ships, at an island base about 1,000 miles south of India, to supply 10,000 Army troops and 15,000 marines. The Army equipment was being shipped to Kuwait. B-52 bombers, B-2 stealth bombers, reconnaissance and refueling aircraft.

DJIBOUTI

PERSONNEL: 800, about half of which were Special Operations forces.

BAHRAIN

PERSONNEL: About 4,200, the Navy's 5th Fleet is based in Manama.

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