Lots of interesting military news not specific to Iran or Ukraine pops up on YouTube that doesn’t quite rise to the level of a separate post. So here’s a tab-clearing video roundup.
In order covered, they are:
- The Sahel’s Growing Islamist Insurgency (which I have covered off and on since 2019)
- Latin America’s Organized Crime Crisis
- Failure of Colombia’s ‘Total Peace’ Leads to Widespread Conflict
- Nigeria’s Overlapping Conflicts
- The Anglophone Crisis In Cameroon
- Cabo Delgado’s Islamic State Insurgency (in Mozambique)
- Haiti’s Meltdown
- The Congo’s Proxy War
- The Amhara Insurgency (in Ethiopia)
- The Papua Conflict is the Deadliest War You’ve Never Heard Of (in Indonesia)
- Sudan Suffers in Silence
Some of these I’ve covered, but several are new to me as well…
He goes into a great deal of detail on different systems, ranges, wavelengths, radar locks, etc. Plus a look at Venezuela operation. If you’re interested, watch the whole thing.
Those islands are:
- Guam
- Tinian
- Yap
- Palau
- Kwajalein
Those familiar with the Pacific theater in World War II will remember the battles against Imperial Japan for control of those islands (save Yap, which was bypassed). The battle for Palau was an especially deadly and bitter struggle for American troops that produced eight Medal of Honor recipients.
China, of course, isn’t taking this lying down, and Chinese “businessmen” have been leasing land next to American installations of many of the islands, while China refurbishes airbases on islands like Kiribati.
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I was a B-1B electronic warfare officer and taught at the USAF electronic warfare school. Habitual Linecrosser’s gets a ton wrong about EW (not as much as the tweet he is refuting though) but to be accurate would also be classified. It’s not bad for a layman but still I cringed.
The constant talk of a war with China is more of the military industrial complex trying to scare us into spending more money on useless miliatary equipment. A look at the map shows China is over 6000 miles from the US. It took 7000 ships and one million men to go 150 miles to invade Normandy. How many more would it take to get to the US? China has a four million man army but only 300 ships. I doubt the army can swim 6000 miles and our planes and ships would destroy China’s fleet in the days it would take to reach our shores.
Some argue we need to protect our allies. What allies? Japan just refused to help with Iran and the Phillipines kicked our bases out. Maybe Taiwan and South Korea, but they are suspect.
China does not have any planes that can reach the US. Its missles can harm us, but our retaliation would destroy China.
Stories like this are just more scare tactics of those who benefit from government contracts.
“China does not have any planes that can reach the US.”
The Xi’an H-6 bomber can sortie to Guam from Anqing Tianzhushan with a full combat load and return without refueling. Guam is an organized, but unincorporated territory of the United States. It has one USAF base and two USN bases with something over 16,000 U.S. military personnel stationed on these posts.
This is the reason USAF is rebuilding Tinian, Yap, and Palau airfields under the Agile Combat Employment program.