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.