Chapter 839: Battle Prediction
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing "Desert Shield" operation by the United States once again plunged the somewhat calm Middle East into a dangerous situation, and the United Nations Security Council, which coordinates world security affairs, immediately convened an emergency meeting to condemn Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and began to discuss a military solution with the benefit of the United States. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
For this reason, US President Bush made three televised speeches in a row, warning Iraq with unprecedented severity, but the Iraqi side turned a deaf ear to the US demands, and at the same time that the United States had massively increased its troops, it also sent troops to Kuwait, and in just one week, Kuwait and the Iran-Saudi Arabia border areas had assembled hundreds of thousands of Iraqi elite troops in a bid to create a fait accompli for the annexation of Kuwait.
The United States seems to have anticipated Iraq's impunity, and on the one hand, it has used diplomatic means to delay it, and on the other hand, it has stepped up the "desert shield" operation; in an instant, the US military's land, sea and air forces have linked up in three dimensions, dozens of large ro-ro freighters have traveled between the two sides of the ocean, hundreds of large transport planes have risen one after another, and hundreds of thousands of US soldiers have sharpened their knives and pointed at Iraq, which is ready to move.
As soon as the war broke out, even a fool could see that Iraq and the United States would inevitably fight to the death, and some people were angry and cheered for such a situation, but more people volunteered to act as melon-eating masses, lifting small benches and waiting to see a good show, and the Soviet Union was definitely the most active one among these people.........
In the war games room on the third floor of the Soviet Defense Ministry building, Marshal Yazov, the Soviet Union's trusted Minister of Defense, stood with his hands in his hands, staring at the situation of arranging troops on the sand table with blazing eyes, and it seemed very relaxed; this was the fourth war game exercise made by the Soviet military against the United States and Iran since the outbreak of the Gulf crisis.
Relying on decades of knowledge of the tactics of the US military and the accurate mastery of Iraq, which is equipped with a large number of Soviet-style equipment, Yazov believes that their deduction results are the most accurate in the world, and the same idea is Akhromeyev, who has just taken over as chief of the General Staff, the quick-witted and unsmiling Marshal of the Soviet Union, who does not have much hope for the US army's ground warfare:
"Iraqi officers and soldiers have experienced the baptism of the Iran-Iraq war, and they can be said to have experienced a hundred battles, and their experience is comparable to that of any army in the world; on the other hand, although the US military has an advantage in weapons, it has no experience in large-scale ground warfare after the Vietnam War, not to mention that the Iraqi side is stronger than the US army in terms of armor strength and the number of artillery, as long as it relies on a solid defense line to deal with the US military, it is bound to make the US military fall into the quagmire of the Vietnam War, and the four successive weapon exercises in the past few days are enough to prove this conclusion!"
"Iraq is slightly deficient in offensive, but it is very disciplined in defense, and the actual combat experience of the Iran-Iraq war is enough to prove this, if the US military really wants to make up its mind to fight a ground war, it is really possible to fall into it!"
Yazov nodded, his deep voice was unusually loud, with the confidence of no one else, and made a final conclusion, and what he said was not wrong, the Iraqi army can be called a lion in a hundred battles, and the elite Republican Guard is a rare trump card, plus the entire army structure is completely formed according to the Soviet army model,
Therefore, in terms of technology and tactics, it has won the true heritage of the Soviet army, especially in defensive operations, relying on the strong fortifications in large depth, the Iraqi army can calmly switch between attack and defense, and perhaps in the end, because of the disparity in national strength, Iraq is defeated by the United States, but before this, Iraq will definitely bite the US army with sharp teeth and bruises.........
Marshal Akhromeyev agreed: "Therefore, my suggestion is not to intervene in the dispute between the United States and Iran, and to wait for the United States to fall into a quagmire, which is not a bad thing for us." ”
"A good thing, a good thing indeed!" Yazov's unsmiling face flashed with a hint of schadenfreude: "In the past few years, because of the reckless behavior of the United States, our external environment has become extremely bad, and if we can drag them into the quagmire this time, it may not be impossible to reproduce the predicament of the Vietnam War, so that we can also have a chance to breathe." ”
"Okay, I see!" Akhromeyev nodded: "Wait a minute, I'll be like Go~~Er~~~ President Bachev report, anyway, we should be the same morally." ”
"Of course, you can also take the opportunity of mediation to reveal some information to the Iraqi side, which can be regarded as a little help to old friends!"
"I hope Saddam Hussein won't be so happy that he can't sleep when he learns about it.........."
As soon as Akhromeyev's words fell, Yazov glanced at each other, and they both burst out laughing..........
In order to cheer themselves up, and even more so, to undermine the morale of the US troops, the Iraqi propaganda department intentionally or unintentionally publicized the results of the Soviet weapons deduction, and in an instant the US military was about to fall into the second Vietnam quagmire.
In fact, not only the Soviet military saw it this way, but other major military powers in the world also had the same idea, and even Britain, France, and other countries that joined the coalition felt that if Iraq really fought to the death, tragic casualties would be inevitable, and even the US military itself did not dare to guarantee that the largest overseas operation of the US military since the Vietnam War would be smooth sailing, and this can be seen from the fact that General Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, instructed the logistics department to prepare tens of thousands of body bags.
However, not all countries are not optimistic about the form faced by the US military, such as RB Australia, such a hardcore dog leg, firmly believe in the US military, in their eyes, let alone a mere Iraq, even if it is a visitor, that group of American GIs who ride on their heads all day long can be killed with a stick.
Of course, putting aside these second-hand goods who only remember the fight and do not remember the pain, there is indeed a country that has predicted through rational analysis that the US military will win an overwhelming victory, and this country is precisely China across the sea from the United States! Thanks to the development of armaments in the past 10 years, a large number of knowledgeable and capable young Zhuang generals have gradually come to the fore.
The Army's Lu Weijun, the Air Force's Zhou Rui, and the Navy's Xu Yuanchao have not only brought vigor and vigor to this glorious army, but also subverted the previous technological and tactical innovations, from the successful use of counter-artillery radar during the Sino-Vietnamese artillery battle to the understanding of modern naval warfare during the Falklands Naval Battle; from the overwhelming use of terminal sensitive ammunition outside the city of Khoram Shahr to the success of the anti-radiation missile in Tehran's air offensive and defensive war; from the proposal of precision strikes during the Battle of Prison Mountain to the long-range strikes on the outer periphery of Hanoi in the later stage of the campaign; from the construction of a new-generation air combat system between the Jian-H-9 and high-tech institutions, and then to the final victory in the Sino-Soviet conflict in the South China Sea!
It can be said that the Chinese armed forces have undergone extremely profound changes from the construction of the equipment system to the application of tactics; although within the scope of the whole army, those high-tech equipment with great prestige have not been installed, but a large number of long-term long-term backbone officers of the new generation have long since abandoned the old-fashioned tactics and begun to try new tactics of epoch-making significance..........
"Your report, I've read it, to be honest, it gives me the feeling that it's just four words, it's incredible, don't say it's me, even if this report is shown to the U.S. military, I don't think they will believe it!"
In the headquarters building of the military~~ committee, Jiang Huichuan, who was in charge of daily work, nodded a thin report on the table and said it very politely, but from the inadvertent expression of appreciation in his eyes, it was obvious that he was quite fond of this report, because this report not only assessed the trend of the Gulf War,
Moreover, he put forward a series of suggestions for improvement in view of the existing shortcomings of the Chinese army, several of which were quite constructive, so that even Jiang Huichuan, who was accustomed to seeing storms and waves, could not help but be a little moved, but Jiang Huichuan did not immediately put this report into practice, for no other reason, mainly because there were many different opinions within the army;
Especially on the issue of the US-Iran ground war, many veterans of the battlefield who have experienced a hundred battles have the same mainstream opinion as the Soviet Union and other countries, and they are very unoptimistic about the performance of the US military in the ground war.
The air-ground integration proposed by Lu Weijun and Xu Yuanchao, and the strike mode from sea to land, made a group of veterans shake their heads, and by the way, they brought out several classic examples of battles before liberation, and discussed that the key to victory or defeat in the war lies in people, not in lifeless technology, and the feasibility report on "Looking at the Development of the Chinese Army in the Next 20 Years from the Gulf Crisis" written by these three people was put into the cold.
It's just that some people scoff at this, but some people feel that this report is every word, Jiang Huichuan, who presides over the daily work of the military ~~ committee, is one of the most knowledgeable, the shock of the Falklands naval battle is still vivid, and the Sino-Soviet conflict in the South China Sea that he personally experienced is even more unforgettable;
It is precisely because of this that he knows that the future war will no longer be a face-to-face battle of gongs and drums, but through a variety of tangible and intangible means, the implementation of multi-dimensional and all-round attacks, and the powerful power generated by this attack will make the traditional army vulnerable, this is what he saw, but also what he has personally experienced, thinking of this, Jiang Huichuan couldn't help but smile, and Lu Jiadong's indifferent smile gradually appeared in his mind............ (To be continued.) )