The last straw in Lu Jiadong's mouth is indeed a bit exaggerated in the eyes of others, it is nothing more than letting McLaughlin and others bitterly state the truth in front of the camera that they blatantly abandoned the plane and parachuted out of timidity.

On the face of it, it is true that since the video of McLaughlin's self-debating the fact of the downing was broadcast to the world through Iraq's national radio, the United States did not react as strongly as others imagined, and it was nothing more than urging the Iraqi side to abide by the Geneva Conventions, and the rest was to take this opportunity to trumpet the evil of the Saddam regime in Iraq.

The White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon have repeatedly reaffirmed on various occasions their determination to drive the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, and even at a political charity dinner one day, President Bush drew a red line for Saddam Hussein in a high-profile manner, that is, the United States and its allies will continue the war for one day if the Iraqi troops stay in Kuwait, and will never give in to the dictator who destroys world peace and freedom because of the capture of some American soldiers.........

The US military and political circles have made unequivocal remarks, and there is a great tendency that they will not erase Saddam Hussein from the face of the earth and will not give up if they are not willing to give up, and the Western media led by the United States have even been moved by the wind and directly described the US pilot in the video as being threatened by Iraq and forced to say these words against his will.

For this reason, the "sharp-eyed" Western media have repeatedly studied every detail of the video, and for this reason, they have also hired senior linguists and psychologists to find dozens of "corroborations" from the American pilots' eyes, body movements, pauses, speed of speech, rhythm of words, and other aspects to prove the correctness of their inferences.

For a time, the decline of public opinion that Iraq had just recovered was once again beaten back to its prototype under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Western media, so much so that most military observers came to the following conclusion:

Even if the US-led coalition forces have suffered huge losses in Iraq, it is precisely because of this that for the sake of the long-term interests of the United States in the Middle East and the loss of face as a result, the coalition forces will inevitably carry out the Gulf War to the end, and may even dispatch ground troops to storm Baghdad and completely overthrow the Saddam regime........

Perhaps the predictions of military observers are really the truth that is universally true, and after suffering two successive defeats in the desert region of the southwest, the coalition forces soon carried out high-intensity air raids on the Iraqi capital Baghdad for three consecutive days with the carrier-based aircraft wings on four US aircraft carriers as the core and the US air forces distributed in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and even further Italy.

Not only that, the two "Iowa" battleships deployed in the Persian Gulf and the six "Los Angeles" class nuclear ~~ submarines have continuously launched "Tomahawks" at Baghdad, Basra, Tikrit and other strategic cities in Iraq At the same time, more than 20,000 U.S. Marines of the Sixth Expeditionary Group, deployed on six amphibious assault ships and four dock landing ships, carried out large-scale minesweeping and large-scale landing exercises in the waters of the Persian Gulf near the coast of Kuwait under the cover of two aircraft carrier battle groups;

The 101st Air Assault Division and the 82nd Airborne Division, which belong to the 18th US Airborne Army, have conducted a series of training related to the attack on Baghdad, such as urban airborne operations and airborne operations to block the enemy........

The fact that the three ground aces are launching large-scale exercises and training at the same time at this juncture naturally means something unusual, and the entire Gulf region has also been stirred up again because of these three ground forces, and for a time the argument that the ground war in the Gulf War is about to start can be described as very loud.

Various comparative data between the US and Iraqi armies have become headlines in the media pages of various countries around the world, and some good people have listed the land weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union one by one, and began to arrange troops, detailing the strategies and tactics that the two armies may apply in the ground war and the final victory or defeat;

The increasingly fierce tide of public opinion has also driven the major gambling markets, and the odds of victory and defeat between the United States and Iran have become a topic of conversation among gamblers, even the most popular European league and the NBA in the past have had to avoid it and give way to the fierce Gulf War........

However, just as the situation in the Gulf is about to escalate again and stage the long-awaited Mars collision with the earth, a very small number of clear-sighted and cool-headed politicians have penetrated through layers of obstacles, abandoned the interference of the increasingly charming eyes of indiscriminate flowers, and keenly perceived through their sharp eyes and unusual political sense that behind the seemingly tense and undying efforts of the United States and Iran, they have also left room for each other to retreat;

Needless to say, Iraq has been bombed indiscriminately for nearly half a month, and its losses can be described as extremely heavy, and it has long thought about how to end this war with no chance of winning in a decent way, so it must be reasonable for Iraq to leave room for it, and the key is the United States, even if it suffers certain losses.

But for the powerful US military, it is not worth mentioning at all, the downed fighter planes can be replenished from Europe and the United States very quickly, coupled with its super industrial strength, as long as the production line is running at full capacity, this loss can be made up for in a few months, but why also pretend to be a military drill with great fanfare?

As the saying goes, barking dogs don't bite people, and the three elite ground forces of the US military are so high-profile and vigorously engage in muscle shows, obviously not to bite people, but to scare people, so they almost took out all the ground combat plans and put them on the table generously, so as to tell the Iraqis clearly,

As long as the Iraqi leadership's head is not squeezed by the door, it will be clear that no matter how impregnable the Iraqi defense line in Kuwait is, it will not be able to withstand the thunderous blow of the US military, and the reason for this is nothing more than to send an unusually clear potential signal to Saddam:

If you do not want to suffer immeasurable losses, you should withdraw the Iraqi army from Kuwait as soon as possible. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Those old-eyed politicians are right in their guesses, and the reason why the United States has put all the operational plans of the ground forces on the table is to implement strategic deterrence against Iraq and force it to retreat from Kuwait in the face of difficulties.

After the "Falcon" ground-to-air missile unit came back to life and won two victories in two battles, the offensive and defensive situation in the desert area of southwestern Iraq was completely reversed; after determining that the "Falcon" ground-to-air missile unit had once again suppressed the coalition air raids, the Iraqi side immediately ordered the Iraqi troops deployed in the desert area in the southwest to quickly retreat north along the safe passage opened up by the "Falcon" ground-to-air missile unit.

As a result, the remnants of the Iraqi heavy army group completed the retreat from the eastern side of the southwest desert to the north in just 48 hours, and then dispersed and deployed on the line from Nasiriyah to Najaf, and at the same time transferred Mosul and other elites from northern Iraq to the south to replenish them.

You must know that in the plan of the coalition forces, this elite heavy army group that includes the Iraqi Republican Guard has long become fat meat in their mouths, and now seeing the cooked duck fly away, no one will be reconciled, but let them free their hands and feet to carry out air raids, but they dare not take this risk;

After all, the destruction of the 2nd Strategic Bomber Wing and the McLaughlin Aircraft Group was just around the corner, and no one dared to break into the control of the "Falcon" ground-to-air missile unit without a head or a brain.

Because of this, this Iraqi heavy army group, after paying a small price, successfully withdrew from the firepower encirclement circled by the coalition air forces, and although it suffered extremely heavy losses in the prolonged air raids, it still retained six to seventy percent of its combat effectiveness, coupled with the joy of successfully launching out the danger zone, and the subsequent additions, the morale of the Iraqi army was not reduced, but even higher.

It is no wonder that the Iraqi military will compare this retreat to a victory comparable to the Dunkirk retreat in World War II, and the coalition forces naturally cannot watch Iraq consolidate and strengthen its strategic reserves again; if that is the case, the coalition forces' combat operations will inevitably encounter fierce resistance from Iraq, which is full of confidence, and even carry out a powerful counter-assault on the coalition ground forces in future ground wars, thus dragging the war into the stage of stalemate that the Western world least wants to see.

It is precisely because of this that after the so-called "safe island" in the southwest desert of Iraq was formed, the coalition forces were ready to spare no effort to eat it, in order to destroy Iraq's strategic reserves, eliminate their maintenance of the coalition forces, and then calmly encircle and annihilate the Iraqi troops in Kuwait.

Based on this strategic concept, after discovering that the Iraqi strategic reserve force was once again reorganized, the White House, the Pentagon, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff could no longer sit still, and on the one hand, they rebuked the coalition command for its weakness, and on the other hand, strictly ordered it to trap again this Iraqi heavy army group, which is vital to the future war situation, at all costs.

The coalition command, which received the supreme order, also launched a ruthless attack, preparing to no longer ignore the threat of the so-called "Falcon" surface-to-air missile force, organize a large group of aircraft to forcibly break in, and block the retreat and reinforcement of the Iraqi heavy army group.

In it, Colonel McLaughlin said one fact after another with a depressed expression, that the Iraqi "Falcon" surface-to-air missile unit was very powerful, and that they were shot down before they could react, and he very much regretted his courageous choice at that time, because at that time the number of anti-aircraft missiles of the "Falcon" surface-to-air missile unit was no longer enough to pose a threat to his fleet........

To tell the truth, Colonel McLaughlin was very right in every word, and everything was a big truth, but the suspicious US intelligence agencies had serious doubts about his words, especially the description of the number of anti-aircraft missiles, which made many intelligence analysts shake their heads and shout without hesitation:

"This is definitely the most lame strategic deception they've ever seen!" (To be continued.) )