First of all, the most aggrieved in this air war is the United States, a young and powerful country, but with a history of 200 years, it is a global giant.

Now the so-called global strategy of this giant is being tested in this war.

The Somali battlefield, which was the sad place of the United States back then, has washed away the shame of the fall of Black Hawk. Now this place has almost turned into a nightmare for the US military.

Any coalition air base close to the Somali battlefield, whether it is an air base in Ethiopia or France, or an air base of the US military overseas. When the Red Guard Corps launched a counterattack, it was hit with precision ballistic missiles. The accuracy of the V-1DD missiles is high, and the air defense missile systems of the coalition forces are not weak.

However, the defending side itself is in a passive position, and medium-range interception has become impossible because of the relationship between the battle lines, and can only rely on interception at the end. Whether it is the Patriot-3 or the Franco-Italian Aster air defense system, they are very good air defense and anti-missile weapons.

However, it could not withstand the cyber attack that had just taken place, resulting in a temporary paralysis of the command system of the coalition forces. In the ensuing ballistic missile strike, only two were intercepted, and the rest of the missiles hit their targets.

At the very beginning of the counterattack, the coalition forces lost three airfields that were able to quickly approach the front line. The remaining airfields are basically a thousand kilometers away, which is beyond the combat radius of the fighters. As a last resort, the coalition forces had no choice but to let the follow-up support fighters hang on the auxiliary fuel tanks to reduce the bomb load. This barely relieved the pressure on the battlefield of air combat.

The unusually tight posture of the Red Guard Corps also made the coalition forces see the subtle changes in the battle situation, and Dempsey immediately ordered all the nearest US air bases. Go to support immediately.

There are many U.S. military bases overseas, some of which are recorded. More often than not, there are many disguises. Take, for example, the hundreds of U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. As well as more than a dozen bases built in new European countries, none of them are included in the "Pentagon Overseas Bases" list. Combined with some sites obtained through secret intergovernmental agreements or other sites that are not suitable for disclosure, there are no less than 1,000 military bases under the Pentagon's control and operation.

These densely distributed bases, together with the approximately 400,000 U.S. troops stationed or deployed on them, as well as aircraft carrier battle groups and ships cruising in various seas, constitute the power map of a vast empire. It is through this network that the United States can sit at the top of the pyramid of power, quickly wielding the "moral" sword against any of the "scoundrels," "hooligans," or "satanist" states or regimes it accuses, while on the other hand, being deeply involved in the affairs of the world's various regions. Radiating Washington's power to all corners of the globe.

From the ancient Roman Empire to Great Britain, the use of military bases to control hubs and seek hegemony can be described as a universal tactic for hegemons. Although the United States is a rising star in this regard, its achievements are unprecedented. The Roman Empire spanned three continents, and its influence was ultimately limited to the areas under its military control. Great Britain, the global hegemon that has been glorious for two centuries in modern times, only installed bases in more than 30 countries in its heyday, while the United States has established more than 2,000 bases in about 100 countries and regions after the end of World War II, with more than 30,000 large and small military facilities. The network of overseas military bases is second only to the nuclear monopoly and constitutes a recognized symbol of its superpower status.

But. The US military bases in Africa are the weakest. On the Pentagon's list of overseas bases, only 3 African countries can be found. Among them, two in Egypt and two in Kenya. In Djibouti, the three coastal states also provide mainly naval bases. In recent years, the United States has tried to penetrate further inland through its counterterrorism activities in the Horn of Africa. and seek to establish more than a dozen forward operating bases in North Africa, but progress has been limited. Africans on American boots set foot on land. Intolerable. After the establishment of AFRICOM in 08, except for Liberia, which is still in turmoil. No country was willing to provide office space, and the command has been left out in the cold in Stuttgart, Germany.

Fortunately, during the preparation for war, the United States and France came together, and France's inherent military base group in Africa was a good place for the US Air Force to be stationed.

However, even if there are fighters from Central Africa to come to support, they still can't withstand the Red Alert Air Force's combat radius of only 500 kilometers. It should be known that under Li Lan's construction, the Red Police Air Force has already possessed 400 fighters in two years, more than half of which are Black Hawk fighters with extremely strong air superiority.

With excellent pilots and the advantage of arriving at the battlefield quickly, the coalition forces have no advantage at all in this air battle. However, the fighters of the Red Police Corps also have an advantage, that is, the fighters are all brand new, and the oldest ones are not only two years old. In the coalition air force, many fighters are more than ten or twenty years old, and the physical aging has reached a time period of frequent accidents. In the face of high-intensity air combat, it is not very strange that occasionally one or two fighters are shot down due to accidents.

The air force does not have an advantage, and neither does the coalition forces on the ground battlefield. Without the support of the air force, the armies of any country had never fought such a large-scale war. The two armies purely use ground warfare to fight, the only attack helicopter, Apache is also a chess opponent will meet a good material, the Hind attack helicopter of the Red Police base and Apache in this battle, there are also many battles, the two corps troops in the three battlefields, back and forth. French Tiger and Panther helicopter gunships will also come over from time to time to join in the fun.

The ground war was definitely much more tragic than in the sky, and both sides carried out several sneak attacks on the enemy's rear long-range artillery positions, each with casualties. The long-range tactical rocket strike system has also been contested many times, and the Red Guard Corps' shotgun tactical rocket system (mentioned above) and the coalition army's M270 tactical rocket strike system have conducted many cross-theater fires, and the casualties on both sides are not small.

The range of the tactical rocket missile systems used by both sides exceeds that of surface-to-surface missiles of ordinary countries, and sometimes the extended-range missiles launched can even hit targets more than 300 kilometers away. In terms of weapon performance, neither side has an advantage. In the use of tactics, it is basically at the point of equal strength.

In hand-to-hand encounters, the Coalition soldiers also encountered their toughest opponents to date. The enemies they faced were not the indigenous Africans who carried AK-47s and looked like natives, nor the Arabs they had encountered in the Middle East, but fighters born specifically for war.

Whether it is combat quality or military integrity, these enemies in front of them are a headache for the coalition forces. They found that their opponents were completely like a bunch of crazy people, and they fought for eight whole days, and they were stunned that they did not capture a single prisoner. Fight to the last second, and still either you die or I die.

Such an opponent is the most troublesome, not to mention that they are still a group of elites with all kinds of advanced individual equipment, coupled with extreme disregard for life, fighting, even if the coalition forces have the advantage of military strength, they are also suppressed to the death.

In particular, the two battlefields of Hargeisa and Galcayo, where the battle for every street has become extremely fierce. On handover, there are burning armored vehicles everywhere, and the destruction of main battle tanks on both sides can occasionally be seen.

The M1A2, Leclerc, Apocalypse Tank, and Rhino Tank, which have long been blackened by the fire, can be seen everywhere.

The war was bloody, and the real bloody battle began with last night's counterattack, when all the soldiers of the 1st Armored Brigade of Hargeisa and the 1st Heavy Division of Galcayo switched from their original defensive state to a frantic offensive state in an instant. As soon as the shelling ended, the battle immediately came to a fever pitch. 、

The war is crazy, and the hand-to-hand combat is extremely cruel, but every Red Guard soldier seems to be demonic, or as if they have all drunk the potion of rage, and they are not afraid of death to launch the fiercest attack on the receivers controlled by the coalition forces.

Twelve hours later, the Italian armoured brigade had not yet entered Galcayo, and the coalition forces in Galcayo had been put in danger by the frantic offensive of the Red Guard. A large encirclement squeezed the coalition forces in the center of the city of Galcayo.

The war was brutal, and in Galcayo and Hargeisa, it was difficult to see buildings that had not yet collapsed, and the whole city was reduced to a pile of rubble, and the ruins of houses had already been crushed by the tracks of tanks many times.

War is also a feast of death, compared to air combat and artillery exchanges, hand-to-hand death comes faster, in the space of twelve hours, Galkayo alone has at least a thousand casualties of Red Police, Hargeisa is not much better. Of course, as a coalition force that has just shifted to a defensive posture, there are also quite a few casualties.

A regiment of the U.S. Marine Corps had less than 1,500 men left in Galcayo, and to this day, a large number of wounded soldiers were trapped inside, and in the face of the enemy's heavy encirclement, one could only pray that reinforcements would arrive as soon as possible. It's just a beautiful wish.

On the Hargeisa side, the results were also very good, and the expected goals were achieved.

On the third floor of the base, through Tanya's detailed narration, Li Lan also had the latest impression of the battle situation.

"At this time, we must not relax, tell the soldiers that as long as they hold on for another ten hours, there will be a very clear outcome of where the war will go."

Li Lan knew very well that after twelve hours of fighting, the soldiers had reached the stage of serious physical exhaustion, and if it was a normal situation, he would let the troops choose a short rotation to recuperate. But the war has reached its most critical moment, which can also be said to be a turning point in the fate of Somalia, at this time, even if he is considerate of the soldiers, he cannot give the order for the soldiers to rest.

Only by gritting your teeth and still firmly holding the battlefield in your own hands will it help you plan the next steps.

"Yes." After receiving the order, Tanya immediately got up and left, went back to the room to change into her military uniform, and walked into the elevator to return to her post.

After Tanya left, Li Lan did not continue to stay here, but he did not go to the console, but left the base and came to Somalia CCTV. (To be continued......)