Chapter 22: First Contact with U.S. Special Forces
Luo Xingyao suddenly appeared between the two, slammed, and kicked the player's hand hard, causing the player's arm to be painful and unable to hold the gun, and the gun was thrown to the side. Poof, a dagger in his left hand, before the team members reacted, it slid lightly on the throat, and Luo Xingyao, who was absolutely sure of himself, faced the captain directly.
The team members held their throats, trying to desperately suppress the blood that spurted out, and looked at their captain with the desire to survive, but the throat had been cut, and they couldn't make a sound at all, "Bang" fell to the ground, and a layer of dust just exploded around the body, and the desire to survive in his eyes turned into a feeling of missing his family, and gradually closed his eyes.
"Who the hell are you?" The captain was knocked over by Luo Xingyao's punch, and with the help of inertia, he stood firm at 3 meters, looked at the masked man in front of him and asked in a low voice.
"Beat me! Tell you. The authentic American pronunciation made the captain frown, and he was going to rely on the other party's voice to judge which side of the person, but the pronunciation made the captain unable to judge, could it be that other forces in the country were involved in the Grenada incident?
The weapon in his hand was knocked to the ground just now, and the captain quickly took out a dagger from his thigh, his eyes were full of coldness and rushed forward, and in less than 1 second, the two started a hand-to-hand encounter again.
1 minute later, the captain who couldn't break through the opponent's defense became anxious, and it was clear from the hand-to-hand battle that the opponent's strength was above him, and the opponent still looked like an understatement until now.
"It's almost time, it's time to send you to meet your friends!" The dagger in Luo Xingyao's hand suddenly doubled, and directly pierced the captain's throat before the other party reacted, looking at the captain's incredible expression, he said lightly: "Don't worry, there will be many people to accompany you in the future!" ”
The captain wanted to grab the person in front of him as hard as he could, but his body was completely disobedient, and the two hands that grabbed Luo Xingyao gradually loosened, and they were weakly perpendicular to his sides.
After Luo Xingyao cleaned the battlefield and confirmed that there would be no identity leakage, he left the battlefield, leaving behind a pile of rubble residue and the corpses of 2 special forces with their throats cut, as well as the team members who had been buried in the rubble.
After the incident, after a series of investigations in the vicinity found no clues, the US military had no choice but to withdraw from the area in view of the international situation, and the incident was recorded in the secret US military intelligence report.
By 2 November, the US military had successfully completed the clearance mission. The war ended when the remnants of the enemy were largely wiped out, a large number of weapons, ammunition and documents were captured, and the U.S. military took full control of Grenada. As a result of the war, only 25 US troops were killed, including 6 killed by Luo Xingyao, 116 wounded, and 9 helicopters were lost. More than 40 Georgian troops were killed, 15 were captured, and the rest fled. The Cubans were killed 25, 59 wounded and 638 taken prisoner.
After one day of fierce fighting on the 25th, the US forces seized two airfields that were decisive for the war and opened up a new battlefield north of St. George, thus forming a favorable situation with the US forces in the direction of the Sallins airfield to flank the Georgian capital from the north and south.
The US military was also plagued by other problems in this combat operation. There was no radio communication between the army and navy. While the Rangers and Airborne Forces can see warships beyond the coastline with the naked eye, they need to send requests for fire support to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from where they can be transmitted to the warships via satellite.
There is also a serious gap between the services. Schwarzkopf later reported that "Admiral Metcalfe received an urgent telegram from the Comptroller General of the Navy in Washington warning him not to refuel Army helicopters because an agreement on the transfer of funds had not yet been reached." ”
General Metcalfe called the telegram (or something like that) and told his chief of staff: "Give them their fuel." In another example, a Marine Corps colonel refused to transport Rangers on a mission, saying, "We can't transport Army soldiers in Marine Corps helicopters." When General Schwarzkopf threatened to take him to a court-martial, he barely carried out his order.
The U.S. invasion of Grenada was a "one-sided" war. The U.S. military always held the initiative in the course of the war, and finally completed the occupation of Grenada in a short period of time at a small cost, achieving its strategic goal.
The reason for this is that in addition to the huge gap in the number and quality of weapons and equipment between the two sides; There is a huge disparity in national strength; Grenada is too small to have room for manoeuvre for a protracted war; Georgia is also an island country, far away from the Soviet Union and Cuba, and foreign aid is easily cut off, but the correct strategic guidance and tactical application of the US side also played an extremely important role in the success of this US military operation.
This war was a war of aggression launched by the United States against a sovereign country, which was unanimously opposed by the overwhelming majority of countries in the world, including the Western European Union countries, and the international image of the United States was greatly damaged as a result.
Shortly after the outbreak of the war, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) held an emergency meeting in Washington, at which the overwhelming majority of countries believed that the United States' actions in Grenada had seriously undermined the "principle of non-intervention" and demanded that the United States withdraw its troops immediately. Before the war, when the UN Security Council voted on Nicaragua's proposal for "US aggression", there were 11 votes in favor, so that the United States had to exercise its veto power to prevent the passage of the proposal.
Britain also abstained from voting, as Grenada is a member of the British Commonwealth and President Reagan ignored Margaret Thatcher's prior advice on sending troops to Grenada.
The war was launched by the United States to counter the "infiltration" and "expansion" of the Soviet Union and Cuba in the Central American region, and the outcome of the war dealt a serious blow to the Soviet Union and Cuba.
Central America has a decisive impact on the security of the United States, and this region has long been one of the important "battlefields" of the global struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union.
US analysts have pointed out that for a long time, the former Soviet Union and its "proxy" Cuba in Central America have painstakingly operated here with the aim of fostering a pro-Soviet-Cuban regime in Central America and controlling Central America, so that the United States will lose its superior condition of having two oceans to protect its homeland and endanger the security of the US homeland, and the birth of the pro-Soviet-Cuban regime in Grenada is part of the fruitful efforts of the Soviet Union to establish a triangular alliance between Grenada, Cuba and Nicaragua.
After the successful invasion, the United States quickly began to plot to establish a new pro-American and pro-Western regime in Georgia to replace the original pro-Soviet government, so as to achieve the goal of long-term control of Grenada. This was undoubtedly a major setback for the Soviet Union and Cuba in the struggle with the United States in Central America.
This war is a quick decisive battle with little cost and big benefits for the United States, and it has prompted the United States to give more consideration to the revival of its tendency to use force to pursue its foreign policy in its foreign exchanges, thus posing a threat to world peace and stability.
As everyone knows, the defeat in the Vietnam War plunged the United States into a domestic and foreign dilemma for a time, and in the struggle for hegemony with the Soviet Union, the United States had to be on the defensive, and the United States was even more cautious on the issue of using force against the outside world, so that for a long time after the Vietnam War, the United States hardly carried out large-scale military operations abroad.
The U.S. invasion of Grenada was the first large-scale military action taken by the United States after the Vietnam War.
The practice of war has proved that today, with the rapid development of military technology, especially military high technology, it is entirely possible for the United States to get rid of some of its misgivings on the issue of the use of force brought about by the painful lessons of the protracted and hugely costly Vietnam War and to pursue its foreign policy by force more freely.
There is no doubt that the position of US military power in US foreign policy will rise again as a result. Under such circumstances, the security of the vast number of third world countries, especially the weak and small countries among them, will be seriously challenged, and the world will become even more turbulent as a result. This has been proven by the facts after the war.
The US invasion of Grenada was a local war under high-tech conditions, which is the most typical feature of this war. The war has shown that under high-tech conditions, weapons and equipment have a much greater impact on the course and outcome of a war than any previous war.
Under high-tech conditions, an army with a qualitative advantage in weapons and equipment will have a superior strategic position, and this war has shown the world.
During the invasion operations, the US armed forces were dispatched with satellites, modern combat planes, and helicopters of all kinds, large surface ships, including aircraft carriers, tanks, and various armored vehicles, a large number of precision-guided weapons, advanced C3I systems, and modern logistical support equipment. All branches of the armed forces have coordinated with each other to form a high-tech, high-efficiency combat system.
On the Grenadian side, there are neither planes, nor ships, nor tanks, nor large-caliber artillery. Although there are armored vehicles, they are very small in number, and their performance is very backward, so they do not play much role at all, and their high-tech equipment is equal to zero. The confrontation between Georgia and the United States is in essence equivalent to a war between a man with a stick and a man with an automatic rifle, and the advantages of the US side are self-evident. The degree of difficulty for Georgia to seize the initiative can be imagined.
The war was a war in which the big prevailed over the small, but the reason for the defeat of the Grenada side was not only because of its small size, but also because of its foreign policy, strategy and tactics.
That is, it has unilaterally implemented a pro-Soviet policy in foreign relations, and is not good at maneuvering between major powers; slow response to the dangers of war and inadequate preparation for war; In the war, the new leaders only knew how to hide and protect themselves, the whole country lost the core of unified command and unity against the enemy, the troops fought separately, and the people did not mobilize; The main force of the troops is scattered and sticks to various key points in companies and platoons, does not support each other, and is not good at concentrating a certain number of troops to carry out mobile operations, so as to strive to annihilate the enemy's vital forces.