Beware the 'Sure Thing'
PJ Media,
by
Richard Fernandez
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
5/7/2022 2:54:47 PM
One of the least appreciated advantages enjoyed by Ukraine in its current war with Russia is information superiority, defined as “the operational advantage derived from the ability to collect, process, and disseminate an uninterrupted flow of information while exploiting or denying an adversary’s ability to do the same.” That geeky phrase conveys outsize effects. Access to the American ‘Big Network’ enabled Ukrainians to target and kill approximately 12 Russian generals on the front lines, “a number that has astonished military analysts”. In the first, crucial days of the invasion Ukrainian forces used specific coordinates shared by the U.S. to direct fire on Russian positions and shoot hundreds of paratroopers
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sanspeur 5/7/2022 3:35:51 PM (No. 1149347)
so with all this targeted killing and instant information..do you think Zhou will have time to make a case to us , , the American citizens , about why this war upon a fake country is a good thing to invest blood and treasure in ? i mean other than big guy’s 10% plus the other politicos’ spawn ..romneys , kerrys , pelouso’s etc ? Where is the declaration of war and wth is nato doing where ot said it would never go ?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/7/2022 3:40:31 PM (No. 1149350)
IMO this should be Classified information. not broadcast all over the world.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 5/7/2022 4:22:44 PM (No. 1149364)
If this is factual information, and I wonder how much is, it isn't intelligent to be releasing it.
I'm not sure that the USA isn't taking bows for things it didn't actually do. Austin and his Wokeists are likely far, far less competent than they would make us believe with their stories. And they want the Russians to believe this.
I have seen videos of a 10 man fire team of Ukrainian soldiers using a hobby store level of drone and a relatively simple 60mm mortar - for non-military, a steel tube about 2.5 inches in diameter and 3.5 feet long, with a steel plate to set it on and some support legs, and a couple of dozen mortar shells (15" long, 2.5" diameter shells, half a dozen in a backpack) and delivering a drone corrected mortar strike on an entirely unseen target. Unseen, except by the drone operator, from a small clearing in the woods, where the fire team was invisible from direct observation. Those mortar shells can range out to 1- 2 miles, and one shell will wound or kill everyone in the open within about 35 feet of where it lands.
For ten man team to have this kind of precision, behond visual range, striking capability, to sneak within a mile of a target, drop a couple of dozen shells accurately - with the drone to correct the shell impacts, is very new. This normally requires spotters on high ground, or in a tall building, which are subjected to rapid counter strikes. An unseen drone and unseen soldiers attract no counter strikes.
There are larger aircraft type of Raybaktar drones, which fire their own missiles and provide targeting and guidance for other missiles or shells. And many men, who live in the area, with detailed, lifelong knowledge of the terrain, moving around in small fire teams with one man rocket systems which can destroy a tank or armored personnel carrier at hundreds of meters, out to a mile for some - THOSE are huge force multipliers.
I am a bit skeptical that all this "battlefield magic" has as much to do with US information as it does with the dramatic boost in the capabilities of small units of intelligent, committed soldiers who can work a defensive, guerilla type of campaign against a big, lumbering, armor-heavy, poorly led and largely conscript manned army, It's also an army which does not hate "the enemy" and in fact, may well see "the enemy" (Ukrainians) as sympathetic fellow Slavs defending their own country.
Russians were extremely effective at countering the Wehrmacht when defending their own country. With modern weapon advances and small, nearly invisible drone intelligence capabilities, warfare is very different than it was even one or two decades ago, especially defensive, guerilla warfare, which has always been extremely difficult to win.
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It is scary the way in which the Biden Administration is challenging Putin to use nuclear weapons against us.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FJB 5/7/2022 6:22:09 PM (No. 1149399)
The G**k Flu was deliberate. China Jobiden knew it going in. But so is this sure thing war with Russia. Who's idea was it to destroy America? It sure seems to be working.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 5/7/2022 6:25:08 PM (No. 1149401)
For the freakouts about "challenging" the Russians.....ridiculous. Were the Russians worried that we'd nuke them for helping the Iranians, or the Vietnamese, or the Koreans? No.
The Russians flew combat missions in their own aircraft over Korea, and provided unending quantities of arms, ammunition, planes, tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft guns and missiles (which shot down MANY US aircraft) and advisors to the North Vietnamese during that war. We went so far as to never bomb anywhere NEAR their ships unloading arms in the harbor for all the time Johnson was in office. Never so much as scratched one of their people, ships, etc.
Now, when Nixon was elected.....he mined Hiaphong harbor and warned the Russians that it wasn't safe to go there. Again, ZERO attacks on any Russian men, machines - and never this foolish talk about nukes.
I really can't tell how crazy Putin is - but I am fairly confident he isn't anywhere near that crazy. This how this "game" has been played for 70+ years, although fortunately, this time we are not sending any American troops, only supplying weapons. The Russians are the ones supplying all the invading troops.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
watashiyo 5/7/2022 7:14:05 PM (No. 1149415)
Billions were spent on Ukraine to defend its territory from invading Russia and zero were spent defending our own territory from the invading ILLEGAL ALIENS. Btw, president Z was a charismatic authoritarian and his government was corrupt before the Russian invasion. And now, the entire world leaders are suckered into believing that he's a superhero and a great statesman like, ... Churchill! Putin indeed is a dictator, however, Z is no different. Unfortunately, suffering Ukrainians and the world are blinded by the comedian.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 5/7/2022 8:21:45 PM (No. 1149478)
Re #7, Zelensky was elected in elections that were probably more fair than our lastvelection.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Quigley 5/7/2022 8:40:43 PM (No. 1149484)
What do we the US citizen “win” from this war?
A tactical nuke? A destabilized Russia? Turning Russia into a vassal of the EU/Nato to dump migrants in in ever larger numbers? To buy Russian oil without need of sanctions?
What’s the prize for winning? Am i too cynical about the likes of milley and the cia and the fbi and bidet and the the bidet family looting that somehow we the people won’t “win” anything if we win but if there’s a problem we the people will pay the price?
I don’t think any US politician has ever explained what the prize is for getting Ukraine into nato. Or what the prize is for importing 2,000,000 unknown people a year. Or what prize is for defunding the police.
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