" “Why does this war feel like a secret?”" Topic
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Tango01 | 06 Jan 2017 9:27 p.m. PST |
"In June of 2015, I spent eight days embedded with the Ukrainian army in the front-line town of Pisky in eastern Ukraine. I've been back and forth to the front lines in eastern Ukraine many times in the more than two years I've covered this conflict, but those eight days in Pisky stand out from the rest. It was an active time, with near constant artillery and mortar fire. The supersonic snap of bullets overhead was common, as was the background din of machine guns and small arms. A tank even shot at me. It was terrifying. As a former U.S. special operations pilot, I had never witnessed that level of combat intensity in Iraq or Afghanistan. Even when I embedded with the Kurdish peshmerga outside of Mosul in Iraq in May, I didn't see such heavy fighting…." Main page link Amicalement Armand |
cosmicbank | 07 Jan 2017 9:47 a.m. PST |
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Legion 4 | 07 Jan 2017 9:51 a.m. PST |
Indeed … But as we know … Spec Ops does much of it's work "in the Dark". It's just the nature of this type of operations. |
Deadles | 08 Jan 2017 5:23 p.m. PST |
Interesting commentary about the intensity. Ukrainian War is a proper conventional war with both sides using conventional heavy weapons and concentration of force. It's not LIC like Afghanistan or Iraq were where the enemy was badly organised and lacked heavy firepower. There were high intensity engagements in these wars but a lot of the accounts reveal most ops are basically garrison duty. Even a lot of combat operations launched in these wars didn't result in many high intensity engagements (especially Afghanistan). It makes me wonder how NATO troops would fare in such a fight, especially if they were on the receiving end of a Russian massed thermobaric rocket strike.
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Legion 4 | 09 Jan 2017 4:29 p.m. PST |
It makes me wonder how NATO troops would fare in such a fight, especially if they were on the receiving end of a Russian massed thermobaric rocket strike.
Or vis versa … |
15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 09 Jan 2017 6:18 p.m. PST |
What's going on in eastern Ukraine is considered to be a "low intensity conflict," which has nothing to do with how much firepower is brought to bear at any given time but by its limited objectives that serve political goals, in this case to keep Kiev off-balance and unable to fully embrace the west without the risk of balkanization of a pro-Russian east. |
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