Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 21:16:11 +0100
Subject: [fyi] www.iraqwar.ru


Check out this interesting Russian site on the war in Iraq, recommendable !!!

http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news079.htm

http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news080.htm

http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news082.htm


some sniplets:

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"Massive  numbers of disabled combat vehicles and other
equipment   becomes  a   strategic  problem   for  the
coalition.  Already,  radio  intercepts indicate,  all
available  repair  units  have  been  deployed to  the
front.  Over  60% of  all  available spare  parts have
been  already used  and emergency  additional supplies
are being requested.

The  sand is literally "eating up" the equipment. Sand
has  a particularly serious effect  on electronics and
transmissions  of combat  vehicles. Already  more than
40  tanks and up to 69 armored personnel carriers have
been  disabled due  to damaged engines;  more than 150
armored   vehicles   have  lost   the  use   of  their
heat-seeking   targeting   sights  and   night  vision
equipment.  Fine dust gets into all openings and clogs
up all moving parts.

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"Despite  of  this  obvious gap,  Iraqi  resistance has
already  been publicly qualified by  the US as "fierce
and  resilient". Analysts believe that the correlation
of  losses is  entirely acceptable  to the  Iraqis and
they  [  the  analysts  ]  do  not  see any  strategic
coalition  advantage  in  this  war.  Once again  this
proves  that success in modern warfare is achieved not
so   much   through   technological  superiority   but
primarily  through  training,  competent  command  and
resilience  of the troops. Under  such conditions even
relatively  old weapons can inflict  heavy losses on a
technologically-superior enemy.

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"During  the past  seven days  of the  war the  US Navy
detained  all ships in the  Persian Gulf going to Iraq
under  the US "Oil for  Food" program. Since yesterday
all   these  ships  are  being   unloaded  in  Kuwait.
Unloaded  food is  being delivered by  the US military
to   Iraq  and  is  being   distributed  as  "American
humanitarian  aid" and  as a  part of  the "rebuilding
Iraq"  program. These US actions  have already cause a
serious  scandal  in  the  UN.  The  US explained  its
actions  by  its  unilateral  decision  to freeze  all
Iraqi  financial assets, including the Iraqi financial
assets  with the UN. These assets the US now considers
its  property  and  will  exercise  full  control over
them.  Captains  of  the detained  ships  have already
called   these   actions   by  the   US   a  "piracy."

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"During  the  nine days  of the  war the  coalition has
failed:
-  to  divide Iraq  in  half along  the  An-Nasiriya -
Al-Ammara line,
-  to  surround  and to  destroy  the  Iraqi group  of
forces at Basra,
-  to create  an attack  group between the  Tigris and
the   Euphrates   with   a   front   toward   Baghdad,
-  to disrupt  Iraq's military and  political control,
to  disorganize Iraq's forces and  to destroy the main
Iraqi attack forces.

A  whole  range  of problems  that  require  their own
solutions  was uncovered directly  on the battlefield.
Thus,  combat  in Iraq  raised serious  concerns about
the   problem  of  coordination   between  units  from
different  services. Limited  decision-making time and
the  ability to  detect and  to engage  an enemy  at a
great  distance make  "friendly fire" one  of the most
serious  problems  of  modern  warfare.  For  now  the
coalition  has no  adequate solution to  this problem.
At  one location or another  every day of this war the
coalition   troops  were  attacking  friendly  forces.

The  second problem of the  coalition is its inability
to  hold on  to the captured territory.  For the first
time  since the  war in Vietnam the  Americans have to
deal   with  a  partisan  movement  and  with  attacks
against   their  [the  US]   lines  of  communication.
Currently  the coalition is rushing  to form some sort
of  territorial defense units for  guarding its supply
lines  and  for  maintaining  order  in  the  occupied
territories.

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"Those star-covered Pentagon idiots promised us a
victory march and flowers on the armor. What we got
instead were those damned fanatics fighting for every
dune and the sand squeaking in your ass!" said one of
the wounded recuperating at a hospital in Rammstein.





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