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By Gilbert Doctorow
Ukraine is mounting a counteroffensive in Southeast Ukraine, the U.S. is upping its ante, and Russian sentiment could also be shifting in direction of a “take off the gloves” posture. It seems the war in Ukraine is escalating. From Gilbert Doctorow at gilbertdoctorow.com:
The UK and Commonwealth could also be mourning the passing of Queen Elizabeth II yesterday. I’m in mourning as effectively, however for a really totally different cause: the gathering of the Ukraine Protection Contact Group within the Ramstein air base in Germany yesterday reshuffled the deck on Western army and monetary help to Ukraine, elevating contributions to the continuing holy campaign in opposition to Russia from nonetheless extra nations and including new, nonetheless extra superior precision strike weapons to the combo of deliveries to Kiev. It was an open summons to the Kremlin to escalate in flip, as had been the take a look at firing the identical day of a brand new intercontinental rocket, the Minuteman III, from Vandenberg air base in California and the unannounced go to to Kiev yesterday of not solely Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was featured in Western media accounts, but in addition different prime officers of the Biden administration. Essentially the most infamous member of this delegation was absolutely Blinken’s deputy, Victoria Nuland, who had stage managed the February 2014 coup that put in energy in Kiev the Russia-hating regime that Zelensky now heads.
The Russians could also be compelled to take the bait as a result of course of army motion on the bottom. As now turns into clear, they’ve simply suffered some losses in very heavy floor and artillery preventing these previous few days round Kharkov. The Ukrainian positive aspects had been facilitated by the superior weaponry lately arrived from NATO nations, by the concentrating on knowledge they’re receiving from the U.S. and from off-stage tactical route from NATO officers. By ‘take the bait,’ I imply the Russians could escalate to all out war on Ukraine. This query figured prominently in yesterday’s main information and political discuss present packages of Russian state tv. I’ll go into these issues in some element beneath.
A Former US Marine Corps Officer’s Evaluation of the Ukraine War
Preface
This text initially appeared within the Marine Corps Gazette August 2022 challenge. Authored by an apparently frequent nameless contributor (“Marinus”) to the Gazette, it has since raised fairly a ruckus among the many United States army neighborhood in varied on-line debates.
There was a lot hypothesis – certainly not definitively confirmed – that “Marinus” is none different that USMC Lt. Gen. (ret) Paul Okay. Van Riper, a long-revered champion of many Marines, and a distinguished proponent of the so-called “Maneuverists” – a college of army thought strongly influenced by the work of the incomparable army strategist John R. Boyd.
Van Riper was additionally the iconoclastic Pink group commander for the notorious 2002 Millennium Problem war video games, throughout which his forces (patterned after Iranian capabilities of the time) sunk all the US naval fleet within the Persian Gulf by using strategies and capabilities the war recreation planners failed to think about of their inflexible calculations. (I wrote in regards to the Millennium Problem 2002 debacle right here: Classes By no means Discovered.)
Whether or not Marinus is Van Riper, or a collaboration of Van Riper together with his son (as some have conjectured, on condition that Normal Van Riper is now 84-years-old), or just another insightful former Marine officer is, within the remaining evaluation, in all probability not all that essential. What’s essential is that his observations and perceptions of the continuing battle in Ukraine are lucid, enlightening, and unsullied by the rampant anti-Russian prejudice that has blinded most within the west to each the underlying causes and now the prosecution of the war in Ukraine.
Destroying the “Mom of All Proxy Armies” in Ukraine
The Object of War
From the second in early April when Russian forces on the perimeter of Kiev started to withdraw to new positions in jap Ukraine, western war propagandists have been trumpeting what they characterised as Russia’s “humiliating defeat”. As one who acknowledged as early as February twenty eighth that the Russian military was executing a strategic feint in and across the Ukrainian capital, I may solely shake my head and snigger on the cluelessness of a lot of the so-called “consultants” who’ve tried to promote this interpretation of occasions to hopelessly ignorant western audiences.
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Classes By no means Discovered
…it simply so occurs that the biggest and most costly war-game train in Pentagon historical past examined the thesis again in 2002. It was a large battle simulation code-named Millennium Problem. The Pentagon spent a whopping 250 million {dollars} setting the entire thing up, and it consisted primarily of a service strike group escorting a big amphibious touchdown drive into the Persian Gulf.
It even envisioned the “Blue Crew” (US forces) using battlefield applied sciences not but out there, however which had been anticipated to be operational by 2007.
The “Pink Crew” (enemy forces) was understood to signify Iran, and the Pentagon tapped retired Marine Lieutenant Normal Paul Van Riper to steer it.
Van Riper, nevertheless, didn’t act in accordance with the expectations of the desk-jockey analysts within the Pentagon. Moderately, he waited till the naval process drive had transited the Strait of Hormuz, after which he launched salvos of land-based ballistic missiles, anti-ship missiles launched from low-flying planes and helicopters, and swarms of elusive “quick boats” in opposition to the flotilla of ships. This assault totally overwhelmed the protection capabilities of the fleet, and in a matter of mere minutes, all nineteen ships within the process drive had been sunk, together with their whole complement of 20,000 sailors and marines.
