The Battle of Khasham 2018, Russian troops get annihilated by the US Marines

I'm just waiting for some of the Russo-bots to post a twitter link with that.

Great day In American history

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was in TAR with the Navy

I was always accused of "over fraternizing"

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Checks out.

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Jesus Christ, we threw the kitchen sink at a bunch of contractors

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Yeah, this is like bragging about Grenada. We threw 3 aircraft carriers, 2 Amphibs, a division of Marines, the Rangers and the 82nd Airborne at a few Cuban infantrymen with a half dozen APC’s. Of Course you won.

well....yea. bama still uses its starters to build up a 7 score lead on kenesaw state doesnt it? same concept here

Just goes to show you the importance of air power and owning the skies above the battlefield. As soon as the Apaches showed up it was night-night for those T-72s. Then we hit them with some F-15s, C-130s, and B-52s for good measure.

They got lit the freak up.

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(and what happened to Prigozhin).

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I mean, when the Iranians shot down the airliner leaving from Tehran, that could be chalked up to sheer incompetence. But Prigozhin?

Deadliest people on a battlefield? CCTs and FACs. I'm a little sad that there weren't A-10s involved, but when you have a BUFF just doing what it feels like, wait, I think I'm getting a stiffy.

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I mean, when the Iranians shot down the airliner leaving from Tehran, that could be chalked up to sheer incompetence. But Prigozhin?

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I mean, the Russians were (and still are, to some degree, but certainly less so) incompetent as frick. I wouldn't rule out at all that they were just totally confused as buttfricked as to what was being asked of them and that there was bureaucracy and poor communication involved; that kind of thing happens to even the very best units that have ever walked the earth, as they are still human organizations after all. ODAs had several instances of dropping CAS on either friendlies or clearly neutrals, DEVGRU has had their morale and discipline issues, etc., and they are lightyears better than anything the Russian government or private contractors can throw out there.

But I do still think there is a distinct possibility that was intentional on the Russian government's part. It'll be fascinating when this sort of thing gets declass'd in fifty years.

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Deadliest people on a battlefield? CCTs and FACs. I'm a little sad that there weren't A-10s involved, but when you have a BUFF just doing what it feels like, wait, I think I'm getting a stiffy.

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And a good weapons squad leader.

And ODA team commanders and MSG's who are often operating without FACs and CCTs, along with CAG and DEVGRU troop commanders and CSMs and MCPOs, and so forth. When I was in and especially when I was in theater, probably one of my biggest takeaways was, if you wanted to be an excellent small unit leader when you were faced with the real deal, how goddamn amazing the junior and mid-level officers and senior and mid-level NCOs were in both special operations and many line units at coordinating fires, stacking assets, seeing the battlefield in three dimensions, having a four-dimensional sense of enemy vulnerability, etc. It's really a gift for some people, especially to be able to do it while under contact and maintaining your cool.

WW3 started a just this. In 2018 I sure didn't think the US would over throw Asad in less than 10 years.

Now I'm surprised he's alive.