Chapter 233 Dollar Storm(1/2)
The tragedy of the Doha Massacre has become a teaching focus in various military academies in military history.
Some military scholars devoted their lives to studying the examples of this battle, exploring every detail, and wrote a large number of related articles and books. The Battle of Doha provided these scholars with another way to make a living.
Combining spy warfare, information warfare, electronic warfare and missile intensive attacks has become a key research project for most countries.
The results of the Doha missile attack were so brilliant that countries around the world, whether strong or small, have invested a lot of manpower and material resources to develop their own tactical ground-to-ground missile systems.
While people discover the powerful power of high-tech weapons, they also see their fragility.
The precise strike characteristics of high-tech weapons allow the army to use relatively fewer (but also more expensive) weapons to achieve or exceed the results of previous conventional weapons.
However, the powerful interference adopted by Iraq uses self-harm to curb the high-tech weapons of the US military, achieving extraordinary results.
The eyes are covered and the ears are blocked. The battlefield performance of high-tech weapons is not much better than conventional weapons.
Iraq flexibly uses a variety of high-tech products and uses them in conjunction with them, but it has a surprising surprise that the US military has made the United States, which claims to be the most technologically developed in the world, tasted the taste of a crushing defeat.
Countless articles point out that the United States has fallen into a misunderstanding.
While emphasizing high technology, they only focus on developing more accurate attack methods, ignoring that all kinds of technologies have their own weaknesses.
When Americans are crazy about pursuing higher-demand single performance, the weaknesses of this equipment are exposed more fully.
If the United States attacked a relatively weak country, the weaknesses of these equipment could be carefully hidden by them.
However, Iraq, which was able to independently manufacture Scud missiles and was eyeed by multiple forces led by the United States, concentrated its efforts to target the weaknesses of the US military. It developed corresponding counterattack methods.
The arrogant and arrogant US military took it for granted that Iraq was the meat on the chopping board and could let them have fish.
But the facts hit them with a head-on blow. The US military used heavy casualties and material losses, and understood a truth: when you hit others, others will also hit you!
This simple truth was not understood until the US military whined under the missile attack.
So, they were punished!
The US military has been secretly informing the losses of this attack. The Doha barracks were blocked and no one or any reporter was allowed to enter.
At a press conference at the US Middle East Command, it was lightly informed reporters that the Doha barracks were attacked by Saddam's missiles, causing a large number of buildings to be damaged. However, since the US military had entered the air raid shelter at that time, the actual casualties were not large.
The reporters burst into laughter.
How many air raid shelters can a non-permanent barracks have?
Can all 50,000 digital troops and more than 30,000 military logistics personnel hide in?
The spokesperson continued to say that when the Saddam missile attacked, Lieutenant General Black, the commander of the digital force, always stood firm. Before the death of the explosion had stopped, he led the staff to inspect the damage to the barracks. Unfortunately, he was buried by a suddenly collapsed building and died in his line of duty.
He used gorgeous words to describe Lieutenant General Black as a devout Christian, a good husband in the eyes of his wife, a good father in the eyes of his children, and a brave and fearless soldier!
He gave a speech with emotion and emotion, only touched a few emotional journalists.
Most people looked at him expressionlessly, and when he finished speaking, they immediately asked one sharp question after another:
Didn’t the US military expect such a large-scale missile attack from Saddam in advance?
The Doha barracks stationed tens of thousands of troops, which is the starting position for attack. Why is the defense capability so fragile?
According to internal information, in this attack, some Arab soldiers acted as Iraq's eyeliner and directly participated in the attack. How can the United States coordinate relations with Middle Eastern countries in the context of Iraq's sympathizers?
The United States has no choice but to deal with Saddam with much cheaper measures with high-tech military machines accumulated by hundreds of billions of dollars. Is the taxes paid by taxpayers only filling the pockets of arms dealers?
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Some American journalists asked unceremoniously: Should the United States repeat the mistakes of Vietnam and fall into a war quagmire that is costly but has gained nothing again?
Faced with the fierce questions from the reporters, the spokesperson answered two irrelevant questions in a mess, and announced the end of the press conference as if he ran away.
The same situation is also happening in the White House.
The reporters pointed out that the core issues were deliberately ignored by the spokesperson of the State Council, and only answered some minor questions.
On the stage, he repeatedly talked about how great Lieutenant General Brack was and how he stood up in a critical moment. He also invited Lieutenant General Brack's widow and children to tell their love for their husbands (fathers) in tears.
The press conference turned into a venue for condolences for Lieutenant General Brack.
The intermittent crying and narration were so sad that the venue was immersed in grief.
Even at this time, they did not use even a second to think about it. In Iraq, there were already 100,000 civilians. Just like them, they lost their closest relatives and loved ones, and their families were destroyed.
The noble Americans cried like rain for their commanders who were ordered to invade other countries, but turned a blind eye to the cry of as many as 100,000 Iraqi people.
The White House has no choice.
The heavy losses of the Doha barracks this time made all the people who thought they were mentally prepared to be frightened.
The deaths of many general-level officers, including Lieutenant General Black, made these hawkish politicians who were determined to fight were unable to explain to the American public. They had to introduce a hero to divert the eyes of journalists and the public, so as to turn their anger to Saddam. They supported them and carry out the war to the end until they were fully grasped by Iraqi oil.
These hawkish politicians are now in a state of lack of progress and retreat, eager to get out of the predicament.
They knew that the Iraq War must be persevered!
Stop at this time. The people will hold them responsible for launching the war. The arms dealers and oil dealers will also suffer losses to them and are furious.
When the war broke out, the arms dealers were favored by countries around the world because of their excellent performance in weapons. They received large orders and were very happy.
However, Iraq used some electronic interference devices from our enemies to make both sides blind and deaf.
As a result, people were surprised to find from the battlefield video released by Iraq that Iraq's Su-2 was not at all inferior to the F15. Even the MiG-29, which they thought was vulnerable, injured and shot down multiple F-frames.
As for the US early warning aircraft, they dare not enter Iraqi airspace at all.
Those who are superstitious about the combat effectiveness of the US military suddenly understand.
The so-called high-tech weapon must be obtained under certain conditions.
The result of the shush.
It is not that Iraq's weapons are backward. Instead, the US military had an absolute advantage in electronic warfare before, and early warning aircraft provided a transparent battlefield environment for the US military's military machines.
When the Iraqis discovered this, they took the initiative to hide their last communication ability and radar ability, forcibly dragging the US military into a closed black room, and they would only fight the US military under superior circumstances. Their performance was actually worse than that of the Iraqis who were used to fighting in a bad situation!
The orders of arms dealers were cancelled one after another.
Countries that want to buy US military weapons and try to get through once and for all understand that they do not have such advantages as the US military.
Spending a lot of money to buy a bunch of weapons that cannot achieve the expected effectiveness is not a waste of time?
Their eyes searched the world again, looking for roughly comparable and cheap weapon systems, and China, which had always remained silent, jumped into their field of vision.
fc-1, and all agreed that it is equivalent to f16.
The price of Chinese fighter jets is only half that of f16!
Some countries have begun to try to buy small quantities and verify them.
After actual use and conducting a confrontation exercise with your existing F16, the big:] began to flock to China.
After close contact, they discovered more good things.
Small missile speedboats, frigates, conventional submarines, new tanks, missile systems..., and the same weapons and equipment are included in their military purchase list.
When the American arms dealers saw the orders they received flew to China, they were so angry that they jumped around and shouted, but to no avail.
The US military performed in Iraq with a large number of casualties and materials.
With such a high cost, it was not them who benefited in the end, but China standing next to watch the fun. The river clams fought, but the fisherman benefited. The United States vomited blood for this and his eyes were red.
The arms dealer needs a stage to justify the United States' military equipment and cleanse the stigma.
Therefore, at this time, the arms dealer will never agree to the truce!
The same is true for oil merchants. The major oil developers in the United States and Britain are still slandering each other in the United Nations venue in order to compete for oil development rights. After a long period of bargaining with each other, even the Iraqi oil field that company owns has been divided properly. If the United States suddenly retreats, will all their investment be wasted?
Therefore, oil developers are also firmly unable to accept the result of the ceasefire.
The U.S. government cannot bear this consequence either.
In exchange for other permanent members, the United States gave up a lot of rights to his use of force. After they had obtained control of the world oil, they turned around and liquidated the benefits one by one with these countries.
Now, oil control is still on paper, and the benefits have been taken away by those countries.
How could it be, let it go?
The consortium cannot agree!
They received news of attacking Iraq from government insiders in advance. In order to make a big profit from it, they invested heavily in the stock market in advance.
But as a result, the poor performance of the US military has greatly reduced their investment.
The funds invested in the financial market are trapped!
They were so sad that they were too late!
If the United States stops, they will have to cut their lives and run away. How great is the loss? Letting them accept this result is even harder than taking the life of the consortium!
The arms dealers, oil dealers, and consortiums were originally trinity, and they didn't agree. How could the war end?
In this financial loss that swept the United States, there were only a few mutual funds that made a lot of money.
These funds have very good luck.
In the previous computer virus incident, these funds made a lot of profits by purchasing large numbers of short orders in stock index futures because of their indifferent attitude to the market in the early stage. When the economy across the United States suffered a heavy blow, the companies applauded and celebrated, and ordinary employees received high rewards of more than 100,000 US dollars for the huge profits they received. These fund companies opened champagne and quietly held an internal celebration banquet when the United States was in a state of grief.
This time the United States took action against Saddam. After consulting some military experts, they also put forward another point: Although Iraq is weak, they are still fighting, and the US military will have a very difficult battle in the early stage.
To be continued...