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From the previous blog entry:
"Such vessels when in a swarm mode of attack destroying an American naval target, numbers alone both under the water and above sufficient! That is the scenario as envisioned by Iranian military planners?"
Iranian "military planners" at this very moment constructing an above-the-water mock-up of an American Nimitz class aircraft carrier. As reported in various media and having drawn some attention.
DESTRUCTION OR RENDERING AN AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER INEFFECTIVE VERY HIGH ON THE IRANIAN AGENDA!
That swarm attack asymmetric and to be accomplished by the midget submarines but also including:
* High-speed boats.
* Ground-in-wing Bevar flying boats.
* Boghammers.
* Combat drones.
* An assortment of conventional forces operating in the suicide mode of attack.
> Aircraft.
> Surface-to-surface missiles.
> Surface vessels.
> Conventional diesel/electric submarines.
Indeed, almost all Iranian forces when targeting an American Nimitz class aircraft carrier operating in the suicide mode.
A simultaneous attack by a multiple numbers of assets of all types, an overwhelming swarm unstoppable and almost of Biblical proportions , concentrated defenses of the Nimitz. not able to fire fast enough or accurate enough or even having sufficient ammo to destroy all assailants.
An American aircraft carrier of course not operating alone but accompanied by a contingent of other surface warships and submersibles, protection not limited by organic Nimitz resources alone!
NOT FOR ALMOST SEVENTY YEARS HAS AN AMERICAN NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIER BUT SUBJECTED TO SUSTAINED AND POTENTIALLY MORTAL ENEMY ATTACK!
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Friday, May 9, 2014
De Gaulle.
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From a comment to the blog by Steiner in reply to my original entry:
"Steiner said...
Communists, almost certainly, who were operating with impunity in the UK at the time and who didn't wish to see a traditionalist like De Gaulle emerge as the leader of post-war France."
Charles De Gaulle while in command of the Free French during World War Two [WW2] almost certainly the subject of an assassination attempt.
Steiner correct in his appreciation. English secret agents beholden to the Soviet Union in high positions of importance within the British Secret Service MI-6 [Kim Philby] and Counter-Intelligence MI-5 [Anthony Blunt] more than able to facilitate an assassination.
And as also noted:
"The man [de Gaulle] had MANY ENEMIES and was not held in high repute by the other allied leaders. That list of potential suspects in the apparent assassination attempt if compiled I might assume very long indeed."
American and British political leadership during the war not finding de Gaulle so compliant and malleable as they might have liked.
Within the Free French movement, both external and internal NOT ALL Frenchmen in agreement that General De Gaulle as the undisputed leader, the means and methods of the man [de Gaulle] not so appreciated by all.
Communists external and internal [French resistance] of course anticipating a large degree of political chaos in the aftermath of the war, seeking to advantage of same, de Gaulle seen obviously as an impediment to "commie" take-over!
coolbert.
From a comment to the blog by Steiner in reply to my original entry:
"Steiner said...
Communists, almost certainly, who were operating with impunity in the UK at the time and who didn't wish to see a traditionalist like De Gaulle emerge as the leader of post-war France."
Charles De Gaulle while in command of the Free French during World War Two [WW2] almost certainly the subject of an assassination attempt.
Steiner correct in his appreciation. English secret agents beholden to the Soviet Union in high positions of importance within the British Secret Service MI-6 [Kim Philby] and Counter-Intelligence MI-5 [Anthony Blunt] more than able to facilitate an assassination.
And as also noted:
"The man [de Gaulle] had MANY ENEMIES and was not held in high repute by the other allied leaders. That list of potential suspects in the apparent assassination attempt if compiled I might assume very long indeed."
American and British political leadership during the war not finding de Gaulle so compliant and malleable as they might have liked.
Within the Free French movement, both external and internal NOT ALL Frenchmen in agreement that General De Gaulle as the undisputed leader, the means and methods of the man [de Gaulle] not so appreciated by all.
Communists external and internal [French resistance] of course anticipating a large degree of political chaos in the aftermath of the war, seeking to advantage of same, de Gaulle seen obviously as an impediment to "commie" take-over!
coolbert.
Sunk!
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From DEBKAfile an update:
First there was Yugo, then there was Yono, and now there is Ghadir.
Miniature submarines one of now which has evidently gone to the bottom.
"An Iranian stealth submarine sinks before targeting a mock US carrier"
"06 May. A new Iranian Ghadir-class stealth mini-submarine, home-built with Chinese technology, recently sank near the Strait of Hormuz while preparing for a Revolutionary Guards naval exercise to practice sinking or disabling a mock-up US aircraft carrier . . . To keep the accident secret, Tehran curtailed the search for the estimated 10 crewmen."
"Ghadir . . . is a class of midget submarines built by Iran specifically for cruising within the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf . . . It is based on the North Korean Yono class submarine."
These miniature submarines as built by the Iranian allegedly in profusion about one-tenth [1/10] the size of a conventional diesel/electric submersible, carrying only two torpedoes, missions as assigned primarily of an unconventional and asymmetric nature, and then ONLY limited at that!
Such vessels when in a swarm mode of attack destroying an American naval target, numbers alone both under the water and above sufficient! That is the scenario as envisioned by Iranian military planners?
coolbert.
From DEBKAfile an update:
First there was Yugo, then there was Yono, and now there is Ghadir.
Miniature submarines one of now which has evidently gone to the bottom.
"An Iranian stealth submarine sinks before targeting a mock US carrier"
"06 May. A new Iranian Ghadir-class stealth mini-submarine, home-built with Chinese technology, recently sank near the Strait of Hormuz while preparing for a Revolutionary Guards naval exercise to practice sinking or disabling a mock-up US aircraft carrier . . . To keep the accident secret, Tehran curtailed the search for the estimated 10 crewmen."
"Ghadir . . . is a class of midget submarines built by Iran specifically for cruising within the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf . . . It is based on the North Korean Yono class submarine."
These miniature submarines as built by the Iranian allegedly in profusion about one-tenth [1/10] the size of a conventional diesel/electric submersible, carrying only two torpedoes, missions as assigned primarily of an unconventional and asymmetric nature, and then ONLY limited at that!
Such vessels when in a swarm mode of attack destroying an American naval target, numbers alone both under the water and above sufficient! That is the scenario as envisioned by Iranian military planners?
coolbert.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Gleiwitz.
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Movie review.
The movie being reviewed is the "Gleiwitz Case".
Originally seen as "Der Fall Gleiwitz".
From 1961 an East German [communist] production.
An attack by German pseudo-forces, a false-flag operation that justification a casus belli as cited by the Nazi regime for the attack on Poland precipitating the Second World War [WW2].
"Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could 'justify' thereby his invasion of Poland."
This move I rate as good but no more than that! Seems to be factual and also is an excellent example of that false flag operation as conducted by pseudo-forces.
ONLY the other day I had a blog entry about this very topic. How serendipitous to find this movie I was not even aware of!
THAT GERMAN ATTACK ON POLAND WOULD HAVE TRANSPIRED EVEN IF THERE HAD BEEN NO FALSE FLAG ATTACK ON THE GERMAN RADIO STATION AT GLEIWITZ! UNDERSTAND THAT!
Pseudo and false flag operations require a great attention to detail. Uniforms, weapons, personnel, plausibility, etc.
As was the case at Gleiwitz.
coolbert.
Movie review.
The movie being reviewed is the "Gleiwitz Case".
Originally seen as "Der Fall Gleiwitz".
From 1961 an East German [communist] production.
An attack by German pseudo-forces, a false-flag operation that justification a casus belli as cited by the Nazi regime for the attack on Poland precipitating the Second World War [WW2].
"Re-enacted true story of successful assault by Nazis, posing as Poles, on a German border radio station so that Hitler could 'justify' thereby his invasion of Poland."
This move I rate as good but no more than that! Seems to be factual and also is an excellent example of that false flag operation as conducted by pseudo-forces.
ONLY the other day I had a blog entry about this very topic. How serendipitous to find this movie I was not even aware of!
THAT GERMAN ATTACK ON POLAND WOULD HAVE TRANSPIRED EVEN IF THERE HAD BEEN NO FALSE FLAG ATTACK ON THE GERMAN RADIO STATION AT GLEIWITZ! UNDERSTAND THAT!
Pseudo and false flag operations require a great attention to detail. Uniforms, weapons, personnel, plausibility, etc.
As was the case at Gleiwitz.
coolbert.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Paracels!
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Hot update, South China Sea!!
I assume this is the Paracel Islands! Thanks to Freeper in this case!
Chinese and Vietnamese facing off over sovereignty and territorial rights!!
NO shots fire yet. YET! NONE OF THIS CARRIED BY THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA EITHER TO MY KNOWLEDGE.
"Vietnam and China face off in South China Sea"
"Vietnam said on Wednesday a Chinese vessel intentionally rammed two of its ships in a part of the disputed South China Sea where Beijing has deployed a giant oil rig, sending tensions spiraling in the region."
"The foreign ministry in Hanoi said the collisions took place on Sunday and caused considerable damage to the Vietnamese ships. Six people sustained minor injuries, it said."
"'On May 4, Chinese ships intentionally rammed two Vietnamese Sea Guard vessels,' said Tran Duy Hai, a foreign ministry official and deputy head of Vietnam's national border committee."
"'Chinese ships, with air support, sought to intimidate Vietnamese vessels. Water cannon was used,' he told a news conference in Hanoi. Six other ships were also hit, other officials said, but not as badly.
"Dozens of navy and coastguard vessels from both countries are in the area where China has deployed the giant rig, Vietnamese officials have said."
"'No shots have been fired yet,' said a Vietnamese navy official"
Dozens of ships with air support and a giant drilling rig. Collisions, intentional ramming, injuries, water cannon, "tensions spiraling". Actions short of war but very close to war.
In the book SSN Vietnam is described as an ally of China! That was twenty years ago! NO LONGER AND PERHAPS NEVER AGAIN!!
coolbert.
Hot update, South China Sea!!
I assume this is the Paracel Islands! Thanks to Freeper in this case!
Chinese and Vietnamese facing off over sovereignty and territorial rights!!
NO shots fire yet. YET! NONE OF THIS CARRIED BY THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA EITHER TO MY KNOWLEDGE.
"Vietnam and China face off in South China Sea"
"Vietnam said on Wednesday a Chinese vessel intentionally rammed two of its ships in a part of the disputed South China Sea where Beijing has deployed a giant oil rig, sending tensions spiraling in the region."
"The foreign ministry in Hanoi said the collisions took place on Sunday and caused considerable damage to the Vietnamese ships. Six people sustained minor injuries, it said."
"'On May 4, Chinese ships intentionally rammed two Vietnamese Sea Guard vessels,' said Tran Duy Hai, a foreign ministry official and deputy head of Vietnam's national border committee."
"'Chinese ships, with air support, sought to intimidate Vietnamese vessels. Water cannon was used,' he told a news conference in Hanoi. Six other ships were also hit, other officials said, but not as badly.
"Dozens of navy and coastguard vessels from both countries are in the area where China has deployed the giant rig, Vietnamese officials have said."
"'No shots have been fired yet,' said a Vietnamese navy official"
Dozens of ships with air support and a giant drilling rig. Collisions, intentional ramming, injuries, water cannon, "tensions spiraling". Actions short of war but very close to war.
In the book SSN Vietnam is described as an ally of China! That was twenty years ago! NO LONGER AND PERHAPS NEVER AGAIN!!
coolbert.
Sambisa Forest.
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Intelligence preparation of the battlefield [IPB].
Devoted readers to the blog by now are well acquainted with the recent kidnappings in Nigeria. Insurgents of the Islamic Boko Haram guerrilla faction having abducted hundreds of schoolgirls and escaped apparently unscathed into their forest/mountain stronghold of the Sambisa forest.
"Inside Nigeria's Sambisa forest, the Boko Haram hideout where kidnapped school girls are believed to be held"
"Once a game reserve renowned for its wildlife, Sambisa is now a key stronghold for Islamic insurgents, and a place of fear for the people of Borno state."
That Sambisa forest at one time a colonial game preserve now that sanctuary for the insurgents, an area the terrain most forbidding, almost impenetrable. Boko Haram I might think also having had many years to prepare the environment to their advantage.
A landscape the danger of which also to include the possibility of attack from wild and dangerous animals. With regard to military operations Africa is almost unique in this regard.
That total or nearly total lack of infrastructure in the Sambisa area also making conventional military operations difficult at best, THE BIG FOOTPRINT OF MASSIVE MILITARY FORCE NOT GOING TO WORK IN THIS SITUATION!
Anyone have a good idea how to proceed with this matter which is now receiving world-wide media coverage and universal condemnation?
coolbert.
Intelligence preparation of the battlefield [IPB].
Devoted readers to the blog by now are well acquainted with the recent kidnappings in Nigeria. Insurgents of the Islamic Boko Haram guerrilla faction having abducted hundreds of schoolgirls and escaped apparently unscathed into their forest/mountain stronghold of the Sambisa forest.
"Inside Nigeria's Sambisa forest, the Boko Haram hideout where kidnapped school girls are believed to be held"
"Once a game reserve renowned for its wildlife, Sambisa is now a key stronghold for Islamic insurgents, and a place of fear for the people of Borno state."
That Sambisa forest at one time a colonial game preserve now that sanctuary for the insurgents, an area the terrain most forbidding, almost impenetrable. Boko Haram I might think also having had many years to prepare the environment to their advantage.
A landscape the danger of which also to include the possibility of attack from wild and dangerous animals. With regard to military operations Africa is almost unique in this regard.
That total or nearly total lack of infrastructure in the Sambisa area also making conventional military operations difficult at best, THE BIG FOOTPRINT OF MASSIVE MILITARY FORCE NOT GOING TO WORK IN THIS SITUATION!
Anyone have a good idea how to proceed with this matter which is now receiving world-wide media coverage and universal condemnation?
coolbert.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Corkscrew.
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As extracted from a previous blog entry those comments of General Eisenhower:
* "'It wearies me to be thought of as timid,' . . . 'when I've had to do things that were so risky as to be almost crazy.'"
One of those "things" as had in mind by Ike was the invasion of Pantelleria.
Ike speaking of Operation Corkscrew.
Corkscrew a military operation during World War Two [WW2] I was not familiar with.
Pantelleria that Italian occupied and fortified island located half-way between Sicily and the African continent, seen as an impediment to Operation Husky!
Those Axis radar installations and airfields considered as a risk to allied forces, capture of the island seen as essential to Husky!
"Operation Corkscrew was the Allied invasion of the Italian island of Pantelleria (between Sicily and Tunisia) on 11 June 1943."
"The radar installations and airfield on the island were seen as a real threat to the planned invasion of Sicily. The Italian garrison on the island was 12,000 strong in well-entrenched pillboxes and 21 gun batteries of a variety of calibres"
The capture intact of those airfields also deemed as a major plus within the context of Husky.
Pantelleria subjected to an intense and sustained ten-day aerial and naval bombardment, the Italian garrison as prepared as it was surrendering en masse with the only casualty to the allied invasion force being "a man bitten by a mule".
Such major, abject and absolute surrender of troops NEVER occurring in the Pacific theater, intense and sustained bombardment by air and naval assets NOT EVER resulting in mass surrender.
The Japanese with their bushido code of honor much more resolute than the Italians.
That Italian military enigma again!!
coolbert.
As extracted from a previous blog entry those comments of General Eisenhower:
* "'It wearies me to be thought of as timid,' . . . 'when I've had to do things that were so risky as to be almost crazy.'"
One of those "things" as had in mind by Ike was the invasion of Pantelleria.
Ike speaking of Operation Corkscrew.
Corkscrew a military operation during World War Two [WW2] I was not familiar with.
Pantelleria that Italian occupied and fortified island located half-way between Sicily and the African continent, seen as an impediment to Operation Husky!
Those Axis radar installations and airfields considered as a risk to allied forces, capture of the island seen as essential to Husky!
"Operation Corkscrew was the Allied invasion of the Italian island of Pantelleria (between Sicily and Tunisia) on 11 June 1943."
"The radar installations and airfield on the island were seen as a real threat to the planned invasion of Sicily. The Italian garrison on the island was 12,000 strong in well-entrenched pillboxes and 21 gun batteries of a variety of calibres"
The capture intact of those airfields also deemed as a major plus within the context of Husky.
Pantelleria subjected to an intense and sustained ten-day aerial and naval bombardment, the Italian garrison as prepared as it was surrendering en masse with the only casualty to the allied invasion force being "a man bitten by a mule".
Such major, abject and absolute surrender of troops NEVER occurring in the Pacific theater, intense and sustained bombardment by air and naval assets NOT EVER resulting in mass surrender.
The Japanese with their bushido code of honor much more resolute than the Italians.
That Italian military enigma again!!
coolbert.
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