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More on the Israeli mixed gender combat units. First Caracal and now Bardelas.
First from the Sheldon Adelson Internet web site Israel Hayom.
"Religious Zionist rabbis declare war on mixed combat units"
"Leading rabbis band together to fight military's gender integration plan for infantry units • Prominent rabbis meet with IDF chief Eizenkot, warn him against 'crossing red line' • Issue of mixed combat units could cause a coalition crisis, they threaten."
Understand that Israel operates normally with a coalition government of which religious oriented political parties play a role. Religious party considerations must be taken into account when forming a ruling coalition.
Secondly and finally from Israeli Ynet we have an Internet article devoted to Bardelas. Mixed gender Israeli combat unit Lions of Jordan [within a pride of lions the females do the hunting!1].
"Meet the IDF's second co-ed battalion - the Lions of Jordan"
"The newest battalion in the IDF is making history, where men and women fight side by side to defend Israel's border with Jordan."
A third battalion of mixed gender troops top be formed with designation of Tamar [choice and significance of the word Tamar as applied to the yet to be formed third battalion not known]!
I would be remiss not to add that the first mixed gender Israeli combat unit Caracal has never [?] engaged in combat! Good at patrolling, reconnaissance, intelligence gathering but as of yet not having seen any "smoke".
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Monday, December 5, 2016
Sunday, December 4, 2016
Seapower.
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As extracted from the Internet web site "The National Interest" article by Loren B. Thompson.
American aircraft carriers the criticism of same being 1. Too expensive. 2. Too vulnerable.
Here with a different perspective in response to # 2. AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS NOT SO EXCEEDING VULNERABLE?
"Five Reasons U.S. Aircraft Carriers Are Nearly Impossible To Sink"
In the nutshell:
1. "Large-deck carriers are fast and resilient."
2. "Carrier defenses are formidable."
3. "Carriers do not operate alone."
4. "Navy tactics maximize survivability."
5. "New technology is bolstering carrier defense."
My instantaneous thought and reaction upon reading the article by Mr. Thompson was the 1967 USS FORRESTAL FIRE!! Accidental discharge of a Zuni rocket causing sympathetic explosions and fire of an almost catastrophic nature aboard the American aircraft carrier, the result a massive loss of life AND THE POSSIBILITY EXISTING OF FURTHER DAMAGE PLACING THE ENTIRE VESSEL IN DANGER OF FOUNDERING AND SINKING!
Cost of an aircraft carrier also NOT seen as a significant, the uninitiated lay observe not cognizant of all pertinent factors! Read it for yourself!
Devoted readers to the blog make your own appreciations!!
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As extracted from the Internet web site "The National Interest" article by Loren B. Thompson.
American aircraft carriers the criticism of same being 1. Too expensive. 2. Too vulnerable.
Here with a different perspective in response to # 2. AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS NOT SO EXCEEDING VULNERABLE?
"Five Reasons U.S. Aircraft Carriers Are Nearly Impossible To Sink"
In the nutshell:
1. "Large-deck carriers are fast and resilient."
2. "Carrier defenses are formidable."
3. "Carriers do not operate alone."
4. "Navy tactics maximize survivability."
5. "New technology is bolstering carrier defense."
My instantaneous thought and reaction upon reading the article by Mr. Thompson was the 1967 USS FORRESTAL FIRE!! Accidental discharge of a Zuni rocket causing sympathetic explosions and fire of an almost catastrophic nature aboard the American aircraft carrier, the result a massive loss of life AND THE POSSIBILITY EXISTING OF FURTHER DAMAGE PLACING THE ENTIRE VESSEL IN DANGER OF FOUNDERING AND SINKING!
Cost of an aircraft carrier also NOT seen as a significant, the uninitiated lay observe not cognizant of all pertinent factors! Read it for yourself!
Devoted readers to the blog make your own appreciations!!
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Incredible!
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Yet more Nazi gold! The long-lost treasure has been found?
From the English tabloid Daily Star and thanks to the tip from MARCONI through Harry at Sharkhunters.
"REVEALED: Hitler's lost gold FOUND: Divers locate £100million Nazi shipwreck stash"
"Adolf Hitler's Nazi gold is hidden in a shipwreck which plunged beneath the waves more than 70 years ago, it has been claimed." [sunken treasure as contained within the Wilhelm Gustloff]
. . . .
"Former professional diver Phil Sayers exclusively spoke to Daily Star Online about the gold believed to be hidden beneath the Baltic at 450 [meters] down on the seabed."
"The 61-year-old [Phil Sayers] made the claims after meeting a survivor of the sunken vessel who revealed the tragic ship's incredible secret."
. . . .
"Mr Sayers used Lange's [Rudi Lange was the ship's radio operator at the time of the sinking] incredible story as the basis of his historical novel Baltic Gold."
NONE OF THESE TALES OF LONG-LOST GOLD TREASURE AND LOOT AS FROM THE ERA OF WORLD WAR TWO EVER SEEM TO COME TO FRUITION.
WILHELM GUSTLOFF THE WORST MARITIME TRAGEDY IN HISTORY [THE NUMBERS OF PERSONS LOST AT SEA BY ONE SINKING] THAT SHIP ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BALTIC AT A DEPTH OF NEARLY 1,500 FEET [450 METERS] BEYOND THAT OF A FREE DIVER!
This incredible tale is part and parcel of the NOVEL as written by Mr. Sayers "Baltic Gold"? Novel as in FICTION!
See previous blog entries with similar topic:
http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/06/amber.html
http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/09/goldsilverjewels.html
http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/08/ww2-treasure.html
http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/09/nazi-gold.html
coolbert.
Yet more Nazi gold! The long-lost treasure has been found?
From the English tabloid Daily Star and thanks to the tip from MARCONI through Harry at Sharkhunters.
"REVEALED: Hitler's lost gold FOUND: Divers locate £100million Nazi shipwreck stash"
"Adolf Hitler's Nazi gold is hidden in a shipwreck which plunged beneath the waves more than 70 years ago, it has been claimed." [sunken treasure as contained within the Wilhelm Gustloff]
. . . .
"Former professional diver Phil Sayers exclusively spoke to Daily Star Online about the gold believed to be hidden beneath the Baltic at 450 [meters] down on the seabed."
"The 61-year-old [Phil Sayers] made the claims after meeting a survivor of the sunken vessel who revealed the tragic ship's incredible secret."
. . . .
"Mr Sayers used Lange's [Rudi Lange was the ship's radio operator at the time of the sinking] incredible story as the basis of his historical novel Baltic Gold."
NONE OF THESE TALES OF LONG-LOST GOLD TREASURE AND LOOT AS FROM THE ERA OF WORLD WAR TWO EVER SEEM TO COME TO FRUITION.
WILHELM GUSTLOFF THE WORST MARITIME TRAGEDY IN HISTORY [THE NUMBERS OF PERSONS LOST AT SEA BY ONE SINKING] THAT SHIP ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BALTIC AT A DEPTH OF NEARLY 1,500 FEET [450 METERS] BEYOND THAT OF A FREE DIVER!
This incredible tale is part and parcel of the NOVEL as written by Mr. Sayers "Baltic Gold"? Novel as in FICTION!
See previous blog entries with similar topic:
http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/06/amber.html
http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/09/goldsilverjewels.html
http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/08/ww2-treasure.html
http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/09/nazi-gold.html
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General Tso.
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Sometimes it even amazes me the sources for new blog entries.
Here with such an example. That military dimension unmistakable.
From Freeper and as copied more or less in entirety:
"Inventor of General Tso's Chicken dies in Taipei at age 98"
"Chef Peng Chang-kuei . . . the founder of the famous Hunan-style restaurant chain Peng's Garden Hunan Restaurant . . . . and inventor of the world famous Chinese dish General Tso's Chicken, died on Nov. 30 at the age of 98 from pneumonia."
"A native of Changsha, Hunan Province, Peng began training at the age of 13 under the tutelage of the famous Hunan chef Cao Jing-chen . . . . After WWII, he was put in charge of running Nationalist government banquets, and in 1949 he fled to Taiwan after the Nationalist forces were defeated by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War."
"According to an interview with the China Times, Peng says that his most famous dish was created in 1952 during a four-day visit by U.S. Seventh Fleet commander Admiral Arthur W. Radford. After three days, he had served the guests most of his repertoire of dishes, so to try and mix things up a bit, he decided to chop some chicken into big chunks, fry it to a golden hue and then added a different combination of sauce and seasoning to create a new dish."
"The admiral was so impressed with the dish that he asked Peng what it was called, he thought quickly on his feet and said 'General Tso's Chicken'"
"Peng chose the name to honor General Tso, a famous military leader from Hunan who helped put down the Taiping Rebellion as well as other rebellions in the 1800s during the Qing Dynasty. He was well respected not only for his successes on the battlefield, but also for his contributions to Chinese agricultural science and education."
The admiral was impressed and probably so would have been the general. YES!
coolbert.
Sometimes it even amazes me the sources for new blog entries.
Here with such an example. That military dimension unmistakable.
From Freeper and as copied more or less in entirety:
"Inventor of General Tso's Chicken dies in Taipei at age 98"
"Chef Peng Chang-kuei . . . the founder of the famous Hunan-style restaurant chain Peng's Garden Hunan Restaurant . . . . and inventor of the world famous Chinese dish General Tso's Chicken, died on Nov. 30 at the age of 98 from pneumonia."
"A native of Changsha, Hunan Province, Peng began training at the age of 13 under the tutelage of the famous Hunan chef Cao Jing-chen . . . . After WWII, he was put in charge of running Nationalist government banquets, and in 1949 he fled to Taiwan after the Nationalist forces were defeated by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War."
"According to an interview with the China Times, Peng says that his most famous dish was created in 1952 during a four-day visit by U.S. Seventh Fleet commander Admiral Arthur W. Radford. After three days, he had served the guests most of his repertoire of dishes, so to try and mix things up a bit, he decided to chop some chicken into big chunks, fry it to a golden hue and then added a different combination of sauce and seasoning to create a new dish."
"The admiral was so impressed with the dish that he asked Peng what it was called, he thought quickly on his feet and said 'General Tso's Chicken'"
"Peng chose the name to honor General Tso, a famous military leader from Hunan who helped put down the Taiping Rebellion as well as other rebellions in the 1800s during the Qing Dynasty. He was well respected not only for his successes on the battlefield, but also for his contributions to Chinese agricultural science and education."
The admiral was impressed and probably so would have been the general. YES!
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Saturday, December 3, 2016
IAF Syria.
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Finally from the latest edition of the DEBKAfile newsletter:
Israeli Air Force [IAF] active in combat in the skies over Lebanon, the targets in Syria!
1. "Israel jets mark go-it-alone policy on Syria"
30 November.
"Arab media carried conflicting reports which described Israeli warplanes striking in and around Damascus overnight Tuesday, Nov. 29, with "four long-range Popeye" missiles fired from Lebanese air space on the government-held town of Al-Saboorah, a western suburb of Damascus, near the highway to Beirut. A Lebanese newspaper reported that a Syrian army ammunition depot was destroyed in one of the raids, while other strikes hit and damaged a Hizballah arms convoy bound for Lebanon on the Damascus-Beirut Highway. There was also speculation, later denied, that one of the air strikes aimed at assassinating a senior Hizballah figure. None of these reports were confirmed by Israel or any other official source . . . If the Arab media reporting on Israeli air attacks on Syrian military and Hizballah targets in Damascus from Lebanese air space are confirmed, [Israel is] . . . opting . . . for an independent policy in its own security interests with regard to Syria."
2. "Arab media: Israel attacks Syrian, Hizballah targets near Damascus"
30 November.
"The Israeli Air Force is reported by Arab media to have launched attacks overnight Tuesday on a Syrian army position in Damascus and a Hizballah arms convoy driving on the Damascus-Beirut highway to Lebanon. They add that the strikes were carried out by Israeli planes from Lebanese air space. A third Israel air strike was said to have been conducted on a Hizballah position in the vicinity of that highway. There is no confirmation of these Arab media reports."
3. "Syrian military spokesman confirms Israeli airstrike on Damascus"
30 November.
"Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike on Syrian territory in the predawn hours of Wednesday morning using two missiles fired from Lebanese airspace, a Syrian military source told Syria's state-run Sana news agency on Wednesday. The missiles exploded in the area of Al-Saboorah in Damascus but there were no casualties, according to the source."
These attacks the goal to destroy Hezbollah assets in Syria? Popeye as launched from Israeli warplanes operating in the sky over Lebanon not violating Syrian airspace. The possibility of engagements with Russian aircraft greatly diminished by such tactics?
coolbert.
Finally from the latest edition of the DEBKAfile newsletter:
Israeli Air Force [IAF] active in combat in the skies over Lebanon, the targets in Syria!
1. "Israel jets mark go-it-alone policy on Syria"
30 November.
"Arab media carried conflicting reports which described Israeli warplanes striking in and around Damascus overnight Tuesday, Nov. 29, with "four long-range Popeye" missiles fired from Lebanese air space on the government-held town of Al-Saboorah, a western suburb of Damascus, near the highway to Beirut. A Lebanese newspaper reported that a Syrian army ammunition depot was destroyed in one of the raids, while other strikes hit and damaged a Hizballah arms convoy bound for Lebanon on the Damascus-Beirut Highway. There was also speculation, later denied, that one of the air strikes aimed at assassinating a senior Hizballah figure. None of these reports were confirmed by Israel or any other official source . . . If the Arab media reporting on Israeli air attacks on Syrian military and Hizballah targets in Damascus from Lebanese air space are confirmed, [Israel is] . . . opting . . . for an independent policy in its own security interests with regard to Syria."
Israeli Popeye. Is nuclear/conventional warhead capable? Can be dropped from an aircraft or fired from a submarine?
2. "Arab media: Israel attacks Syrian, Hizballah targets near Damascus"
30 November.
"The Israeli Air Force is reported by Arab media to have launched attacks overnight Tuesday on a Syrian army position in Damascus and a Hizballah arms convoy driving on the Damascus-Beirut highway to Lebanon. They add that the strikes were carried out by Israeli planes from Lebanese air space. A third Israel air strike was said to have been conducted on a Hizballah position in the vicinity of that highway. There is no confirmation of these Arab media reports."
3. "Syrian military spokesman confirms Israeli airstrike on Damascus"
30 November.
"Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike on Syrian territory in the predawn hours of Wednesday morning using two missiles fired from Lebanese airspace, a Syrian military source told Syria's state-run Sana news agency on Wednesday. The missiles exploded in the area of Al-Saboorah in Damascus but there were no casualties, according to the source."
These attacks the goal to destroy Hezbollah assets in Syria? Popeye as launched from Israeli warplanes operating in the sky over Lebanon not violating Syrian airspace. The possibility of engagements with Russian aircraft greatly diminished by such tactics?
coolbert.
Hafter.
Warm weather ports!
Once more from the latest edition of the DEBKAfile newsletter:
"New Putin move to win a military base in Libya"
28 November.
"Libyan Gen Khalifa Hafter arrived in Moscow Sunday, Nov. 26, with a request for Russian arms and military support for his army. He was welcomed in Moscow, which saw an opening for Russia to gain its first military base in North Africa . . . President Vladimir Putin [has] began to envision a second Mediterranean base on the coast of Benghazi, twin to Hmeimim in Syria's Latakia. This one would accommodate Russian naval as well as air units and be located 700 kilometers from Europe . . . Russian planes in Hmeimim are capable of covering the 1,500 kilometers distance to Libya, while the Russian carrier Admiral Kusnetzev is anchored not far away, off Syria's Mediterranean shore. Both are therefore available for operations in support of the Libyan general [Hafter]."
It always have been thought that the Russian ever since the time of Peter the Great most desirous to acquire "warm weather ports". Russian naval power as able to be deployed at any time of the year. Black Sea ports yes, other Russian naval bases during the time of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union no! Even to this very moment!
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PMF.
NOT GOOD!
Continuing with extracts from the latest edition of the DEBKAfile newsletter
"Pro-Iranian Shiite militias attached to Iraqi army"
27 November.
"The Baghdad parliament's decision Saturday to attach the Hashid al-Shaabi conglomerate of pro-Iranian militias to the Iraqi army will have four consequences"
1. "Further disintegration of central authority in Baghdad. Since those militias are under the direct command of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Tehran is effectively taking over the Iraqi army."
2. "An end to the Obama administration's efforts to build a national, unified Iraqi army to fight ISIS".
3. "A step back from the offensive to liberate Mosul launched by Washington five weeks ago".
4. "The Sunni Muslims and Kurds living in Mosul will never accept their towns occupation by Shiite militias under Iranian command"
These are Popular Mobilization Forces [PMF]. Shia Iraqi militia. NOW as beholden to and commanded by the Iranian. This CANNOT be good merely from the standpoint of further combat action in the aftermath of Mosul as directed at the Islamic State. NO single and unified command BUT rather the opposite, factions at loggerheads!
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