Ohhhhh I get it. You're saying that there were predictions of lots of casualties in Desert Storm, and I predicted the Israelis would suffer more casualties than they did:
The guys who planned out the war-winning strategy predicted way more casualties. The guys doing the fighting expected it. It amazed everyone that all of the new American weapons systems performed pretty much perfectly. So I guess what you really proved is that even the best minds are not correct 100% of the time.
That doesn't even apply here tho. I predicted that the IDF would take heavy casualties when they invaded Lebanon. Which never happened. My mistake was assuming that they would invade.
Lol how could anyone with military knowledge look at state of Iraqi military on eve of American intervention and say it'd inflict 30k casualties. The SAMs they had were powerless against American high altitude bombers, that alone decided the war. Those cleared the way for CAS fighter bombers by taking out what SAM they did have. Their air force couldn't possibly compete with American numbers. Terrain wasn't suited for camouflage from air or ambushes.
Maybe they'd have taken 5-6k casualties if the ground units actually stood and fought. That'd require Iraqi supply lines to keep functioning tho which was made impossible by loss of air. Except for where terrain isn't permitting(Vietnam, Afghanistan ) air really decides war.
Even if they had it they couldn't do anything with it. Not like they could input Washington DC coordinates into their Scuds lol. Saddam never expected to fight US in first place he thought they were bluffing and his army in Kuwait was similarly unprepared, in the first place they had a Soviet vintage military with limited capability to replace losses as the Soviet Union collapsed. Like Iranian military today is built to fight US, if US tried to invade and occupy Tehran I expect they'll deal at least 10-20k casualties. But Iraqi army was a dinosaur of tanks and general infantry meant to fight fellow Arabs, they had no protocol or gear to deal with USA which is how absolute disasters like highway of death occurred. Against an enemy that superior you can't hold cities or have columns advancing neatly. Their army didn't know how to operate otherwise.
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!bookworms !dramatards @Redactor0 proven an r-slur once again.
Musk was right. Vivek was right.
We need less DC leeches and more Indians
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Yeah, that's what Desert Storm was like. What the frick does that have to do with me?
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None of your longposts have ever been remotely correct. Just pointing that out
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Ohhhhh I get it. You're saying that there were predictions of lots of casualties in Desert Storm, and I predicted the Israelis would suffer more casualties than they did:
The guys who planned out the war-winning strategy predicted way more casualties. The guys doing the fighting expected it. It amazed everyone that all of the new American weapons systems performed pretty much perfectly. So I guess what you really proved is that even the best minds are not correct 100% of the time.
That doesn't even apply here tho. I predicted that the IDF would take heavy casualties when they invaded Lebanon. Which never happened. My mistake was assuming that they would invade.
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Lol how could anyone with military knowledge look at state of Iraqi military on eve of American intervention and say it'd inflict 30k casualties. The SAMs they had were powerless against American high altitude bombers, that alone decided the war. Those cleared the way for CAS fighter bombers by taking out what SAM they did have. Their air force couldn't possibly compete with American numbers. Terrain wasn't suited for camouflage from air or ambushes.
Maybe they'd have taken 5-6k casualties if the ground units actually stood and fought. That'd require Iraqi supply lines to keep functioning tho which was made impossible by loss of air. Except for where terrain isn't permitting(Vietnam, Afghanistan ) air really decides war.
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IT capabilities won the war. Iraqis didn't have GPS. The US did.
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Even if they had it they couldn't do anything with it. Not like they could input Washington DC coordinates into their Scuds lol. Saddam never expected to fight US in first place he thought they were bluffing and his army in Kuwait was similarly unprepared, in the first place they had a Soviet vintage military with limited capability to replace losses as the Soviet Union collapsed. Like Iranian military today is built to fight US, if US tried to invade and occupy Tehran I expect they'll deal at least 10-20k casualties. But Iraqi army was a dinosaur of tanks and general infantry meant to fight fellow Arabs, they had no protocol or gear to deal with USA which is how absolute disasters like highway of death occurred. Against an enemy that superior you can't hold cities or have columns advancing neatly. Their army didn't know how to operate otherwise.
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I wonder why Indians thought that .
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My best guess? Intelligence received from Russians about warsims against Pakistan in network and air effectiveness in joint warfare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_Breaker
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interesting
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