Military Ring Info

The US and South Korea are conducting another joint exercise in the wake of the North Korean sinking of the Cheonan. The North Koreans are pooping off at the mouth as usual but they have sense enough to know how far to go.

This exercise is an annual exercise called Ulchi Freedom Guardian. It is a computerized exercise so it doesn’t require units to go to the field en masse. Of course the North Koreans say they will retaliate but thats just talk. If they do they will do something sneaky that they can easily deny. Their latest gimmick has been to allow mines to float down the river where they threaten South Korean shipping. Of course its an accident and they deny all knowledge.

South Korea is still 0 for 1 with this deal. They still have not been effectively able to counter the sinking of the Cheonan. From the way things are looking that won’t be anytime soon. If they remain vigilant the North Koreans will be themselves and the opportunity will come. South Korea needs to be vigilant and seize the moment to strike back quickly when it occurs. As far as I’m concerned our navy ring customers need to execute any such opportunity with extreme violence of action.

Twelve people were killed in a drone attack in Pakistan when our military ring customers used them to attack a known Taliban stronghold in Northern Waziristan Province. The locals and the insurgents are screaming long and hard about the drone attacks which are being conducted in their country and to be honest about it they have good reason.

I have written on this subject many times and those of you who follow this blog know exactly how I feel. If we could get a little more help from the Pakistanis there would be a lot fewer civilians killed by drones because they could take out these targets for us. The fact that the insurgents like to use human beings as shields doesn’t help at all either.

The CIA launched the attack and it is not pubicly known if any of the casualties were civilians.

One interesting thing that I found out while doing the research for this post is that the CIA uses private contractors to help them with these raids. Now my question to you o venerable grasshopper is this? What in the world does a private contractor for the CIA do? Where do these contractors come from? How do they look? If you see one let me know and I will do the same for you.

a The latest situation in Iraq is that a suicide bomber has successfully attacked a military headquarters which was being used as a gathering place for Iraqi men to sign up as recruits for its security forces. The bomber posed as a potential recruit and detonated his bomb in the early morning hours. He managed to kill sixty people and injured one hundred and twenty five.

The Iraqi’s are at the point of the proverbial bird who gets kicked out of it’s nest. They will have to fly or die. They are apprehensive because most of our military ring customers who were stationed there are just about to leave.

Personally I believe that the Iraqis are capable of taking care of themselves but they need to realize that the baby bottle has been taken away and act accordingly. They will have to make some big moves real soon and their growth is going to have to skyrocket but I believe that they have what it takes to win. They just need to realize it and act accordingly.

Al-Qaeda has been blamed for the bombing and has conducted an all our attack since our custom military ring customers have began to pull out in earnest. They want to topple the new Iraqi government but my prediction is that it won’t happen. The government is entrenched better than they and al-Qaeda are aware of. So go ahead and fly little birdie fly

I believe in the back of my military mind that we are at a critical point in the war in Afghanistan. As a matter of fact we are at the most critical place possible. I am a tactician of sorts and I believe that I am right. There has been heavy fighting in the Kandahar Province as we continue to fight the insurgents in that part of Afghanistan. They don’t want to give up that part of the country to our control and we are obligated to the Afghan people to take it and get it under Afghan control. The outcome of this battle is crucial.

The latest news from the region is that Afghan forces have conducted a raid which resulted in the deaths of at least twenty of the Haqqani Taliban members. The Afghans conducted the assault in an area in which the Taliban forces were well entrenched in fortified positions. Both sides are deadly serious and the consequences are deadly also.

The good thing about this raid is that it was conducted by the Afghan Army with US forces backing them up. This indicates to me that the Afghan forces are improving in their ability to take control of their country and hopefully to remain in control once our military ring customers leave. Our military ring customers in all branches of service are no doubt the best trained in the world and if anyone can help the Afghans to become proficient enough to secure their country our troops can.

Lets chalk up another boneheaded move for the Somali pirates who roam the Gulf of Aden. This is the second time that I remember that they have erroneously attacked a US Navy ship thinking it to be a defenseless merchant ship. The pirates who did were severely dealt with and I bet the ones who lived won’t make that mistake again.

They trailed they USS Ashland and attacked it in the predawn hours which is their usual method of operation. Since the Ashland is not an attack ship they had to mistake it for a merchant vessel in the dark. When they opened fire they were fired upon which set their kiff on fire. The Ashland had to quickly rescue them after the incident. They were transported back to the United States where they will stand trial.

Their story is that they were ferrying refugees to Yemen and got lost in the Sea. Get this one here. They claim that they opened fire on our navy ring customers in order to get their attention.

I guess I’ll tell them the same thing that any defense lawyer would which is to stick to that story. Do you know what scares me? It’s possible that they will be acquitted of piracy charges and allowed to return to Somalia. With some of the decisions that I have heard of in our courts by judges and jury alike it is possible that they will get off. The last pirate’s lawyer argued that he couldn’t be accused of piracy since he didn’t complete the act.

The big question these days is whether Israel will attack Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor before the Russians load it with fuel rods on the 21st of this month. We know that the Iranians have a detailed plan in place to attack yet any attack at any time by any one will be tricky and unpredictable. The Iranians will not defer their plans for nuclear weapons and it seems that the world can’t afford to let them have them. I personally believe that if they do acquire nuclear weapons that will not hesitate to attack Israel. I think that am not alone in this belief. The president of Iran feels that it is his duty to blow Israel off of the map. I am not taking sides here just stating the obvious. everyone has the right to defend themselves but everyone shouldn’t be allowed to have nuclear weapons.

Once the reactors are loaded bombing them will result in a deadly release of radiation throughout the region so if the Israelis are going to make a move they need to do it quickly. Israel has made several attacks in the region in the past for the same purpose. They had to conduct bombing raids into Iraq, and Syria for the same purpose. In both instances they conducted the attacks before the nuclear rods were loaded so if history is any indication they will have to make a move very quickly. Once the reactor becomes operational it will only be a short time before it can be used to produce weapons grade plutonium.

The Russians claim that they have an agreement with the Iranians where Iran will return all of the spent fuel rods but the military ring man doesn’t believe that for one minute.

We will see in the next few days what the Israelis or the US will do for that matter but we are at a crucial point in history. Something has to be done by someone and the outcome probably won’t be very pretty.

The 10th Special Forces group has added another battalion on Fort Carson Colorado. This is one of a number of additional units that the army has added to posts across the nation.

The army isn’t telling us much about these Spec Ops troops as is their nature but I know that I blogged a while back that the military would have to increase it’s number of these type troops because of the nature of operations in the ongoing war on terror.

I see a future trend for the army to maintain higher numbers of Special Forces ring customers for future operations because it seems to me that the majority of future military operations will be conducted in assymetrical type operational areas. The special skills of these operators will be needed more than ever on the modern battlefield.

Due to the fact that al-Qaida is spreading all over the world it will be impossible to stop them with a conventional force. Conventional troops are good against other armies. They can be used to fight terrorists in small skirmishes but that really is not what they are designed to do.

I will also predict that future spec ops troops will have to be used for mission types that most people have never heard of. I believe that the days of large force on force battles between major armies are almost gone.

The Chinese continue to surprise me with the way that they are modernizing their military. They are acquiring new technology by leaps and bounds in their effort to match ours. They continue to have stories which contradict what they are really doing but you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that they are building up for offensive military operations. They are building up their space program and their navy in expectation of a future confrontation with our custom navy ring customers.

The new satellite is called the Yaogan Weixing -10. The Chinese claim that they will use them for crop surveillance and scientific experiments but the real purpose is for their surveillance capabilities. When I look at the different weapons systems that they are deploying I see that they are looking to fight a naval war. They don’t have a viable carrier force so they know that in order to win they will have to neutralize ours. They will atack from space as evidenced by the satellite coverage that they are establishing, on the surface of the sea as evidenced by the missiles aircraft and ships that they are developing, and under the sea as evidenced by the new submarines that they are developing.

Make no mistake about it folks. I don’t care how the Chinese try to lie their way out of it, they are gearing up for a war with the United States.

The bad news in this case is good news to me. What the press is publicizing as bad couldn’t be better but you have to have a military mind to understand it. So grasshopper sit back and listen and allow the military ring man drop some knowledge on you.

The news is that heavy fighting is taking place in the vicinity of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan. When the plan for the summer offensive was made it made the assumption that the Taliban would choose to not engage our forces directly but the exact opposite has happened. Kandahar is the birth place for the Taliban so who ever owns it will get a major propaganda victory. We did not know that keeping this area would be so important to the Taliban. They are throwing everything but the kitchen sink into the battle so it will take us a while longer to take control of the area.

All of our custom military ring customers are aware that plans are made to be changed and that very few things go according to plan during combat. In order to win you must be flexible, innovative, and able to adapt and change quickly. You also need to recognize opportunities when they arise and take advantage of them. This is a grand opportunity to eliminate a large number of the enemy without having to chase them all over the country. It actually makes our job infinitely easier.

It just isn’t possible for them to win in this kind of combat. Yes it will take more time to gain control of Kandahar, but once we do we will take control of the other areas very quickly. The prediction of the military ring man is this; Once we take Kandahar the Taliban will quickly lose control of the other areas that they control. Kandahar will be the first domino in the chain to fall. Once we take Kandahar we will have taken out most of their assets. If you are an opportunist you will see that they are playing right into our hands.

The Chinese now have their own version of this air plane. It is called the KS-2000 AWACs and should give them a big boost in aerial warning and control. They will initially field four of these aircraft These aircraft can be used for defensive battle but they have an offensive capability also. The reason that I mention this is because the Chinese have been steadily upgrading their military equipment. They claim that they are bolstering their ability to protect their territorial waters but many of the weapons that they are acquiring are offensive in nature.

The Chinese are disputing with every other country in the South China Sea and they want to claim all of the waters of the sea as their own. They are looking at the resources contained in the Sea and its fisheries. They need a way to feed the super massive population that they have.

I’m not sure how the Chinese AWACs compares to the craft thay our US Navy and Air Force ring personnel operate but it is a definite good move for them and a leg up in their quest for military parity.