by Evgenii Krutikov
Translated by Carpatho-Russian
source: http://vz.ru/world/2015/9/23/768458.html
The scandal around the “Thirtieth Division”, prepared by American instructors for war with Assad, but who immediately surrendered to the Islamic “al-Nusra Front” right after crossing the Turkish border, is resounding around the entire world now. There will be many such scandals. They are predetermined by the very methodology of the American instruction of “allies” in Syria, a well as in Georgia or in Ukraine.
We recall that in the end the “al-Nusra Front” (a branch of “Al-Qaeda”) received weapons, equipment, and several pickups from the USA. The commander of the “Thirtieth Division” assured representatives of the “Front” that he deceived the American military in order to receive the weapons. The problems from which what happened, happened, can be divided into three unequal categories.
Military intelligence – psychological issues
At the training ground in Yavorov, there have been frequent cases of refusal of the Ukrainian military personnel who had passed through the meat grinder in Novorossiya to submit to instructors from the USA who, from the point of view of these veterans, are “complete punks”
The image of the CIA employee deciding whom to choose as allies in the Middle East is exaggerated by Hollywood. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the operations staff sticks to those who at least formally show signs of loyalty. And if someone is promising but insufficiently manifests such signs, then they prefer to buy him, though such “partners” have always been considered unreliable. It is approximately by such principles that the anti-Assad coalition was knocked together.
In this, the behavior of the CIA staff was extremely regimented. On almost every vital episode, there are written instructions, which they are required to know and practically memorize. Disagreement with the operational instructions leads to sanctions. The free will of the operational staff is limited, and they sometimes are simply compelled to “execute” the instructions instead of operating on the situation. Many large intelligence associations suffer from this, but the American one, in addition to everything else, is still constructed on ideological , as well as – to a lesser extent – ethnic stereotypes. Theoretically speaking, any basmach [member of anti-Soviet movement in Central Asia] who is capable of distinctly pronouncing the word “democracy”, has a chance to receive financing and weapons. And where he then leaves with this weapon, nobody can check any longer. By the way, Soviet intelligence of the Brezhnev times also suffered from this, sticking with any tribal leader able to pronounce the words “Marx” and “Lenin”.
All this has a direct bearing on the situation described. The “ Thirtieth Division ” and Abd al-Tunisi personally demonstrated loyalty, gained the confidence of Americans, received arms, and slipped away with them. The stereotypical and over-simplified perception of the world is a surprising feature of the CIA. Certainly, this is the result of “losing the main opponent”, and the perception of oneself as the winner in the ideological, instead of the practical, understanding of this word. Hammered together by kicks and promises , the anti-Assad coalition collapsed as a result of the incorrect goals setting and the CIA mistakes. It is possible to correctly process information only in the presence of experts without an ideological perception of the world, and Langley has a problem with this. The career system created there pushes out to the side the people with a non-standard form of thinking, and the mass hiring in management of the former marines has predetermined a complete failure of analytical system of investigation.
The scandal around the “Thirtieth Division” is far from being the only one, and there will be many more. The Golden Age of analysts has been left on the hills of Hollywood [movies].
The American training for the armies of doubtful allies is usually a reason for pride in those whom they train. In particular, Peter Poroshenko and his government verged on euphoria when told about the American and British instructors who were on the training ground in Yavorov preparing the Ukrainian military personnel according to an accelerated scheme. In the absence of deliveries of serious weapons, these trainings become almost the unique factor of military support from the West.
Americans use the system “watch and repeat” in the preparation of Ukrainians (and earlier, the Georgians, Croats, Albanians, and now in Syria such “Assad opponents” as the “Thirtieth Division”). In reality, this is something like “basic training”: an obstacle course, weapons handling, and physical preparation. Also, instructors train them in communications with handheld transceivers and ciphering devices which simply do not exists in the Ukrainian army. They also learn to move away the wounded to minimize losses, but the Ukrainians who passed through the front in Novorossiya can teach the Americans themselves. They learn how to open a house door using a sledge hammer, but what sledge hammer does a soldier have on a thousand-kilometer front in the steppe? They learn how to check, using a special hook on a string, whether barbed wire is mined, but not everyone gets this. In total, during the so-called “correction” program on the training ground in Yavorov there were 63 exercises broken into three courses, each two months long. As a result – there is a lot of swearing and cases of disobedience.
This is not military preparation. At best, it is police training, but even that is the beginning stage. Representatives of the American army initially relate to the “trainees” as they would to representatives of the third world who need to be told from which end the machine gun shoots. For example, instructors in Yavorov are very distressed on occasion when Ukrainian military personnel arrive from near Donetsk carrying machine guns without having put on the safety lock. According to the instructors, this is nonprofessional. But, after all, many survived precisely as the result of such “unprofessionalism”.
This would appear to be anecdotal if it didn’t show the essence of the preparation occurring in army of the USA and transferred to its allies. Emphasis is placed on physical capabilities, denial of personal motivation, reduction to automatic action of worked-through technical skills, and “collective participation”. As a result, a fighter who ends up in a non-standard situation is lost and cannot adapt the acquired skills to the real situation. He is “refined” only for something uniform, and what is more, built on an artificial training ground.
Neither in Ukraine, nor in Syria does this work. The American instructors do not know what face-to-face war is, how to conduct oneself in close combat, and how to hide from Grad fire. They are not even able to set up defensive positions at all. The Iraq experience, of which the Pentagon is so proud, accustomed them to patrolling, supporting columns, and standing by the strengthened garrisons in the middle of the desert. In three decades of mocking weak opponents, the American army had gotten used to relying specifically on technological superiority, and almost completely lost the skills for contact combat. Now even on the training ground in Yavorov, there have been frequent cases of refusal of the Ukrainian military personnel who had passed through the meat grinder in Novorossiya to submit to instructors from the USA who, from the point of view of these veterans, are “complete punks”.
In a word, the moment has been missed in the Pentagon, now when shooting cruise missiles at the demoralized opponent has ceased to be the only way of conducting combat operations. And now it is extremely difficult to estimate the real fighting capacity of the huge lunking object of the land forces of the USA and the Marines Corps if they suddenly have to face a fight with an opponent approximately equal on technical terms. But allies and “fellow travelers” of the USA wage such wars, and they have no, or nearly no, aircraft, cruise missiles, and aircraft carriers. In the deserts of Syria and steppes of Novorossiya it is not necessary to open doors with a sledge hammer during meditative mopping up of a settlement, from which everyone had already ran off and hidden. What is necessary there is to keep kilometers of the front under rocket artillery fire in the open locale.
As a result, individual preparation of armies of “allies” and bands of “fellow travelers” turns into a clown show. Someone, as in the case with the anti-Assad forces in Syria, perceives all this “preparation” as an inevitable evil, which the Allah has sent as a test. Some, like the Ukrainians, grumble slightly more loudly than quietly. Another thing is that such additional preparation “not spoil” the “veterans”. And here the Ukrainian marines gathered from reservists who have passed through Yavorov (on this basis declared to be an “elite division” and thrown into a difficult sector of the front), collapsed in the first military clash with the rebels.
The mass “test run” of allied detachments (for example, the same Ukrainians and Georgians) through Iraq and Afghanistan provided exactly the same effect. The detachments appeared “elite” with regard to similar experience, but turned out to be of little use in modern wars without – which is especially important – American technological cover: aircraft, drones, and artillery. But initiative and sharpness absolutely erode from the fighters, and independent thinking from the commanders, beginning from the company level.
All tactical preparation is also conducted on the basis of the Iraq experience, which for some reason is considered the most advanced, and is reduced to patrolling the district with minimum fire contact with the opponent. Nobody teaches about contact with an equal opponent in direct fighting with forces larger than a company, since this is considered something improbably obsolete in a century of cyberattacks, satellite groups, and the high-precision weapons. The American military were condescending even to the very idea of conducting an active contact fight, and when this occasionally happened through an oversight of artillery, they either tried to leave it and called in aircrafts, or sustained senseless losses. If the experience of the last three decades did not provide for contact fighting, there was also no need to develop modern combat schemes. This would be a problem only for the Americans if they did not transfer all these troubles to their “ward” armies of the trusting countries. In the armies of the former republics of the USSR, there is a characteristic difference between those detachments trained by Americans, and those in which officers with the older training continue to serve. For example, the Georgian army has provided many occasions for this kind of analysis.
Here is a characteristic episode of the tactical preparation of Georgian units trained by Americans in the “Iraq style”, during the 2008 war in South Ossetia. (Here what is most important is the character of the decisions adopted by the commanders). From 23:00 on August 7, the 43rd Battalion of the 4th Brigade of the Georgian army, located to the west of Tskhinval, proceeded with “mopping up” the villages on the right side of the river Pron. A battalion, having tramped all night long, was expanded by companies, and approximately at 11:00-12:00 on August 8 happened upon an ambush two kilometers from the district center of Znaur. The Ossetian barrier opened fire on the Georgian group. Five servicemen of the 43rd Battalion were wounded straight off. After that (according to the order of the commander of a battalion), all companies were concentrated together in a narrow position “for destruction of the opponent’s base position”.
As a result, on the approach to Shindisi, the staff company mistook the Russian tanks for Georgian and were completely annihilated.
Even prior to the beginning of the attack, the battalion commander requested fire support from the artillery and received it, and was additionally strengthened by three tanks. The Georgian group proceeded to soften up the positions of the Ossetian militia, after which approximately by 16:00, an infantry storm “took” this “height” (!), where it did not see the opponent face to face. It is clear that there were also no victims. By 18.00 the battalion in full strength approached the entrance bridge to Znaur, but did not enter the settlement, as it had lost artillery support. The tired battalion needed rest. The commander decided to return to the former base position of the opponent, to settle down there and spend the night. That is, for an entire day a battalion wandered in the mountains and the woods, found a “large defensive position of the opponent” (subsequently it became clear that there were no more than ten Ossetian rebels who, having executed an ambush, quietly departed), battered it for an hour and a half with artillery, approached its goal, but then returned to its initial positions because it was tired.
We will emphasize once again: this was the division that had been specially prepared for service in Iraq. They did not understand that it means to march unceasing, day and night, fast tempo, to carry out attacks, maneuver, and organize a break-through. They acted not even “by their charter”, but according to slow Iraq tactics of patrolling absolutely unsuitable for open fighting collisions.
These were its actions in the attack mode. In defense, it was even worse. Proceeding from an imprecise military task, the 43rd Battalion spent its firepower on one small position and spent its physical force on senseless circulation through the villages. On the morning of August 8, they did not have any information about what was happening in Tskhinval and Gori. They mistook the planes turning overhead for Georgian aircraft since, in their ideological euphoria, they did not expect any others. But by noon the soldiers of the 43rd Battalion started to receive, by phone, information on losses in other detachments of the 4th Brigade. The brigade panicked. By 19.00 on August 8, the command of the “Iraq” brigade, withdrew the 43rd Battalion, in which revolt had almost broken out, from Znaur, and left totally unprepared reservists to cover the positions.
The 43rd Battalion received an order to preparer defensive positions at the village Pkhvenisi. However, nobody knew how to do this. Only individuals independently undertook to dig entrenchments. The remainder spent the night in irrigation canals, and that is considering that engineering equipment to arrange a defensive line was brought in advance to the area of the apple orchards. The military personnel of the “Iraq brigade”, lying in the gardens, observed the burning headlights of the Russian columns going down the slope from the direction of Tskhinval. At approximately 23:00 on August 10, a Russian helicopter overflying the area discovered with great interest the “defensive positions” of the “Iraq” brigade, and with the first volley blew up the last tank of the 4th Brigade and its “technical” with a large-caliber machine gun, left in the field without cover or masking. No one decided to open the return fire, and panic began. Two “Arrows” (“Strela” (Arrow) – Russian hand-held rocket launcher – translator) available in the battalion simply did not work, since nobody was looking after their technical condition. By dawn on August 11, the Georgian command continued its appeals to strengthen the defensive position at Pkhvenisi, which already had ceased to exist, but in each battalion there were no more than 30 people on the average ready to execute this order. The staff company of the 2nd Brigade, which had been bogged down under Tskhinval, decided to execute this order, even though the “Iraq” brigade had already fled long before that. As a result, at the approach to Shindisi the staff company mistook the Russian tanks for Georgian (since they could not imagine that the detachments, overpraised because of their American preparation, had simply fled) and was completely destroyed.
From all points of view, according to the results of the August 2008 hostilities, it was specifically the 2nd Brigade, which had been earlier stationed in western Georgia, which was the deep rear even in relation to the Abkhazia region, and had not passed any American preparation, that was recognized as the most battle-ready.
Hence, the scandal around the “Thirtieth Division” in Syria is only the tip of the iceberg. Now it is already possible to conclude that such problems have a complex nature and are not explainable solely by psychological mistakes of the CIA. Very soon we should learn many interesting things about the quality of preparation that the American side foists on its allies. And after all, someone will have to answer for it.
Can American Allies be Disgraced?
Evgenii Krutikov:
I am not interested in giving the Zionist American imperialist military- advice on how to better commit military aggression.
Their failures are Moral, as well as Technical.
Converseley, the successes of the Novorossyan Militia, the Russian Armed forces, the Syrian Armed forces, the Hezbollah, the American Minutemen, and the defenders of Stalingrad, were and are Moral as well as Technical.
The imperialists have had their share of successes in the last half Century, as they have butchered millions of humans as they overthrew dozens of legal foreign governments, and one of their own, in Dallas. Their False Flag horrors are numerous, and ever more bloody.
The “disgrace of the American allies in Syria” is that they are allies of the Americans. They, with help from their Zionist masters, have succeeded in laying waste to much of Syria. They have not been defeated, yet. Their partial defeat will occur in Syria; their definitive defeat must take place in Tel Aviv, London, Paris, Berlin, Washington, and Wall Street.
For the Democratic Republics!
IMAGINE
None of that has anything to do with training quality.
US military training of stooge forces, as we know from the record of the alumni of The School of the Americas, and from the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the South Korean military (infamous for atrocities in Vietnam)etc, is basically in the repression of restive civilians in states where US economic exploitation is matched by growing poverty and wretchedness. That is ‘counter-insurgency’ actions, mostly repression through massacres, ‘disappearances’, mass torture, often to death etc-anything to ensure that the compradore elites keep power while they loot the country in league with Western interests, a process known as ‘National Security’. Sometimes these forces are state militaries, and at other times they are ‘privatised’ death-squads, often raised and paid for by local elites. In any case there’s no social problem that these lovers of ‘Freedom’ and ‘Western Moral Values’ cannot fix with sufficient murders.
Excellent detailing of the weaknesses of American military.
It is exactly why NATO will never join to fight against Russia.
They are all under the thumb of American military and can only fight and win with pathetic opponents.
The real weapons that the West yields are financial and trade sanctions.
The military is a sad, sadistic joke led by weak men, gays and women (lesbians many of them), none of whom are prepared and schooled to fight and win against real professional armies like Russia’s.
Their bluff has been called in Syria, Ukraine, and soon will be in South China Sea.
Red Ryder on October 10, 2015 · at 11:21 pm UTC said:
“The military is a sad, sadistic joke led by weak men, gays and women (lesbians many of them)”
Pathetic bigot. Mankind should regress to the pond scum from whence it came.
***this commenter is a liberal – mod aa
Very informative and interesting.
While I know nothing about military capability, I’ve always suspected the sheer level of propaganda used by the US has to compensate for something. That something is clearly little or no combat experience with a technically-equivalent opponent.
Reading the Ukrainian segment makes me think of ‘Private Benjamin.’
I wonder will the US trainers try and get them to march in high-heeled red courts to ’empathize’ with women?
Like to see a video of that. :)
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Couldn’t help feeling sorry for the Georgia guys, even if they shouldn’t have been there in the first place. When it comes to war the line between tragedy and farce isn’t always clear.
Eimar,
You want to see the US soldiers in heels? How about red high heels? They must be “fashionable” after all.
As soon as you click on this video I will have made your Haute Couture dreams come true. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQRLzo97LJk
Regards,
Carmel by the Sea
Carmel,
Oh.
My.
God.
I haven’t laughed so hard in a month. If not for the placards, I would think it was a tranny recruitment ad.
Can we expect Bruce – sorry, ‘Caitlyn’ – Jenner appointed to Joint Chiefs of Staff next?
Hi Eimar,
I just knew you’d enjoy it! Who wouldn’t, right?
When “Caitlyn”, gets the job of General of the army I’ll be sure to send you the video by posting it here. Lol
Regards,
Carmel by the Sea
Than you, Saker, and Carpatho-Russian for translation. This is an important article.
I have suspected this about the US military for some time. And in fact, for decades, being intimately aware of the naivety of US culture with regard to the rest of the world, I have wondered how savvy its intelligence actually was. Most indications are that in terms of what’s happening on the ground with real people in any locale in the world, US intelligence is almost suicidally blind.
It now appears that the military is equally narrow-sighted. I don’t have military expertise, so I have to parse this article on its face. It’s too technically proficient to be simply spin, so it’s either the truth or a professional psy-op of some kind. But such a thing would serve no purpose. And I’ve heard the Georgia story before. On this basis, I take it as true. I’d appreciate correction if others know better.
So. As it appears from first-hand accounts from Ukraine, supported by earlier accounts from Georgia, the US military cannot fight when it doesn’t control the skies – and it barely knows how to fight even when it does. This explains a lot of burned villages and scorched earth around the world. This just seems so true, as a generalization. Maybe some people with US military experience can add some balance to this view – it would be useful to know more clearly than the broad brush I’m using.
And now there’s more. As many have suspected, the US technological warfighting capabilities are beginning to look outdated. If the F-35 is a measure of US development, then the current capacity is very close to defunct. Russia, China and Iran – to name a few – have continued serious development for decades to create weapons precisely designed to disable US weaponry exactly in their weak spots. The most obvious example is developing ship-killer missile technology rather than trying to compete with warships on a numerical basis.
And as we’ve seen in recent years, there’s some very serious electronic and physics innovations occurring that one can suspect the US simply isn’t up to speed with. We have the downing by Russia of the 2 US cruise missiles heading for Syria some 3 (?) years ago (sorry no link). We have the mysterious Donald Cook episode. We have the statement from Syria last week that western planes were being tracked by radar that they couldn’t even trace.
There’s a developing thesis that says the US has met its match in Syria, and is being pushed back gently but firmly by Russian technology that it can’t match. I’m not seeing US superiority anywhere except in theater for its domestic population, and treachery. But Russia is seeing everything, as she has repeatedly warned and now shown.
Since Vietnam it’s been a fair question to ask if the US forces really know how to fight. This article points to an emerging scandal that it rightly says is going to prove humiliating for the US.
Agreed Grieved.
Hence all the waffle and bluster in Syria – covering up their own incompetence and the myth of exceptional. Hence the “Assad must go” strap line the whole time by them and their allies. If volunteers in Donbass can beat them what does that tell you?
” I have wondered how savvy its intelligence actually was. Most indications are that in terms of what’s happening on the ground with real people in any locale in the world, US intelligence is almost suicidally blind.”
This is brilliantly demonstrated in the movie “The Pentagon Papers” Grieved. James Spader starring as Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. It shows the young Daniel when he was moving from being supportive to the American actions in Vietnam to a 180 deg. reversal following his reading of the papers, coupled with his own experiences going to Vietnam after being part of the think tank supposedly analysing Intelligence reports. Truth wasn’t being reported, was being distorted, was even being buried for local Political reasons. He saw the truth, and blew the whistle, nearly losing his freedom in the process.
As you say, the problem with American Intel goes back a long time – and it’s cost millions of lives.
I must have forgotten to enter name for the comment referring to the movie “The Pentagon Papers”
That would me !!
Apologies.
Only thing I’m worried about is USA discovering something new off the Russian planes. I only know the basics of radar, but in the Indo UK air force exercises the su30mkis weren’t using their radar properly to mask it’s true capabilities.
I know Russian generals will have accounted for this, but these people have been our allies since before MahaBharat you obviously care.
Saker, this very same article was already translated into English and published at cluborlov.com. You said several times that you don’t have enough human resources to translate everything you would like to, then why make unnecessary double work?
(By the way, I recommend everyone who didn’t read it yet, recent article by Dmitry Orlov: The World’s Silliest Empire.)
Thanks for the reminder! I started reading the article on cluborlov earlier during the week, but was distracted quite a few times.
To make a long story short, I have read it and it is brilliant :-))
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/yemeni-army-spokesman-more-surprises-awaiting-saudi-aggressors/
OCT 10
Meanwhile, Luqman noted that the Saudi-led coalition have been using internationally banned weapons in last days, stressing that such weapons are war crimes against the Yemeni people.
Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.
Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to fugitive president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi who is a close ally to Saudi Arabia.
However, Yemeni army, backed by popular committees and tribal fighter has been responding to the aggression by targeting several Saudi border military posts and cleansing several areas across the country, especially the country’s south, from Hadi and al-Qaeda-linked militias.
A report from Al-Manar says the Yemeni Army and Popular Committees have actually penetrated behind Saudi border:
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?fromval=2&cid=31&frid=23&seccatid=31&eid=231647
This is pretty serious for the Saudis, especially if a Yemen-friendly insurgency erupts within KSA.
still unconfirmed though
Iraq claimed to have struck a convoy carrying Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air raid near the Syrian border. The fate of al-Baghdadi is unknown, the military statement said.
“The Iraqi air force carried out a heroic operation by striking al-Baghdadi’s convoy while he on his way to attend a meeting with senior ISIS leaders in Karabelah,” the statement said.
The statement issued by Iraq’s “war media cell” said Baghdadi was “transported in a vehicle” after the strike but added that “his health status was unknown
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/nasrallah-the-syrian-issue-is-moving-towards-a-serious-political-solution/
OCT 10
He added that there has been dramatic shift in the Syrian and Arab public opinion, pointing out that Syria occupies a major position in the Resistance Axis and has been an essential element in hindering the American projects, which is why they want to bring it down.
Nasrallah affirmed that the Syrian issue will take a new track as there might be possibilities that this issue will be put on the track of a serious political solution since the world has started to view it realistically.
What are the specific sources for the contents of this article?—One needs links, source identities, footnotes, otherwise, everything here can be simply imagination and fiction!—Even the original Russian source does not seem to have any footnotes, links or source identities and citations.
Great Article, very well written and extremely informative. While I agree with the analysis, lets also focus on what makes the Anglo-American / NATO axis so dominant. If we can look back some time in history and focus on the two preceding former powers, one dominating the mediterranean being namely Venice, and the other dominating the entire world namely the British Empire, we find similar tactics are being used.
While both of these powers so to speak never had the largest land forces especially venice which mostly relied upon paid mercenaries, they both utilised the greatest and by far the most dominant Intelligence Service, through their sprawling embassies and their ideological propaganda. This is where they came to realise that IDEAS meant far more then physical power in order to subjugate and conquer other nations.
By making their enemies destroy each other, as in the case of the hand of venice manipulating both sides of many european conflicts throughout the 14th to 17th centuries; and with the British empire case in point WW1 / WW2, to never allow the continental block of a German Russian alliance. Which Bismarck understood very well would check any geopolitical manipulations of a general european war.
Mackinder’s 1904 paper the ‘Heartland Theory’ speaks about the great power that is contained in the Eurasian land mass, and how its development will eventual lead to destroying the supremacy enjoyed by the Royal navy (American/NATO) on the oceans; by the construction of the Trans Siberian Railway. This tactic is being played out as we speak as has been for a time with the China led ‘New Silk Road’.
Now we see that their true weapons are far more effectual then a military, Adam Smiths ‘free trade’ propaganda TPP/TTIP etc, and a rigging of the financial markets, attacking Russia through Oil price manipulations. And their new trick book with the Soros led NED ‘colour revolutions’ Ukraine and liberty through democracy. IMF World Bank and other institutions have killed and impoverished far more then war could.
This is the the greater game on ‘the grand chessboard’ being played out against the only powers that could check western led hegemony.
Thanks for the great site saker.
For many decades now the US Military have deceived themselves with the ‘We are exceptional narrative’, when in reality the US Military has shown themselves to be somewhat ineffective without total control of the skies. This was the case in WW2 as well, despite the bravery of many of its soldiers.
In my experience the US military personnel I have met are affable braggarts who display all the hubris of Empire and find it almost impossible to understand that most of the world dislikes them.
The US is rotting from within and the gobbledygook broadcast by the US State Dept is better than any comedy show.
Thanks for the excellent analysis. I don’t recall the last time I read such thorough article in any Western media. I regret I don’t know any Western language apart from English – I must be missing a lot of good things.
Coming to article – I doubt an alien force can properly train and prepare an army. A good Iraqi/Georgian army can be prepared by Iraqi/Georgian trainers and commanders or some one who has spent much time in these countries. An elite trainer brought in for couple of months – who has expertise in calling for air-strike every-time he feels – is certainly going to prepare already lost force. I don’t agree however that US armed forces don’t have much war field experience. I keep reading about news of their police forces shooting people there – they are getting enough target practice.