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No End To The Stuck War On Yemen
This somewhat funny battle map of Yemen was posted by Haykal Bafana some five weeks ago.
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The last bigger post on the war on Yemen here was on September 9. Since then nothing important happened there to write about. Little has changed in the positions on the battlefield. The daily Saudi bombing of the cities continues, the Saudi/U.S. blockade on the country continues and a wide raging famine is imminent.
The Houthis are still fighting the Saudis in Marib in the north-east. They are still invading the former Yemeni areas in Saudi Arabia in the north. They are still targeting Saudi ships that come near the Yemeni coast in the west. (Two were allegedly hit.) They still indiscriminately shell Saudi coalition positions in Taiz. Al-Qaeda and Islamic State groups are still gobbling up more territory in the south-east and around Aden. The Saudi attack on the Yemeni highlands and Sanaa is still stuck right where it started.
The Saudi/U.S. coalition included troops from the UAE which had landed in Aden. They brought in the Saudi sponsored "government" of the former president Hadi. But Hadi left the country after just 24 hours on the ground and the building the "government" occupied in Aden was targeted by double suicide car bombs. Some more UAE troops were killed and the "government" went back to reside in a convention center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The UAE troops now keep to their camps.
The "vice president" Khaled Bahah is trying to arrange some peace talks but neither the Saudis nor anyone else is listening to him. The UN is also arranging peace talks but nobody expects any results. The Saudi lunatic "young leader" Mohammad bin Salman-un wants to get whatever he wants or continue the war.
Last week troops from Sudan, paid by the Saudis, landed in Aden. The U.S. is now in a coalition with Sudan even as it accuses the same troops of genocide in Darfur. Yesterday the soldiers from Sudan were attacked with a suicide car bomb and some 15 of them died. Some 500 troops are also suppose to come from Mauritania. They will fare no better. The Saudis also hired 800 Christian mercenaries from Columbia. Al Qaeda and IS are feverishly waiting for them.
The Saudis really believe they can buy everyone and anything and achieve the results they favor. But non of the bribes they paid to this or that Yemeni tribe to fight the Houthis changed the position on the ground. All their high tech weapons fail to decide or end the conflict. None of their mercenary troops have a chance against fiercely independent Yemenis defending their homes. All the support the U.S. gives the Saudis only brings more death, destruction and misery.
This war on Yemen is the most stupid one I can think of. There is nothing to win for anybody. Who will tell the Saudis?
“There is nothing to win for anybody.”
Yes, there is. Israel wins the destruction of the Arab “cattle” occupying the future Greater Israel. From Yemen in the South to Syria in the North, from the Gaza Strip in the West to Iraq in the East. The people of these countries – whether Orthodox, Catholic, Shia, Sunni, Yazidi, Alawite, or any other group – have been bombed back almost to the stone age, their electricity cut off, their farms turned to dust, their water pipes run dry, their wells destroyed, their ancient history bulldozed, their universities bombed, their doctors and engineers emigrated, disease rampant, infant mortality rampant, literacy plummeted, life expectancy crashed.
We are seeing ethnic cleansing on a Biblical scale. We are seeing nation states, and civilisations, being unpicked, thread by thread. We are seeing the same tactics Zionists used in their long project to colonise Palestine, now being expanded to the Middle East at large. Exactly the same: terrorise them, uproot them, starve them, make them thirsty, make them fight one another, make them refugees, make them crawl. This will get much worse. Millions have died, millions more will die, and the ‘fortunate’ will be ethnically cleansed to refugee camps in the Turkey or Europe. This murder was planned many years ago.
Who has won, so far?
Israel has gained cut-price Kurdish oil. 75% of its oil supply is now Kurdish. Israel pays next to nothing, and its energy security is assured to boot.
Israel has occupied every would-be wahabbist footsoldier with battles located anywhere but Israel, under leaders loyal to Israel like al-Baghdadi, AKA Mossad agent Simon Eliot.
Israel has gained a barrier to Russian AND Qatari gas pipelines to Europe. Israel hopes Leviathan (and gas fields off the Gaza Strip) will fill the void, and further increase its clout with the EU.
Israel has gained a free hand. The world is too preoccupied to with Mossad’s creation, ISIS, to dwell on the ongoing genocide of Palestinans.
Israel has gained impotent, broken enemies. All of the Arab nations which opposed Israel now lie in ruins. Israel has never been stronger.
Israel has become a conventional weapons superpower almost overnight, to match its nuclear capabilities. SInce 2003, Israel has gained hundreds of billions of dollars of American military aid, donated to ‘protect’ Israel from the very turmoil from which it benefits. The IDF now has more precision-guided munitions than all of NATO combined, if you exclude the USA.
Posted by: Names are hard to think of | Oct 23 2015 22:11 utc | 21
ABOUT THE NATURE OF RUSSIA’S JAMMING
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/warfare/2015/08/02/us-army-ukraine-russia-electronic-warfare/30913397/
Russia maintains an ability to destroy command-and-control networks by jamming radio communications, radars and GPS signals, according to Laurie Buckhout, former chief of the US Army’s electronic warfare division, now CEO of the Corvus Group. In contrast with the US, Russia has large units dedicated to electronic warfare, known as EW, which it dedicates to ground electronic attack, jamming communications, radar and command-and-control nets.
“If your radars don’t see incoming fire, you can’t coordinate counterfire,” Buckhout said.
The US, Buckhout said, lacks a significant electronic attack capability.
“We have great signals intelligence, and we can listen all day long, but we can’t shut them down one-tenth to the degree they can us,” she said. “We are very unprotected from their attacks on our network.”
Multifunctional EW
Col. Jeffrey Church, the Army’s electronic warfare division chief, acknowledged that since the Cold War, adversaries have continued to modernize their EW capabilities, while the Army began reinvesting its capabilities for Iraq and Afghanistan. Church called the fielding of Army electronic warfare equipment the “No. 1 priority” of his job.
The Army has demonstrated some ability to counter enemy communications, not under formal acquisitions programs but as quick-reaction capabilities. In Afghanistan, the Army used a handful of C-12 aircraft equipped with Communications, Electronic Attack, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (CEASAR) jamming pods to jam insurgent push-to-talk radios, and two fixed-site systems — Ground Auto Targeting Observation/Reactive (GATOR) jammer and Duke V2 EA — to jam radios and repeater towers.
On an ad hoc basis, troops in Afghanistan used GATOR — conceived to protect forward operating bases — to suppress repeater towers while on patrol or training Afghan forces, providing themselves the freedom to maneuver while denying communications to potential enemies, Griffin said.
“It was unlimited capability, limited by the number of systems,” Griffin said. “Honestly, we just did not have enough to support the demand that was in the Army.”
MFEW, due to reach initial operating capability in 2023 and full operating capability in 2027, is intended to offer a suite of powerful, sophisticated sensors and jammers for in the air, on ground vehicles and in fixed locations. The Army is due to consider a capability design document for the “air large” capability, akin to Caesar, potentially for a C-12 or a MQ-8 Fire Scout drone. Last year it tested the Networked Electronic Warfare Remotely Operated (NERO), a jamming pod attached to the Gray Eagle drone.
The Defense Department in March set up a panel to address its electronic warfare shortfalls, which, Griffin said, has generated discussion about accelerating the timeline for MFEW.
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Posted by: Penelope | Oct 24 2015 3:01 utc | 33
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