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Sir Mike's Comments 4/3/2016.
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Subject: " The Russian Special Forces "
The Russian President Putin & Their Special Forces.
Sir Mike's Comments 4/3/2016.
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Subject: " The Russian Special Forces "
The Russian President Putin & Their Special Forces.
An Aussie jet fighter.
People I have not long received the following attachment which is attributed to Lt Colonel James G. Zumwait, USMC ( Ret ), who is I gather a retired Marine infantry officer who served in the Vietnam war, the U.S invasion of Panama and the first Gulf war.
He is the author of Bare Feet, Iron Will-Stories from the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields, Living the Juche Lie: North Korea Kim Dynasty and Doomsday: Iran- The Clock is Ticking ".
He also writes on foreign policy and defence issues which I can confirm as it is available on Google but there again ? what is not available on Google??.
Now there maybe those among us that after reading the attached, I am not one of them!, and state that from their point of view what the Russians are doing that is referred to here is barbaric, remorseless to say nothing of monstrous and typical of Putin's thuggery and breaches the United Nations Human Rights Convention and lowers themselves and the human race generally to the lowest common denominator.
Now the fact that I have stated many times in mike's comments how I have served in the military in Africa and I have seen where the most normally mild mannered so-called say bank clerk, or a public servant regardless of race, colour, creed, culture or religion can after given some training and instruction, a uniform of a sought and a weapon become a vicious killer of human life at all levels and age groups far exceeding anything we may see as make believe on films.
The Western societies including Aussie, and because where I was in Africa was firstly once a British Protectorate we endeavoured to do the same, follow or at least try and adopt the so-called " Articles of War " :
Articles of War.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Quote:
The Articles of War are a set of regulations drawn up to govern the conduct of a country's military and naval forces. The phrase was first used in 1637 in Robert Monro's His expedition with the worthy Scots regiment called Mac-keyes regiment etc; ( in the form " Articles of warres " ) and can be used to refer to military law in general. However the term is usually used more specifically and with the modern spelling and capitalisation to refer to the British regulations drawn up in the wake of the Glorious Revolution and the U.S regulations later based on them.
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Now in my experienced view these so-called " Rules of War " are just that ' Words ' that help the various governments and bureaucrats sanitize war in regard to their naive ( in most cases ) general populations understanding just what they are about to have thrust upon them because let's face it it's governments that declare war and ' NOT ' their populations and it is the population that is used as what is referred to as " Cannon Fodder " which is a derogatory term to expendable soldiers ( or now in the modern military include sailors and airman ).
For instance our Aussie pollies across our political spectrum have sent our military to East Timor,The Solomon Islands, our Navy is currently in the Gulf and Army and Airforce in Iraq and Afghanistan where we had 41 killed with many with seriously life effecting physical and psychological problems.
Ex
Aussie PM John Howard.
Ex Aussie PM Kevin Rudd.
Ex USA President George Bush.
Ex UK PM Tony Blair.
However what has happened to the little Ex Aussie PM Johnny Howard? Ex Aussie PM Kevin Rudd, Ex USA President George Bush or the Ex UK PM Tony Blair apart from retiring on Tax Payer funded pensions and perks of office and or in well paid civil or United Nations jobs and being trotted out occasionally as some special highly regarded statesmen to comment on current matters.
What a bloody joke? it would appear that the more you stuff up and even if as a result there is innocent people killed, maimed and or mutilated on all sides of the conflict the more these pollies are held in high esteem and valued for their knowledge and experience? you figure people it's got me, especially being ex military because believe me these amateur pollies are a world wide factor as history proves!
Unlike the Israeli Mozart their intelligence community or this Russian mob that are well known for their ability to execute, literally, their enemies the Aussie special forces blokes I have spoken to,like those I spoke too in the South African and Rhodesian army, are mainly there for reconnaissance or exploration outside an area occupied by friendly forces to gain information about natural features and enemy presence.
However that does not seemingly mean they are not capable of as they say " Taking Out " an important enemy leader providing ofcourse that does not expose their position and considering their situation put their and their colleague's lives at more than necessary risk.
Rules are supposed to be a guide or principle for conduct or action.
From my experience it is all very good to have a rules of war but how can we associate " Rules and War " together like it was some sort of football match where there are penalties for breaking the rules which I believe is an 'Oxymoron' because considering war kills people what happens if after the people that have been killed by whatever means by what is so-called " Friendly Fire " from their own side due to either human or technical error ? what " Rule " does that come under ? section " Whoops ".
Also it helps if all those involved read from the same hymn book which rarely if at all happens, and it takes a while for us Westerners, normally after considerably casualties and loss of hard ware, to catch on and adapt because turning the other cheek or hoping your enemy will behave in a reasonable and humanitarian way is just ridiculous because they are out to kill, maim by whatever means available to them and destroy us as quickly as possible and for us Westerners to try and gain the moral ground and do our killing, maiming and destroying in the most humanitarian way is just as bloody
ridiculous!
Wars are based on ' Attrition ' where the war is not won by who has achieved the most territory but is won instead by whoever eliminated more of the opposing military personal and equipment.
The Russians, if what this bloke Zumwalt has written below is correct, and I have no reason to doubt it, are in my view remedying their problems in a very humanitarian way even though it is, I admit, a long stretch of our imagination to say so.
However it would appear that the majority of Aussies, Americans, British, French etc;are quite comfortable with allowing our various Airforces to send 100's if not 1000's of high explosive bombs raining down on the like's of ISIS and the people around them, whether these people are supporting ISIS or are just captives or not? destroying their homes, contents, businesses, churches, infrastructure that has been there for literally many centuries in some cases because let's face it bombs do not discriminate, or revue psychologically profiling before they explode!! they are designed to do a job sent from say 30.000 feet in the air ensuring that the pilot is totally out of danger when the inevitable happens with horrific results for the innocent, good, bad and the ugly that just happens to be there at the time.
We in the infantry used to curse the " Fly Boys " and the " Gunners " in the artillery when they confused us for the enemy because their bombs and 60 pound shells dropped and fired from a safe distant from their point of view came to close for comfort from our point of view.
Whereas at least the way the Russian Special Forces go about by targeting the mongrels that count and only on a few occasions I gather, reading the attached, injure so-called innocent family members to achieve results, we have to assume they are innocent? they could be as guilty as the mongrels??.
Now people there is my view no point in whinging if you let these pollies of any political persuasion talk you or your loved ones into sacrificing your collective lives for some ideological game playing and bloody mindedness only to discover that rarely, if ever, do the pollies or their friends and loved ones sacrifice their collective lives for the good of the Aussie nation.
Trust the experts ? well you be the judge.
Sir Mike Howe - but you can call me Mike. Scroll down.
RUSSIAN SPECIAL
FORCES: HAS ISIS MET ITS FEAR MERCHANT MATCH?
by JAMES ZUMWALT
ISIS is a fear merchant. It depends heavily upon using fear to intimidate those opposed to it.
In its high-publicized videos, legions of soulless bodies fill its ranks,regularly demonstrating limitless savagery in executing their enemies. Beheadings, burning prisoners alive, attaching bombs to babies to show new recruits how explosives rip a human body apart, running tanks over prisoners, etc.no means of execution is beyond the pale as they market fear.
But fear can be a double-edged sword. A force capable of demonstrating this has just entered the fray in Syria.
Having used fear previously very effectively against Muslim extremists, this force looks to do so again—only this time its blade will come down on ISIS.
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently dispatched a military group in which he has great pride and confidence his special forces to Syria. The group has been honed into a uniquely skilled counter-terrorism killing machine,known in Russia for getting the job done.
Russia’s special forces originated out of a terrorist act perpetrated more than four decades ago by another violent Muslim group.
In Munich, Germany, Palestinian terrorists of Black September kidnapped and killed eleven Israeli athletes and a German police officer during the 1972 Summer Olympics. The attack prompted the head of the KGB (the Soviet secret police), Yuri Andropov, to order the creation of a special military force trained in counter-terrorism.
With its establishment two years later, the force initially was used for domestic security. But once deployed outside the homeland, it quickly established a bloody reputation for itself.
Comparable to our own elite fighters of Delta Force, Russian special forces have an operational edge ours do not.
While battlefield actions by U.S. forces will, appropriately, always be defined by the laws of land warfare, Russian special forces historically have tossed their moral compass aside. By doing so, they convey a clear message in blood to adversaries.
After Moscow invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, Russian special forces were tasked to implement “regime change.” Wearing Afghan uniforms, they quickly secured strategic government buildings in Kabul. Storming the presidential palace, they followed through on orders to kill every Afghan in the building. Not only was Afghan President Hafizullah Amin killed along with his mistress and young son, but so too were all witnesses.
Russian special forces played a significant role in Afghanistan throughout the ten year war. But their reputation for taking whatever action necessary to complete its mission was cemented in Lebanon.
In October 1985, a radical Muslim Brotherhood splinter group kidnapped four Soviet diplomats in Beirut. By the time
Russian special forces reached the city, one of the diplomats had already been executed.
As Moscow’s policy was never to negotiate with terrorists, no effort was made to do so. Using a network of informants, the Russians identified the militant group responsible and the kidnappers involved.
With the kidnappers’ names in hand, the Russians immediately rounded up their family members, taking them hostage.
They then cut off hostages’ body parts, delivering them to the militants along with the threat to continue making deliveries.
The militants got the message. The surviving Russian diplomats were immediately released. For two decades thereafter, Russian diplomats operated safely abroad without fear of becoming targets of Muslim terrorists.
But in 2006, Putin had to call upon his special forces again after four Russian officials in Iraq were abducted and murdered.
He gave the order those responsible were to be “destroyed.” Each of the militants involved was hunted down and killed.
Russian naval special forces also have not shied away from playing the fear card.
In 2010, the forces confronted Somali pirates. .
Operating from their mother ship, the Somalis pirated a Russian oil tanker.
Russian naval special forces boarded the tanker, easily routing the pirates, taking them captive and putting them back onboard their mother ship. There, the pirates
were securely tied up and the mother ship fitted with explosives. Once back on their own ship, the Russians detonated the explosives.
No Russian ship since then has been pirated.
Russian special forces have demonstrated they can rise to the same level of violence as ISIS.
As they hit the ground running in Syria, the Russians will set out—aided by their Iranian and Syrian friends—to establish informant networks to identify, locate and kill ISIS leaders.
Where possible to do so, they will ensure they die a violent death in a way that conveys the message they seek to send.
If there is an Arabic word for “karma,” ISIS will soon be muttering it.
by JAMES ZUMWALT
ISIS is a fear merchant. It depends heavily upon using fear to intimidate those opposed to it.
In its high-publicized videos, legions of soulless bodies fill its ranks,regularly demonstrating limitless savagery in executing their enemies. Beheadings, burning prisoners alive, attaching bombs to babies to show new recruits how explosives rip a human body apart, running tanks over prisoners, etc.no means of execution is beyond the pale as they market fear.
But fear can be a double-edged sword. A force capable of demonstrating this has just entered the fray in Syria.
Having used fear previously very effectively against Muslim extremists, this force looks to do so again—only this time its blade will come down on ISIS.
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently dispatched a military group in which he has great pride and confidence his special forces to Syria. The group has been honed into a uniquely skilled counter-terrorism killing machine,known in Russia for getting the job done.
Russia’s special forces originated out of a terrorist act perpetrated more than four decades ago by another violent Muslim group.
In Munich, Germany, Palestinian terrorists of Black September kidnapped and killed eleven Israeli athletes and a German police officer during the 1972 Summer Olympics. The attack prompted the head of the KGB (the Soviet secret police), Yuri Andropov, to order the creation of a special military force trained in counter-terrorism.
With its establishment two years later, the force initially was used for domestic security. But once deployed outside the homeland, it quickly established a bloody reputation for itself.
Comparable to our own elite fighters of Delta Force, Russian special forces have an operational edge ours do not.
While battlefield actions by U.S. forces will, appropriately, always be defined by the laws of land warfare, Russian special forces historically have tossed their moral compass aside. By doing so, they convey a clear message in blood to adversaries.
After Moscow invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, Russian special forces were tasked to implement “regime change.” Wearing Afghan uniforms, they quickly secured strategic government buildings in Kabul. Storming the presidential palace, they followed through on orders to kill every Afghan in the building. Not only was Afghan President Hafizullah Amin killed along with his mistress and young son, but so too were all witnesses.
Russian special forces played a significant role in Afghanistan throughout the ten year war. But their reputation for taking whatever action necessary to complete its mission was cemented in Lebanon.
In October 1985, a radical Muslim Brotherhood splinter group kidnapped four Soviet diplomats in Beirut. By the time
Russian special forces reached the city, one of the diplomats had already been executed.
As Moscow’s policy was never to negotiate with terrorists, no effort was made to do so. Using a network of informants, the Russians identified the militant group responsible and the kidnappers involved.
With the kidnappers’ names in hand, the Russians immediately rounded up their family members, taking them hostage.
They then cut off hostages’ body parts, delivering them to the militants along with the threat to continue making deliveries.
The militants got the message. The surviving Russian diplomats were immediately released. For two decades thereafter, Russian diplomats operated safely abroad without fear of becoming targets of Muslim terrorists.
But in 2006, Putin had to call upon his special forces again after four Russian officials in Iraq were abducted and murdered.
He gave the order those responsible were to be “destroyed.” Each of the militants involved was hunted down and killed.
Russian naval special forces also have not shied away from playing the fear card.
In 2010, the forces confronted Somali pirates. .
Operating from their mother ship, the Somalis pirated a Russian oil tanker.
Russian naval special forces boarded the tanker, easily routing the pirates, taking them captive and putting them back onboard their mother ship. There, the pirates
were securely tied up and the mother ship fitted with explosives. Once back on their own ship, the Russians detonated the explosives.
No Russian ship since then has been pirated.
Russian special forces have demonstrated they can rise to the same level of violence as ISIS.
As they hit the ground running in Syria, the Russians will set out—aided by their Iranian and Syrian friends—to establish informant networks to identify, locate and kill ISIS leaders.
Where possible to do so, they will ensure they die a violent death in a way that conveys the message they seek to send.
If there is an Arabic word for “karma,” ISIS will soon be muttering it.
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