"Air Power"


For those of you looking for a little anti-RMA/transformation shadenfreude look no further than this acerbic and quite accurate comment from Col. Lang.

The IAF and its associated heavy artillery simply lacks the weight of fire needed to drive this enemy from its prepared positions in the stony ground of South Lebanon. The actual ground maneuver attempted thus far is a joke and typical of the role imagined by "Air Power" advocates for ground forces. "Maroun al-Ras" is a tiny village less than a mile from the Israeli border, and no amount of fancy graphics on TV "gushed" over by retired generals can alter the fact that its capture is an insignificant achievement that has had and will have no effect on the amount of fire going into northern Israel.

PNAC meets RMA enthusiasts meets reality? Who knew?

Tragedy always results when people believe their own lies.

There is also the ocassional irony too:

An international force that will fight Hizballah in the south to disarm it is a pipe dream. Who will do that? The only realistic candidate would be France in terms of military capacity. This would be a major irony of history.

Axis of weasels indeed.


Sean Paul Kelley July 23, 2006 - 3:43pm

Not to worry. Precision guided weapons will deliver us from the scourge of Hizbollah in their fortified positions. If you figure that the IAF will need to deliver on 2000-lb PG bunkerbuster for every 100 yards in the towns and positions they want to take, even a small size town will likely consume at least 16 to 32 bombs per position. That's likely about 8 to 16 attack aircraft sorties per position. Throw in an equivalent number of air protection sorties in the packet and the IAF will be flying 16 sorties for each and every stinking position they want to engage. This will be a long, slow, grinding process, not the quick surgical strike the MSM is trying to project.

VizierVic July 23, 2006 - 3:48pm

to give them their accurate title, too - "Generally As Accurate As The Intel That Guides It" bombs.

Escher Sketch July 23, 2006 - 4:08pm

Hopefully they are intelligent enough to stay as far from Lebanon as possible.

There will be peace when all the parties become tired of war.

-- Happy fishing in ocean of noise!

Gandalf July 24, 2006 - 8:01am

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