He got pushed out of US Naval College because of it.
PLA Strategy in a Taiwan Contingency
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He landed at Brown and a think tank or two, so he kind of got pushed out into a promotion.
That's a big step up.
(Just in) CCTV released an excellent long footage & interview of an amphibious landing exercise under 72nd Group Army, w/ red forces (an amphibious unit + an air-drop unit) as offense, and blue forces as beach defense. Colors can be seen from helmets. Exercise timeline are as follows:
1) An amphibious unit offloaded dozen of vehicles from LHD, sailing to beach though enemy fire & rough seas. Several vehicles got hit. Waves were too high, limited their vision, so they launched DJI drones to locate enemy fire spot, and finally destroyed it though focus fire, and made it to the beach.
2) Meanwhile, an air-drop assault unit were taking helicopters to the back of the emeny, landed, went through woods, kept silent and marching towards the enemy positions on the beach from back.
3) As soon as amphibious unit landed, part of their vehicles were hit by enemy anti-armor weapons (i.e. Javelins) & stuck. Soldiers quickly offloaded themselves from vehicles & split. Multiple robot dogs were launched and started charging to clear a path on the beach.
4) However, enemy fire was so intense, making them can't move a single step forward. Robot dogs were also hit & destroyed. So they tried to clear a path by men, but it still failed, with multiple down or injured.
5) This time, the air-drop unit got their positions and started to attack the enemy from back. The enemy had to split fire, which made the amphibious unit finally cleared a path for their remained vehicles.
6) Enemy was ultimately defeated under consistent attack from both front and rear. Beach was clear. Mission succeeded with many casualities in the amphibious unit.
This exercise shows how tough an amphibious landing is, and how it can still be winned through proper tactics & proper autonomous forces.
1) An amphibious unit offloaded dozen of vehicles from LHD, sailing to beach though enemy fire & rough seas. Several vehicles got hit. Waves were too high, limited their vision, so they launched DJI drones to locate enemy fire spot, and finally destroyed it though focus fire, and made it to the beach.
2) Meanwhile, an air-drop assault unit were taking helicopters to the back of the emeny, landed, went through woods, kept silent and marching towards the enemy positions on the beach from back.
3) As soon as amphibious unit landed, part of their vehicles were hit by enemy anti-armor weapons (i.e. Javelins) & stuck. Soldiers quickly offloaded themselves from vehicles & split. Multiple robot dogs were launched and started charging to clear a path on the beach.
4) However, enemy fire was so intense, making them can't move a single step forward. Robot dogs were also hit & destroyed. So they tried to clear a path by men, but it still failed, with multiple down or injured.
5) This time, the air-drop unit got their positions and started to attack the enemy from back. The enemy had to split fire, which made the amphibious unit finally cleared a path for their remained vehicles.
6) Enemy was ultimately defeated under consistent attack from both front and rear. Beach was clear. Mission succeeded with many casualities in the amphibious unit.
This exercise shows how tough an amphibious landing is, and how it can still be winned through proper tactics & proper autonomous forces.
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This further reinforced my long held conviction that the heavy lifting must first be done by missile, drone, air, and naval forces. Amphibious units must not make their final approach until a beachhead and its surrounding terrain have been cleared of all or most fortified positions. This is not world war 2. They should not be trying to pull D-Day landings while hoping that air dropped troops can flank enemy fortified positions from inland.(Just in) CCTV released an excellent long footage & interview of an amphibious landing exercise under 72nd Group Army, w/ red forces (an amphibious unit + an air-drop unit) as offense, and blue forces as beach defense. Colors can be seen from helmets. Exercise timeline are as follows:
1) An amphibious unit offloaded dozen of vehicles from LHD, sailing to beach though enemy fire & rough seas. Several vehicles got hit. Waves were too high, limited their vision, so they launched DJI drones to locate enemy fire spot, and finally destroy it though focus fire, and make it to the beach.
2) Meanwhile, an air-drop unit taking helicopters to the back of the emeny, landed, went through woods, kept silent and marching towards the emery positions on the beach from back.
3) As soon as amphibious unit landed, part of their vehicles were hit by enemy anti-armor weapons (i.e. Javelins) & stuck. Soldiers quickly offload themselves from vehicles & split. Multiple robot dogs are launched and start charging to clear a path on the beach.
4) However, ememy fire is so intense, making them can't move a single step forward. Robot dogs were also hit & destroyed. So they tried to clear a path by men, but it still failed, with multiple down or injured.
5) This time, the air-drop unit got their positions and started to attack the emeny from back. The enemy had to split fire, which makes the amphibious unit finally cleared a path for their rest vehicles.
6) Enemy was ultimately defeated under attack from both front and rear. Beach is clear. Mission successes with many casualities in the amphibious unit.
This exercise shows how tough an amphibious landing is, and how it can be winned through proper tatics & proper automouns forces.
I don't understand the purpose of this exercise. It's not realistic. It almost sounds like they based this entirely off of having watched Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers.Indeed. This guys' weapon are too light. No matter amphibious unit or air-drop unit.
They need air support, heavy & intense air support.
If they really end up fighting as sloppy as they do in that footage, they better start making way more room at the martyrs' cemeteries(Just in) CCTV released an excellent long footage & interview of an amphibious landing exercise under 72nd Group Army, w/ red forces (an amphibious unit + an air-drop unit) as offense, and blue forces as beach defense. Colors can be seen from helmets. Exercise timeline are as follows:
1) An amphibious unit offloaded dozen of vehicles from LHD, sailing to beach though enemy fire & rough seas. Several vehicles got hit. Waves were too high, limited their vision, so they launched DJI drones to locate enemy fire spot, and finally destroyed it though focus fire, and made it to the beach.
2) Meanwhile, an air-drop assault unit were taking helicopters to the back of the emeny, landed, went through woods, kept silent and marching towards the enemy positions on the beach from back.
3) As soon as amphibious unit landed, part of their vehicles were hit by enemy anti-armor weapons (i.e. Javelins) & stuck. Soldiers quickly offloaded themselves from vehicles & split. Multiple robot dogs were launched and started charging to clear a path on the beach.
4) However, enemy fire was so intense, making them can't move a single step forward. Robot dogs were also hit & destroyed. So they tried to clear a path by men, but it still failed, with multiple down or injured.
5) This time, the air-drop unit got their positions and started to attack the enemy from back. The enemy had to split fire, which made the amphibious unit finally cleared a path for their remained vehicles.
6) Enemy was ultimately defeated under consistent attack from both front and rear. Beach was clear. Mission succeeded with many casualities in the amphibious unit.
This exercise shows how tough an amphibious landing is, and how it can still be winned through proper tactics & proper autonomous forces.
The quoted video is just simply a scripted event to showcase to (probably) laypersons to have a better idea of the latest hotness, integrated bots. Like the kind of storming an objective shows put on for lay audiences at military open house events, etc. There's very little to be drawn from these events with actual practices.
Now if we had the AAR and videos of a NTC equivalent evaluation exercise ... we be cooking with gas.
Actually air dropped troops during D-Day didn't, afaik, attack beachhead fortifications from behind and/or in conjunction with seaborne forces.
Air assault elements of an amphibious ops usually perform taskings to attack, seize and block objectives further inland to prevent reinforcing the beach defense and also facilitate breakthrough and advance of the seaborne forces breaking out from the beachhead. ie. attack something and then dig in and wait to be linked up by advancing seaborne forces - not advance towards the beach.
SPR and BoB didn't do this either. Notwithstanding the complications of coordinating arcs of fire and fire support when you have disparate elements assaulting from different (almost opposite) directions.
Or with the earlier mentioned advancing towards each other is not something easily done. In that way, BoB is actually quite realistic in how it portrayed scattered airborne troops re-organising as well as disparate formations marrying up - it's a situation fraught with blue-on-blue potential unless you have a fairly well laid out plans with defined axis and report lines.
Now if we had the AAR and videos of a NTC equivalent evaluation exercise ... we be cooking with gas.
Actually air dropped troops during D-Day didn't, afaik, attack beachhead fortifications from behind and/or in conjunction with seaborne forces.
Air assault elements of an amphibious ops usually perform taskings to attack, seize and block objectives further inland to prevent reinforcing the beach defense and also facilitate breakthrough and advance of the seaborne forces breaking out from the beachhead. ie. attack something and then dig in and wait to be linked up by advancing seaborne forces - not advance towards the beach.
SPR and BoB didn't do this either. Notwithstanding the complications of coordinating arcs of fire and fire support when you have disparate elements assaulting from different (almost opposite) directions.
Or with the earlier mentioned advancing towards each other is not something easily done. In that way, BoB is actually quite realistic in how it portrayed scattered airborne troops re-organising as well as disparate formations marrying up - it's a situation fraught with blue-on-blue potential unless you have a fairly well laid out plans with defined axis and report lines.