Indestructible and legendary? In the battles he knew ... whom?

The war (American) has a very feminine face. Or chest. We are accustomed to thinking that only in our country there are bad things in the army and it cannot be worse. Himself wrote about it many times. But no. Can. Even in the best army in the world.

First of all, first of all - to the skyscrapers ...

The bearded “international terrorist” is only a pitiful imitator, since the honor of opening “skyscraper attacks” belongs to ... pilots of the USAF!
The first to carry out this act was the twin-engined Mitchell 28 bomber on June 1945. Colonel William Smith, who was on duty flight, lost control, and the car crashed into the 79 floor of the Empire State Building. Then 13 people died. Great victims were avoided only because of the lack of ammunition in the aircraft.
Second, on May 20 of 1946 of the year, the heavy B-25 bomber rammed the 58 floor of a skyscraper on Wall Street. The victims of the accident were 10 people.

So nothing is new under the Moon. At sea, too fun.

Few people know that on September 9, 1923, the United States experienced a shock no less than Pearl Harbor. That day, 18 US Navy ships conducted exercises 75 miles north of Santa Barbara, next to the island of San Miguel. The core of the squadron was 7 four-pipe destroyers, the pride of the Pacific flotilla.
Everything was trivial, and nothing foreshadowed trouble, but at Cape Arguello, under ideal weather conditions, all the 7 destroyers Nicholas, Delphi, Lee, Young, Fuller, Chaunsie and Woodberry were strictly battle formation in turn sat on the rocks! The sacrifices were minimal, but the effect was simply overwhelming. Seven ships were a pile of scrap metal for half an hour! The fleet command and the presidential administration decided not to inform the nation about the incident. The investigation took place in the strictest secrecy, and the ships did not even swept away ...

"Delta Force", a variety of cats and other fur farm is good only in the movies

Operation Eagle Claw to free 52 hostages captured on 4 on November 1979 at the US embassy in Tehran after the anti-Shah revolution Ayatollah Khomeini.
Army Major-General D. Voight, who was in charge of the operation, prepared it together with the commander of the Delta Force super-detachment C. Beckwitt for about a month.
Several helicopters just ... lost! The American special forces lost 5 helicopters with crews and an EC-130 aircraft, several vehicles could not get to “X” at all. Special Forces soldiers poked in the desert like blind kittens, which threatened detection and complete destruction. Only the “wise” decision to retire, taken by Beckwith, saved the special forces from complete disaster.
Without joining the battle, without losing a single hostage, Delta Force got out of Iran. Khomeini, in mockery, ordered to release all the hostages immediately after it became aware of the failure of the operation. During the election race for the candidate president D. Carter, it was an insulting slap in the face ...

Shock and Awe.

It was these feelings that the leadership of the US Army experienced after the start of the operation of the same name in Iraq in the spring of 2003. Allocated according to plan for a complete victory ... ... three days resulted in a month and a half of fierce battles and almost 7 years of "restoring order."
We will not touch the policy and analyze only the military operation to seize the country. Before its commencement, the United States and Great Britain had a huge numerical and military-technical advantage, but all this did not lead to an obvious victory ...
The offensive was disorganized and chaotic, the troops were crowded on a small patch, from where, like the blind, they moved in all directions, groping gaps for a breakthrough in the defense of the Iraqis. For example, the capture of the port of Umm Qasr was reported about five times. Conversely, the destruction by the Iraqi “Grads” of the headquarters of the battalion of marines in Al-Nasiriya was attributed to the erroneous attack of their mortars. Such cases, by the way, were also enough. The "best tank of the world" M-1A.2 "Abrams" proved to be very bad (64 cars were hit). And this despite the fact that the license issued in Yugoslavia stepped on the edge Tanks M-84 (Russian T-72) with Czech crews. Overestimated the coalition and the capabilities of airborne troops. The massive use of helicopters, in connection with their losses, did not work. Tactical landings often failed. Summed up and the actions of special forces.
Has not justified itself and the WTO (precision weapon) - the electronics turned out to be capricious and unreliable in the conditions of the desert. The war showed that traditional weapons and the "human factor" remain the main key to success in modern war.

Salvation Private Lynch

They say the war has no female face. The American war, like the American army, now has it. The ordinary Jessica Lynch, a blond and pretty lady who became the most famous prisoner of war for all history wars

Her life path is still very short. The future Arab slayer was born in Palestine (Virginia). Having tried herself as a saleswoman, Jessica decided that the curve of the American dream would bring her up through service in the army. The choice is quite acceptable. The US military serve merrily, their bases are scattered all over the warm edges, the population treats well ...

But there was an Iraqi campaign, and Jessica rattled there, towards her “feat”. The feat was that 25 March last year, her unit got lost in the area of ​​the city of Nasiriy through the fault of a worthless commander and as a result fell into an Iraqi ambush. Comrades Lynch were killed, her rifle jammed, and she, wounded and with fractures, was taken prisoner, where she was naturally raped (2004. In the US Army, an average 14.000 of rape or attempted rape was recorded in the year), severely tortured and wanted to be amputated leg because of the inability to treat fractures.

But she was lucky, and one kind Iraqi lawyer told the Americans about her finding. Courageous Rangers (either “seals”, or “seals”, or “walruses”) joined the battle and beat off Private Lynch from the fiends of Saddam.

Unfortunately, after suffering pangs, she partially lost her memory and does not remember what was happening to her in captivity. Although this unfortunate circumstance did not prevent her from writing the book “I'm Soldier, Too” (I am also a soldier). More precisely, the book was written by the Pulitzer laureate Rick Bragg, but “according to the words” of the heroine. And she was presented with a lot of awards, including the very honorable “POW medal” in the USA.

And then began lining. The doctors of the hospital were the first to speak, where they allegedly tortured the unfortunate. No traces of rape were found, as she was taken dressed and even wearing a bullet-proof vest. It turned out that, on the contrary, she was treated with great sympathy and even placed on the only (!) Surgical bed in the hospital and was allocated one of the two hospital nurses.

Despite the shortage of medicines and donor blood, she received two transfusions, and the blood was donated by hospital staff. Lynch didn’t have gunshot wounds, and Dr. Al-Khuson took her car to an American roadblock. But there they were frightened of everything that was moving, opened fire on the car, and had to return.

It later turned out that the storming of the hospital was also staged. The commandos knew that there would be no resistance and fiercely fired blank bullets at the front of the cameras. Ashamed Pentagon then acknowledged that the assault was not at all. And after that, Jessica herself admitted that she was used for propaganda purposes.

But the question is not the failure of a staging, but the fact that there was no space for heroics in the Iraq war, for the superiority of the Americans was present in everything. They began to make heroes out of thin air, although there was no such necessity in the story of "saving private Lynch". Comrades Lynch, in contrast to her, cowardly sticking her head in the sand, were shot to the end, but they were not invited to eternity. Parents of the victims accused her of speculating on the deaths of their children and, in an American way, demanded compensation. So burst another bubble American fairy tale of patriotism.