Recently, the U.S. Department of Defense reported that the U.S. Army’s Green Beret Special Forces exercised a project on how to destroy enemy air defense weapon positions in a recent exercise. The location of this exercise is located at the Joint Combat Training Center (JRTC) in Fort Polk, Louisiana, USA. The mission of the green beret is to support the conventional operations of the 3rd Combat Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States during the exercise. It is the imaginary enemy force of the U.S. Army. The contents of the exercise revealed that this port belongs to a civilian port of a U.S. allied country occupied by the U.S. imaginary enemy forces. The imaginary enemy occupied the port to make it its own military logistics hub, and deployed defense forces and air defense weapons near the port facilities to prepare for the battle. U.S. military. The mission of the 101st Airborne Division is to eliminate the troops occupying the port, destroy their defense facilities, and avoid being used by the enemy for military transportation purposes in the next week. At the same time, it must not excessively damage the port facilities, because that is the civilian facility of the US allies. After the war, it will be reused by allies for people's livelihood and commercial transportation. In addition to the U.S. Army's troops, this exercise included a battalion of the British Army participating in the exercise, fighting side by side with the 101st Airborne Division. Obviously this exercise is a conventional combat mission, and the special forces have also changed from the protagonists in the past anti-terrorism wars to support forces. Therefore, this exercise is regarded as the beginning of the full transformation of the US Army's special forces from unconventional warfare to a major power confrontation war. So what new conditions did the US military exercise reveal, and what impact will it have on the future military situation?
First of all, the special forces participating in this coordinated exercise are the seventh group of the US Army Green Berets. This unit used to perform non-traditional combat missions in Central and South America, and was responsible for supporting US allies and partners in the region to perform counter-insurgency and anti-drug missions. . The Seventh Combat Group has also been deployed many times to participate in the battles in Iraq and Afghanistan. It can be said that this unit used to be a special operations unit specialized in counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations. In this type of mission, special forces are the absolute protagonist of the mission, because large forces are difficult to deploy, and special forces are scattered, mobile, flexible, and have high levels of training, and they have experience in intelligence operations. Therefore, they are very suitable for cooperating with intelligence agencies to perform this task. Class task. In fact, in the 20 years of anti-terrorism operations, the US military has experienced a very strange phenomenon, that is, special forces are exhausted every day, while conventional forces often do nothing even when deployed in theaters. In the news, we often see the SEALs or the Delta Special Forces beheading a leader of a terrorist organization, but elite troops such as the 101st Airborne Division or the First Division that have repeatedly made warfare in the world war are rarely able to do so. Record. However, conventional warfare under the conditions of confrontation between major powers is different. Although the special forces are still the vanguard of combat, they are no longer able to play the protagonist in their C debut. From this exercise, it can be seen that the special forces in the exercise mainly focused on attacking key targets. For example, in the exercise, the green beret was given the task of destroying the opponent's air defense missile position. As we all know, the U.S. military relies heavily on aviation firepower delivery in operations, but if the enemy's air defense firepower is not eliminated, the U.S. military may suffer heavy losses when performing ground attack missions. Therefore, the US military attaches great importance to the task of air defense suppression. When performing large-scale combat tasks, it must annihilate or invalidate the opponent's air defense weapons, so that it can safely bombard it boldly. To suppress such targets, the use of air force or missiles is often very dangerous, because air defense positions are originally set up to shoot down aircraft and missiles. Attacking air defense weapon positions from the air is tantamount to pulling teeth out of the mouth. Especially now that the newly equipped air defense weapon systems of major military powers have excellent performance, it is even more dangerous to perform such tasks. The United States believes that it must develop multiple anti-aircraft weapons suppression capabilities to deal with the armed forces of major powers. Among them, the use of special forces to secretly attack air defense positions is its traditional technique in the Cold War. During the Gulf War, U.S. special forces led Apache attack helicopters to successfully destroy multiple air defense radars in Iraq, opening a safe passage for subsequent air forces.
In addition to rehearsing how to attack radar positions, the US special forces also talked to the media about the possible future missions of special forces, including attacking enemy missile silos or finding and destroying enemy mobile missile launchers. Obviously, the US special forces are trying to replicate their scene in the Gulf War, when they were in charge of searching for Saddam's Scud missiles in the rear of Iraq and guiding the air force to destroy them so as not to threaten the US military bases in Saudi Arabia. In fact, the US military has also been trained during the Cold War to perform such missions in the Warsaw Pact countries to find and destroy high-value missile weapons. And now the Pentagon hopes that their special forces can re-practice how to perform this traditional task, instead of practicing how to find an extremist leader with an AK rifle in a desert cellar. However, the risk of such traditional combat missions is actually much higher than that of counter-terrorism missions. In the Falklands War, the British were successively sunk warships by the Argentine Air Force. Therefore, they planned to use SAS special forces to sneak attack on the attack aircraft bases in Argentina, but the commando He was found when he was near the mainland of Afghanistan and had to escape in a hurry. The exercise subjects are aimed at competition from big powers. Whether they can be used in actual combat in the future depends only on luck. After all, for a military power of this size, once the attacks of small groups of elite special forces lose their suddenness, they are just The captive delivered to the door.
