Brit Reacting to Desert Storm - The Ground War, Day 1 - Crush the Saddam Line - Animated
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In Schwarzkopf's defense speed saves lives. The longer you give the enemy to come up with a counter strategy the more people you are going to lose.
Yeah, his entire goal was to stop this from turning into a slow attritional war, like Saddam was trying to turn it into.
I think the speed was a function of the commanders on the ground not wanting incidents of friendly fire, which was actually the most dangerous situation most troops faced in the war (in hindsight). Keeping track of exactly where friendly forces were had to be a logistical challenge when moving so rapidly.
Man was called Stormin Norman for a reason xD
Stormin' norman
That armored bulldozer you saw was actually homebuilt by Marvin Heemeyer and subsequently used to go on a rampage through Granby, Colorado as revenge following a feud with town officials.
Crazy story. He should check out a video about him.
Would have been a legend if he didn't off himself, that ruined it.
@@TechNextLetsGo nah, he’s still a legend
@@mikeemous1410 Agreed. I recommend Count Dankula's episode of Mad Lads about him.
Some people would go back in time and kill Hitler. I’d go back and tell Marvin to reinforce his coolant lines and be careful because the hardware store has a basement.
The number of surrenders was more challenging to deal with than the combatants. It was crazy, at one point, we were just tossing them MREs and pointing them to the back to get picked up.
I remember hearing that from my TC and Loader. I was a gunner on an Abrams and saw very little of that through the sights .. tunnel vision you might say :)
I was with the 2d Mar Div, but not with a tank unit. I moved to tanks after we got back and the unit I joined had been some of the first to cross the mine field in old M60s. Once they crossed, they had stirred up so much dust that they paused a moment to get a visual bearing on their position. When the dust settled they found themselves surrounded by a mass of Iraqis surrendering. They called back to the command tanks and received the instruction to continue forward and leave the surrenders to the unit behind them. The Iraqis were glad to see us. They had no food, little water, had already had the crap bombed out of them, and all the while we were blasting rock music across the mine field at them. They had zero will to fight.
We threw them our port patty MRE's. They didn't care, they were so hungry they ate whatever they were given.
@@tjsogmc Huh. I think I only hydrated those things once .. most of the time I at them dry with water. If you are hungry .. shrug
I recall passing a pow point and the MP's asked us for water and MRE'S, we stripped off the top layer from our flatbeds, the Iraq's for the most part did not look defeated, just glad not to be live targets.
I was 18 in high school at the time and enlisted for the war. They made me finish school and then by the time I was done with boot camp the war was over. Young dumb patriotic me. Still, I did six years, honorable discharge and came out a bit wiser.
Nothing wrong with being patriotic. I thank you for your service regardless!
I was 15, I remember watching the opening on the news, and I thought I'd be going when I turned 18.
I don't think anyone expected such a one sided affair.
Thank you for the service and sacrifice you made for our nation. Regardless you are a hero and and in inspiration to all. God bless you
Same here, but I had already decided to join the Navy; this just gave me the reason to sign-up early. Ended up on CV-62 USS Independence homeported in Japan in '93 and spent the next few years in the Gulf supporting Operation Southern Watch, cleaning up left over mines and watching oil wells burn. Had alot of fun along the way.
@@guittadabe5214 There is plenty wrong with blind nationalism. And Americans with their cult-like need to jerk off vets and thank them for their service will always be fucking strange. "Thank you for signing yourself away as government property to willingly be used a pawn in our wars of aggression and greed for resources."
Not to take your thunder away, but I joined the military in 1990, went to basic and jump school, got to my unit and 3 weeks later was there! I was on the left flank. 1/325 AIR 82nd Airborne.
Thank you for your service!
Airborne all the way! My Dad was 82D ABN during WWII & a good friend of mine was an 82D MP during the deployment to the Middle East, when Israel withdrew from the Sinai desert and gave it back to Egypt.
This series really shows the power the US has in conventional warfare. This Iraqi force was seen as the 4th most powerful fighting force in the world at the time, and they got steamrolled by the US and allies. The advantages of numbers, technology, and the fact that all US and allies forces were professional soldiers, not conscripts, make you wonder why did any of the Iraqi forces try to fight this.
Operations Room does a fantastic job showing how the battles play out in as close to real time as can hold people's attention.
My brother was a veteran of Desert Storm--tank division in the 1st Army. I got to go to his promotion ceremony when he got back to Ft. Riley, Kansas. So proud of him. Sadly, he passed away in 2020.
I was 14, so I remember, we all thought it would be this huge, very bloody war, because Iraq had the 3rd largest army on Earth!! But it was over in 4 days pretty much!!
Wow, was it bigger than China or Russia? It’s even surprising it was bigger than North Korea honestly, they are now 4th.
Your profile picture does not look like you are 46 years old. You look young for your age.
@@JonBroun thats not him. its brazilian actor Bernardo Velasco
@@Souledex At the time, I think only the U.S. & China had more troops. But so many surrendered the 1st day or 2, it plummeted out of the top 10.
@@JonBroun everyone's profile picture isn't of themselves. You should know this, unless you're a purple cartoon Templar Knight.
3:42 the cover of night allows for discreet movement, especially if you have night vision and they don’t.
I guess you should watch the rest of the Desert Storm series this guy has, which I believe the next one is "Desert Storm - F-16 Pilot Fights for his Life Over Baghdad - Animated."
13:14 yes, to help not get spotted by radar and anti-air systems
LOL I knew that when he typed in Armored Bulldozer the first thing that would pop up would be Killdozer.
The darkest time is the time right before first light, also tends to be when people are most tired
Friendly fire was common in this war because night vision optics and thermal imagers were new and were very good at spotting armored vehicles but lacked the resolution to easily identify who the armored vehicle belonged to. Nowadays better night optics as well as new tactics and technology have significantly reduced the chance of accidental friendly fire.
They fly low to be hidden from radar. Because it’s open desert, low means really really low. It’s called “nap of the earth” flying.
Hordes of people were surrendering to Helicopters as well as people on the ground. The soldiers basically handed them an MRE, some water, and told them to walk South. It was crazy how many surrenders they had to deal with. That slowed them down far more than hitting opposition.
That wasn't a military bulldozer you were looking at. It was the home made Killdozer a man used to teach his local government a lesson. Would probably make a good reaction video.
Bad behavior in response to bad behavior is still bad. Let's not glorify his actions, even if we can sympathize with the crap he was dealt.
@@rafetizer Nah, the guy deserves a medal and a statue of him in DC. He went out of his way to not physically hurt anyone (aside from himself, unfortunately), and only targeted property/assets of those directly responsible. His actions were not bad, indeed they were just, and some might even call them honorable (depending on one's interpretation). Now, the judge should be stripped of any honors (even post mortum), and everyone else involved should have served long prison sentences, but unfortunately they got off the hook
@@DmitriyTonyuk Hard disagree. Throwing temper tantrums is what babies do, not adults.
@@rafetizer that wasn't a temper tantrum. It took years of illegal bs, political and legal abuse, and almost a year of prep on his part. Temper tantrums happen fast, not over timelines of years
@@DmitriyTonyuk Sure, and it takes a toddler a few years to be able to walk around and figure out how to throw a tantrum. The actual behavior once he fired up the dozer was exactly that. Everyone wants to play like it's perfectly acceptable and act like he had no choice. There's a zillion other things you can do that don't involve going on a destructive rampage.
It's so funny to see this from another generation's perspective. I watched this on the news when I was a teenager.
I watched the bombardment of Baghdad from the TV room of our infantry training room during my basic training here in the UK
This was one of the most interesting times in my life.
Watching and listening to the news and especially Stormin Norman Schwarzkopf.
The guy was a household name and everybody loved the guy.
Saddam Hussein had to be crazy to think he could prevail against these odds.
Yep and he blames Americans for them having hard time recovering but he forgot that he invaded another country with a justification of them sipping to their oil taps without a clear evidence ffs
People who really lose frequently blames their lost to the people who won
It's like a kid behaviour
They should grow up they ain't Roblox player they are leaders of a country
Iraqi tanks lined up along a road awaiting coalition forces, but instead US and UK tanks rolled up behind them out of the desert. The tech of GPS was then introduced to the world.
Schwarzkopf’s pressers with his visual aids and graphs were always interesting to watch, and I’ll never forget the CNN footage of Bernard Shaw having to hide under the bed in his Baghdad hotel when the air campaign started. It was the first time something like that was aired live.
My father during Desert Shield (name before the actual invasion) was DNB which is a casualty that takes place unrelated to military combat. He was in Saudi Arabia and was involved in a accident. It was surreal in 2003, we staged (Marines) little over 100 miles just inside the Kuwaiti border from where his accident occurred in SA. It was an extremely proud moment
It sounds strange for the General to be upset when things are ahead of schedule in places. But that can cause problems by exposing units behind to an attack on their flank. Not likely here but has to be considered by the commander.
The armored bulldozer that was used by the Army Engineers was the M-9 Armored Combat Earthmover (ACE). If you search for that, then you find some cool pictures of it.
Luka, I am an Air Force veteran who was in Desert Shield/Storm based in Saudi Arabia. It was crazy.
As a 29 y/o sargent COLT CHIEF and working JTAC assigned to the 101st ABN and attached down to the 3BN 187th Inf, I can say we were pushed to our physical and mental limits and then kept on going somehow...
The "armored bulldozer" I believe is the m9 ace (armored combat earthmover) only thing I can think of that would keep up.
I was there , 1SQ 2nd ACR. Thank-you for the awesome reaction.
Right before first light and right before it gets dark is the best times to attack because people are tired, or eating/getting up
Contour flying is used to avoid AA weapons and radar.
BullDozers can be attached to tanks as well. The M60 and M1 Abrams both have a version. What you found on google was some guy pissed with is local government making an armored dozer to cause chaos. The event finally ended when a building collapsed on top of the dozer.
so, large militairy operations tend to start at times at like 4AM or 5AM because either its first light or close to first light giving you the most time in the daylight to conduct your operations to achieve as much as possible before light falls again
8:25 how it ends...not a single abrams tank falls from enemy action 🇺🇸
Yes man! I knew this was coming after the air one 😂
Keep up the grind 💪
Some of the Friendly Fire incidents were attributed to the wrong type of paint being used for the coalition Chevron markings by some nations. The correct paint showed up as white on thermal / IR imaging scopes, but the incorrect type used by some of the European allies only showed up a white on visual scopes, and not on thermal / IR scopes.
IIRC in the first gulf war, more coalition soldiers died to friendly fire than enemy action for the entire conflict.
Don't know about the "friendly fire" part of it but accidents accounted for more deaths than combat.
Look up MICLIC--that is the mine clearing vehicle.
I would assume The attacks are better to be done at night because the aircraft and ground troops and vehicles can stay hidden for longer so it makes it harder for the enemy because they can't see where you are so if they shoot back they might be shooting in the wrong direction or something. I'm just guessing though
I’ve been loving the reactions from midway, coral sea, and desert storm!
I was on the Command Staff of Lt. Gen. Hoerner, the USAF general in charge of all US Air Force's in theater. The first day of the war, a series of FAE's, or Fuel Air Explosives, were dropped all along the FEBA, or Forward Edge of the Battle Area. These thermobaric bombs were large canisters of explosive vapor, that covered about a football pitch each. When dispersed, and ignited, the blast, or concussive wave would pop lungs right out of your mouth. We killed 12 thousand Iraqi's in the first five minutes of war, all along the front lines.
What's being showed here is what really happened those multiple explosions are cluster bombs
I was fresh out of college when this went down. At the time, Iraq had one of the largest standing armies in the world...and EVERYONE knew this was gonna be one of the all-time a$$ kickings...and we got watch it on CNN!
One of the objectives of French and American troops was Objective Rochambeau. This was almost certainly named for Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte (Count) de Rochambeau (1725-1807). He was the commander of the French Army troops sent to America during the American Revolutionary War.
Since a majority of coalition forces had flir/nightvision systems and the I Iraqis didn't it was a big advantage to attack at night.
Leave it to the Marines to be ahead of schedule. I had members of my unit with the coalition forces to the east going up to Kuwait City, and a few were in the first vehicles to enter. I was with a Matine Regiment split into three groups: rounding up and guarding prisoners, securing supply lines to ensure delivery of fuel and water, and attacking Iraqi stay behind forces. Driving into the dense smoke from burning oil wells was quite an experience.
The 1st Division Museum is located in the state I live in. It also served in WW1.
This is cool to see it all layed out
Helps me get an idea of what my cousin was doing in desert storm (Marine Corps)
This battle started at night because at the time US and NATO forces were the only forces in the region that had highly capable combat ready night vision optics. That is an acute strategic and tactical advantage.
19:00 in this war, friendly fire was more deadly than the Iraqis were.
In 1991 night vision technology was standard in the American military but no one else had. Starting at night presses that advantage.
Out of the 148 U.S. battle deaths during the Gulf War, 24%, or 35 troops, were killed by friendly fire.
RIP "Stormin" Norman Schwarzkopf!
Interestingly enough, the mass surrenders were part of Sadams plan. He hoped the number of prisoners would slow coalition forces and limit food supplies
Human physiology is slowest at 3AM. So that's when operations generally kick off, because the opposition is groggy and slow.
The problem wasn't that the invasion was too slow, it's that PARTS of it were too slow. You HAVE to keep the line together.
A broom that gets split like a fork lets a lot through the gaps.
I know there are some videos that go over reddit replys to when someone asked the question what it felt like to fight AMericans in any war. One that I remember basically said that it was like trying to fight an incoming tidal wave.
Let's also remember that in 2003 the US and UK mobilized and deployed over 300k troops for the 2nd invasion of Iraq, still the world's 4th strongest military, coalition forces took Baghdad in 26 days with less than 200 dead. Now compare that to Russia trying to invade its neighbor and can't even do what we consider the easy part. The hard part is occupation
Of the 150 allied casualties, most were friendly fire. Tanks have to be careful not to run over or blow up friendly troops.
@15:15 I recommend secondary data points [rus]
(Watched this unfold as a teenager).
Greyzone [independent] scroll the playlists.
When I was a kid growing up during this, I had gulf war trading cards. Trade you one of your scud missiles for norman schwartzkopf!
Actually the ground war happened several weeks later from the air war. The ground war was only 4 days.
Most of the time The strategy is to catch them it’s most vulnerable point and time which is about 3 r 4am
This war started about 2 weeks before my 18th birthday. A bunch if guys my age were worried about the draft but after a week, it was clear they were going to need me. Young and naive, like most teenagers. Love the content lately, keep it up!
They started surrendering whenever an Apache showed up.
In a helicopter, if you fly high, you die. Flying as close as you can to the earth is called NOE, or Nap of the Earth flying.
For at least two weeks before the invasion by the coalition, the let the news media watch the US navy and Marines practice beach landings like they were going to assault from the sea. The majority of defences the Marines encountered were facing the shore .
Helicopters fly "nap of the earth" so as not to make a big target. The higher they are, the easier they are to be hit with antiaircraft weapons.
Flying low avoids their radar.
I think an app name for these kinds of videos would be animated, war room, play-by-play military historical retellings. That's literally what they are. War rooms should have a map with the layout of asset placement and a guess at enemy locations and key areas and then they do the whole shuffle board, chess, theoretical "these go here and attack here, drawing this flank out while the second regiment, blah blah blah." It's play-by-play as it's unfolding some major events chronologically as they're happening. It's military history, and it's animated. So all of those. Maybe just War Room History?
Apt not app.
Hey Lav Luka you should do a reaction videos of Naval Legends IJN Yamato and DKM Bismarck also USS Iowa. You have been doing Military and War reaction videos like this one. You probably will like them.
Yes! React to those, very well done stuff!
The fly low to avoid being spotted on radar and so they can’t be spotted and shot down from far away from air defense turrets
The last great tank battle is a good watch if anyone's interested. It's about the war in Iraq.
Knew two veterans from this war. The biggest threat were the camel spiders and scorpions.
Camel spiders are horrid looking but are not that dangerous. There are lots of myths such as they are venomous. And they are not.
@@JonBroun The guy I knew used improvised flame throwers on them!
I would argue that it was “friendly” un-exploded ordinance. 1AD. OPCON to the 2nd ACR.
@@NoneYaBidness762 Don't forget Gulf War Syndrome ... Pepperidge Farm remembers ;-(
It is very difficult to locate a low flying helicopter both visually and by sound. It is a self defense measure.
yeah that was the M1 Abrams then.... the amount of upgrades in the last 30 years makes it scarier.
Remember almost all the technologies that you're used to seeing today, was at it's infancy back then. On paper it works perfect, but was never tested in battle. So military planners were also worried about how well they would work. Stealth fighters, GPS, night vision in vehicles, troops, aircraft, naval ships, guided munitions (bombs and artillery), cruise missiles, new gen tanks (Abrams, Challengers, Leopards), and many of their components and various other technologies, all were being real world tested. Unfortunately for Iraq, they all worked as promised.
Watch part 2 if you want to hear about the largest tank battle in modern history.
State of the art early 90's versus outdated 60's. That is what this war was. Iraq underestimated the Western response, especially the capabilities of the US. Saddam thought he could bog down US forces in a long drawn out war, similar to Vietnam. The desert, western forces crossed, was considered impassable and not a location to expect US forces from, and the early bombings by Seal teams in the Persian Gulf made Iraq believe it would be a beach landing and invasion from the sea. Saddam proclaimed before the war started that it would be the mother of all battles, and that the US would drown in a sea of blood, but it was barely a whimper from Iraq. They were outmatched at every stage of the war, and were not prepared for the onslaught.
Unfortunately, friendly fire happens in wartime, and more common when it's such a large operation with so many moving parts. Communications breakdown, nerves, confusion of battle. The only thing you can do is limit friendly fire as much as possible, but when it's a life-or-death situation this thing happens. I'm not trying to minimize it, war is brutal, people killing people; I can only imagine how those guys felt finding out they fired on their own friends.
Helos 10 feet off the ground. Because that is below radar. They are lost in the ground clutter.
My bro good to see you back .. I don't know why I didn't see you for a bit..
The 24th of February at 4AM? Sounds very very familiar to some places in Europe....😆
It took 4 days to get it done. I have a cousin that was in Iraq undetected, a week before it started. They never knew they were about to be flanked . They never knew what hit them.
The Iraqis didn't have a full understanding of what a modern, GPS-equipped force was capable of. That's what allowed the flanking maneuver over basically featureless desert that came later. Less technologically advanced forces would have had to deal with units getting lost left and right, slowing progress to a crawl and increasing casualties and logistical problems.
@@crowe6961 They never had a chance. It was suicide......Dallas, Texas.
@@PEPPER2323 Naturally. They could have given a better account of themselves with better leadership, but the end result was a foregone conclusion.
18:59 bond to happen when so many countries are working together.
This friendly fire incident was US against US, no foreign country force.
@@annfrost3323 never said it wasn't, was just making a statement on his confusion
23:30 that’s the almighty killdozer
I loved General Schwarzkopf's daily briefings, he would joke about Iraq's elate forces. And I remember the brief where he pointed out a car going over a bridge and just as a bomb hit the bridge the car made it to the other side, he said something about the car be damn lucky.
With 30 years to study this, the Russians completely failed to invade their next door neighbor due to poor logistics. The US did this 10,000km away from it's territory across an ocean. No other nation in the history of the world has ever been capable of such a feat of arms.
In the original video someone in the comments compared this to "you and 8 friends taking on a computer opponent set on easy mode."
Helicopters fly low to avoid radar detection
During Desert Storm crazy things went on to verify how well our weapons would work against Iraqi weapons. Lots of things were tested all over the Coalition Countries. We found that things we thought would work but didn't. We had to come up with software patches and new tactics which worked very well. There were lots of long days by contractors, DOD civilians, and the uniformed services preparing and supporting the actual combat forces.
You must react to the highway of death desert storm.
Chinook is Pronounced Shinook it's a native people and a salmon and an area in Washington State and also a military helicopter. It's the giant one with 2 rotors running tandem.
My brother was with one of the units that was over there before things got officially underway and had a great view of much of this. Far too close in a couple of cases. If I remember correctly, there was a group of enemy soldiers that tried to surrender to a bunch of reporters from CNN. Crazy stuff.
Desert Storm was the war that made China start building their own equipment. They were using Soviet designs until we smashed Saddam. It was such a shock to them that they immediately started their indigenous arms industry.
React to the time in Syria 200+ Russian troops tried to attack a small team of US soldiers so they called in airstrikes and Apache helicopters to obliterate the entire Russian squadron
The ground war occurred a month after the air war started. How dominant US forces were completely shocked the world, even the US.
It was daylight when we crossed the sand bar
They flew low to hide from radars.
Desert Storm was a useful opportunity to practice fighting together in modern warfare with basically zero chance of losing. Too good an opportunity to pass up.
To let you know that was killdozer not the bulldozer that the military's uses
This is why every dictator wants nukes.
Luka you need to do a video explaining Chrysler defense change into general dynamics and the building of the m1a1 they have more territory to test than the UK has landmass
The one thing you need to know about the friendly fire. We didn't have the technology of today. Most units had 1 bulky GPS navigation set, radios, and our only markings were the black upsidedown V we painted on the sides of our trucks with a can of spray paint the night before.