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The Raiders Desert Strike Force

All right. The Raiders, Desert Strike Force. I’m a raider, an Oakland Raider from the Bay to LA fuck them haters. If you don’t know what I’m singing, I apologize, but I know what I’m singing, so. All right, what do we got here?

You got the contents. The major comes to Cairo, Beirut, and Benghazi. What, how old is this? 1968. So I literally have no idea. Like I’ve heard of all these places because of 2000 wars. I didn’t know we were over there 200 or 40 years before. Benghazi again. Wait a minute, man. Benghazi. I think like if you watch the movie, right, Benghazi, it’s in these movies nowadays. Let’s go there. Benghazi again. Is this just forties or 6? What is this? 56. This is the seventies. So we’re in the twenties. So this is 50 years ago. And yet we’re still in, Benghazi. So it might be like Benghazi, like how they do the Terminator for like 7 terminators, whatever Benghazi seventh edition. Hehehe. 84. Benghazi again. All right. We’re going to look through some pictures. All right. We got some, they’re out there cooking, making dinner. Mind you, when I read the article, really we’ll go more into it, but I’m just curious.

All right. Yeah, here we go. Let’s get to the fun stuff, right? Weaponry. So right here and right here. Let me read you what they are. The top one is the German heavy armored car, SDKFZ 234, maximum speed 54 miles an hour, range 372 miles, four people to man it. It had a seven 92 millimeter machine gun and 175 cm, L desk 24 Canon. So you can look at it again. Now the bottom one, this is a German light armor. I’m not going to read all the numbers. Maximum speed, 50 miles an hour, and a range of 180 miles. So, that’s crazy. I would have actually thought that this one went further than this one, but I was wrong. This one’s like double the distance as this one. The same, the same machine gun, but this has a smaller canon on top of it. Now this is the, the Beretta eight millimeter machine gun. This weapon, the standard Italian medium machine gun was so reliable that on the rare occasions that they could capture both gun and ammunition, the Desert Raiders used it for in preference to their own Lewis gun.

So the Italians did make some good stuff besides clothes back in the olden days. And that’s mostly the basis on Benghazi, one more time. Now, obviously, like I said, I will be reading more of like what, what actually went on there, but there’s no more pictures for me to kind of explain. Yeah. Again, this is the thing, the Desert Raiders, right from the sixties. About the history and campaign and history of world war two. So this is the World War II Raiders. It’s pretty interesting. Who’s he?

I mean, if you get the book, you know what I’m saying? They got some like classic photos. I bet you all of these people are probably dead now, but these are just classic photos, man. Another picture of the Desert Raiders.

But yeah, I’m going to read back in Benghazi I might read a little bit more if it’s really interesting, not sure. But yeah, it’s always fun to go back in history and kind of see what’s going on and especially the older pictures. Cause you know, just, it really brings like life to, to everything. I mean the pants and everything. Yeah. I don’t know about the pants. We look a little different nowadays. But other than that, I mean, that literally could be taken yesterday. Right? This is kind of cool. Kind of think about people’s lives back in the olden days and what, what were they doing at that time when they took that picture? Right? But you know, it’s always fun to think.

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Asymmetric Warfare Group Korea Handbook

All right. Welcome back. We have… Let’s talk about the Koreans. All right? Unclassified for official use only. You never know what you’re going to get. So man, as I get older… I mean you can’t really see my eyes, my eyes over here like this. Like that’s going to help me read it better. I can’t see anything when it’s closed. It got to be kind of far away. I can read it when it’s like this far, but when it’s here, no way, can’t see anything. A handbook to prepare forces for the complex operational environment of Korea peninsula through increased awareness of near peer capabilities and tactics to migrate the threat posed by the democratics republic, People’s Republic of North Korea.

Now that is a handful. Three years ago. Official use only. This is how, if we’re ever going to go to battle, wait a minute. Okay. I was kind of being a smart ass, but I know I shouldn’t be a smart ass because it kind of says, “US army asymmetric warfare group.” So, the disclaimer is saying the information contained here is not current US doctrine or policy, and it’s not meant to supersede doctrine commander’s guidance or established unit standard operation procedures. Examine and use the information in light of admission, the operational environment, the law of armed conflict and other situational factors. So, before we go to war, we have to think about all that. So, what do we have in this beautiful handbook? I seen pictures. So, we’re going to… Wow. So yeah, this is a super interesting book.

Is this the rise of the Kim dynasty? Kim II-Sung was a Korean exile serving as a guerrilla fighter and commander fighting against the Imperial Japanese Army in China during the 1930s. He gained fame for his exploits in Manchuria and a cult of personality began to develop. While tales of his exploits, as told by his followers, may be considered to be slightly overblown by most. Historian, Bruce Cummings pointed out that Japanese officers from Kwantung Army had attested to his fame as a resistance figure. Kim returned to Korea at 19 on September 19th, 1945 after 25 years in exile. In December 1945, the Soviets installed Kim as a chairman of the Korean Communist Party. Though he was still considered to be a subordinate and to the Soviet commanding general in Korea. General Terenty Shtykov this would not change entail Chinese intervention in the Korean war. In an effort to consolidate his power and certify control of the Korean arm of the communist party, Kim forms the Korean People’s Army in September 1948.

Initially, it was believed that the Korean War was a Soviet initiative to test the resolve of the United States. But historians now believe that DPRKs, which is the Democratic Republic or whatever, which is. I can’t see it, whatever. Decision to invade the RLK was a Kim initiative, initially not supported by the Soviet Union. After the Korean War and for the next several decades, the DPRK embarked on reconstructive effort to rebuild the devastated economy. All industries was owned by the state. Agricultural was collectivized and economy focused heavily on arms production. In 1980 Kim Sung, Kim Jong II, as [inaudible 00:04:51] standing committee member and air to his supreme leadership affected laying the foundation for the Kim dynasty.

That’s I mean, this book got… I just wanted to read that. Kind of see how it got into power. I didn’t know it was about the Soviets. Now it makes sense. The fall of the Soviet War. They don’t really have anyone else, but it’s very interesting. So, there’s different parts of this book. So, it talks about the restricted and unforgiving terrain of Korea. So, this one I’ll probably, because like a lot of it’s very interesting….Right? So, excuse me. So, I was like, wow. The global. Wow. Okay.

So, this is the dense urban terrain. The US Census Bureau defines a [inaudible 00:06:04] to be considered urban… 50,000 or more with a minimum threshold of a thousand per square foot, but does not define anything beyond… [inaudible 00:06:33]. So, over half the world’s population live in urban areas right now. That’s up from 30% in the 50s. And they’re saying that by the 2050s, 66%. All right. So, why does that matter? It’s mattering because we have to think of the density that these countries, that when fighting, I mean, because remember this is a war, this is a book on like basically a General’s book. It’s not for us as a general pop, right? As it’s unclassified for official use only. I just happened to have it.

It’s talking about warfare. So, the density of cities and how we’re becoming more dense, it’s going to change the whole way that we fight. We kind of see how that changed in the conflict up to 2000s. With after September 11th, how we were going more door to door, breaking down things and all that kind of good stuff. Opposed to in old schools where you’d have like a 1000 people over here, a 1000 people over here, and they just kind of run together. That warfare is obsolete. So, talking about the density of the cities and the density of everything, it is really interesting. Oh, wow. All right. I’ve already talked too much. This book’s really interesting. It’s a little guy, but it’s jam packed with valuable information. It’s based off of Korea, but you can just kind of use the information and for your own self. I don’t really know where this information is going to be used on a day-to-day basis because I personally don’t have an army. All right. But it’s interesting, nonetheless.

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The Cold War

All right. It’s called The Cold War, because I want to look at some pictures. All right. So can you see the picture? Let’s see what this is. That is the protestors in December 1944, University Street, Athens. Oh, wow. Look. This is the Czech Republic. We got more protesters, some more communist protesters. West Berlin boys stand on rubble mountain to wave at a transport plane bringing supplies during the Blockade. The last coal bags are loaded on a plane heading for Frankfurt. Wow. Coal bags? So they had the coals for energy. So West Berlin where they… It wasn’t really that bad?

Wow. So right here, we… This affected everything. So this is Shanghai outside of a market when the rice prices went higher once they took over as the Nationalist rule. And then this is North Korea. So if you remember a couple books… Well, I don’t remember how many books ago. This is 1950, so this is right around the time when the Kim dynasty.

The Hollywood Ten. All right, so these 10 people, I don’t know who they are, they pleaded not guilty in Contempt of Congress, February 4th, 1948. So, that in and of itself, we’ve got to figure out who these people are, The Hollywood Ten. What was Hollywood has to do with this?

Wow. Look at this. All right. So this is a protest in Iran. Right here, this is a captured Soviet tank in Budapest, Hungary while they’re flying the Hungarian flag. Right here, just imagine, this is West Berlin waving to people in East Berlin, right? Just imagine. And then right here, this is the policemen putting a wall to make it more sturdy so you couldn’t go between the Berlins. So now, at times, I don’t know how much people know about the past, but communism, like the cold war was huge. The Berlin Wall, they basically separated Berlin in West and East Berlin. And let’s say if one of your family members lived on one side and the other one on the other, just like this, as you see you weren’t allowed to see each other, right? And the internet didn’t exist, no Twitter or anything like that. You know what I mean?

And then this is Cuba, while we have a base in Cuba. This is really interesting. Just looking at pictures, I mean, a picture tell a story, man. It’s fun look at pictures.

Wow. Now, we’re looking at… When you think of the Cold War, you only really think of Russia or the Soviet Union. Now, we’re now looking at China, right, and Mao Zedong. The cultural revolution poster from the China People’s Republic, 1968. Look at the slogan. Their slogan is, “The many accomplish great things.” And on the top, it’s the soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army reading the words of Mao Zedong, often known as the little red book in 1971. Wow.

So the Russian… We’re looking at pictures from 1944 in Athens, right? That was the first few pictures I was showing you was in the ’40s. Now, we’re talking all the way into the ’70s, right?

Demonstrators climb on board trucks in the center of Prague on the first day of the occupation, 1968. Oh, wow. So yeah, we’re talking. This is the Cold War. I mean, this is the Czech Republic. Now, we’re over basically in Cambodia right here. That’s in ’68.

All right. So this Cold War is way larger than… I didn’t know it incorporated so many different countries. Because look, down here, we have South Africa, in Angola. A convoy of South African Defense Force vehicles crosses a pontoon bridge over the Kavango River upon the withdrawal from Southern Angola, 1988. Yeah, 1989 is when the Berlin Wall came down. So we just went through the whole history of the war. This is very interesting. Residents of the coast inspect foreign references in the area, 1986, Afghanistan. Strike leader in Poland. Berliners celebrate the border opening at the Wall in 1989. So imagine, you hadn’t seen your family in almost 20-some odd years. And you see the difference of the pictures were in color.

So this is in 1990, they reunified Berlin, Germany. Thousands of people form a human chain from Tallinn, Estonia to Vilnius, Lithuania. Wow. That is extremely a lot of people. It’s like, from one country to another country, they held a wall in peace. That’s crazy. And the complete fall of the Soviet Union was here during the coup of Moscow.

So we kind of went through the whole… I mean, I didn’t read anything, didn’t really tell you anything, but I hope that was interesting to you as it was to me. Now through that, I don’t know, I really don’t even know what I’m going to read. It blew my mind because that was from 1944, basically the end of Hitler.

Oh, you know what we need to do. It’s not in this one. It’s in… Right? Do you remember? See if you’re paying attention, this is where it’s so great, you got to be reading and paying attention. If you remember on the presidency book, I said something about Stalin and Roosevelt. Stalin is USSR, Stalin, Cold War, Roosevelt. Now, we’re talking about two completely different books. I mean, I don’t know exact because I’m not writing an article on that particular, but it’d be very interesting to see where their perspective and this perspective over here, and then incorporate everything together. Because yes, history is out there but it’s not in one book, it’s not in two books, it’s not in a thousand books. It’s snippets here, snippets here, snippets here, snippets here, and snippets here, and you got to put it all together by yourself because nobody puts it together. Everyone puts it together in their own perspective, so I have to put it in my own perspective, right? So, that was very interesting. Very interesting. All right, onto the next one. See you later.

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The Conception Of Strategic Bombing

All right. Another episode of looking through his library. Aren’t you excited? Oops. There we go. All right. What do we got here? Uh-huh (affirmative). The Conception of Strategic Bombing. What? What is this? I’ve heard of Hiroshima, I’ve never heard of Guernica or Chongqing. Don’t even ask. This one. I know Hiroshima. That’s pretty easy to pronounce. And we’ve been learning about Hiroshima since, what? WWII?

All right. What has led the air raids upon Chongqing? 1931 to ’37. Whoa. I thought the war didn’t start until the ’40s. I could be wrong though. Indiscriminate bombings started in 1939. The new capitol in May. The middle-sized bombers takeoff. Where’s the Hiroshima? Yeah, the 101 strategic bombing. Bombings were put into practice. Indiscriminate bombings.

(silence). Wow. This is… The Zero Fighters… Yeah. There we go. The Zero Fighters. Those people are… I’m not going to say they’re crazy. They were very dedicated. Let’s just say that. I’m interested on reading the Zero Fighters. More and more middle sized attack planes were shot down to worry… Whatever. Requested to send Zero Fighters into air battle. Let’s see it. 324.

(silence). The Zero Fighters’ first appearance. All right. More and more, blah, blah, blah, blah. The summer of 1940. The carrier-based planes popularly known as the Zero Fighters made their first appearance in a battle scene. Since then, until Japan was defeated in the Pacific War, they were known as a representative arms of the Japanese Navy Air Force, which kept them active in the immense sky, overlooking the vast hemisphere from these islands.

It was August of the year that the Zero Fighters made their first appearance as the fighter planes to guard the middle-sized air raiders being engaged in the indiscriminate bombardments upon this city. (silence). Okay. The 200… So that’s interesting. So it’d be the 2,600th year, in 1940, was the 2,600th year, right? Of the first emperor of Japan, Jimmu.

Okay. Not really that interesting. Let’s kind of see. See if I find anything… Ah, ba, ba, ba, ba. Wait a minute, their birth of their perishing could be compared to the looking glass which was to reflect the climax and downfall of the Air Force [inaudible 00:03:50]. However, it was in the middle of unfolding history later on [inaudible 00:03:53] something.

I’m going to read more of this, but I’m trying to see if we can… Oh, look at this. Look at the bombs. On April that year, someone came back to China for the third time now, leaving 27 planes that the [inaudible 00:04:06] got first plane and first squadron. Each one was carrying a couple of 250 kilogram bombs and four 60 kilogram bombs on board.

Okay. So this is what… They’re just kind of explaining the story. I mean, it’s going to be a very interesting story when I kind of write it out, but trying to read it to you write now, probably not the most interesting. But it’s kind of going over the story of how they started using Zero bombers. Right, let’s see if there’s anything… Yeah, it’s just…

Okay, well look, they achieved a great success… Wow. Look at this. (silence). 27 planes of the first attack corps dropped 312 bombs, each of them weighed 16 kilograms, or 120 pounds give or take. The 77 planes of the second attack corps dropped 300… Goodness gracious.

(silence). So yeah. The Zeros were basically just to protect the bombers. That’s ridiculous. That’s lot of bombs. Look at this. On the 19th Chongqing, this city, was to have a total of 100 enemy planes to drop 400 bombs, causing 181 deaths, 121 houses in… Wow. That is a ridiculous amount.

Yeah, I’m going to, again, I’m going to have to read. The amount… Look at the Japanese military invasion into China. And it’s witnessed… Are we still on the same chapter? No. I don’t think so. Yeah. But we’re going to read this poem and then I’m going to let y’all go. And then I’ll be able to kind of give you a better… Are we in the same chapter? Well this is the start of the…

Look at that. A fuse to lead to Pearl Harbor. Wow, this is really interesting. I mean, I probably have to read a lot more. I don’t have that time to read the whole book. But we’ll go with the introduction to Zero Bombers. But here, I’ll leave you guys with this quote. “At night I leave.” Yeah, I don’t know why I did that. That’s stupid. I can’t pronounce those words. So you can read it yourself. But I’m going to badger it right now. I’m going to complete trash it. Not on purpose, on complete accident. I just can’t pronounce these words.

“At night I leave Quingxi for Sanxia. Even if I keeping of you, it doesn’t lead to your appearance. This leads me to leave for Yuzhou.” All right, well that was pretty terrible. I apologize. That was pretty much a waste of time. I didn’t even need to read that.

But anyways, this is pretty interesting if you like American war history, or just war history period. Because, look, this is not an American book at all, right? Let’s see, where was this made? It’s translated. So it’s all in Chinese and Japanese. From Tetsuo Maeda. Oh, I can’t pronounce none of this. In Japanese. So that’s going to give it even more of authenticity, because it’s not from the American’s perspective. It’s from the Japanese perspective, which is going to be really interesting.