SITUATION REPORT FM KYIV: WH actions likely based on Enemy Most Dangerous Course of Action. MY VIEW: US Intell can see all moves but Putin’s GO Order will not be seen quickly. Definitive signs: 1) Ru Air Force Weapons depots will load up at multiple air bases. #UkraineConflict
2) Bastion/Kalibr Cruise msls & Iskander Ballistic msls units will receive orders & set up real firing positions. 3) Blinding Jamming/Cyber atk on all cell/internet. 4) armor assault units move to 10km fm border. 5) MASSIVE air strikes & fighter sweeps all over Ukraine.
6) Russian Army SSO commandos & parachute forces may drop/helicopter directly on KBP airport, comms, mm gov & key centers in central Kyiv. Hope for quick capitulation of gov or disorganized response. It won’t happen. Fighting WILL break out Nation wide w/Locals hunting Russians
7) In UKR East Ru Army will try to take Sumy/Kharkiv line down to Luhansk in 1st week. UKR SOUTH could face BASTION missile attacks on Odessa/amphibious & airborne landings. UKR NORTH - Will defend Kyiv/Chernihiv w/their lives & mobilize all citizens to fight/resist. They will.
WEST: Will lay basis for counterattack & relief of Kyiv if necessary. Will husband UKR MiG-29s & Su-37s
FINAL ASSESSMENT: GO ORDER COMES ONLY FROM PUTIN HIMSELF. Prob of attack? 50/50!! No definitive unambiguous order to “execute”seen yet at field level. No reason any of this threat except for what is happening in Putin’s head. Ignore everything else. #UkraineCrisis
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My Assessment fm Kyiv: #UkraineCrisis if Putin wants to take this country by force. My prelim findings: Russian forces are formidable & may be able to take Chernihiv-Sumy-Kharkiv-Luhansk-Donetsk axis but at massive cost & can take Kyiv at a terrible cost. Insurgency will follow.
Initial assault will likely come from simultaneous: 1) Nation blinding Cyber atk on cell/internet/TV. 2) Ballistic msl attacks (SS-21, SS-26) & Kalibr cruise msls & drones on UKR bases 3) Air supremacy blitz/fighter sweeps on airbases in Eastern & central Ukraine. 4) Land War
Land War options: 1) LIMITED-Armor attack w/PDR rebels to take last of of Donetsk/Luhansk. Russian army will link up Crimea region by taking Kherson-Melitopol-Mariupol axis to Donetsk. 2) SERIOUS- Seize all East border via Chernihiv-Sumy-Kharkiv axis fm E/NE & link to Donbas.
Ok America. Trump’s former, accurately titled, “acting DNI” asks where is the proof Trump supporters want to kill Americans. Let’s recalibrate him since he has clearly been in a coma in between subverting democracy and betraying the Constitution. I’ll start:
HERE IS WHY I’m going to delete this tweet. Today we lost 12 brave Americans & many Afghans. I deeply regret how callous it now sounds. I would never intentionally disrespect my brothers & sisters in arms. I also sincerely apologize to their families, and I pray for them. 1/
As proud combat veteran whose family has served the U.S. military for 150 years, I spent almost all of my adult hood in defense of our country & its freedoms & guarded it w/my own life. Yes, I posted before there were any serious casualties reported. I should’ve waited. 2/
Over 70,000 Afghan civilians, 40,000 Afghan soldiers, and 2,743 Americans have died in this conflict. I am heartsick about the lives we have already lost and those we lost today. 3/
TOP SECRET STORY TIME: Today #DesertStorm30 I moved from the slightly sinking USS Tripoli to the battleship USS Missouri’s SIGINT team to watch reactions of Iraqi 11th & 19th Infantry divisions to a fake amphibious attack we would make to hold them while Kuwait was invaded.
My space was the STRIKE WARFARE on 03 Deck, a WW2 Battle bridge w/18” steel walls/doors aft of the 16” gun Mount 162. The Big Mo RQ-2 Pioneer Drone team asked me to help identify viable targets. First mission: bombard a Iraqi weps depot. 16” shells hit it within 200m fm 23 miles
16” gun shells were called “bullets”. We fired bullets all night 24-25. At 0400ish I hear a terrifyingly familiar radio call “ALL STATIONS THIS IS HMS GLOUCSTER! VAMPIRE! VAMPIRE! VAMPIRE!” It means Volkswagen sized Iraqi SILKWORM anti ship missiles are flying at us. Unhealthy!!
TOP SECRET STORY TIME: #DesertStorm30 yrs ago today I endured my first of 3 actions in 100 hours. I was Cryptologic Intelligence Chief (forward) on USS Tripoli (LPH-10) sweeping Iraqi sea minefields for an amphib feint to make Saddam think we were invading Kuwait from the sea.
We knew there were at least 1000 sea mines across the gulf. Tripoli had helicopters to sweep lanes to the Kuwait coast. When I went to bed on the 24th something made me put away my “abandon ship pack.”Personal photos, Candy bars, an ID card wrapped in waterproof plastic.
I lived with the Marine Gunnies forward of the bridge below flight deck. The minehunting helicopter Squadron found plenty of mines and cut a lane for us & the battleships. At zero dark 30 30 years ago today we found one! It exploded just in front of where I was sleeping.
Russia had 4 years of their asset in the White House allowed this attack. They mapped our known networks, evaded security & knew Trump would do nothing. Knowing he could/would lose they attacked, placing backdoors, seized software controls & laid boobytraps.
Defector @Snowden’s treason gave Putin an extensive road map of our most classified DOD/CIA/NSA networks as well as how to manipulate switches in unclas systems. Russia used the DNC/DCCC attack to practice. Trump let them run wild. /3
Defector @Snowden’s treason gave Putin an extensive road map of our most classified DOD/CIA/NSA networks as well as how to manipulate switches in unclas systems. Russia used the DNC/DCCC attack to practice. Trump let them run wild. /3