1) @drawandstrike @Imperator_Rex3 @Krissy_Caster In honor of reaching 3333 followers (praise Kek) and the (hopefully temporary) twitter retirement of @ThomasWictor I would like to present The Grand Theory of the GCC Ghost Army as elucidated by Wictor (cobbled into one piece here)
2) First, for those not aware, dafuq is the GCC? It is a political, economic, military alliance of Middle Eastern countries.
3) It is also our best hope for peace in the Middle East, the destruction of radical Islamic terrorists, and here in the next few years it will be one of the US's greatest partners in world stability.
4) So, we got the GCC part down, so dafuq is the 'Ghost Army' of the GCC? It is this: an army of Special Forces soldiers who represent the pinnacle in the current revolution in warfare, operating in near-total secrecy thanks in no small part to the dysfunction of the western MSM.
5) israeldefense.co.il/en/content/oth… These special forces soldiers are considered C6ISR forces. Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Cyber Warfare, Commando, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconaissance
6) Each soldier is a Jack of all Trades, Master of Wrecking Your SHIT.
7) And the best part? No one knows who these guys are, where they base from, exactly how they operate. They operate in the most chaotic war-torn countries in the Middle East, they blend in seamlessly wherever they need to be, and they win wars.
8) And its thanks to this smarmy fucker right here, who I swear to god never stops smiling. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 
9) middleeasteye.net/news/mohammed-… Dude is the definition of a young prodigy. Spends his early years at the foot of the then-Crown Prince now king. In 2015, when his father was crowned king, he became among other things the Minister of Defense, the youngest to ever hold the title.
10) From this position, he and his father transformed the Saudi military into the most advanced, the most dangerous, the most effective military force on the planet. This was years in the making. First his father to lay the groundwork, then Muhammed bin Salman see it through.
11) The first glimpse of the GCC Ghost army? Aden, Yemen, 2015. The Battle of Aden en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of…
12) Saudi Arabia inserts a few dozen commandos into Aden to help resist Houthi rebels for 2 months. Yemen goes from near-collapse to counterattacking and taking back large swathes of territory in a matter of months.
14) Siege of Kobane. Something similar happens. Late 2014, ISIS is taking ground in northern Iraq nonstop, creating hundreds of thousands of refugees. US airstrikes are holding back because we have no targeting assistance on the ground.
15) warisboring.com/drone-appears-… Suddenly, drones and commandos are in the city, and the fight turns around instantly. Within 6 months, ISIS is driven out, their commanders dead.
16) The new paradigm in warfare is to destroy the opponents leadership and expensive equipment, while minimizing your own losses. Destroy the big toys and the big names, and the rest of your opponents will crumble.
17) thomaswictor.com/fruit-new-alli… A list of the dead commanders from just the Iranian forces.
18) The biggest bottleneck to making large segments of a military trained to the quality of Special Forces soldiers has and always will be technology. How much technology can you fit on an individual soldier with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of training?
19) How much can you put on a single soldier before they're no longer cost effective? Well, the answer is to develop technology to the point that you might as well make everyone to the level of a Special Forces soldier. But where did the technology come from?
20) israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx… The Israelis. The best in weapons research that there is.
21) Wait, the Israelis and the Saudis working together?!?
Its more likely than you think.
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Its more likely than you think.
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22) Israelis develop the weaponry, Saudis develop the new training and combat doctrine.
23) The biggest hurdle that western nations faced when trying to train Middle Eastern forces: Western military doctrines simply didn't work with Middle East personnel. In the west, we train from the top down, we pass on knowledge from the most experienced to the least experienced
24) The idea being, the commanders at the top know their orders will be followed because those below them have been trained the same way they have. Its ok to pass down knowledge and hand off authority.
25) So, when the US tried to train the Iraqis to 'stand up so we can stand down', we trained their commanders first, expecting them to then train their subordinates. This... did not work.
26) Now, within the span of a year or two, the Iraqi army has been utterly transformed into something alien. Micro-combat teams. A core platoon of an armored vehicle, infantry, snipers, an anti-tank team, a bulldozer, a gunship, with many more autonomous weapon teams
27) The Iraqi army, I believe, was trained from the ground up, with the NCOs becoming the most important part of the army by being trained first, to allow them much more flexibility on the battlefield.
28) newsweek.com/long-deadly-bu… Thousands of hours spent meticulously mapping cities about to be retaken.
29) dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4… Iraqi soldiers infiltrating ISIS lines exactly like the GCC Ghost Army would. Why just one soldier doing this? Why not dozens we don't hear about?
30) thedailybeast.com/iraq-mosul-lib… The Iraqi army collapses against ISIS one year, comes back later Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger and drives them out.
31) When I or @ThomasWictor cite the GCC Ghost Army, we're not taking away any of the credit from the forces on the ground be they Kurdish or Iraqi or Syrian rebels. The GCC Ghost Army are special forces.
32) They train, support, coordinate with local forces, and in combat they infiltrate ahead of the main forces in secret to assassinate leadership, destroy weapons and vehicles, and conduct reconnaissance. Special Forces like we're familiar with, but on an unprecedented scale
33) Why don't we hear about them? Two reasons. First, Strategic Ambiguity. Israel practices it, and it has rubbed off on the GCC. If you never confirm or deny what you're doing or what you're capable of, it makes it that much harder for your enemy to figure any of that out.
34) Two, because in the Middle East, face is everything. If anyone talks about how they had to rely on others, they would lose face. No one wants to admit that they couldn't beat ISIS without the help of GCC commandos.
35) The revolutionary bit? The Saudis aren't trying to steal the credit. Saudi Arabia wants to be a global player, a superpower, but to do that, to achieve their Saudi Arabia 2030 dream, they need regional stability. They can't do that by making everyone else look bad.
36) So, the GCC Ghost Army. No one talks about them, no one brags about them, but we see their efforts. The best part? Total war isn't their goal. They don't conquer territory. They render their opponent incapable of fighting.
37) bbc.com/news/world-mid… Kirkuk, October 2017. In a moment of chaos, the Kurds in Kirkuk think that ISIS is on the way, and flee the city. It was actually the Iraqis. The entrenched Kurdish militia flee, thousands of civilians flee.
38) One of the C's of C6ISR? Cyber Warfare. Specifically the kind that spreads chaos and causes panic. 100,000 flee over... rumors. One firefight occurs by accident, beyond that, zero bloodshed.
39) So let's look at today. Hezbollah is in the target crosshairs of the Israel-Saudi Arabia alliance. haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
40) Iran, their military hollowed out in Syria, is under pressure as well. newsweek.com/israel-and-sau…
41) Russia is fleeing. jpost.com/Middle-East/Pu…
42) almasdarnews.com/article/syrian… Buuuuut ISIS is still kicking in Syria after being summarily booted out of Iraq.
43) Within a year, the war in Syria has transformed. Give it another year. Hezbollah will be defanged. Iran will be looking weaker than ever (especially given they were the ones supporting Al Qaeda and have been backing the Houthis). Assad will be gone. ISIS will be gone.
44) And that whole time, there is going to be a force out there no one will talk about and that we'll never see putting in the hard work for regional stability. What we'll hear is that Lebanon liberated itself. The Iranian people liberated themselves. Syrians defeated ISIS.
45) After all, who gives a shit who gets the credit for who beat who, if it means regional stability and peace? Not this guy. /end
