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Chapter 308 The cruelty of reality

Inside the joint command center.

More than a dozen senior military officers are wearing headphones, sitting in the room monitoring the situation on the battlefield.

General Garrison sat in the back seat with a big cigar in his mouth, taking in everything.

The color images of the battlefield on the screen were transmitted in real time from the cameras on the "Orion" patrol plane and reconnaissance helicopter outside.

Five or six radio frequencies buzzed nearby, without a moment's silence.

The picture of the three Humvee convoys transporting the seriously injured and returning from their journey appeared on the main screen, and there was no more casualty report on the loudspeaker.

Everything seems to be going well.

Garrison and his staff officers may have a more thorough grasp of the battlefield intelligence of the current operation than any commander in history.

A HVT arrest operation dispatched more than 100 people, and the number of vehicles and aircraft added up to nearly 40.

Even if you look at the history of US special operations, this is an extremely rare scale.

You must know that when the super terrorist La Mou was arrested, two special silenced Black Hawk helicopters were dispatched, and the number of direct operations was even less than the mantissa.

however.

Despite having such a large-scale monitoring system, all Garrison and others can do is watch and listen, and they cannot make any changes to the main line of action.

It's like an arrow shot out, you can only wait for it to fly until it hits the target and ends the mission.

If the shot went off, or was shot down, something went wrong.

The only thing General Garrison could do was to call the other side of the city, the headquarters of the UN military garrison where the UN peacekeeping force was located.

There are three regular companies of the [-]th Mountain Division of the U.S. Army stationed there, as well as conventional peacekeeping forces such as the loaded troops of Pakistan, Malaysia, Italy and other countries.

Fortunately, so far, it seems that this is not necessary.

Because despite the fierce fighting, the whole of Mogadishu has become a hornet's nest, but except for one ranger who was injured, the whole mission went relatively smoothly.

It has been nearly half an hour since the battle broke out in the city, and other warlords and peacekeeping forces from various countries have also received relevant intelligence information.

The headquarters of Pakistan, Italy and other countries have begun to pay attention to the battlefield through drones.

In the eyes of the warlords and the peacekeeping forces of various countries, breaking into Aidid's "Black Sea" area in broad daylight is a radical adventure, which is tantamount to throwing oneself into a trap.

The area near the Bakala Bazaar is the absolute center of Habjid's forces, with thousands of armed militiamen.

Now is not the previous May. The US Marine Corps has 1 troops stationed in Mogadishu. Each army has an absolute right to speak here, and Aidid would not dare to move even if he had [-] guts.

Things have changed here since the United Nations Marines left.

Even the Pakistani peacekeeping force, which has dozens of tanks and a large number of armed armored vehicles, has been reluctant to approach that area since then.

Because they knew that in the center of the city, Aidid's armed forces were terrifying, capable of launching a violent attack in a short time.

General Garrison is actually very aware of the danger of breaking into it during the day.

Nor does he want to see mass casualties of U.S. peacekeepers in Somalia, as he documented in a memo a few weeks ago:

[If we enter the vicinity of the Baccarat Bazaar, there is no doubt that we can win the battle, but we may lose the entire war because of it. 】

But under the pressure of politicians in Washington, Garrison took a risk and started to act.

And the choice of time to act also portends danger.

You must know that the task force under Garrison is actually better at using night vision equipment to launch unequal operations at night,
The helicopter pilots participating in this operation were also carefully selected from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

They call themselves "night stalkers" and are good at flying in complete darkness.

Relying on the advantages of night vision equipment, even in the dark night without moonlight, they can fly freely like daytime, and accurately drop troops to designated positions.

As the T1-level special forces of the aviation force, their skills are astounding, and their courage is jaw-dropping.

Night is their world!
In addition to these, there is another benefit to operating at night.

Many Somalis in Mogadishu, especially young people driving lightly armed pickup truck patrols, are particularly addicted to "khat".

It is a plant that looks like watercress and has mild medicinal properties but can stimulate nerves.

To put it bluntly, it is an exciting "reading product"!
Somalis start chewing the stuff at noon, and after two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the effects of the drug start to kick in, and they become extremely excited and manic, and can't wait to vent.

Somalis who are at the climax of the day will be "brave" abroad because their brains are stimulated.

And once it gets dark, the situation is just the opposite.

Those Somalis who have chewed "khat" will become exhausted and sluggish after a whole afternoon of drug high.

If the operation is carried out at night at this time, the difficulty will at least be reduced by at least half.

The wilted Yin Junzi is even worse than a dog. In front of the rangers and deltas who have undergone professional military training, he is no different from crushing a piece of tofu.

The results of it……

"Operation Irene" chose the worst time, broke into the worst place in Mogadishu, and fucked with a group of drugged people.

It is equivalent to picking the highest difficulty.

Of course, the words have to be said.

This is only the most ideal situation, and reality and ideals are often not compatible.

Garrison can become the commander of the Rangers, will he not know these military common sense?Will not know to take advantage of these favorable conditions?
of course not!

This opportunity to wipe out Aidid's two senior staff members in one go is once in a lifetime, and if you miss it, you don't know how long you will have to wait for the next one.

The combat conditions at night were indeed better, but Aidid's staff members who were in the meeting probably also went back to their respective homes.

If you go again at that time, you can only rush to nothing.

Garrison had launched three arrest operations at night before, and the process was smooth and smooth without any trouble.

But the result is also very "silky", slippery and nothing is caught.

These actions are enough to prove that Aidid and his right-hand man are very good at hiding, and the place where they appear during the day will never be the same as at night.

Garrison is 100% sure...

The same is true for this operation. Once the opportunity is missed during the day, the night will only be nothing.

As a top-level armed force with faster, stronger, more agile and more experienced soldiers than any other country in the world, this force can be ordered to raid Mogadishu in just a few minutes. General Commander of any building.

Garrison felt that he had enough capital to take such a small risk to carry out this arrest operation.

As a representative of the image of the American military, Garrison has been in the military for nearly 30 years and has traveled all over the world. He also participated in the Phoenix Operation in the Green Beret. He is one of the least known important senior military officers in the United States.

I also believe that under his well-designed action plan, this arrest operation will be successful.

Garrison is full of confidence in his actions, and believes that even if there is a small problem, it will never affect the final success.

On the other side of the city of Mogadishu, Somalis also have their ideas and actions.

(End of this chapter)