Fort Worth and
Qinzhou and
Changde both turn to face
Fort Worth. Apparently they want to fight. I’ll oblige them. Both LCSs are under orders to engage the enemy as soon as they come close enough to fire their Griffin surface-to-surface missiles. Between the two of them, they have 30 Griffins.
At four miles,
Qinzhou with her 57-millimeter gun.
Qinzhou immediately returns fire with her 76-millimeter gun, lightly damaging
Fort Worth. Unfortunately,
Fort Worth’s Rolling Airframe missile launcher is destroyed early on, meaning she is out of active anti-missile defenses.
Then the Griffin missile launcher is put out of action, meaning
It would be surprising if China did not continue to rely on them.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Special forces have become America s instrument for waging small wars on the cheap, using small numbers of elite soldiers rather than large numbers of expensive and politically sensitive regular troops.
Some special force units get all the attention. America’s Delta Force, Russia s Spetnatz and Britain s SAS have glamorous reputations.
When was the last time you heard about China s commandos?
But Chinese special forces exist, and they have been growing in size, sophistication and global reach, according to the U.S. Army s Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO). Their command structure has been streamlined and training has become more realistic.
Special operations forces have been at the forefront of U.S. combat operation in the last two decades.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Special Operations forces may thus develop new tactics on how their unique capabilities could counter Russia’s own unconventional warfare tactics in Eastern Europe, or employed to surveil and raid militarized islets in the Pacific Ocean.
Special operations forces have been at the forefront of U.S. combat operation in the last two decades. They are nearly at the forefront of risky combat missions and suffer higher casualties as they are often deployed to remote locations and exposed to greater risks.