Therefore, it is of great practical significance for our army to analyze and study the urban offensive operations of the US-British Coalition forces and actively learn from their useful experience for the future island city offensive operations.
First, "attacking the heart first" is an obvious feature of the urban offensive operations of the United States and Britain. In my future offensive operations against island cities, we should not only pay attention to attacking hard, but also actively carry out psychological offensive, and strive to closely analyze the urban war in the Iran-Iraq war by attacking the city slightly. Apart from the limited resistance of Iraqi troops in southern cities such as Basra, the US-British Coalition forces rarely encounter large-scale resistance in other large and medium-sized cities, including Baghdad and tikrit.
Not only did the elite Iraqi troops defending the suburbs break up without fighting, but even street fighting and destruction of urban facilities did not happen. Even the US military can take 1 battalion to the center of Baghdad. The smooth progress of the war situation greatly exceeded the expectations of military experts, and even the Coalition forces themselves did not think of it.
One of the most important reasons is that psychological offensive has played a huge role. In urban warfare, the US-British coalition forces put psychological warfare in a prominent position. During the preparation for the war, the United States and Britain launched a psychological offensive against the Iraqi people and army by dropping leaflets in the "no-fly zone", setting up radio broadcasts and using the news media to create momentum.
Before the start of military operations, government officials shouted to reporters, leaked some "battle plans" to the outside world, used hidden channels to buy, persuade and threaten senior Iraqi officials, showed off their military strength, and carried out psychological deterrence before the war; During the war, the results of the war were widely publicized in the form of press conferences every day, and false news such as Saddam Hussein's death and Iraqi army's abandonment of the city and surrender were spread, which disintegrated the fighting spirit and distracted the attention of the Iraqi army and created conditions for the successful capture of large and medium-sized cities in Iraq.
The Iraq war shows that the high-tech local war has not changed the dominant position of people in the war, and the morale of soldiers is still a vital fighting force; The close combination of psychological offensive and high-intensity military strike has become an important means of urban offensive operations in the future and a key factor affecting the success or failure of the war.
In the future, I will attack the city on the island, and the opponent's comprehensive combat capability is far higher than that of the Iraqi army, and there may be strong enemies involved. In addition, after years of painstaking efforts, a solid position defense system has been formed with underground fortifications such as tunnels and bunkers as the backbone, permanent fortifications such as reinforced concrete bunkers as the main body, solid core positions such as strongholds and forts as the support, and various high-density obstacles as the barrier.
However, our weapons and equipment have no obvious advantages, and some are still relatively backward. It is difficult to achieve the goal of attacking the city quickly by blindly emphasizing the hard attack. Therefore, we must attach great importance to psychological offensive and strive to "defeat the enemy without fighting." Actively carry out political attacks. Taiwan Province Province has been separated from the mainland for decades, with different social systems, values and lifestyles.
Especially the long-term hostility between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits and the reactionary propaganda of the Taiwan Province authorities, I will face a very complicated social environment in my future urban offensive operations on the island. Therefore, in the future urban offensive and defensive warfare on the island, psychological offensive must be placed in a prominent position. We should make full use of radio, television, news media, internet and other means to widely publicize the justice of our war, so that the military and civilians on the island can clearly understand the nature of this war and eliminate the hostility caused by misunderstanding.
By throwing leaflets and setting up radio broadcasts, we will divide and disintegrate the enemy forces and create favorable conditions for our army to carry out offensive operations on the island cities. Pay attention to strengthening military deterrence. It is to fully display military strength and achievements and exert strong "psychological pressure" on the enemy.
By displaying advanced weapons and equipment, especially the "killer weapon", the soldiers and civilians on Taiwan Province Island are terrified. By organizing targeted military exercises and missile test exercises, we show our determination to solve the problem by force and make the military and civilians on the island panic; Through the frequent mobilization of troops before the war, the situation of heavy siege was caused, and the results were announced in time during the war, which made the military and civilians on Taiwan Province Island lose the confidence of tenacious resistance.
Through all kinds of military deterrence, the enemy's resistance is weakened and the combat purpose is achieved. Strictly control public opinion propaganda. In this war, the United States and Britain allied forces took effective control of Iraqi news media as an important means to assist military strikes. The first round of air strikes concentrated on radio and television stations, and used missiles to attack journalists to control public opinion and propaganda, which blatantly violated international law.
I will attack the cities on the island in the future, and I will also focus on controlling the enemy's public opinion propaganda. By destroying enemy news agencies, radio and television systems and other propaganda tools, it will lose its mouthpiece and weaken the power of propaganda and public opinion; Through tit-for-tat counter-propaganda, as well as necessary interference and suppression measures, we will control hostile radio stations and television stations to destroy reactionary websites on the Internet by organizing "hacker" attacks, thus forming a favorable public opinion propaganda situation for me.
Second, "straight to the point" is a prominent feature of the offensive operations of the United States and Britain. When I enter the attack on the island city in the future, I should not only pay attention to all-round attacks, but also pay attention to seizing control, so as to quickly disintegrate the enemy's defense system. The most basic operational purpose of the U.S.-British Coalition forces is to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime, and always focus on attacking key targets such as Saddam's official residence, the residence of senior Iraqi officials, and the command center. In urban offensive operations, we did not follow the general principle of attacking the city slightly, stripping layer by layer, pulling out points bit by bit and slowly and steadily, but jumping.