Will's Good Idea for the Week of 2/28/21 and other things

Our latest article at Substack is up, The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale: 'The Cuito Cuanavale/Lomba River campaign was the final act in a decade long conflict between communist Angola and Apartheid South Africa for control of South West Africa. The battle  began with a communist push into Southeastern Angola along the Lomba River and ended with a South African attempt to destroy the communist base of operations in the small town of Cuito Cuanavale. It was also was an interesting battle pitting Angola's Soviet style army against the light infantry and mechanized forces of South Africa and her allies. The outcome is still in dispute, with both sides claiming victory...' Click on through.

We'll have two other articles coming out this week, maybe  a third if we feel like doing something about C-PAC for Moscow. Just wait for Monday Metal. And beware of those dang Neocons. [Five years ago you were calling yourself a Neocon in this space-Ed.] lapsed Neocon and five years is a long time. 

We have three articles on the Indo-Pak wars lying around. We also have pics the Indian Defence Department sent us back in 2008. Getting those was one hell of an awkward 10 minute phone conversation that cost $75.  Anyhoo we're thinking that's where we'll go next. 

Ok, let's say we did Israel Strikes: War with the Turks. Here's the general idea. Pissed off at their humiliation at the end of Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea, the Turks decide on a war with Israel that will make Turkey the leader of the Islamic World. Militarily this is doable. The Turks have an army HQ in the south of the country on the border with Syria, and those divisions could be reinforced with a couple of their elite units from Istanbul. They could slowly build infrastructure in Beirut and when ready bring that army down through Syria along too roads. The Turks also have a powerful navy and air force. 

What remains of Hezbollah is running around Lebanon and there is the matter of the Syrians opposite the Golan. After the twin drubbings the Iranians received and the Gulf States actively working against them, consider the Iranians more or less out of the picture. Still this could be a very tough situation for the Jews, er, the Israelis. There are also the Germans, who readers will recall intercepted a Turkish convoy and turned it back. Yes, the Germans the the Jews, er the Israelis would fight alongside one another. Oh yes, and Rosensweig has that dirty bomb Iranian intelligence gave him.

We'd need to bring something different for this novel. So we'd like to do a lot on cyber and drone warfare. Just writing that we're not sure doing the rough this summer is feasible. Which is why this good idea is in the 'we'll see' category.