Iraq 2003 - The Fall of Baghdad & "Victory" - Animated 

appreciate you and i like your voice

6:00 minor artillery terminology poinnt. HE point detonating (PD) is a fuze that is set to explode on the ground. Airburst is typically either mechanical time (MT) or variable time (VT) and not a point detonating fuze. HE PD airburst is not something that exists.

sir, are you ever going to look at battles from ukraine, or would these bee to recent?

@@johnsmith-jq1uc Probably can't touch them due to RU-vid restrictions.

us invasion of grenada and us invasion of panama

Best respect for the shepherds... and she sheeps too.

Yes but dont forget this channel generates MILLIONS of dollars..

Yeah seriously. I even noticed a detail in 11:48, where an Iraqi car drives up to a humvee, until it stops right next to it and is ignited on fire. The Humvee then backs up and tries to get away from it. Like bro, It's such a small detail, they didn't even have to do that 😭

@@djsi38t The thing about that though is that they have no obligation whatsoever to go beyond a certain level of quality and detail. Some might have expectations of steady improvement, but that's not something that is actually owed to those people - except maybe patreon backers if they're told to expect such things. Otherwise this channel could have stopped iterating on their already fantastic process and stayed the same for years to come and they'd be just as popular. It's real hard work with or without the promises of fat RU-vid revenue.

Still makes you feel bad for the sheep...poor animals...

🤣🤣🤣

What did you expect ? They are Arabs LOL

Lol Arabs

There was no propaganda minister in Iraq at any point in time.

he still claims that

Amen to that brother!

I was in basic during all of this. We couldn't get enough news on the action. A year later, my unit would rotate in and take over. The marines would clear what would become my FOB. Their graffiti marked the area.

I'm glad to see you returned home safe to bear witness to what happened. Thanks.

What's surreal to me is that I am not an American and yet I remember that there were always news reports about this conflict as I grew up. I live in a fairly rural part of Sweden and being a young kid of 13-14 years. None of this was really explained either to us kids. So it essentially just left us kids to conjure up some crazy ideas and jokes. So being a man in his early 30's now and watching events I remember watching on the news as history and finally learning the truth behind all of this. It's just a bizarre feeling. And I feel like the adults that invested so much time into telling us kids that "it's important for you kids to remember this conflict." But never really telling us why it's relevant to us. Especially since Sweden didn't have any active roles in this whatsoever. I just feel that they should have explained things a bit more to us because I lived a large portion of my life with some odd views. I'm glad that over the years I came to enjoy learning about history and eventually started learning about both the events leading up to the Desert Storm and later Iraqi Freedom. Anyway, it's just weird to realize that this conflict occurred only 20 years ago and we can look at it like we used to look at the Korean War and Vietnam. And it'll be even more bizarre that 20 years from now. I'll be able to tell people about the war in Ukraine the same way we can talk about the invasion of Iraq. I'll probably never stop being surprised that there's so much going on in the world. Things I thought I'd never live through to witness. Guess it's true with the old saying of "history repeats itself". The only difference seems to be the names and locations.

And I was playing military games of all sorts with a very close thematic dring that time. News on war did not interest me, despite the conflict being covered quite regularly, but it was a part of news everyday for years prior and years to come. Result of living in the balkans.

He’s been silent since he dropped.

He's just hanging around

He turns red

im here in his behalf lol

He’s leaving us all hanging…

I think they had good intelligence rather than being lucky.

@@QemeH intelligence seems shody from what operations room says about it in their other videos

I think the main differences being: total air supremacy,, using helicopter gunships and attack aircraft, advanced communications to coordinate including the use of close artillery support, advanced fighting vehicles (we’ve seen recently in Ukraine how effective a Bradley can be against Soviet era equipment) and very capable personal weapons like Javelins. This, combined with a fighting force with advanced training, especially in the mixed use of predictable and unpredictable actions ( we do a thunder run, then three days later we start what looks to be another run, but switch to a penetration of the central city). The Iraqi army had little capability, beyond their outdated equipment, other than individual bravery and blind obedience to the regime.

Advances were fast because of a massive talent overmatch plus air superiority.

@@JackDrewittthe missions that had great intelligence are much less dramatic. You are going to see bad intelligence in videos since they focus on more dramatic events.

The shepherds are the real MVPs if you ask me :D Absolute Chads. Someone should make a war movie - "Saving Private Dolly" or "Black Sheep down"

@@Barwasser CASEVACing Lamb Chops 😂

I question the accuracy of the details. Much of it cannot be verified at all so it simply reads as a movie/documentary

​@@kenevans938 Evidently he has a fairly good source. Just because you did a Google search or tried to look for these details on Wikipedia doesn't mean it didn't happen like he said it did. I'm sure the soldiers that lived through it would be kicking up a big fuss in the comments section if any of it was false.

It's a common slow down tactic on roads where you can't really bury them I suggest you study it before commenting such rubbish.

Dang how was that dunk on your head, junior?

​@@gae_wead_dad_6914 he was making a pretty funny joke. Geeze 🙄

​@@AnyProofOfTheseClaims what😂. That was a pretty funny joke . I can actually picture the scene in my head , and you guys are busting his balls 🥴

@@gae_wead_dad_6914 I think everyone here knows that (I hope). Coinz was just making a joke that was taken too seriously

Loooooovin yOUUUUUU

​@@jensendkmg7209 Is all I Want to Dooooo

AT LEAST MY MOM TOOK ME TO NASCAR!

"He's a little belt fed today isn't he"

I bet Person is in these comments

Cool beans!

More like the absurdity of war: that during a major engagement the civilians are more concerned with surviving tomorrow than today.

​@SlaughterhouseDb without his sheep will he be able to survive tomorrow?

yeah bad like dragged on for ten years with millions of deaths.

It was a dumb plan. No infantry protecting the flanks on either side. Just an armored push deep into a city. Creating a situation were they had to run supply trucks up a narrow road taking fire the whole time.

@@dirus3142 "Dumb" is not really applicable considering how successful the entire operation was. Could it have gone better? WIth hindsight - EVERYTHING could have gone better everywhere in the world in every battle in history

@@gae_wead_dad_6914 they got lucky , its still dumb , the situation remenbers me of the drive to grozny and it could had ended that way too

@@gae_wead_dad_6914it was supremely stupid, against orders, lucky, and also successful. the US military is a logistics company that dabbles in combat - the only reason this wasn't a massacre and embarrassment was the Iraqis were disorganized and not really fighting back.

Essayons!

The most terrifying military job I've ever heard of were the sappers at second battle of el Alamein during the second world war. Crawling through a minefield from 22:00 for 4 hours to create four safe passages for the following 4 infantry divisions. The bagpipers then played as they led their respective division through their individual safe passages. Dust thrown up but the tanks reduced visibility to zero. It breaks my brain thinking about that

Did you leave the oven on and have to go back? 😉

Some of them had turds on them.

Why would a non military person be watching this 😉 edit: kidding, I don't know the business end of a gun

@@outofturn331 I know, I stick out like a sore thumb on this channel lol. I guess us bunnies just have to stay civvies as we can't get uniform to fit our ears and tails... ;)

can you explain your pfp?

Falklands would be good. Or the Yugoslav wars, or have they already done that?

Wait! What? There weren’t any WMD? Damn it, they lied to us 😢

I was just thinking the same!

The plan was to go Downtown all along. Only if resistance was too stiff would they go to the airport. The whole plan involved a supply train of HEMTTs because they meant to stay downtown and thus would need supplies. There was no disobeying orders. It was the intention with a back up plan if things got too difficult.

Nope. He made general.

Dude, only like - 2 people died because of this That's less deaths than you would get from American gun violence

I think he said I would have disobeyed the order in retrospect. Quoted him saying if I could go back and disobey.

I'd say that's a negative seeing how Afghanistan went which was capped off by the Kabul fiasco. A large fraction of the F-35 is defunct, and the USMC no longer has *any* combat armor. It is shocking what a powerful weapon the US military is, and the misuse of its strength that it endures.

The reason US keeps losing wars is..... They win them, then stick around to lose. Its not the responsibility of an invasion force to rebuild the country.

I disagree. I'd argue that for Afghanistan, but Iraq definitely improved.

​@@n0visual541you can disageree all you want, you arestill wrong. USA leveled Iraq based o lies i order to steal their oil Deal with it!

@@n0visual541 lol yeah no thanks, I'd rather get an Iraqi's input if things "improved"

​@@guardiadecivil6777 they repelled isis almost completely by themselves and are almost done rebuilding

The most frustrating thing about this whole situation, is that it was both completely avoidable and inevitable. The day the UK changed the borders to suffocate Iraq after they left, the time bomb had been set. What I don't understand is if it was intentional or just plain idiocy on their part.

Was at camp Liberty 05-06, sometimes it seems like it was only yesterday.

how do you feel as being an agressor basd on a lie?

@@Genessyss I feel fine. How does it feel being a weak ass troll with no real purpose in life?

@@Genessyss I feel fine. How does it feel to be a weak ass troll with no real purpose in life?

*Ominous hum*

"Mission Accomplished!"

What other word would you use? All objectives were accomplished for the invasion. Its the occupation that went sideways