Coming late November 2023 Music by Jose Pavli Vocals performed by Sven Smith Electric Guitar : Vincent Moretto Drums : Isaac Le Guenn Bass : Pierre Bailey
I swore in to the Marine Corps on September 18th, 2001 a few months after graduating high school and turning 18. This is my generation's war, and it really turned into a massive boondoggle.
Thank you for your service. I lost a good friend of mine who joined the USMC in 2002 after graduating. Fallujah took so many good men and sadly LCpl Justin McLeese from Covington, LA was one along with so many others.
I was already serving. One of the things that always stuck with me was the two different attitudes. Those who were serving before 9/11 and those who joined immediately after. The group before had a sorta shock like, "oh shit, we're going to war. We already knew what the military was like, and now our chances at death just dramatically increased. The group after was all piss and vinegar, not realizing what they signed up for. Its not like we weren't ready for war. It's just different when one day you're serving peace time and the next something somewhere is about to meet you in battle.
I'm always astounded by the quality in every new video you release- from the concise commentary to the clear and captivating visuals to the historical first-hand accounts. This is a one of a kind channel and I can't wait to see this next major project. Thank you to everyone on The Operations Room team for your hard work and dedication; we appreciate you!
Can't wait to watch through this series. I'm stationed in Kuwait right now, too. I'm always curious to know more about how we got here and how we pushed into Iraq.
Simple bro, Saddam used to be friends with NATO and the West and we supported him in the Iran Iraq War in the 80s, after he didn't win it, he got fussy and demanded shit he wasn't entitled to and eventually ended up invading Kuwait and the Coalition of Nations led by America beat his ass back into Iraq in 100hrs. Then in 2003 we went back in and Bush Jr. finished what his daddy Bush Sr. couldn't in 1991.
The Bush Jr administration lied that Sadam still had chemical weapons as justification in 2003. Turns out the program was actually dismantled in the 90's like it was supposed to.
@@realWARPIGHis father was wise to leave Saddam to his little kingdom. Just as he was wise to stay quiet as the eastern block threw off the yoke of communism. He was criticized for both of those things at the time they happened but was proven to be correct by future events.
@@DiviAugusti I call total BS on the first bit about it being wise to leave Saddam in place after the Kuwait war, he should have been removed from power then. The failure to do so reverberated down the years & it left a genocidal dictator in charge of one of the most important nations in the Middle East, allowing him to continue to torture, rape, murder, enslave & oppress civilians, harbour international terrorists, butcher & systematically persecute the Kurds, restart an illegal nuclear development, consort to facilitate terrorist operations against the West...
Looks like a 13-part series. I look forward to it. What'll it be, about one a week? The details you guys provide are incredible, often down to the actions of individual servicemen. Been really enjoying the recent Battle of Leyte Gulf mini-series.
After 23 years of service in the United States Air Force, my father retired in 1994. I grew up a military brat of the Cold War. By this time I was 14 years old and already enrolled in my High School's JROTC program which, due to its proximity to the Air Force base was also Air Force. I was determined to continue with ROTC into college and enter the same branch of service as an officer. Long story short, after a year of college my whole life fell apart putting me in a position where enlisting was my only real way out. So, at the age of 20, in May of 2000, I instead enlisted in the USAF. I didn't know it yet, but the rest of my entire military career was going to best spent "at war" in a year and four months from then... this was my war, as was Afghanistan. I'm now 43 years old and long since out of the service... I am both looking forward to this series and a little apprehensive to watch it.
The run up to and start of that war remains so painful. The slow motion stupidity, the clumsy diplomacy, and the rejection of the international order that had been crafted by every President back to Wilson to reject unprovoked aggressive war. I feel like we didn’t exorcise the pain of this until the diplomacy (and accurate intelligence releases) around the 2022 war in Ukraine.
You got your own soundtrack for this? Right when I thought that bringing the content to another level isn't possible anymore, tOR delivers. It's awesome!
I imagine this series will be just as awesome as Battle of the Bulge… I know I’m not a Patreon user, but I do view & click “like” on every video, plus I’ve subscribed to both channels… If I could make a conflict suggestion, a Vietnam era major series would be amazing… love all your videos, keep up the great work…
When I saw the music was made by Jose Pavli I was surprised. THE Jose Pavli? The one that made stellar soundtracks for Project Wingman, PW Frontline 59 and his own series? I'm glad to see he's producing tracks for channels like yours!
*checks notes* Holy shit its November 2023 NOW It’s crazy that you’re covering a conflict that I have a pretty good memory of, watching it unfold in real time when I was young
I can't wait for this to come out, however I did notice one issue with the footage used in the video. I'm hoping that the footage of the Panavia Tornado @2:04 will be used to show the background to the lead up to Operation Iraqi Freedom and not from the actual conflict itself. I was still in the RAF, specifically based at RAF Marham, the home of the ground attack Tornado fleet at the time. All our Tornados were painted grey by this point and not the the old green and grey scheme as seen in this footage. As a bonus fact, in the lead up to the Afghanistan campaign in 2001 Tornados still had their black radomes. They were not allowed to go on Ops to Afghanistan until the radomes had been re-painted in grey. At the time the UK fleet (i.e. those that did not leave) still had black radomes while the Afghan ones had grey. I really love watching your channel and I'm just providing you with this so that you can make it even better :).
Knew this was coming eventually, you’ve covered virtually every other conflict, operation, war, assassination, etc from the region over the past 40 years. The fact that you’d thus far avoided the topic, combined with the unusual level of cynicism you show here, leads me to believe you may have served at the time? If so, thank you for your service, your victory in 2003 should have been paid off better but American political and military leadership failed to “win the peace” due to lack of a unified plan and a power vacuum ensued. This is a lesson to be leaned right now with the pending topple of the Hamas regime in Gaza; successful state-building requires a clear and unified plan. God bless! 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Started watching this channel very early on for the historical / WWII content. Absolutely blown away with what it's become and can't wait to see this series! Your team's dedication to quality really shows off in the final product and you're gaining exactly the right type of attention for it.
Please tell me you're going to cover the Second Battle of Fallujah. I haven't been able to find a high-level breakdown of that fight. It's all glossed over for the strategic impact or on a narrow focus of a specific unit.
Came for the teaser, got hyped by the song. Cannot understate how much I need it in my playlist, so good. Can't wait for the videos tho, y'all always do fantastic work.
Lets gooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Documentaries and other videos detailing specific events from this war are hard to come by, so I'm really excited to see the events you listed at the end covered to your degree of quality. Especially the air war and thunder runs.
I was 7 in 2001 when the Twin Towers fell, I can remember coming down the stairs seeing the second plane hit just before I left for school. 2 years later watching the USMC destroying that one monument in Baghdad to prove they were actually there. The controversy as a native Arizonan to the death of Pat Tillman. Watching Saddam being captured and executed. And so much more playing out night after night on the news as people thumped their chests for this war and the moral justifications for it. To think my entire life has been shaped by this war. That there's never been a moment my generation hasn't know what war was since, and still so many people advocate for more and more war as if we never learned anything.
Looking forward to a fantastic series, again. Especially curious to see how you'll cover this war and everything leading up to it, plus the attempts at justification afterwards.
