Operation Iraqi Freedom - The Air War, Day 1 - Animated 

Thank you for your high quality work!

@watch-Dominion-2018 I accidentally said RAF Upper Heyford instead of RAF Fairford - both B-52-capable bases but one had closed!

@@TheOperationsRoomhey I have a question do u plan on covering the Ukrainian conflict

Do some ancient but documents battles/wars (civil war, revolutionary, napoleon, etc)

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Thanks so much for the support. You're awesome

wish i could follow your example, but christmas time be a struggle, ur awesome

No physical evidence for battle of Stalingrad. America lost the gulf war, failed basrah uprising too.

@mustang1912 no evidence for the battle of stalingrad???!??

@@henrymeinz1644 I think someone has been taking way too many bad mushrooms and/or other narcotics of questionable grade. No evidence for Stalingrad. Oy vey.

Saddam learned why Americans don't have health care

1) We don't have healthcare because we allow corrupt corporations to control our health care. This does not make us the good guys. 2) If the enemy was so weak and ineffectual, it wasn't much of an accomplishment defeating them. Saddam was a US ally for decades. We sold him a lot of his weapons.

The Iraqi air defense systems at that point were quite old. American and British jamming was very sophisticated by comparison. I'd be surprised if any of those missiles even were capable of tracking the planes in the sky. And the triple-A was just firing at random. I'm sure there were other classified systems in the sky that night we don't know about. A big war like this is when everybody pulls out their special toys to debut.

​@@fakecubedan sa6 is pretty scary even now.

whats crazy is how much improved the bombing was compared to 1991. I take it the Jamming capacity had grown enormously since 1991 so they no longer had to maneuver to avoid SAMs like in 1991. All the experience from 1991 must have given so much electronic knowledge that those Jamming pods made Iraqi Sams almost worthless.

Thanks for noticing 🤌🏻

But is the rotation rate accurate to the real radar?

@kelanelam2638 what’s AWACS lol

​@@GoofyahmcAirborne Warning And Control System, it's a Boeing 707 with a suite of electronic warfare and reconnaissance systems including a radar dish on the top meant to act as an air traffic controller and long-range recon platform

@@jacp5628 ty

Might I suggest some more? And you're right. Censorship is repulsive.

Hypops is good too but hasn’t uploaded in a while

Epic history tv is up there too

​@@zacharytuttle5618Historigraph*, excellent channel.

Epic History TV's Napoleon series is pretty good, and Historia Civilis' Rome series and the few episodes on Alexander are great too.

Very kind, thank you

The British understatement you know

​@@TheOperationsRoom hey mate idk if it will get talent down by utube but can u do a video on the rise of ISIS and then their fall?

Bro how smooooooth brained are these policies 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

@@s4ss.m8In this case, I think RU-vid is just in a position where it has a choice between pissing off its advertisers (its main source of income I believe) and screwing over content creators. In RU-vid’s perspective, content creators are a dime a dozen so why would they care? They simply don’t profit from it and so they do stuff like this. They can’t control how content creators make their videos or edit them directly so they use a form of censorship to control what gets shown to the most people on the platform. In this way they are “media gatekeepers” or a least trying to be. This is found in a lot of other media, so it not uncommon or unexpected. But I absolutely agree that this is pretty despicable and that RU-vid is overstepping its own authority as a public forum. By the way, my source for this comes from Agenda-Setting theory which, I recommend as a research topic.

Sometimes I really hate YT.

"you see, we can't tell you what you did wrong because you would try to get around those policies by following them"

@@neoncat6820 You are soooo right I would. They never came at me for swearing yet. 7 1/2 years Zero strikes... until I just now opened my mouth about it. Bye?

what currency is that?

@@mile_381 VND, Vietnamese dong :)

@@mile_381google says it’s about $8.25 💪 those able to keep donating are awesome.

@@mile_381 Vietnamese Dong, about $8.26

That’s around 4 meals worth of food so it’s good and the gesture counts. Nice to see VND contributed..

But they would have rested assured freedom was coming

@@outofturn331 And safety of course. No worries that the power vacuum left by that freedom would plunge to country into brutal chaos for decades to come.

What freedom are you crazy 😂😂😂😂 ​@@outofturn331

You've just wasted money but props to you for donating him

@@YooMi-tx7ix shut the fuck up lil bro. Let people enjoy things oh my god.

​@@YooMi-tx7ixjealous cuz you dont have any

​@@YooMi-tx7ixjealous

Former Iraqi ?

@WhatAboutYou123 Yes, I think I still have Iraqi citizenship. Never bothered to check

Sorry to hear that man. Hope u doing well now

@bolobalaman Yes sir. Moved here at 15 after the war and never looked back. I visited Iraq recently as I still have family there and took my American wife and kids with me. It is nothing like what it used to be pre-war, but it was fun being there and experiencing things from a foreigner's perspective! It is sad to know this war was for nothing years later, especially when you witness the amount of death firsthand! I lost family members during and especially after Iraq was handed by the US to the Irani regime. It gives you a newfound respect for life

@@SumerAshur some say that the Iraqi state will cease to exist in a few years, suni,shia and kurds will establish their own sovereign states, do you think it is inevitable ?

Which planes did he fly?

I hope he will not burn in hell but that’s highly doubtful

@@ALIKN1-1 We only support western civilisation here

@@ALIKN1-1 Fuck off, we all have hindsight now but at the time almost everyone believed the lies about the WMD's. You can't condemn every single person who fought in a war you disagree with, especially one built on lies pushed by the highest levels of government onto everyone else. You know who is burning in hell though? Saddam and all his cronies, because even though the war was unjustified for what it inflicted upon the Iraqi people, those bastards got what they had coming

@@ALIKN1-1I hope you do to pal

"Amateurs talk strategy and professionals talk logistics" is a quote that fits perfectly. Look at what happened when Russia just threw its military at Ukraine in 2021. Tanks ran out of fuel, planes lacked fuel, soldiers had to resort to looting and foraging, etc.

Do the accounts tally at end of the day 😂

Apologies for that. I wanted it to be right!

LOL

It's always weird to me because I spent years of my life in Baghdad but never as a part of any actual 'battle' other than what the insurgents brought to us. Despite all the training at gunnery with my tank, warfare to me is through the lone frame of reference as a reactive thing. It was almost exclusively shooting back at whatever shot at us. Like imagine being an Imperial stormtrooper stationed on Tatooine tasked with looking for rebels and hoping you don't get blindsided in an ambush. That was my life for a long time lol.

Better than 1 beer day

what's it like being a war criminal?

@@Mike-zf4xg What did it feel like surviving your abortion?

​@@Mike-zf4xgprobably feels great. I'd be a war criminal for those USAA loans.

yep, you mullahs loved that indeed.

That's why "facts" can be hard to verify or digest

It's not called "shock and awe" good nothing!

It wasn't pettiness. They were trying to disable all possible transportation options available to Saddam Hussein.