Iranian and Domestic Gaza Explosives, Bombs, Missiles and Drones

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There will be heavy price for ultimate peace.

Hamas is Gaza has fired 6000 out of 20,000 or more rockets, so Iran has supplied and Hamas has made a lot of weapons. There explosives, mortars, missiles and drones.

There are 30,000 to 200,000 equipped soldiers. They do not have tanks but they are an equipped army. In the US army divisions are made up of three or four brigades and include 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers. I would estimate 3-10 divisions and 10 divisions of reservists. There are also more soldiers in Hezbollah and Lebanon.

This army has the Hamas Charter. Hamas was voted in with 44% of the populace. Those who do not want to fight are used as human shields. Hamas puts its bases in or behind schools, Mosques and hospitals.

Imperial Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the US has 111,000 combat casualties. Japan had about 2 million military deaths and 2 million civilian deaths but inflicted about 25 million deaths with atrocities and war crimes in China, Manila and other places. This included the rape of Nanjing. The Hamas attack on Israel last week was like a smaller scale rape of Nanjing.

Japan surrendered after two nuclear bombs and the fear the Soviets joining the invasion. The US was preparing to invade in operations larger than D-Day. This operation was called Operation Downfall. Imperial Japan was going to defend with Operation Ketsugo. The intent of Operation Downfall was to invade, occupy, and bring about the unconditional surrender of Japan within 18 months of the defeat of Germany. It would require 1,700,000 U.S. troops, according to the plan. By late 1944, U.S. Army casualties had skyrocketed to 65,000 per month. The bloody battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa were a real shock. Casualties on Saipan had been bad enough, and initial planning for Downfall was based on the Saipan ratio of about one U.S. casualty for every seven Japanese defenders. By Okinawa, it was closer to one U.S. casualty for every one or two Japanese defenders.

Ketsugo was a Japanese military strategy during World War II that involved training civilians to resist an American invasion. The plan included:

Training children to fight with improvised weapons
Organizing millions of civilians into paramilitary units
Arming civilians with bamboo spears and other primitive weapons
Training all able-bodied civilians to attack Americans in guerrilla operations
Using tens of thousands of suicide bombers
Using mini-suicide submarines

Imperial Japan was tougher but breaking a widespread culture of the eagerness and willingness to commit atrocities is the heavy price of ultimate peace.

9 thoughts on “Iranian and Domestic Gaza Explosives, Bombs, Missiles and Drones”

  1. It’s a sad day,so many seek the death of those they do not know. People are not numbers they are human beings with all the rights and privilege of being alive. The most densely populated strip of land dependent on their occupiers for water ,food ,energy, medical supplies,and no right to leave unless approved. What could go right?

  2. How can Israel win?

    Bomb the north half of Gaza until only rubble is left, blame Egypt for blocking refugees, then advance to take the rubble. Cut Gaza territory in half.

    Claim the Gaza Marine gas field as spoils. More than valuable enough to cover the cover the cost of munitions.

    • A conspiracy theorist could claim Israel let the Hamas attacks occur in order to justify this outcome. The Gaza Marine field is 1TCF, not enough to get rich, but definitely enough to increase Gaza’s financial independence.

      Taking the land, and thus the offshore rights, could only happen after a Hamas attack like this.

      Similar to conspiracy theories about the US letting Pearl Harbor happen. Probably false, but suspiciously convenient.

  3. The population of the Gaza strip is currently 2 million. 200K combatants is 10% of the population. Maybe, though those won’t be regimented soldiers. Many will just be youths with stones, designated combatants once the Israelis shoot them. All a miserable affair. Theres probably a white fog of phosphorous coming to Northern Gaza that no holy rifle is going to stop.

    • I spent time in Okinawa, including a visit to the suicide cliffs where the civilians (not actually Japanese themselves, although they had been conquered by Samurai 400 years earlier) jumped off the cliffs into the sea. Entire families. Because they were told by the Japanese soldiers that the Americans would eat their babies, etc. About one third of the entire civilian population died. Particularly heinous (after the suicide cliffs) was the practice of the Japanese soldiers massacring any civilians they were holed up with so as not to waste food supplies on noncombatants.

      American GIs became convinced that if the Japanese home islands were even remotely like this (they would have been worse) then most of them would not see the end of the war. In that case, the atomic bombs were a blessing for both sides.

      Since that is not an option in Gaza, I expect actually cleaning Hamas out will be something like Okinawa. Hopefully, Israel will be able to confine their own casualty rates to a much lower level (perhaps by way of such tactics such as flooding most of those fabled tunnels with waters from the Mediterranean). But I am not hopeful for the civilians, and I see no hope at all for the hostages. Hamas has nothing approaching human decency and will use them freely as meat shields. And yet, if anything, cleaning out Gaza seems more of an imperative for Israel than Okinawa was for the Allies.

  5. IDF cannot defeat Hamas without committing an atrocity equal to the 1948 invasion of Palestine. Defense always has a 3:1 advantage. Urban house to house fighting magnifies that advantage. Hamas is expertly trained, armed, and guided by Persians. Gaza has a demographic profile advantage over Israel.

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