On February 2, the United States launched air strikes on military targets in Syria and Iraq, and according to the US military, the US military used 125 precision-guided munitions and destroyed 85 targets. It is worth mentioning that the targets of the destruction this time are all Iranian armed groups located in the territory of Iraq and Syria, mainly the warehouses of the organization, the intelligence center, the control center, including the logistics unit. In the half-hour-long air raid, at least more than 34 people were killed!
At this point in time, the reason why the US military launched a surprise attack is due to three considerations.
Iran's militant groups have previously carried out airstrikes on U.S. military bases, notably on January 22, when the U.S. military base in Tower 22 on the Jordanian border was attacked, killing three U.S. troops and wounding more than 40.
From January 28 to February 2, only five days passed, and the US military immediately used a larger and more powerful air raid to strike fatally at the strongholds of Iranian armed groups and important combat units, which can clearly see the retaliatory mentality of the US military in combat operations.
The US military still has to maintain a strong armed deterrent in the Middle East, and if it allows armed groups to attack its bases, but it is unable to carry out effective counterattacks, it will inevitably affect its actual influence and control in the Middle East. This is unacceptable for the United States, and whether Iran or other countries are behind the other side, at such a point in time, the United States will never allow its authority to be provoked, and it will never turn a blind eye to attacks on its own bases.
2024 is the year of the United States, and so far, Biden's advantage is actually not as great as imagined. In the face of the current situation, frequent military operations on the outside are actually beneficial for Biden.
On the one hand, this is due to the fact that external contradictions can divert as many internal contradictions as possible and obtain as sufficient advantages as possible for Biden. On the other hand, according to the current legal provisions of the United States, if the scale of the war hits the United States, then Biden may become a wartime ** and exercise his special rights. So a retaliatory attack on Iranian militant groups in Iraq and Syria at this point in time is what Biden wants to see.
Obviously, the results of this US air raid are quite remarkable. However, Iran's armed group, which has always opposed the United States in the Middle East, will obviously not be intimidated by this way of fighting by the Americans. Even when the U.S. military announced the results of the air attack and affirmed its victory, before it had time to celebrate, rockets from Iranian militant groups in Syria and Iraq rushed to the U.S. military bases.
On February 3, the Iraqi resistance group quickly retaliated against the U.S. airstrikes. Drones and rockets carried out attacks on three important US military bases in Iraq and Syria.
So far, the damage and personnel suffered by the US military base are unknown. However, according to Russian ** information, we can learn that the US military base in eastern Syria was hit by artillery fire, and it seems that it should have hit some important facility.
It can be said thatThe resistance groups in Iraq and Syria have shown with their actual actions that they will never give in to the Americans, and the subsequent acts of resistance and retaliation will continue as normal.
And if this situation continues to intensify, and if it is extended in terms of time, it will only become more and more difficult for the United States. Because the bases of the US military are fixed, it is impossible to move frequently in a short period of time, but the strongholds of armed groups in Syria and Iraq are constantly changing places, and more often than not, it is easier for them to lock down US bases, but it is more difficult for US troops to target them. In such a mountainous area, the resistance groups in the region have been provided with a huge guerrilla zone, and even if they are as strong as the United States, there is no way to demarcate the specific location of all resistance groups and sites in a timely and effective manner. Today's headlines are original, distributed across the network, and must be investigated.
This problem was exposed when the United States and Britain jointly attacked the Houthis in Yemen. Although the combat effectiveness of the Houthis is not worth mentioning compared with that of the United States and Britain, and although the warships and warplanes of the United States and Britain have vigorously launched air attacks on the Houthis in the past few days, the US military itself admitted afterwards that this attack only destroyed the targets of the Houthis in Yemen at most, because other targets are really impossible to find effectively. Hundreds of thousands of people are hidden in the mountainous areas with complex terrain, and it is difficult to find their firepower.
Therefore, it is unlikely that the US military will be able to change its already declining influence and control in the Middle East through one or two retaliatory air strikes.