The 5th Generation Warfare Invasion of Europe

Matt Bracken

I was just now listening to Andrei Martyanov, interviewed by Daniel Davis on his Deep Dive podcast. In the middle of their discussion, Martyanov mentioned an idea that has long been on my mind. In my humble and untutored opinion, American and NATO military leaders are still stuck in the 20th Century model of expeditionary warfare, which in 2026 is as obsolete as the horse cavalry charge. Martyanov discusses this about 23 minutes into the video, but listen to it all.

You might have heard me writing and speaking recently about how the 1991 "Desert Storm" model of massive force assembly into the theater before conducting a major operation has been made obsolete by the proliferation of accurate missiles and drones to even 2nd and 3rd tier militaries. And also how the Forward Operating Base model used more recently in Afghanistan and Iraq is just as obsolete, for the same reason.

Here is the podcast I mentioned.
Will Trump Bomb His Way to a Deal Iran Won’t Sign?
Daniel Davis with Andrei Martyanov, Sep 24, 2026

In 1991 a SCUD missile landed 150 yards from a USMC logistics ship packed with ordnance, next to a multi-acre-size pier stacked with artillery shells, in the middle of the port of Jubayl, in Saudi Arabia. This was 35 years ago, when Iraq's ballistic missiles were not even close to being as accurate as similar Iranian missiles today. A missile exploding in the middle of that ship or pier would have struck a devastating blow that might have derailed Operation Desert Storm, by killing many 100s of American troops before they stepped foot into Kuwait.

Here is a US Naval Institute Proceedings article from 2002, warning about the missile risk to assembly areas. My sources who were present in Jubayl on that day say the pier was far more heavily packed with ordnance than the illustration shows.

Scuds Against Al Jubayl?
By Adam B. Siegel / December 2002
https://usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2002/december/scuds-against-al-jubayl
"In February 1991, a single Iraqi Scud splashed harmlessly into the waters of the Arabian Gulf 150 meters from the massive commercial pier at Al Jubayl in Saudi Arabia. Had this missile landed on the ammunition-laden pier, or been part of a volley of multiple missiles, the results could have been catastrophic. With another possible Gulf War looming, defending vulnerable ports from such a threat is more important than ever.

"The United States transported 'the equivalent of the entire population of Alaska, along with their personal belongings, to the other side of the world, on short notice,' in preparation for the war to liberate Kuwait in 1990-91.1 This movement occurred as if little menaced its safety, but real threats existed. In the decade since, such threats have proliferated worldwide, with the potential to deny U.S. military access to critical areas of the world. One Gulf War incident at Al Jubayl in Saudi Arabia illuminates the reality of such menaces to the planned projection of U.S. forces, and the need to address the anti-access threat.

"As in most major military operations, the seas provided the critical transportation link for Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Al Jubayl has one of the largest commercial piers in the world (more than a mile long), with extensive space to stage military forces. About 20% of Desert Shield and Desert Storm cargo moved through Al Jubayl. Among the forces deployed to the theater, the ships of Maritime Prepositioning Squadrons 2 and 3 (five and four ships, respectively) carried the equipment and 45 days of supplies for 30,000 Marines. The first three of these ships from Diego Garcia arrived at Al Jubayl on 15 August 1990."

[More at the Proceedings link]

Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) like the one shown below could be rapidly built anywhere we wanted them during our time in Afghanistan and Iraq. The U.S. military controlled the sky with only a minor risk to aircraft from ground fire. We could clear a landing strip for C-130s and build helo pads and start up a new FOB in a matter of days or weeks. There was no serious threat to these bases, outside of random mortar fire and occasional small unguided rockets. And, of course, IEDs posed a danger to vehicles and troops "outside of the wire."

If you look at this map of our major bases in the Persian Gulf region prior to February 28, 2026, you can see that our military leaders did not take the Iranian missile and drone threat seriously, placing too much faith in “active” defense by Patriot missiles. (At $4 million a pop). Most of these bases have now been wrecked by Iranian counter-fire, and our troops have been forced to relocate, either locally to civilian hotels, or much further back to bases in Jordan and Israel.

Notably, 5th Fleet HQ in Bahrain was destroyed, and now our USN warships must be resupplied with obvious difficulty from Diego Garcia, 4,000 kilometers further away in the wrong direction.

Even today, there are reports that our attack jets and refuelers are returning to some of the previously damaged airbases closer to Iran, so it appears that recent lessons about the missile and drone threat to assembly areas had not been taken seriously.

This is setting us up for an Iranian preemptive strike. Or the Iranians might wait until it becomes clear that a major air attack is underway, and then strike the runways and parked aircraft before most of the aircraft are off the ground.

And now the French and British are getting ready to support Saudi Arabia in their war against Yemen by sending their own military aircraft, so they have not learned the lessons either. Their military help makes them co-belligerents with Saudi Arabia, and the Houthis have been clear that as such they will be targeted. They have already demonstrated their ability to strike targets with great accuracy anywhere in Saudi Arabia.

"France to send troops, radar and defence systems to protect Saudi port city of Yanbu"

"UK to help refuel Saudi jets countering Houthi attacks"

On the other hand, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom are being invaded by entire “divisions” of fighting-age men from hostile nations, many being driven and motivated by a religion based on violent conquest. (~10,000 troops = one division.)

But they are not assembling the way Western military thinkers are accustomed to seeing. There are no bases full of armed men in uniforms, marching with weapons and maneuvering in military vehicles, getting ready to board ships in North Africa or the Middle East.

No, the foreign future fighters are being infiltrated into Europe 10 or 100 at a time, “flying below the radar” of conventional military doctrine. Unseen and apparently unnoticed by European leaders. While Macron and Bernham discuss sending their own conventional military forces to Saudi Arabia, their own nations are being invaded.

The most difficult part of this 5th Gen invasion is transporting entire future brigades and divisions of men, without rousing local fear and anger to the boiling point. Not only must the invasion force be transported across Europe to the English Channel, then provided with dinghies so they can be “rescued” by the traitorous RNLI, they must be continuously fed and housed in former hotels and on military bases. This “troop deployment” is being done in plain sight, finally raising considerable local resentment and resistance.

But make no mistake, when the time is right, probably when nationalist anger results in politicians being elected who are serious about forced “remigration” on a massive scale, then their guns will come out. Compared to transporting, housing and feeding tens of thousands of fighting-age men, arming them will trivial. 2,000 AK-47s will fit in a 20-foot container that can roll down any street on a tip-off truck to be delivered and stored anywhere. Unlike 2,000 men, these containers can sit patiently for years.

When the time comes, the men won’t need military training. Many already have combat experiences in their own wars, and in any event, a man with an IQ above 80 can be shown how to load and fire an AK-47 in a matter of minutes. Their accuracy won’t matter, not at close range against helpless unarmed victims.

Bands armed with such weapons, in nations with unarmed populations, will rampage like rabid wolves among tame sheep. Local police and even militaries will be overwhelmed. These armed bands will be able to commandeer cars and buses at will for transportation. Who will stop them?

See my Substack “Motorbike Warfare” to understand how a mass surprise attack by lightly armed but highly mobile fighters can succeed against conventional military forces, far beyond most hidebound conventional expectations.

The invasion force has already arrived by the tens of thousands in nations across Europe, without once visibly massing in conventional pre-invasion military assembly areas. Duped Europeans and globalist traitors even provide Forward Operating Bases for the invaders, complete with comfortable accommodations and fully-stocked kitchens.

And when it kicks off, the same European politicians who oversaw and assisted the clandestine foreign invasion will all cry, “We had NO IDEA that this would happen!”

Bracken—OUT

Source: Matthew's Substack