"It's a wise decision." Alan Wilson was well prepared, and immediately agreed with his boss's opinion, "Actually, the looming hostility of the United States to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth has continued for many years. This is an open secret, only because the British India, Myanmar and Sudan became independent successively, so it was not too obvious. Now the United States may not be able to wait. Specifically on the Iran issue, we must not forget that there is also the Soviet Union. If the Americans want to be hard, it is not so easy. Withdrawing from Iran without a word is non-existent.”

"Actually, it is better for the United States to choose Iran as a place to put pressure on the United Kingdom than for an accident in the Suez Canal or the Strait of Malacca."

Alan Wilson still expressed confidence and optimism about this round of diplomatic friction.

The discussion this time is to procrastinate as long as possible, and at the same time, at the diplomatic level, with France, and even the Soviet Union if necessary, to resist this round of attacks by the United States.

"Although we don't want to fall out with the United States, we always have to give the citizens an explanation." Prime Minister Aiden finally nodded. "Only by fighting can we protect the interests that Britain deserves. Otherwise, we will get nothing."

"I'm just afraid that the military pressure will increase." Alan Wilson tentatively tested whether the current government has the idea of ​​disarmament. When he came back, he also took a look at the recruitment in the Pacific Territory.

Taking advantage of the current opportunity, I reported directly to the Prime Minister. After the merger, the British Pacific Territory has a population of more than 400,000. An army of 30,000 to 40,000 is reorganized to replace the overseas garrison of the non-important colonies. Relieve the pressure brought by the huge military power of the UK today.

"You can even cut 50,000 troops and use these Austronesian soldiers to supplement. Physically, I have seen local islanders who are stronger than our soldiers. And the main people of the Austronesian ethnic group. The Malays are very different." Alan Wilson was full of admiration when he described it, "Obviously they are all one ethnic group, but there has been an insular evolution."

Islandization? After all, both the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary are old people and don't know much about new knowledge points.

Alan Wilson had to explain what the characteristics of insularization are. A species that migrates away from the mainland and lives in an isolated island environment will evolve into a giant or a narrower.

The evolutionary trend in rodents is to get bigger, while carnivores, lagomorphs and cloven-hoofed animals dwarf. Among mammals migrating to islands, large animals tend to get smaller and small animals tend to get bigger.

Some elephants have even shrunk by as much as 70 percent compared to their continental counterparts after geological changes. The law of island size is inversely proportional to the area of ​​the island. If the migrating animals exceed a certain proportional size, they will develop towards miniaturization; if they are smaller than this proportional size, they will develop towards large.

The main population of the entire Austronesian language group is the Malays in Southeast Asia. The average height of the Indonesian Malays is less than 1.6 meters. Even when Alan Wilson conscripted the army before, the conditions for conscription were relaxed.

However, the Austronesians in the Pacific Islands have undergone tremendous evolution. The average height and weight are higher than those of their Southeast Asian counterparts. Prime Minister Aiden and Foreign Secretary MacMillan listened with great interest. success.

Since the physical fitness is absolutely excellent, it can be used as a garrison in the East African colonies, or the housing pressure of the British army in the Middle East can be shared, and even disarmament in a certain sense can be carried out.

Marshal Mountbatten, his father-in-law, did not object to the issue of disarmament. What he opposed was the cutting of weapons and equipment through disarmament. If it was only the layoff of personnel, Mountbatten was very much in favor. After all, with the population base of the United Kingdom, it is a joke to maintain a force of 800,000 all year round.

In another country, it is known that a large country has a population of 670 million, thirteen times the population of the United Kingdom, and has always maintained a standing army of 10.4 million?

When the current government came to power, Aiden once said that the size of the army should be appropriately reduced. Mountbatten had previously told Alan Wilson that the new government intends to reduce the army to 700,000. This time, Alan Wilson brought the situation to the issue of disarmament through the Austronesian retelling of the narrative.

Sure enough, the Prime Minister was very interested in this. "We also talked to Marshal Mountbatten, and the Marshal seems to have misunderstood this."

"I think the misunderstanding of the marshal should be the cutting of technical equipment, not the reduction of personnel." Alan Wilson explained to his father-in-law, "Military development is changing with each passing day. Sexual consequences, from the UK's perspective, although the arms race is not what the UK wants, it has no choice."

These remarks made Aiden very satisfied, and left an impression that Alan Wilson knew the general well, because he ran for the country, and he did not shirk his responsibility.

On the matter of foreign policy, it is naturally up to Alan Wilson, the foreign secretary, Macmillan. It is also possible that Prime Minister Aiden personally guides.

Taking this opportunity, Alan Wilson went to see Marshal Mountbatten and told him his views on disarmament and the progress of various equipment.

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Shuai was very happy with his son-in-law's visit, and asked about his daughter's life in Australia. "Pamela is worried that the child is too young to adapt to the climate in London, which is really gratifying, and she is now a mother too."

"Meeting it is the greatest luck in my life. Sometimes I wonder if I saved the world in my previous life." It is even more fortunate that the words and deeds have been so successful, but Alan Wilson did not say this.

Marshal Mountbatten laughed and asked, "Your visit this time doesn't seem to be a success. Macmillan won't have an opinion."

"What does he think? He is just a minister. Er, I mean, the Prime Minister has always paid special attention to foreign affairs. Even if he has an opinion, the Prime Minister's opinion is more important."

Alan Wilson made a slip of the tongue for a while, and hurriedly rounded up his words, changing from the perspective of Whitehall and the Cabinet to the perspective of the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, and concealing Whitehall's views. But how could this be concealed from Mountbatten, who grew up in the upper class, "You people in Whitehall are happy to create conflicts between the prime minister and ministers."

"Even if we don't make it, they have conflicts." Alan Wilson shrugged, "It's all about politics."

At present, the British military has a lot of deployment plans. The army's chief battle tank, which is used to replace the centurion tank, the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier and nuclear submarine construction plan, while the air force also has TSR.2 attack aircraft, Belfast strategic transport aircraft plan . As well as the Marauder attack aircraft program serving on aircraft carriers.

"Duncan believes that missiles are omnipotent, and there are signs that the United States and the Soviet Union are also developing strategic missiles." Marshal Mountbatten explained the deployment plans of the various services, and then said, "Many people think that with the development of missiles, Some weapons have fallen behind and are not worth further development."

"The omnipotence theory of missiles is a nonsense conclusion, and I am in charge of the aerospace project." Alan Wilson snorted, "It is well known that ministers are laymen when it comes to weapons. Churchill is like this, and Churchill's son-in-law also than him."

Alan Wilson has no impression of the TSR.2 attack aircraft, the Belfast strategic transport aircraft, it seems that these two items should have been cut in the process of the British crawling back, he wants some performance data for specific requirements, Mountbatten accepted.

"If it is terminated due to cost issues, you can consider conducting joint research with European countries." Alan Wilson took the Air Force's equipment plan and laughed and joked with his father-in-law Mountbatten.

If this plan in his hand is given to the Soviets, I believe that the Soviets will get it no matter how much it costs.

Alan Wilson would also be more interested in the Belfast strategic transport aircraft because it is so large that prototypes have been produced to be able to transport heavy Army equipment such as large caliber artillery, missile systems and armed personnel to make it Loaded about two hundred heavily armed men.

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If there is a fly in the ointment, it may be criticized. This is a propeller strategic transport aircraft. Like the Soviet Tu 95 strategic bomber, there are four propellers on both sides of the wing. I don't know if this is the reason why it was not favored by the British military in the end, but these are all technical adjustments and can be improved. .

If Alan Wilson wants to push this strategic transport aircraft, the method is also very fake. Marshal Mountbatten is the highest military commander of the British three armies. The way to impress his father-in-law is, when the Belfast strategic transport aircraft encountered difficulties, Let the wife make the acquisition and lower the price. The father-in-law decides whether the British military wants to equip this strategic transport aircraft.

So the way to save the TSR.2 attack aircraft and the Belfast strategic transport aircraft is for the former to seek joint research between Britain and France, while the latter needs a powerful and financially strong group to take over the country.

The most important thing is that this group has a good relationship with the head of the military. Alan Wilson believes that the relationship between Pamela Mountbatten and Marshal Mountbatten is still good.

"When will the flying coffin of the Federal Republic of Germany be delivered?" Alan Wilson was very distressed. If Germany hadn't suffered such a big loss on the flying coffin, how could there be a European model of cooperation between the typhoon and typhoon.

Now the relationship with Germany is not good. British Liu can only choose to warm up with the French newspaper group. It happened that Charles de Gaulle led France. A few days after returning to China, Alan Wilson began to travel frequently between the two sides of the English Channel to warm up for Charles de Gaulle's visit to the UK. .