"Hurry up and bring it here!" Allen Wilson quickly reached out, took the document and asked at the same time, "Have you responded to the proposal for cooperation between Germany and Italy on the Eurofighter?"

"Not yet, Executive Deputy Chief." Wick replied directly, and then stepped back and left the Executive Deputy Chief's office without hearing the following.

"If the news from France is true, this is really a big deal." Alan Wilson said to himself while flipping through the documents.

Since 1958, as the scale of the ALA continued to expand, the top ALA officials had made overly optimistic estimates of the situation, and began to abandon guerrilla operations in favor of regular operations. loss.

At that time, there were reports that the potential supply of soldiers for the Algerian resistance had bottomed out.

Now France has invested a total of 1.5 million troops, and it has also undergone partial mobilization. For Algeria, whose population has not grown but declined after years of war, this figure has exceeded the upper limit of its coping capacity. .

Even according to the most optimistic estimate, in the case of the whole people of Algeria rebelling, they can only deal with the French army with a scale of one million. This is already the lowest proportion of guerrilla warfare. After de Gaulle partially mobilized, today's situation is almost complete. Doomed.

If, as the de Gaulle government said, the Algerian war has really made decisive progress. Then the potential future brought about by this result has to be deduced carefully.

Algeria's book area is close to 2.4 million square kilometers, and France's land area is 550,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to nearly 3 million square kilometers of directly controlled land in France.

At the same time, unlike the history in his mind, the successful independence of Algeria and France's hostility ultimately hindered France's control of French Africa, and Algeria's failure to become independent will inevitably strengthen France's control over nominally independent French Africa. To what extent is open to debate, but strengthening is certainly the right thing to do.

This kind of France is a powerful country that straddles both sides of the Mediterranean Sea, has three million direct territories, and its influence extends to the interior of Africa, and its influence has also been greatly enhanced.

It can't be said that the Roman Empire across the Mediterranean was revived, but the resurrection of a Western Roman Empire would be terrible.

When he arrived at the home of Marshal Mountbatten, Allen Wilson saw his wife's sister Patricia, who came to visit her mother, and the two nodded to each other when they met, "Father is in the study."

"Patricia, thank you." Alan Wilson greeted the real aunt, and went straight to the study. He believed that the full-time commander of the British army should also get the news.

Mountbatten may not be able to fight the war, but as a military leader for so many years, he still has a strategic vision.

Does the commander have to know how to fight? Isn't Slim, who has the hardest record in the UK, the marshal promoted by Mountbatten?

As the No. 1 figure in the military, Mountbatten had just received the news, and he knew what he wanted when he saw his son-in-law coming in. Before Alan Wilson could speak, he asked directly, "Aren't you evaluating whether the French can win this battle?"

That was definitely not evaluated by Alan Wilson, but by the entire Whitehall and the cabinet.

Because France was killed by Germany in World War II, and it was disheartened in Vietnam. Algeria has not made any progress after fighting for so many years. It is indeed the mainstream attitude of the British government to think that France will get out of Algeria sooner or later.

"We didn't expect that the French would stick to it until the end. They would rather mobilize partly than continue to fight." Alan Wilson disregarded the relationship without a trace. Some people said that the French could not win, but it was definitely not him.

Besides, it’s not that the United Kingdom thinks so, the United States also evaluates it in this way. The reference point is that it was killed by Germany in World War II and disgraced in the Vietnam War. It feels that France can no longer be regarded as a military power.

"France quelled the resistance in Algeria, and our situation is very difficult." Marshal Mountbatten frowned. "The land of three million square kilometers is ten times that of the British mainland."

"Algeria's effective land is less than 500,000 square kilometers, and the rest is desert. Of course, plus France, there are nearly a million lands in use, which will indeed greatly enhance France's national power." Alan Wilson explained, In fact, it's not that exaggerated, it's just an explanation, and it's mostly comforting.

Take the United States, the best landowner in the industrial era, for example, not all of its land area can be used. Alaska, which is 1.72 million square kilometers, is excluded first.

Just counting the continental United States, there is also a large amount of land that cannot be used. Similarly, the Soviet Union also has a large number of tundra. The same is true for a powerful country and a certain country.

But even so, what Alan Wilson said about effective territory is still a consolation. Britain and France are colonial countries, so you can't calculate the territory in this way, and you have to consider the maintenance of traditional influence. France is not far from Africa.

"Now it seems that Malta has become extremely important. The strength of the Mediterranean Fleet has to be strengthened." Mountbatten didn't know whether he listened to his son-in-law's explanation, talking about countermeasures from a military perspective.

From now on, whoever says that the Royal Navy should shrink its establishment is tantamount to betraying the country here in Mountbatten. The United Kingdom wants to ensure control of the Mediterranean Sea. Now that the two camps are opposing each other, of course France will not be regarded as an enemy country, but maintaining naval power above France is inevitable.

Malta is an island located in the center of the Mediterranean Sea, known as the Heart of the Mediterranean Sea. At the same time, it is also a strong support for Britain's sea dominance in the Mediterranean Sea, and this island with such an important strategic position was naturally snatched from the French.

Alan Wilson knew in his heart that if France was defeated in Algeria, the value of Malta would certainly still exist, but it was not necessarily a place that had to be kept. However, the result now is that France has become a big country across the Mediterranean Sea, and Malta's status has once again become prominent. up.

"Gibraltar, Malta, and Cyprus." The few words that Mountbatten revealed had already outlined Britain's arrangement in the Mediterranean in front of his son-in-law.

Is a person's mistake a mistake, and a group's mistake a mistake? When the prevailing view within the British government was that the French holdout in Algeria would ultimately fail, no one saw it as a mistake.

However, France's victory in Algeria will naturally not be a matter of the French family. In the past, Britain's independence of its vast colonies may have been fought for as much as possible.

Now it is necessary to preserve important colonies, otherwise, if France controls Algeria, which is so close, how can Britain have a foothold in Europe?

Prime Minister Eden immediately held a cabinet meeting to discuss the situation in Africa. In fact, the main discussion was the follow-up influence of France. At this moment, the good news from Algeria had spread throughout France.

After failing in World War II and the Vietnam War, in Algeria, France finally ushered in a hearty victory.

Although some of the Algerian rebels fled into the desert, the Algiers military has shown that the organized resistance has been smashed, and the remaining fish that slipped through the net will not cause major troubles.

In this case, the whole of France is in a state of boiling, no less than the liberation of Paris by the French army in 1945.

"Ingrid, guess if our man won't be able to sleep at this time." Heidi Lamarr applied face cream to the mirror and asked with her back to Ingrid Bergman.

"How would I know." Ingrid Bergman put her hands on her chest, and this posture set off her strong strength.

"He will definitely, maybe he is busy with this matter now." Heidi Lamarr is quite satisfied with herself in the mirror. She has also lived in France for so many years. How could she not know how the French view Britain? .

This time the results of the battle came. Just look at the streets of Paris and see how many people are holding up photos of Charles de Gaulle.

In the French National Assembly, while de Gaulle confirmed the results of the battle in front of the various parties in the National Assembly, he emphasized again, "I said that while absorbing Algeria into France, the citizenship rights of the local people will be guaranteed. They are all glorious France. Citizens enjoy all the rights of French citizens. Maybe there are differences from French citizens, but I believe that this problem can be solved.”

"In this kind of incident, even if you have all the political, economic, military, and diplomatic advantages, don't think that violence and coercion can be the only effective means of resolving the conflict, and only use the thinking of law and order to deal with ethnic conflicts and national conflicts. Splitting is probably out of the question."

"In the next five years, the army will gradually leave the scope of management and return to Europe to protect the prosperity and stability of France. Of course, this does not ignore the importance of the army. The reconstruction and development of Algeria still requires the army to play a positive role~lightnovelpub.net~ De Gaulle's speech in the French National Assembly was known to the French through television, and soon spread throughout the world.

"The Soviet Union, and the countries in its bloc, lash out at France's so-called victory."

"The United States has not made a statement yet, but through special channels, the United States is also asking the United Kingdom about its attitude on this matter."

"As for the third world, India proposed the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence as a solution to the problem. Indonesia's Sukarno expressed support. For the time being, there are some..."

Sukarno? When Alan Wilson reported to Rabo Butler again, seeing this name, he thought that you should take care of yourself, and you still have time to express your opinion on North Africa?

"The Prime Minister is also discussing this issue these days." Rabo Butler asked, "Alan, you have been working overseas for a long time. Do you think British East Africa has development potential?"

"Basically not!" Alan Wilson replied after thinking for a while, "Especially Nyerere is ready for independence. It is a trusteeship. We have no reason to prevent local independence. After independence, British East Africa will be fragmented."