"Do you want to fully intervene?" Marshal Malinovsky was taken aback. It seemed that this kind-faced first secretary, who was considered by all parties to be a balancer, wanted to play a big game.

"Comrade Malinovsky, you misunderstood. The degree of involvement should increase as the power of the United States increases, and decrease as the power of the United States decreases. It must be controlled within a certain range!" Brezhnev said He said with a calm smile, "Let the United States think that there is hope of victory, but it is so out of reach."

The considerations of the soldiers are relatively simple. First of all, Marshal Malinovsky believes that the large-scale intervention of the Soviet Union and North Vietnam can win is impossible. Even with the help of the Soviet Union, North Vietnam could not confront the U.S. military on the frontal battlefield. From the standpoint of the Soviet Union, they could only choose between failure or a draw until the Americans felt that the gains outweighed the losses and they surrendered.

So this method of intervention is nothing more than four stages, from "non-intervention" to "limited intervention", then to "active intervention" until the policy of "full intervention". Power, balance of American power.

Since the Gulf of Tonkin incident, when Brezhnev came to power and changed Khrushchev's non-intervention policy, Soviet anti-aircraft missiles have been deployed around Hanoi. At the Pentagon, Alan Wilson asked the U.S. Air Force to replicate the old story of burning Tokyo, but the Americans avoided it because the Americans had discovered the Soviet-style anti-aircraft missile Sam II, which appeared in Hanoi.

"Comrade Malinovsky, the Ministry of Defense has come up with a plan to provide the air power requested by the North Vietnamese side." Brezhnev thought for a moment and said.

This is an offensive weapon, and it is no longer at the same level as anti-aircraft missiles. This marks that the Soviet Union has once again shifted from limited involvement to an area of ​​active involvement.

"Assist the North Vietnamese MiG fighters? Deliver them to Hanoi, I understand, Comrade Brezhnev." Malinovsky nodded immediately, and he will make arrangements when he returns to the Ministry of Defense.

"Wrong, we only donate weapons, and the pilots are naturally piloted by North Korean pilots, and these aided planes are built in China near the border." Brezhnev shook his head and corrected, "In this way, the U.S. Air Force It would be impossible to use air superiority to destroy the planes we assisted."

The Soviet Union still cannot really send troops to the local area. All it can do is to assist. Whether the Americans can pay the price depends on the Vietnamese themselves.

Modern weapons need professional personnel to operate. For this reason, the Soviet Union should naturally send a large number of military experts and technicians to Vietnam to help Vietnam formulate combat plans, install and repair weapons and equipment, and train Vietnamese soldiers. As for personally operating weapons to participate in the war? Avoid it if you can.

Even the experts and consultants sent should be sent in their personal capacity. The Soviet Union must not openly fight with the Americans. As for the future situation, we will talk about it later.

The aid should be eased. When Gromyko arrived at the Kremlin, Brezhnev put on a peaceful face again, asked about the progress of the Stockholm meeting, and said, "Now we can What is certain is that the United Kingdom will definitely not intervene in the Vietnam War. With the strength of the British Royal Navy, it is impossible to land and fight with the United States while concentrating on dealing with Indonesia, an archipelagic country.”

"Yes, Comrade Brezhnev. We can see from the post-war period that Britain was struggling to maintain its interests in its sphere of influence, but it was still weaker than it was in 1945. Although in some areas It can still launch a counterattack, but it can only be said that it is still struggling."

The struggle Gromyko mentioned is nothing more than the civil war in the Congo and the show of force against Indonesia. As for many areas, Britain is in a shrinking stage. It may not be so fast, but it is indeed shrinking.

"There is also France. We can see that the interests of European countries are still different from those of the United States. When Britain and France still defend their own interests and national power, they will not dance with the United States unprincipled." Brezhnev took out The argument of a female member of the Central Presidium.

This is what Foltseva said. After listening to it, Gromyko smiled wryly, "Ekaterina's child, I just saw it. Arrange him to go to the Stockholm meeting to learn."

"That's very good, so Ekaterina might be happier. Before his son applied to go to Vietnam, I felt that the atmosphere of the entire Central Presidium was not right." Brezhnev breathed a sigh of relief, with a look of fear The expression said, "Alekseev, right? It's not bad to put it in the neutral country of Sweden for training. We can make trouble for the United States in Southeast Asia, but the main direction is still in Europe. This cannot be changed."

Brezhnev knew very well that the importance to the Soviet Union was arranged from west to east Europe, the Near East, the Middle East, Central Asia, and East Asia. This will not and cannot be changed.

The fact that Europe is the most important does not mean that other directions are not important. In fact, the Stockholm Conference is to win over India, and military aid to Vietnam is to expand to East Asia. The success of other directions will give the Soviet Union an advantage in Europe. This is what Brezhnev agrees This is the reason why Kosygin dominated the Stockholm meeting with such a high standard.

While the two were discussing, Malinovsky was also making a plan to assist Vietnam. The relationship between the Soviet Union and a certain big country is not good, but they have a common position on aiding Vietnam. The Soviet Union and Vietnam are not close to each other. If it is to face the overwhelming sea power of the hostile camp, what if it is stopped midway? It would be very embarrassing, and it is inevitable to borrow the railway network of a big country to complete military aid.

It seems that the cost of aiding Vietnam is huge, but compared with the military expenditure of the United States, what is this cost? For every dollar the Soviet Union spent, the Americans had to pay twenty dollars to deal with it.

On the London side, Alan Wilson listened to the progress of the boring and tedious Stockholm meeting, and yawned when he had nothing to do. Maybe his wife Pamela Mountbatten and the United States were more interesting in talking about arms sales than listening to diplomatic rhetoric every day. Pay attention, Maggins has already conveyed everything when he came to the cabinet secretary's office.

"My colleagues from the Ministry of National Defense said that this may be the most sincere time on the part of the United States. When talking about technology transfer or arms sales, the Americans were like Grandet." Makins said in an exaggerated tone that many national defense The colleagues in the department feel that they don't know the United States anymore.

"Oh, that's right." Alan Wilson said in his heart, isn't it because the Americans want the Royal Navy to take the wrong path of the arsenal ship, and they are so enthusiastic this time?

He just convened a meeting of the aviation industry on the supersonic airliner project yesterday, intending to demonstrate and demonstrate first. As for how long it will take to demonstrate, anyway, if the US supersonic airliner program does not come up with a finished product, he will continue to demonstrate.

Of course, if the French are willing, he can provide some technical assistance, allowing the French to build the Concorde by themselves. Britain and France should report to the group to keep warm, and this is all suitable.

In fact, apart from the UK making cakes, the first ones who want to eat cakes are the French. Now the international aviation market is very simple. The Comet airliner of the UK is the first person to eat crabs. Relying on its national strength, the United States waited until Boeing came up with its own passenger plane, but France had nothing.

Now it is just different from history, the British Comet airliner has been wiped out, and France is reporting to keep warm. Instead, France regards the supersonic airliner project as an opportunity to break the world aviation pattern. I want to tear apart the Iron Curtain of Comet and Boeing under the current two-power situation.

It can't be blamed on Alan Wilson sitting and watching all this happen. He is British and knows that the supersonic airliner is a pit, but he has no obligation to drag France out. France has annexed Algeria. It is cheap to get such a big one. What happened to Qian Qian's supersonic airliner?

After returning home, Allen Wilson was about to ask his wife where she was, and Pamela Mountbatten knew that her husband was concerned about this matter~lightnovelpub.net~ and replied directly, "The Americans want an order of 500 planes, the first three Hundreds of them will be manufactured in the UK, and the last 200 will be produced in the U.S. with our technical license. In exchange, the U.S. will provide Enterprise with fire control radar, electronic equipment, and a series of anti-aircraft missile support, and will send some Technologist, enter the process of building a guided missile battleship."

Alan Wilson raised his eyebrows. Isn't he still afraid of being fooled by the United Kingdom? Let's see if the United Kingdom is really planning to build a guided missile battleship. The Americans really don't suffer from this, but fortunately, the United Kingdom is really planning to build a guided missile battleship to install active American electronic equipment.

"I heard that Whitehall held a special meeting of economists on economic development. How is it going?" Pamela Mountbatten finished introducing the situation here and asked another question.

"Those crooks, what useful suggestions can they come up with?" Alan Wilson murmured with a long face, "It's just to give them a platform to speak out, to show the sincerity of the government's attention to economic development. If the economy develops so well , the prime minister is always working hard in the field of diplomacy?"

Anyway, in Alan Wilson's view, economic development is nothing more than a few directions, or it is like the Soviet Union that the tertiary industry does not exist. Or become a debt society like the United States. Or is the third route, each road is very difficult, the Soviet Union is destined to not live so well if it only focuses on industry and agriculture, but like 18% of the GDP of the United States is the medical industry? Also too much.

With one-tenth of the steel output and one-twenty-fifth of the cement output of a big country, the United States has created a one-trillion-dollar real estate market that is almost the same size as a big country. It will be outrageous until the finished weapon is in service.