British Civil Servant

v2 Chapter 1342: Anti-war wave

The Third Middle East War is also called the Six-Day War. Israel defeated the three Arab countries of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in six days, occupying more than three times the land area of ​​Israel. The country's confidence, until it was stripped off by Hezbollah, Israel has always had a psychological advantage over the Arab countries.

This battle is the battle for the founding of the Israeli war. Without this battle, Israel would not be able to figure out the military strength of the Arab countries. In history, almost all Arab countries except Saudi Arabia relied on the Soviet Union to arm them. It is inevitable for the country to attend to one thing and lose another, and it is impossible to treat people equally.

There are so many Arab countries, so it is normal to focus on them. Now in the Middle East, the Soviet Union is based in Syria and Yemen, while the United Kingdom is armed with Egypt and Iraq, and still maintains a considerable influence in the Persian Gulf. The Soviet Union gives tanks, and the United Kingdom is Selling missile boats, the Soviet Union used anti-aircraft missiles to cooperate with MiG fighters, and the United Kingdom used interceptors to hang air-to-air missiles.

After doing all this, it is not that the UK did not run for peace. For more than a year, the UK did not even care about the direction of the Vietnam War. It did two things. It felt that India could be a permanent member of the United Nations and was backed by Saudi Arabia. , the Arab countries represented by Pakistan firmly oppose it.

The other thing is to come up with the so-called road map for peace in the Middle East, hoping to maintain the borders until 1947. No one agrees. Israel feels that it is at a loss, and the Arab countries also feel that they are at a loss.

The United Kingdom also showed its strength when necessary, showing that the Middle East cannot start a war lightly, which will affect the whole of Europe.

In terms of the domestic economy, Western European countries have established oil reserve systems one after another in recent years. In addition, India, which has been subject to an oil embargo once, the life of the oil guzzler in the United Kingdom is not bad.

The project to build seawater desalination plants among the protectorates in the Middle East is still expanding, looking forward to stabilizing British influence.

The idea of ​​letting go of Africa and operating the Middle East and Southeast Asia has been in practice. On the domestic side, most of the light industry has been transferred out. The coal and iron industry is an important area for the prime minister to nationalize. Naturally, it cannot be abandoned and replaced by the semiconductor industry. At least it can be said that the UK's semiconductor industry is no worse than Japan's. Although there is a gap with the United States, it stands out from the crowd within Europe.

Of course, the United Kingdom is not just developing on its own. It has not forgotten that while providing semiconductor subsidies, it accused Japan of providing subsidies to the semiconductor industry at the European Community meeting.

In the Office of the Secretary-General of the Cabinet, Alan Wilson raised his head slightly to accept the sunlight with his face up, and the cigar between his fingertips was emitting smoke. When you push the door, you see the supreme authority bathing in the holy light and thinking about life.

"Secretary-General!" Although the two couldn't bear this pretentious look, who would let him be the supreme authority, they greeted each other and sat down directly.

The past year has not been smooth sailing. Since NATO was kicked out of its own country by the French, it has tried to put its military base in the UK, but because the Spanish H-bomb incident has been hyped up by the UK for so long, the Labor Party government is naturally determined not to do so. Promised, coupled with the protracted Vietnam War, Britain could also see that the United States could not win, and decisively started the anti-war cut.

"I didn't expect there to be a righteous reporter in the United States, who exposed the tragedy in My Lai Village." Alan Wilson extinguished his cigar, and said casually, "How is the communication with the United States? Let's push it to the South Korean army. failed?"

Although he also serves as the executive deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, his main job now is to have an overview of the overall situation rather than pay attention to specific details. Naturally, it is impossible to know everything.

"From what Wick said, it looks like it didn't work." Dixon sighed. "Now the major newspapers in the United States have followed up. The main reason is that the truth is too conclusive. It's too late to blame the South Korean army."

"That's such a pity." Alan Wilson then looked at Dixon, "Be careful, don't be fooled by the so-called illusory justice for students of major universities in the UK. Once there are appeals due to anti-war, firmly express education We are also resolutely anti-war, but this has nothing to do with the UK. In principle, we stand with the students. We should talk about what we need to talk about. If we can’t do it, we should study it first. There is nothing that can’t be delayed. In the past. A week ago, the French students broke out in protests, which is not a trivial matter. Maybe the British students are more fighting than the French.”

Alan Wilson remembered that this was the beginning of the May Storm, which was an important factor that finally led to de Gaulle's resignation. Although from the perspective of the United Kingdom, it is not a bad thing to let the French mess up for a few months, but if one carelessly affects the Not so in the UK.

As a group of students, they have not been severely beaten by society, so it is easy to develop empathy.

He believes that most students will also do nothing after graduation, but they cannot completely rely on the invisible hands of the market to play a role, and must prevent problems before they happen.

"Secretary-General, I will definitely keep an eye on this aspect." Seeing that Alan Wilson was so solemn, Dixon naturally did not dare to be careless and quickly promised.

The French student assembly is a tradition in the old revolutionary base area, but now the British students surpass the French students in one thing, that is, the military training system of the British education system has been established, and if the barricades are built, they may be more professional than the French students .

In the turmoil that began in late March, a left-wing commando occupied the Amtrak building in Paris to protest the continuation of the Vietnam War. Police arrested six people, one of whom was a student at the Nanterre College. The next day, Cohen Bundy led Students occupied the administrative building of the Nanterre College to protest. This was the first time in French history that students occupied an educational administration.

For a while, various student organizations gathered at Nanterre College, and established an organization headed by "Danni the Red".

Although the chaos has not expanded, these organizations still exist and are in the process of brewing. The Ministry of Education must immediately be vigilant. Alan Wilson suggested that Dixon make up some French jokes to spread. I have my own national conditions in Great Britain. I have never been humorous. They are all available, and they are not only aimed at France. England will be the birthplace of Polandball in the future, and it is not aimed at anyone in this respect.

Makins immediately mentioned Poland, "The Warsaw Pact military exercise is still in progress. I have suggested to the minister that a tit-for-tat exercise should be conducted with the US troops stationed in Germany as a response. Brussels has generally agreed."

"Very good. Now that the U.S. military has mobilized some U.S. troops stationed in Germany, we must provide firm support for NATO." Alan Wilson nodded and said, "In this regard, we also need to rely more on the Germans. After all, the German army But it’s a heavily armed unit fighting on the front line.”

The Federal German army is not a waste of future generations, with a total size of nearly 500,000. The UK now has only 600,000 troops from all over the world and the mainland, or 595,000 to be precise. France has an army of only 600,000 troops, and the size of the German army is close to that of Britain and France.

The German army is mainly based on the Army Field Army. The First, Second, and Third Field Armies are all deployed on the border with East Germany. The radar is alert to East Germany's movements day and night. Each field army of the German army is divided into five divisions, two of which are armored divisions, equipped with American M47 tanks and M48A2 tanks, with a total of nearly 2,000 vehicles. The field army in the south also has mountain troops and paratroopers, which are the traditional elite of the Wehrmacht.

Although judging from the number of tanks, this is the level of the Democratic Republic of Yemen, but unlike some countries that have more tanks than armored vehicles, the army has more than just tanks. They also have more than 7,000 armored vehicles to form a mechanized mobile corps. It can transport tens of thousands of troops to the battlefield in a short period of time, and can also intersperse the enemy when attacking. It is definitely not an army that can only fight a wave of war.

"The Germans can give Warsaw Pact a surprise~lightnovelpub.net~ Makins said confidently, showing the optimism that watching the excitement is not a big deal.

"It's better not to spread this word everywhere." Alan Wilson pulled a long face. There is no army in this world that can confront the Soviet Union, let alone try it. "Let our citizens believe that we can It’s enough to defend them, a little more is a luxury.”

Still threatening the Soviet Union? There are not many countries that can threaten Russia. Ukraine is the second child of the Soviet Union, and 30% of its strength is in Ukraine. In 2014, I thought you were a torrent of steel and I was a torrent of steel, and was directly beaten into a highway of death by the Russian army. The American instructors saw the result and judged that Russia's strength was still there.

Eight years later, Ukraine changed its tactics. The specific change was to stay in the city and wait for the Russian army to surround it.

This kind of turtle shell tactic would not work if the Soviet Union was still there, because Russia did not have the strength of the Soviet Union to order a million troops to start.

But the problem is that the Russian army is also a force that can disrupt wars. Staying in the city is just prolonging the death time. The Russian army is facing such an opponent in Syria. If it drags on, the Russian army can still win.

The exercise is scheduled for May, and Alan Wilson thinks this is a good time. At the same time as the storm in May, it may be able to deter France and satisfy the determination to eat two fish.

"Tomorrow is the first day. Pamela came back from Perth. If you don't mind, you can visit my house." Alan Wilson looked at the time and sent out the invitation.

The two executive undersecretaries understood in seconds, and of course they both politely refused. Has anyone in Whitehall ever been to the home of the supreme authority? Many people have been to the Hawkson Manor, but no one has ever been to the residence in London.