Chapter 1258 Free Cruise

Of course it is to take the third route, but Alan Wilson did not talk deeply about this with his father-in-law, and even if he did, de Gaulle would not listen, and France would still be in diplomatic relations with some great power, and only said lightly, “Maybe the happy days of Britain’s exclusive trade with China are coming to an end, it’s really heartbreaking just to imagine it.”

“But, Marshal, you also talked to your friends about the situation in Vietnam?” Alan Wilson was still more concerned about the Saigon moment, not so much about what France was going to do.

There was nothing to care about in France, and when France made a mess, the US would lean more on Britain for the European situation, and that wasn’t bad for Britain at least.

To realize that France is much stronger than in history, the same current Britain is also stronger than in history, in other words, Britain and France have more unity value than in history.

Mountbatten nodded his head and repeated what he had said in the United States about the situation in Vietnam in front of his son-in-law, “Based on my experience in Southeast Asia, except for the establishment of a national government that is truly acceptable to the people,…… any regime that relies on external forces to maintain its rule will not be successful. While I think it is very important to make South Vietnam self-supporting outside the ‘bamboo curtain’ by establishing a progressive national government, I don’t think it is possible to accomplish that by military means.”

Alan Wilson was truly amazed that his father-in-law still had this realization, which in a sense summed up as a reminder that the U.S. might not be able to win the fight! It’s no wonder the Pentagon was unhappy with Mountbatten’s counsel. In Alan Wilson’s place as a Pentagon general, he wouldn’t be happy either.

“I’m in agreement with the Marshal’s judgment, but it’s true that the Americans don’t want to hear that kind of talk.” Allen Wilson’s words were half-true, Marshal Mountbatten that was really for the good of America.

Hope the United States do not waste national strength in South Vietnam kind of place, which is like his son-in-law harboring evil intentions, mouth Anglo-American special relationship, heart hates the United States to hurry to jump into the pit, “in the moment of domination of Malaya, we so say to the Americans, may not be persuasive, on the contrary, the United States may also think that this is an opportunity to fight with the United Kingdom for the control of Southeast Asia. ”

It’s not that this is not a possibility, after all, there are many different reasons, and maybe this is one of the excuses the Pentagon has for wanting to go to war.

But at least now it can be clearly judged that the U.S. will definitely intervene in the Vietnam War, that is certain, it’s just a matter of when it will start.

“Once the Americans have lost the war, will it affect the confidence of the free world?” Field Marshal Mountbatten is far from being so calm and collected as his son-in-law, he is a soldier who also participated in World War II, so he prefers not to have the war come.

“Don’t worry, the United States actually truly has an important chess piece in its hand, and if this chess piece is not lost, it is not a total loss.” Alan Wilson comforted his father-in-law, this important chess piece is the fraud island.

Fraud island for the role of the United States can be too big equivalent to a large country’s testicles by the United States in the hands, from time to time to pinch a pinch. Looking at the expression of a big country’s sour face, it can make Washington’s body and mind happy.

For the foreseeable future, there will be no solution. The pawn is too useful, and no matter what difficulties the U.S. encounters, no matter how strong the Soviet Union is, the U.S. will not give up Swindle Island in the Cold War.

The Channel was no obstacle to Britain, but to a country with a weak navy, it was a great barrier.

Even if it came down to having to give up, destroying Fraud Island would not be a loss to the US, after all it was the Chinese who died, the figure of 23 million, which Alan Wilson didn’t think was much anyway, so what if they all died?

The United States will definitely do it, Ukraine is still Slavic, Slavs are also white, the United States has no psychological barrier, let alone people of color.

Communication with Field Marshal Mountbatten, let Allen Wilson physical and mental pleasure, he has learned that the Vietnam War began is a matter of sooner or later, even the work state in a good mood under the improved a lot.

The son-in-law duo is almost equivalent to two naked officials, one representing the army and the other representing Whitehall, so to speak, Whitehall’s influence on the military, is irreplaceable, especially when Field Marshal Mountbatten accepted his son-in-law’s proposal, and likewise supported Makins to become the permanent undersecretary of defense, replacing Sir Coster’s position.

“Are you laying the groundwork for when I retire?” Mountbatten was a politician-type soldier, and he saw his son-in-law’s bent at a glance, which was to strengthen his influence on the military. It was being done through Lord Sheffield who was already deeply bound.

“Marshal, the relationship between Whitehall and the military should indeed be close, only then can there be political harmony, and this relationship should continue. Better for the sake of Great Britain.” Alan Wilson opened a long speech, narrating all the benefits of it, good for Whitehall good for the military, simple to come yes.

Mountbatten couldn’t help but smile as he realized that his son-in-law had the kind of revolutionary optimism that the Soviets said they had, and wasn’t worried about American military interest in South Vietnam, or France’s desire to establish diplomatic relations with a major power. What was most interesting was that even Mountbatten himself, after talking to his son-in-law for a while, felt as if it would be a day of nothing.

Allen Wilson, who has seen the war in Ukraine, wants to hurry up and fast-forward to the point where the President of the United States, the Sleeping King, claims that “Russia is a broken-down house, and now all we have to do is kick it hard, and then the whole building will come crashing down.”

Now he has one thing to do, and that is to remind the French that they are insubordinate to the U.S. The evidence is plain to see that France is going to establish diplomatic relations with a major power. To that end the Cabinet Secretary is going to write a horse’s ass article singing the praises of America’s leadership of the free world and blasting France for undermining the unity of the free world and, indeed, for undermining world peace.

There is nothing wrong with undermining world peace because France’s quest for independence and autonomy is actually called a call for multipolarity in the world after decades. The very word multipolarization is destroying world peace.

Isn’t it wrong? To be in the shoes of the United States, someone calling for multipolarity is a subversion of world peace.

And history has already proved that the five European powers before World War I, one against the other, was a form of multipolarity, and the result, as everyone saw, was a war of arms.

The world single level or even two powers will not break out in a world war, it is precisely the multi-polarized world that a world war will not be far away.

Alan Wilson is clear in his heart, a few decades later, a major power also does not want a truly multipolar world, at worst, two powers side by side, and further and the United States pursuit is not different. Once a truly multipolar world emerges, war will not be far away.

This piece of horseshit that sings the praises of the United States and the fact that France and a major power are going to establish diplomatic relations took the Cabinet Secretary half an hour to finally come out. The core idea was to embrace American leadership of the free world and angrily denounce France’s move to try to stand on its own two feet, and then it was given to the Times, which had a money-filling relationship with his wife, to publish.

Alan Wilson has never been averse to practicing the Anglo-American Special Relationship, even going so far as to specifically remind France not to forget who was behind the dusty roll out of Vietnam. Britain expressed its support for the US at a critical time when the US was sharpening its knives.

Together with this piece of public opinion in favor of the United States, Allen Wilson routinely performed a two-pronged blocking operation, unsuspectingly asking the United States to benefit South Vietnam while telling the United States that France’s insubordination was being secretly ditched with a certain great power, and that it was time for the United States to deliver a heavy blow if it wanted to preserve its own hegemony.

The U.S. capital of Washington, Secretary of Defense McNamara, is in front of President Lyndon Johnson to convey the Pentagon’s assessment of the current situation in South Vietnam, “Mr. President, the situation in South Vietnam’s rottenness is no longer a special war can be salvaged, to put it bluntly, the special war has failed, and now you want to reverse the situation in South Vietnam, it is necessary to intervene in Vietnam on a large scale, not to maintain the current size of the garrison can do.”

Special warfare is the Kennedy administration’s strategy for intervention in the situation in Vietnam, this special forces are generally smaller in size, the establishment and weaponry varies from place to place, usually after counter-guerrilla warfare and other specialized training to irregular forms of combat, can also be required to assist and cooperate with the regular combat.

However, special warfare has proved to be of little use, in the absence of large-scale military intervention as a back-up, the United States in Vietnam, the United States Special Forces, to deal with the Vietcong guerrillas are extremely strenuous, not to mention also want to have any results, South Vietnam are now infiltrated into the sieve, the South Vietnamese army’s combat effectiveness is also disappointing.

“Has the situation proved serious?” Lyndon Johnson frowned as he held the Pentagon Papers, “Indonesia has already been taken over by the Soviet bloc, could it be that they want to capitalize on their victory and take over all of the Central and Southern Peninsula as well? And then take over all of Southeast Asia? What a frightening prospect.”

“Hate to admit it, but the dominoes seem to be shaking.” McNamara grimaced, “Once we lose all of Southeast Asia, the entire free world of eastern Asia will no longer have a foothold, and the pressure on the European side will increase steeply. With the Soviet Union in control of Eurasia, it would be the end of America.”

“We need a reason.” Lyndon Johnson understood the Pentagon’s thinking and hinted to McNamara.

“Open a freedom cruise and blockade the North Vietnamese coastline.” McNamara immediately gave his suggestion, “The British used that approach when France was fighting from Vietnam. The risks aren’t that great, and the North Vietnamese don’t have weapons that can do lethal damage to the Navy.”

Lyndon Johnson nodded his head in acquiescence to this approach, and at the end of December, the U.S. Congress voted to pass the proposal to cruise in Tokyo Bay, stipulating that beginning February 1, the U.S. Navy would begin cruising in Tokyo Bay to safeguard the freedom of navigation in local waters, and the vote was passed by a high vote.

“Wow!” Holding the U.S. Congressional vote sent by Dixon, Allen Wilson listened carefully to the strongest voices coming from the city on top of the mountain, was the Tokyo Bay incident already brewing?

As if there were words ringing in his ears from the underworld, the U.S. was almost saying to North Vietnam, “It’s not a big enough ripple for you to go down with the tide and suppress my mount. If you dare to take another step forward, the sky will turn upside down!”