Chapter 1261 – Sausage Slicing Tactics

“It looks like we should repair our relationship with France, in fact the establishment of diplomatic relations is a done deal, a little scolding should pass.” Dixon, the Foreign Secretary’s Principal Private Secretary, also participated in this meeting, the Foreign Ministry’s permanent undersecretary Alan Wilson himself, Dixon is the de facto number two, at least the Foreign Ministry’s personnel director is not suitable to come over to the meeting, but also is not a problem of personnel transfer.

As Dixon opened his mouth, several intelligence chiefs expressed their views, from their own point of view, for the Cabinet Secretary to provide professional advice.

The current British military forces need no introduction, land, sea and air force strength is about two to one to one this ratio. In addition to the ratio, the first-class troops are in the Federal Republic of Germany, the second-class troops are in the colonies, and the third-class troops are in the mainland, which is basically the arrangement.

The overseas garrisons of the colonies amounted to slightly more than 100,000 troops, not counting some minor details: 20,000 in British Africa, 40,000 in the Middle East, and more than 40,000 in the Far East plus the British army in Australia.

As for the mercenaries recruited from the Malays, South Pacific South Islanders, Chinese and Nepalese, they are not counted among the above garrisons, and are also under the command of the British Ministry of Defense, but are usually counted separately.

Definitely not to be counted as small, not as big as France but more than Germany, and with military equipment above both France and Germany, it’s still quite a work in progress over the years. Not as good as those two monsters of the US and USSR, but still more than a step above in the face of other countries, oh, and shaving off a certain major power, the UK doesn’t have the manpower to show that it’s not afraid of one thing or the other.

Normally speaking, Alan Wilson should not show so worried, in fact, the three heads of intelligence plus the Foreign Secretary’s Principal Private Secretary here, the least confident is his Cabinet Secretary.

Whether or not pretending, several people are optimistic look, far more than Alan Wilson show more relaxed, in the face of the garrison expenditure problem, Richard White replied, “only the Middle East British troops in the high expenditure, since the British troops abroad after the logistical reform, supply side of the expenditure to reduce a lot, the Secretary of State for Defense said, the Cabinet side of the very satisfied. ”

The so-called logistical reform, is nothing more than based on the self-sufficiency of the army in the colonies, the specific approach is actually very simple, Alan Wilson suggested to Mountbatten, the colonial army’s logistical forces, replaced with the Chinese, so that the Chinese to open up land and planting in the local area, to solve the problem of the colonial garrison’s food.

For reasons of saving money, the Chinese who took over the logistics were treated a little less favorably than the British soldiers, but could decide to trade in excess supplies in addition to securing supplies for the British army.

Simply put, in the Third World, you can take the food in your hands, and exchange it for something you need to make up for the lack of treatment.

This kind of thing is the more you work the more you get, if you can make sure that the British troops have enough logistics, you can use the rest of the surplus to do business.

Currently in British Africa and the Far East, are doing well, is the Middle East that place? After all, the natural conditions of the Middle East in that, not hard work can be, but also need some technological support, until the completion of the large-scale desalination plant operated by the Mountbatten Group, I hope to be able to solve the objective difficulties.

At this rate, sooner or later, the cooking classes of the British army abroad will be outsourced to the Chinese, don’t think that this is unfair, the Chinese are still not willing to play hard to get. Cooking class as well is considered military, retired treatment will not be less, service is nothing more than raising pigs and growing vegetables, each other have a bright future.

Modern warfare more and more need financial support, although the United Kingdom has no financial problems, Zurich’s gnomes have tried to shake, but still have to use the money in the most useful place.

Alan Wilson was intent on optimizing every aspect of Britain, even if it was the Chinese running the logistics while opening restaurants in the colonies, as long as they could save on inputs, that was fine, there was nothing wrong with that.

“Speaking of which, the famine in Southern Rhodesia last year was positively portrayed by the Chinese-run logistics section. There were no problems with the local British troops or the white population. But the blacks?” Guy. Liddell paused when he said this, “Although it’s not a foul compared to what was previously agreed upon, but?”

“But what? When did famine break out in South Rhodesia, the local high commissioner clearly said it was a localized problem, Nyerere is just making a big deal out of it, how many refugees has he taken in and he has the audacity to make a big deal out of what’s going on in England? Still want to annex Southern Rhodesia as well?” Alan Wilson cold face, an outrageous stance, “We are talking about the global issues of the current British global arrangement, not the minutiae of a certain colony, Africa’s climate is unstable, the level of black cultivation is low, what does it matter to us?”

“As Dixon says, it’s a bit irrational to cling to the establishment of diplomatic relations right now. Give me a professional assessment as to whether we should also establish diplomatic relations, and then I’ll hand it over to the Cabinet.”

Truth is all the more arguable the clearer, in the stall of France has just established diplomatic relations, Britain in fact can no longer and the United States on this issue against, Allen Wilson just hand over the assessment report. Agree or disagree, that is Aidan’s matter, the responsibility is the Cabinet, not Whitehall.

The three intelligence chiefs and one diplomat also discussed the Iranian issue to understand, the United Kingdom centered on the call for the relevant countries to withdraw their forces from Iran and respect Iran’s status as a neutral country, siding with the United States, and as for the proposer of this proposal, it was Philby, the head of MI5, who was favored by two other intelligence chiefs.

Alan Wilson thought about it carefully, it seems that it is not impossible, and can even be said to firmly occupy the moral high ground, but is the United States really willing to give Iran the status of a neutral country? He was sure the Pahlavi king was happy with the appeal, but Washington might not necessarily agree.

“Richard, inform the United States of our proposal to lower the confrontation. If King Pahlavi were to adopt a hard-line policy and disrespect the Soviet Union, consider that the Soviet Union is a nuclear-armed country and an army power. For Britain to stand up to the United States could inflame the situation.”

Alan Wilson said word for word, “Our suggestion is to speak of the removal of all explicit forces, and to adopt financial strength that is much stronger than the Soviet Union’s, in place of explicit forces, so that no country can pick a fight.”

Eventually this meeting settled on coming up with a solution that no party could pick fault with, and if the United States supported the Shah Pahlavi’s adventures, Britain stayed out of the way and would not side with the United States. If the matter is operated with the original intention of Iran’s sovereignty and independence, and the Soviet Union’s reaction is not drastic, then it will be a special relationship between Britain and the United States.

In fact, since the Korean War, Britain has been wary of the radical policies of the United States, and every time the United States chooses a piece of land to go to war, Britain will consider whether it will affect the United Kingdom.

And Iran is too important, Iran is south of the sea, the United States won okay, but the United States is a strong navy, on land to provoke the Soviet Union’s neighbors, once lost, Iran if it becomes a pro-Soviet country, Eurasia will be cut off from the middle, which is a consequence that has to be considered.

At 10 Downing Street, Rab Butler took the same view, Aidan often worked in diplomacy, and similarly recognized the problem, “The radical policy of the United States, what a headache.”

Aiden made up his mind that he could not let the United States use risky policies for the same reason that Alan Wilson said, “Even neutrality, which turns into Austria, cannot be too drastic. Iran produces oil and really turning into a powder keg would blow up the world.”

“Iran just even if it were completely neutral, at the point of being a neighbor of the Soviet Union, most of the issues would still be in favor of the free world.” Rab Butler agreed, “Such neutrality is not really unacceptable, as long as Washington doesn’t get too greedy. Let’s talk to Washington about adopting a sausage-slicing tactic, dividing the Iranian issue into different phases, with the first phase guaranteeing Iranian neutrality, and the second phase being able to leverage economic favors in our favor.”

“Minister, what a very far-sighted consideration; international struggles cannot be rushed.” After the analysis of several optimistic intelligence chiefs, Alan Wilson is not so pessimistic, his previous pessimism is only pessimistic about the British strength is not good, he would be pessimistic if he were an American? Would he be pessimistic if he were an American?

It is possible that the U.S. considerations are not particularly radical, just solidify the advantage in Iran, so that Iran pro-US rather than anti-Soviet.

The hostile policies of small countries must ensure a little bit that you can really take advantage of favorable circumstances to smother the neighboring powers in a single breath, and if you can’t do that, the three kingdoms dividing Poland three times is an example. King Pahlavi believed in ways and means as well.

Alan Wilson met with Donald again to ask what exactly the US goal was and informed the British attitude, “Iran is too dangerous, it risks Eurasia being cut off in the middle, and in the event of such a consequence, most European countries would throw up their hands and surrender.”

“Don’t worry Sir Wilson, we are also trying to ensure Iran’s safety.” Donald promised, the United States had the financial edge, enough to pull the so-called neutral countries into being relatively pro-American.

In fact the U.S. had been infiltrating the Azerbaijani turf north of Iran all along, with enough certainty to put the Soviet Union out of its misery.

The US is not trying to match the USSR in Iran, for reasons like the UK fears, the US Army really isn’t a strong suit, and there is no US military presence in Iran. This is unlike Vietnam, where the huge coastline favors the US Navy and Air Force.

“I didn’t realize that now the US has learned to use nationalism as an excuse.” Allen Wilson leathery smile complimented, nationalism should also be how to divide, the attributes of the Pahlavi kings, the obvious Lee Seung-wan, Chang Gong kind, this kind of nationalism the United States is not rejected.

“The United States has always aspired to national self-determination, President Wilson’s words, we can not dare to forget.” Donald said with a modest face, “of course the relationship between Britain and the United States, is not within this scope.”