Chapter 1305 – Defensive Counterattack Strategy

“Secretary General, you’re back, the Prime Minister is waiting for you.” Alan Wilson had just shown up when the Prime Minister’s Principal Private Secretary appeared in Brexit, “The Prime Minister is also more concerned about this exchange of intelligence. The Americans must have said something about the Vietnam War.”

“I’ll be right there!” Topped with panda eyes, Alan Wilson did not dare to delay, directly went to 10 Downing Street, after the meeting Aidan was also inevitably concerned about the physical condition of the Cabinet Secretary, he found that it seemed as if every time the Secretary General went abroad, it seemed as if the body had been emptied out after returning.

Alan Wilson naturally explained the boat trip, the water and the soil, as well as the busy work, and told the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency’s itinerary. Absolutely nothing to do with human spaceflight.

Asked how the United States is going to fight the Vietnam War, and what advice he gave, Alan Wilson opened his mouth, very difficult bitter smile, “The problem is, I until now do not understand why the United States is fighting, whether it is the Central Intelligence Agency or the Pentagon, their vision is very forward-looking. There are a lot of self-contradictions, and I can feel it, that uncertainty.”

“Like this?” Even though Aiden had long ago made up his mind to ignore the Vietnam War, he still felt a tightening in his heart when he heard that description, “Tell me what you feel.”

“The specificity of that feeling is that Americans seem to be fearful of the land power.” Alan Wilson thought for half a day, against the course of all the wars of the United States in his mind, and said his own opinion.

My Great Britain, although in a few decades after being laid flat any mockery, but in the fight for world hegemony, dry Spain, France, Imperial Russia, Germany, the Far East also dry my Qing Dynasty. Also hit the United States twice. My Great Britain army is also a tough role, only the navy is stronger.

And look at the US, the one country that faced the strongest enemy in terms of relative strength and won was Japan. Japan was not an army power at all, and was probably on the level of Czechoslovakia in Europe. After winning WWII, it might have helped the US build confidence on land if American troops had landed in Japan and crushed Japanese resistance head-on.

But the truth is that WWII was only a few years old, and the US took a blow to the head in the Korean War when it was feeling the most self-conscious, and the self-confidence of the land forces was not built up. To be honest even if the US had taken the opportunity to fuck India once, the confidence build up in the Army would have been much better, and the strategy would have been formulated without thinking about the Army’s inability to win, and after a decade of fighting defensive counterattacks in South Vietnam.

Every time you run into things, the United States think of is to sell out the servant countries, in this point the United States are not as good as Japan, Japan really dare to fight a full-scale war and Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union to fight it.

This kind of no confidence in the performance of their own land forces, in the latter part of the world also pitted the United States, the Middle East road map of George W. Bush Jr. in the United States of America’s most lone take out, Iran east of Afghanistan and west of Iraq have been taken, as long as you take out Iran, the world’s energy center does not exist in the pricks.

The results dragged on for so many years, the United States did not do anything, and finally all withdrew in Afghanistan, the Middle East road map failed. The consequences caused by the failure of this strategy are comparable to Churchill’s two warships overthrowing Imperial Russia.

“Allen, isn’t that a bit of an exaggeration?” Aiden grinned straight at the end of his hearing and pressed on, “That’s what you said at the Pentagon.”

“The marshal told me not to blow my cover with the allies. All I said at the Pentagon was that the U.S. Army would win. But in reality?” Allen Wilson said with some difficulty, “Isn’t the strategy of not trusting the Army’s fighting ability when the strategy is nothing more than the seventeenth parallel, with nearly two hundred thousand U.S. troops staying in South Vietnam waiting for the North Vietnamese to attack? I have a feeling that sooner or later Moscow, seeing the delay in the American army’s idea of striking, will realize that this strategy is simply unwinnable.”

Throughout the Vietnam War, even decades later, no one could understand exactly what strategy the U.S. had, only that it had actually happened and that the U.S. had spent hundreds of billions.

Finishing his thoughts, Allen Wilson hadn’t forgotten that this was Mountbatten’s view and was hoping in private that Prime Minister Aidan wouldn’t say anything about it. He wasn’t shifting the blame to his father-in-law, Mountbatten did reveal that the US, with this near-shrinking setup, simply couldn’t win.

The question arises, why would the United States fight the war this way when even a British naval marshal could see that it could not be won? Could it be that at first the Pentagon was running to make a buck?

“What a pessimistic view, if you say that at the Pentagon, you might ruin the good relations between the marshal and the American military community.” Aiden couldn’t help but let out a bitter laugh.

“That’s why we still have to support the United States in public opinion, portraying that extremely passive strategy of the United States as a positive image of having no ambitions and just protecting the freedom rights of South Vietnam, and by the way, praying that the United States must win the war, or else lose it, and portraying a more positive image of how positively the crimes committed during the war will be revealed.”

This is for sure, before Allen Wilson came back, Li Mei had said that the Pentagon and Tao Chemical was talking, if he remembered correctly, Tao Chemical has two high-profile events, one is in the Vietnam War to create Agent Orange, the other is the incident of Bhopal, India, the former created created millions of human deformities, and the latter overnight so that Bhopal did not have hundreds of thousands of laborers, chemical weapons horrors such as this. No wonder it’s called the Poor Country Atomic Bomb.

Aiden nodded in understanding, there is only so much that can be done, hoping that the United States will not have the worst end, such as defeat. Meanwhile Britain must not get involved and show a flexible stance.

Aiden informed Allen Wilson that diplomacy was now going to be about mediating the Indo-Pakistani war with the Soviets at Stockholm, and based on the communication with the Soviets at the diplomatic level, the two countries had agreed that they were going to claw back India’s losses on the battlefield at the negotiating table.

In fact, India did not lose anything, but the books did lose five hundred square kilometers of land, such a large piece of land age India and Pakistan are a drop in the bucket, but this piece of land Britain and the Soviet Union agreed that it should be returned to India.

From this point of view, India is certainly a loss, this war India in the air force suffered a big loss, completely by virtue of the advantages of the national volume of stabilized the battle line, so that Pakistan can not fight. Pakistan at this time is still the United States in the eyes of the reserve NATO countries, and therefore in many aspects of the support given, including radar technology and so on.

Pakistan has a number of anti-control early warning radar, and these radars are guarded by anti-aircraft guns, the Indian Air Force simply can not rely on these radars, but its own was found outside of two hundred kilometers, there is no opportunity to attack Pakistan’s military bases.

Of course in order for India and Pakistan to stop the war, after the tank battle phase was over, the US declared an embargo on Pakistan, and the UK and USSR declared an embargo on India. Nothing wrong with that, in normal times it would have been the other way around, but in times of war, Britain, the US and the USSR wanted to get the two countries to stop the war, and the choice was to impose an embargo policy on the countries that supported it.

The two countries, India and Pakistan, are nominally heeding the call of the United Nations, but are actually sending people to Stockholm to seek support in deciding where those 500 square kilometers belong. Because the U.S. was busy with the Vietnam War, Britain and the Soviet Union had decided to pull the plug and let India get its occupied land back.

Aidan had already made a promise to Shastri to help take back the occupied land, Allen Wilson expressed his approval of the Prime Minister’s foresight, “In the case of both embargoes, India can mobilize far more troops than Pakistan, don’t look at the fact that now Pakistan has dipped into a little bit of a bargain, once India is done with the mobilization, the little bit of land that Pakistan has occupied can’t be defended. If Pakistan does not agree to hand over the land, the war resumed India can achieve the same purpose.”

This is the benefit of a large country with a large population under the same level of technology, even if India suffers a temporary loss, the one who ultimately suffers if it continues is Pakistan.

“But in terms of public opinion, now that India has lost its land, we should portray India as the loser of the war, reflecting Britain’s role in administering justice to India. I wonder what the Soviets think?”

Aiden, listening to Alan Wilson, also felt that portraying India as the loser was more in India’s interest and would help establish British leadership at the next Stockholm Conference.

Alan Wilson listened to Aiden expressing optimism and thought to himself that the countdown was on for Britain to lose India, and that India would favor the Soviet Union more and more as Brezhnev had come to power, and that the Soviet Union opening favors was something that Britain certainly couldn’t afford to keep up with, and that Britain couldn’t afford to make that kind of wrongful move.

However, Britain will find the opportunity to build influence, the United States is terrible in what place, not he can lead the world to become rich, in fact, the most terrible ability is the United States can also be smashed pot, only the United States will not generally do so, because the world order of the United States is the biggest beneficiary.

Britain is also able to smash pots, for example, the next third Indo-Pakistani war that led to Bangladesh’s independence, Britain can be extremely sublimated a bit, to protect the human rights of Bangladesh to send troops, so that India down after the fight to get the hell out of the way, to save Bangladesh from the occupation of the Indian army.

Of course that is a later thing, now first this time the Indo-Pakistani war to deal with, Aidan finally told Alan Wilson a good news, about the large battleship as the carrier of the test ship, that is, the Mountbatten Missile Battleship program, the Cabinet agreed in principle, will be bold and will be the current latest equipment all on the horse.

Makins, the permanent undersecretary of defense, later reported that the two Eagle-class carriers had been returned to the mainland for upgrading, along with the installation of steam catapults.

As the Stockholm Conference was about to convene, the Battle of the Drang Valley was fought, the first major ground battle since the arrival of U.S. forces in South Vietnam.