Chapter 1342: The Anti-War Wave

The third Middle East war is another name for the six-day war, Israel defeated Egypt, Syria and Jordan three Arab countries in six days, occupying more than three times the land area of Israel, after this battle Israel completely established confidence in the Arab countries, as of being Hezbollah peeled off the tiger skin, Israel has always been the heart of the Arab countries have the advantage.

This battle is Israel’s war is the war of the founding of the country, less this battle, Israel can not understand the military strength of the Arab countries, in addition to the history of Saudi Arabia in addition to the Arab countries, almost all rely on the Soviet Union to arm the Soviet Union to arm the Arab countries inevitably lose sight of the other side, it is not possible to do the same treatment.

Arab countries so many, some focus is normal, now the Middle East countries, the Soviet Union based in Syria and Yemen, Britain is armed Egypt and Iraq, still in the Persian Gulf to maintain a fairly strong influence, the Soviet Union to the tanks, Britain sold missile boats, the Soviet Union to anti-aircraft missiles with the MiGs, the British interceptors hung air-to-air missiles.

After doing all this, the UK is not without running for peace, more than a year, the UK even the Vietnam War towards do not care, just do two things, think India can be a permanent member of the United Nations, was backed by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan as the representative of the Arab countries firmly opposed.

The other thing was to come up with the so-called roadmap for peace in the Middle East, hoping to maintain the borders up to 1947, which no one agreed to, and Israel felt that it had lost out, as did the Arab countries.

Britain also showed a bit of strength when necessary, showing that the Middle East could not afford to start a war lightly, which would have repercussions for the whole of Europe.

On the domestic economic front, in the past few years, Western European countries have established oil reserve systems, plus India, which has already been screwed once by the oil embargo, the UK’s oil rats have had a pretty good career.

The project to establish a desalination plant among the protectorates in the Middle East is still expanding, looking to solidify Britain’s influence.

Let go of Africa, the idea of operating in the Middle East and Southeast Asia has been in practice, in the domestic sector, most of the light industry has been transferred out, coal and iron industry is an important area of the Prime Minister’s nationalization, naturally, can not be discarded, and replaced by the development of the semiconductor industry, at least the British semiconductor industry is not worse than Japan, and the United States, although there is a gap between the scope of the Europe belongs to the best of the best.

Of course the UK is not just stifling its own development, it has not forgotten that it is providing semiconductor subsidies at the same time, at the same time in the EC meeting, accusing Japan of providing subsidies for the semiconductor industry.

Cabinet Secretary General’s office, Alan Wilson slightly angled his head to face to accept the sun’s rays, the cigar held in the tip of the finger smoking smoke, the Ministry of Education Executive Undersecretary Dixon and the Ministry of Defense Executive Undersecretary Makins joined forces, pushed the door to see the supreme authority bathed in the holy light to think about life.

“Secretary-General!” Although the two people in their hearts couldn’t stand this look of pretentiousness, but who let others be the supreme authority, they greeted and sat down directly.

A year is not all smooth sailing, NATO since being driven out of their own country by the French, they try to hope to put military bases in the United Kingdom, but because of the Spanish hydrogen bomb drop incident was speculated by the United Kingdom for such a long time, the Labor government is naturally resolute in not agreeing to it, coupled with the Vietnam War is protracted, the United Kingdom can see that the United States can not win, and decisively began to cut the anti-war.

“I didn’t realize that the United States had a righteous reporter who exposed the tragic case of My Lai Village.” Alan Wilson pressed out the cigar, not salty, “and the U.S. side of the communication is how, push to the Korean army failed?”

Although he is still also the permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but now the main job is to overview the overall situation rather than focusing on the specific details of the problem, naturally, it is impossible to know all.

“From what Wick said, it looks like it didn’t work.” Dixon sighed, “Every major newspaper in the US has now followed up on it, mainly because the correctness is so conclusive that it’s too late to push back on the Korean army.”

“That’s a shame.” Alan Wilson then looked to Dixon, “Be careful about not falling under the spell of so-called nebulous justice regarding the students of the major British universities. Once there is a claim that arises because of anti-war, firmly state the attitude of the Ministry of Education, we are also resolutely anti-war, but this is none of Britain’s business, in principle, we stand together with the students. We will talk about what we should talk about, and if we can’t do it, we will look into it first, and nothing can be put off. A week ago, French students broke out in a rally in protest, which is no small matter. Perhaps the English students are more combative when they get rowdy than the French.”

Alan Wilson remembered that this was the beginning of the May Storm, the May Storm was an important factor that finally led to the downfall of Charles de Gaulle, although from Britain’s point of view, letting the French mess up for a few months wasn’t a bad thing, but it wouldn’t be good if one accidentally affected Britain.

Students, as a group, have not yet gone through the poisonous beating of society and can easily develop empathy.

He believed that most students would be equally bummed out after graduation, but he couldn’t completely count on the invisible hand of the market to play a role, and he had to take precautions before it was too late.

“Secretary General, I will definitely keep a close eye on that aspect.” Dixon saw Alan Wilson so solemn, naturally did not dare to be careless hastily assured.

French students rally that is the tradition of the old revolutionary area, but now British students have one thing that exceeds the French students, that is, the British education system’s military training system has been established, barricades if cast up, may be much more professional than even French students.

The agitation began in late March when a left-wing commando unit occupied the American Jet Building in Paris to protest against the continuation of the Vietnam War, the police arrested six people, one of whom was a student at the Collège de Nanterre, and on the following day Cohen Bundy led a student occupation of the administrative building of the Collège de Nanterre in protest, the first time in the history of France that students had occupied an educational administrative body.

All sorts of student organizations gathered at Nanterre and formed a group led by the “red-haired dandies”.

Now although the chaos did not expand, but these organizations still exist, in the brewing, the Ministry of Education must immediately alert, Alan Wilson suggested that Dixon made up some French jokes to spread, my Great Britain has its own national conditions here, in the humor has never been good, and not only against France, Britain in the future is the origin of the Polish ball, in this regard is not against anyone.

Muggins immediately mentioned Poland, “Warsaw Pact military exercises are still underway, I have and the minister suggested that the United States Army in Germany to conduct a tit-for-tat exercise as a response. The Brussels side has largely agreed.”

“Very well, at a time when the U.S. Army has drawn down some of the American forces in Germany, we need to provide resolute 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 is the top of the first line of combat in the heavy armored forces.”

The Federal German army is not the scraps of the latter days, with a total size of nearly half a million, and Britain now has only six hundred thousand troops around the globe plus the mainland, five hundred and ninety-five thousand to be exact. France is also no more than 600,000 troops in size, 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 day and night vigilance of East Germany’s movements. Each German field army was divided into five divisions, two of which were armored divisions equipped with American m47 tanks and m48a2 tanks, totaling nearly two thousand. The southern field armies also had mountain and paratrooper units, the traditional elite of the Wehrmacht.

Although in terms of the number of tanks, this was the level of a Yemeni democratic republic, but unlike some countries that had more tanks than armored vehicles, the Army’s fist was more than just a tank unit, they also had more than seven thousand armored vehicles to form a mechanized motorized regiment, and these carriers were capable of transporting tens of thousands of troops to the battlefield in a short period of time, as well as penetrating the enemy during an attack. By no means was this an army that would only fight a one-wave war.

“The Germans can surprise the Warsaw Pact.” Makins said confidently, demonstrating the optimism of watching the fun.

“It’s better not to spread that around.” Allen Wilson pulled a long face, there was no army in the world that could take on the Soviet Union on the ground, let alone try to think about it, “Just convince our citizens that we can defend them, anything more than that is a luxury.”

And threaten the Soviet Union? Can’t even find a few countries that can threaten Russia, Ukraine is the second oldest of the USSR, 30% of its strength is in Ukraine. 2014 think you steel flood I also steel flood, directly by the Russian army into the highway of death, the United States instructors look at this result, judging the strength of Russia is still there.

Eight years later Ukraine changed its tactics, the specific change is to stay inside the city waiting for the Russian army to encircle, never go out of the city field battle, anyway, can not fight.

This tortoise shell tactics if the Soviet Union is still in is not useful, is to see Russia does not have the strength of the Soviet Union under the command of millions of troops to start, otherwise, out of the city field battle or the end of the beatings collapse.

But the problem is that the Russian army is also a force capable of fighting a chaotic war, shrinking in the city to die is only to prolong the time of death, the Russian army in Syria is to face such an opponent, drag on the Russian army can still win.

The maneuver was set for May, Allen Wilson thought it was good timing, the same time as the May storm, and maybe it would deter France and satisfy the determination to eat two fish with one fish.

“Tomorrow is the first, and Pamela is back from Perth, so if you don’t mind, you can come over to my house and be my guest.” Alan Wilson looked at the time to extend the invitation.

The two executive undersecretaries understood in seconds and of course politely declined without a second thought, had anyone in Whitehall ever been to the home of a supreme authority? Quite a few people had been to Hawksin Manor, no one had ever been to that residence in London.