Chapter 1344 Not against a third party

Rest is not a waste of life; it allows you to do more productive things while you are awake.

Any medical student still in school. Will all tell you. Fatigue reduces the body’s resistance to general illness and colds; and any psychotherapist, too, will tell you that fatigue likewise reduces your resistance to feelings of worry and fear. So. Preventing fatigue also prevents worry.

Just in time to take advantage of the return of their mistress, the two had a good rest, and elucidating their gains on the gold squeeze, Pamela Mountbatten inquired as to the movements in the country.

“Nothing big, is preparing for the opening of the World Cup, after all, is the world’s most extensive sport, worthy of attention.” Alan Wilson lazy God attached to the answer, “We can also use this to promote the neighborhood, see if we can borrow the World Cup to pull a wave of economy.”

The influence of the world is far beyond the Olympic Games, especially for Europe, and in the promotion of the World Cup peripheral industry, Alan Wilson anyway remembered that it was the United Kingdom that pioneered the concept of the World Cup mascot.

Later generations of the flag as clothing trend, from the United Kingdom’s World Cup mascot began, in the early European traditional thinking, the flag design can only be in the form of badges, symbols and other forms of embellishment in the clothing of a prominent position, such as the chest. But “Willy” shirt directly with a British flag made of cut-outs, “rice” pattern constitutes the main theme of the front of the “Willy” shirt.

It can be said that wearing the flag pattern of this patriotic theme of the clothes, is also considered the first British, affecting the later world of wear trend.

“Watch out for the soccer hooligans.” Pamela Mountbatten warned with a sniff, “This sport, with its innate urbane flavor, is too barbaric.”

“I’m not from the aristocracy either.” Alan Wilson slapped the richest woman’s arse, immediately making Pamela Mountbatten grunt something about you being exceptional or something.

British soccer hooliganism has indeed appeared, by the media attention, but to say how much trouble is not to talk about, Alan Wilson remembers British soccer hooliganism in the eighties and nineties is the most serious time.

It is very simple, in the eighties and nineties in the United Kingdom under the leadership of Thatcher to carry out a wave of fierce privatization, social conflicts rapidly expanding, was privatization reforms affected by the working class, often is the main supporter of the soccer league, like Pamela Mountbatten said, soccer itself with the atmosphere of the marketplace.

A bunch of unemployed people use soccer to vent their grievances, frequently causing tragedies, Margaret Thatcher, in conjunction with UEFA, on the banning of British clubs to participate in Europe’s three major cups, directly cut off the stadiums that produce soccer hooligans, this incident has made the British soccer took a big step backwards, the British perennial monopoly on the European competitions was directly interrupted by the government.

British soccer is actually known for technical flow in Europe, re-emerged in the European field, has become the British brown, and later, although the power of capital to the Premier League into the first league, but in terms of performance, has not come back to the glory of the original, the British fans have not forgiven Thatcher until her death.

Spent the day of the richest woman to protect the logistics, Alan Wilson returned to the two points of work, asked the Ministry of Defense about, whether the Warsaw Pact exercises are a threat to Poland’s assessment report.

Allen Wilson listened to the ambiguous and uninformed report and gave an ambiguous and vague response.

In fact, this year was the time of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, but it seems that the situation in Poland drew greater attention from the Soviet Union and overshadowed Czechoslovakia. I wonder if this had anything to do with Allen Wilson kicking the Polish government in exile back in the first place.

If both countries had problems at the same time, and it was a choice between Poland and Czechoslovakia, there is no doubt that the Soviets would have chosen Poland. For the Warsaw Pact, the GDR was the Soviet Union’s front line, while Poland was the Soviet Union’s bottom line, and as long as it didn’t run into traitors, the Soviet Union would never let Poland get out of control.

Once something happened to Poland, it would also represent the bankruptcy of the Soviet Union’s strategy of building friendly countries around its borders, as Poland was a neighboring country of the Soviet Union, or a heretical Slavic country that was quite at odds with the Russians. The Soviet Union could not afford to risk losing Poland.

“Regarding this Western Six-Eight maneuver, it could be both a deterrent to Poland and a demonstration against us. In fact, the maneuvers we are planning could be along those lines. It’s pretty much the same with those student organizations in France right now, and we can all easily see that some Trotsky supporters seem to be showing up. To be honest, I’m even tempted to shout at the Soviet Union to promise not to support these heretics that Stalin threw out of the country.”

Alan Wilson fiddled with his fingers as his words changed, “How about talking to the Americans and obtaining a promise with a secret warning from Britain and the United States that the Soviet Union will not be subversive towards France.”

I have to say that the Soviets name has never changed, the West West, in the Far East exercises are called the East blah blah blah, really no spirit of humor at all.

“Now that the U.S. is still playing hide and seek with the Viet Cong, it’s inevitable that the Soviets will think less of NATO if we don’t give a little response. Giving some response is necessary.”

In the afternoon meeting with U.S. Ambassador Donald, Alan Wilson made this statement, the free world has no intention of aggravating the confrontation, but the Soviet Union is going to maneuver over there, if this side does not have a little response, is not a little bit unreasonable, about the NATO discourse on the U.S. dominated by the United Kingdom as a complementary pattern has been unchanged.

Now it depends on how the Americans think, because of the relationship between the Vietnam War, the United States has drawn part of the U.S. Army in Germany, at this moment the size of the U.S. Army in Germany is not as large as the size of the British Army in Germany.

And from the ground armament, the U.S. Army’s unchanging Patton tanks change, really can not be said to be much of a deterrent.

The British Army in Germany is known as the Rheinland Army, the British Army’s heavy armored force, with a size of 58,000 men, originally there were nearly 80,000 men, but with the input of British nuclear forces, the conventional forces have also been reduced to the current size.

At this point in time, the British and American armies in Germany are about the same size, with the main combat unit under Army Group Rheinland being I Corps, containing four divisional units: the 2nd Infantry Division, the 6th Armored Division, the 7th Armored Division, and the 11th Armored Division. In addition, Army Group Rheinland included a Canadian division with a mechanized brigade of 7,000 men in size.

According to NATO’s defense plan, the British Army’s I Corps was to face the Soviet Third All-Service Composite Army, headquartered in Magdeburg in the GDR, one of the most powerful armored forces ever assembled.

Facing the echelon attack of the Soviet steel torrent, the 1st Panzer Division on the northern left flank and the southern right flank were to serve as the main front for the echelon defensive operation. The 7th Armored Division was placed in reserve to prepare for a showdown and battlefield initiative against the Soviet second echelon.

The 2nd Infantry Division was to defend the rear of the battlefield, backed by the Weser River, while the Aviation Brigade was assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division as the last airborne anti-tank barrier in case the Soviets broke through the layers of defense, or the 1st Corps’ armored divisions were overwhelmed.

A little understanding of the arrangement of the four zones of occupation of Germany know, the British army in Germany is facing the Soviet Union attack in the front direction, as for the United States army in South Germany in Germany is simply a swim but not attack.

This can not be helped, who let the British in the beginning had to want Germany’s Ruhr area it, since the take down the best part of Germany, will face today’s kind of problem. Britain had refused the United States several times, to exchange the occupation area proposal, only to sit on the throne of the first meat shield.

“Washington is also aware of the capabilities of the Rheinland Army.” Donald said approvingly, “At this critical moment of the Vietnam War, Britain’s friendship is extremely important.”

“Mr. Ambassador, it’s a loss for you to talk like that. The U.S. Army also has a role to play, and the officers of Army Group Rheinland know that once the war starts they’ll have to face five times their own armored forces, and the internal assessment will be three days of deadlock, not British friendship as the Ambassador claims. In order to prevent Soviet miscalculation, we still recommend that NATO publicize the plans for the exercise. It would be best not to conduct exercises with the Warsaw Pact at the same time, as it is easy to wipe the slate clean.”

Alan Wilson salty opening, this is not he from this credulous, is the result of the Rhine Group Army’s own judgment, the entire British army in Germany is less than 60,000 people, can support for three days is already with unlimited loyalty to the free world to make a judgment, the face of the enemy five times their own, but also want to do what?

What else can we expect? Can we expect Britain to come to our aid within three days? First of all, not to mention whether Britain can do it or not, do it is useless, the British Army’s base camp is not even in London, but in Germany.

Alan Wilson estimated that, received the order to maneuver, the Rhine Group of officers and men at all levels of the heart are cursing, pick this time to demonstrate against the Warsaw Pact, in case of a fight how to do?

But in order to demonstrate the special relationship between Britain and the United States, Britain can do? It had to shoulder the obligation of defending the free world in the midst of America’s involvement in Vietnam. It couldn’t count on France, which had withdrawn from NATO and had been in bed with the Soviet Union for several years.

Soon Washington came to the news, expressed the courage of the United Kingdom at this time to defend the free world, moved its headquarters to Brussels, NATO Command, announced the schedule of upcoming military exercises, but also emphasized that it is not directed against third-party countries, Bielefeld as the headquarters of the Northern Command for the main military exercises.

Northern Command is in fact the Rheinland Army Group is mainly responsible for commanding the NATO forces on the northern front, and the commander is the British commander of the Rheinland Army Group who is also the commander of Army Group North. As for the Southern Army Group, naturally, it is the U.S. Army in Germany is the main one.

When the Warsaw Pact countries were practicing, the NATO headquarters made such a statement, which undoubtedly attracted Moscow’s attention.