Chapter 1568: Western Eighty-One

The situation in the Middle East seems to be very lively, but in fact no one cares at all. Military observers from all over the world now have no time to care about the Middle East countries showing their dry fists, because the Soviet Union has held a large-scale military exercise called “Western Eighty-One”, which has attracted the attention of all military observers.

The exercise began on September 4, when Margaret Thatcher reshuffled her cabinet for the second time, and like all military exercises, “Western 81” was divided into red and blue sides for confrontation, with the red side being the attacking side and the blue side being the defending side.

Troops participating in the exercise included mechanized infantry, armor, artillery, bridge and boat units, chemical defense units, ground-to-ground long-range tactical missile units, medium- and long-range strategic missile units, airborne troops, naval infantry, naval ship units, and air force front-line aviation units……. Almost all of the Red Army’s troop types were involved.

The number of tanks mobilized accounted for one-sixth of the Soviet armed forces, or more than 10,000 tanks, on a scale roughly equal to that of the Eastern countries with the largest land forces in the world. As well as the world’s largest airborne army, red cattails blossomed in the sky, telling the enemy what would happen if their defenses were torn apart.

The airborne heavy equipment with its impressive reverse rocket boosters and the Bison hovercraft operating from sea to land were a sight to behold.

Ogarkov, then Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, as the commander-in-chief of Exercise 8-1 in the West, Ogarkov firmly believed that the Soviet Union’s impregnable defense forces the next focus of enhancement, will be information technology and precision strikes, and once this is done, coupled with the Soviet Union’s own overall strength, will be a real sense of sweeping the world.

Albert, a good big child, all by personal ability, absolutely no human contact, among the western eighty-one British observers, and then hoofed it to East Asia, in the name of not NATO, but better than NATO’s allies, and then observed the North China eighty-one military exercises, mixed with two large-scale military exercises of the qualifications, before returning to London to write the aftermath.

What does a student hate most when he is writing his homework? The answer is the invigilator, Lieutenant Colonel Albert is so, but he did not dare to squeak, because the person behind the probe is his father, the British Cabinet Secretary General, the Chief Civilian Officer, the Secretary General of the Joint Intelligence Committee, and so on and so forth behind ……

“If you hate it, say so, will father still be on your good side?” Alan Wilson looked at a good big child from the pen on the guess out of one or two, breaking the knuckles splitting sound to let his son relax.

Just as Lieutenant Colonel Albert even felt threatened by life and property at the same time, a military paper called high-tech local war title thrown on the table, “memorize it well, although it does not need to be released now, but you should also know what’s going on, think about it my whole life is such a failure, my son is at this age, but also have to worry about it. ”

Listening to his father’s bibi chatter, Albert’s face flushed to show a kind of shame, in fact, there is no heart at all, “Father, I have disappointed you.”

“There is nothing to disappoint, I never expect your military career, you do not perform well disappointed is your grandfather.” Alan Wilson sat back down, sneering with no air of supreme authority.

He had disciplined several of Pamela’s children, with the exception of her daughter, but there were some things that were innate, and it was obvious that much more energy had been invested in Albert than Arnold, and the results hadn’t been so obvious.

Maybe this kind of thing and money all reflect a truth, everyone wants to have, but the reality is that some people have and some people do not.

“After watching two big maneuvers, there must be some insights, I don’t ask about anything else, how does it feel intuitively, just say something about the realization of what you see.”

Alan Wilson yawned, looking for whether to go later to accompany Hepburn, and tomorrow to send Lovisa Gustave, people have to drive Fender to the market that has never set foot in.

Is so thinking, delayed, Alan Wilson opened his mouth to urge, “There is no need to say so in-depth, see what to say.”

“Both countries’ exercises are huge in scale, the Soviet Union used half a million soldiers for that one, no matter in any aspect, they have demonstrated a daunting strength. But I’ve come back to see some public opinion that says it’s just a military exercise in the mode of World War II, and as for the other one, the scale is also enormous, employing 100,000 troops and modeled after a self-defense counterattack. But in terms of technology?”

Albert said as he thought, while watching his old father’s reaction, ready to change the wording at any moment to show off the following flexible moral ground.

“In terms of what? There’s just nothing to write home about is there?” Alan Wilson sighed, “That can’t be wrong, the fact is that there’s not much that countries can do about it other than nukes. As for the Soviet one, you heard some public opinion say that the Soviet military exercises were military exercises in the World War II mold, how do you say otherwise? That we can’t beat the Soviets?”

Just look at the then Soviet Chief of General Staff, Olgarkov as the commander-in-chief of the military exercises, that is also not a World War II model military exercises, Alan Wilson remembers that during his tenure as the First Deputy Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, Olgarkov vigorously developed the armed forces of the Soviet Union.

At his urging, the Soviet Army’s tactical command system, which used the most advanced digital technology of the time, was successful, and as a result, Olgarkov established the first digital test unit.

According to Ogarkov, “A new generation of precision-guided weapons, combined with new sensor-monitoring systems and information equipment, could form a reconnaissance-assault complex that would lead to a reduction in the duration of war. This will lead to a qualitative leap in the shape of war, while triggering a military revolution.

Not to say that the West’s eighty-one method of warfare is backward to say what, is to say that the Soviet Union is not only large-scale, but also advanced concepts, fighting us on our knees. This is the same as the light prism tanks must be the allied camp weapons, good things must be the free world, rather free world grass, not socialist seedlings.

“As a soldier, you should start from a practical point of view. But out there, considering the role of pacifying citizens’ emotions, you would also have to say that this military exercise is technically worthless. Considering the current Sino-Soviet relations, when evaluating another military exercise, say something about unrivaled willpower and determination, and find me highlights even if there are no highlights.”

In addition to the willpower, Alan Wilson is also difficult to find out the highlights, especially these two large-scale military exercises are still held in the same month, the combat will of such intangible things how to say anything. Really say weapons and equipment combat concepts and other things, will be exposed.

Allen Wilson, if he remembers correctly, after the Gulf War, a major country is considered to recognize that the previous tactics have not worked, the Soviet Union recognizes that technological innovation is very normal, the Soviet Army is a fully mechanized army, the future of the combat mode of natural research, the People’s Liberation Army is the first to achieve is the mechanization, and then only the high-tech local war mapping.

“Father, what exactly is the weakness of the Soviet Army?” Lieutenant Colonel Albert was also hoping to get some good news from his father instead of hearing pessimistic thoughts.

“The Soviet army is so large that transforming it requires a massive investment. There are 60,000 tanks alone, and so many generals and staff officers to feed.”

Alan Wilson thought for half a day finally gave an optimistic view, essentially to put such a large-scale army combat power in a step up, the financial investment required is an astronomical figure, “You don’t need to be concerned now, Lt. Col. Isn’t the first thing to be a general first? Even if it’s a Brigadier General. Memorize your military papers.”

Alan Wilson got up with his hands in his pants pockets and gave his orders to the good Dale, and early the next morning he showed up at the London airport slipping Lovisa Gstaff a check for his passage.

“Ten million pounds?” Lovisa Gerstaff looked at his father as if he had seen an embezzler, “As I recall, father, your salary is eighty-one thousand pounds a year?”

“You still know a lot about my penniless life.” Alan Wilson signaled with his eyes to put the check in his pocket first before he lazily said, “In fact I even have a use for my annual salary, although there are some patents and royalties on my body, it will take some time to want to save ten million pounds. But you always need some money to do business, you go and take a good look at the local business environment.”

Alan Wilson is also invested, it is impossible for his wife to point out for his wife’s equal status after the ladies, he himself is watching from the side, but Lovisa Gerstaff is not yet the time to know, opened his mouth to urge, “Get on the plane, your female companion is still waiting, how could I have a son like you, counting the time that I was the administrator in Newfoundland, you are a full round older than other people, just Can’t you be like me and not be fooled by age.”

“You are so right father, I don’t have that higher level of realization that you have.” Lovisa Gustave was all heart, who cared about age when she was mesmerized by Vivienne and Garbo.

Sending the good oldest child away to be put back in Whitehall, Alan Wilson made a difficult decision, as the Royal Pacific Fleet’s aircraft carriers were being sold, the Royal Navy would be redeployed at this stage.

The Royal Navy would be redeployed from west to east, with the two Queen Elizabeth class carriers added to the Pacific Fleet, and the surface fleet in the Persian Gulf replaced by the Queen Victoria class carriers in the Mediterranean Fleet.

Because Britain is no longer interfering in American affairs, Alan Wilson directly the Falkland Islands only one cruiser drawn to the Mediterranean Fleet as a supplement, the Secretary of State for Defense John Knott not quite approved, but conveyed to the Prime Minister’s side did not respond, which made the Secretary of State for Defense remembered the rumor.

Turning to December, a group of Argentine patriots landed in the Falklands on a boat and raised the Argentine flag, Rex Hunt, the British administrator of the Falklands, asked London what to do about it, and Whitehall gave the response that it should be released, given the relationship between the two countries and the views of the US side.