Chapter 585 – No Problems with the U.S. Army

“By the way, you should have heard about it, right? What do you think about the opponents of the United Nations Army, how is the fighting strength.” Norman Brooke wanted to ask, this Oriental expert’s opinion.

“What do you think? In today’s world, if you discard the air support, logistics and heavy firepower, when considering the size, it should be second only to the Soviet Red Army’s ground arm.” Alan Wilson had a thoughtful look on his face, giving the American evaluation after the Korean War.

“So battle-hardened?” Norman Brooke laughed with a surprised look on his face, “That’s not a low evaluation. Then using the Soviet Red Army as a comparison, how many percent of the Soviets’ combat power do you think you have.”

“Honorable Cabinet Secretary, that’s a sharp question. Let me think about it!” Inside Alan Wilson’s head began to convert, the deployment of troops during the Sino-Soviet standoff, in the seventies at that time a certain big country’s troop strength was six million one hundred thousand, most of which was concentrated in the north, even if half of it was used to defend against the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union in the entire territory of Asia has one million two hundred thousand troops, of which six hundred thousand near the border, which also has an unknown number of KGB border guards, a little more counting, the first wave of the investment of troops counted eight hundred thousand?

“The exchange ratio should be one to four if a stalemate can be developed.” Alan Wilson finally gave an answer that was still appropriate. This exchange ratio was actually similar to the exchange ratio of the US army in the Korean War.

Norman Brooke nodded while Allen Wilson sighed in relief, sort of fooling his top boss.

He said that he was able to maintain a stalemate, and in fact, no one in the world today is able to maintain a stalemate with the Soviet Union on the ground, and once the Soviet Red Army breaks down the long drive, the end is extremely miserable.

He did not dare to tell the truth in front of Norman Brooke, because now in the direction of Europe, and the Soviet Union ground armed confrontation of the country, there is also the United Kingdom one, so he put the Soviet Red Army’s combat power, and the United States Army about the same.

This is also a kind of chicken comparison, any military can not and the army can not be compared to the threat power, the United States that is the exception, the Soviet Union the world’s first size of the big airborne army, and can not send airborne troops to the United States mainland, but can be sent to the mainland of the United Kingdom. The English Channel and the Atlantic can’t be compared after all.

If it was an average country’s airborne troops it wouldn’t be worth worrying about, but the Soviet airborne troops had fifteen divisions and over 200,000 men.

Having elevated the ground combat power of the US Army to such a level, Alan Wilson was somewhat ashamed that MacArthur was now so desperate that he was calling for nuclear weapons to be used to solve the problem.

Norman Brooke also mentions MacArthur, slightly backtracking, “But the U.S. Army seems to be embarrassed right now.”

“There’s no question about the combat effectiveness of the U.S. Army, I personally think it’s the Commander-in-Chief, and General MacArthur, as we all know, is not without his gray head in Asia.” Alan Wilson categorically defended the special relationship between Britain and the United States, there is no doubt about the combat effectiveness of the U.S. Army, and MacArthur the man is a big problem.

Norman Brooke reluctantly agreed with this statement, and finally stopped dwelling on the issue of the fighting strength of the American army.

The mention of MacArthur was not so much a matter of how much the British Empire cared about him, but rather that this was the source of the impromptu trip the Prime Minister was going to make. If there was no talk of the use of nuclear weapons in Washington, Prime Minister Adderley would not have been in a hurry to visit the United States.

After two battles, the U.S. army’s gray posture was simply a script for a rout all the way to Pusan at the start of the war, a time when the U.S. claimed to want to use nuclear weapons, leaving Prime Minister Aidley to open up his own diplomatic mediation.

Britain wasn’t the only country reacting to the idea of the US using nuclear weapons, and vocal powers were making diplomatic efforts at this time to suggest a ceasefire and maintain the military demarcation line that had existed before the war started.

Prime Minister Adderley arrived in the United States just before the U.S. Army spat out all the results of the battle after the Inchon landing, and when the news of the death of Walker, the commander of the Eighth Regiment Army, came in, Harry S. Truman declared a state of emergency in the country and demanded that the American people make whatever sacrifices were necessary for the war in Korea, and at the same time decided to set up a National Defense Mobilization Agency to expand the conscription program and the production of munitions, and demanded that the U.S. Army should be increased from the existing two and a half million men to three and a half million, and to increase the production capacity of airplanes and tanks fivefold and fourfold respectively within one year.

Immediately afterwards, Washington announced the allocation of twenty billion dollars for the support of the war effort. It was on this occasion that Prime Minister Adderley arrived in Washington.

Alan Wilson estimated that the Prime Minister’s trip to the United States might be the only remaining effort to get the United States to guarantee that it would not use nuclear weapons, because the U.S. government had already done everything it could before Adderley arrived in Washington.

The fact that the current Prime Minister is traveling abroad to keep the peace has certainly caused concern among British citizens. After all, the current government’s approval ratings were very high, and it was only before that Britain was prevented from falling back into the whirlwind of war. Now that Adderley had gone abroad again to campaign for peace, he was overwhelmingly praised by British public opinion.

It’s the vast majority, and in a country like the UK, under the guise of freedom of speech, there’s never a shortage of people saying whiny, weird things.

Not necessarily Tories, as the Conservative Party also endorsed Adderley’s efforts to avoid getting involved in the war.

The Tory spew was on the other side of the fence, with Mr. Churchill, the senior House of Commons Commons member, stating that if he were Prime Minister, he would never just avoid sending in ground troops, but would not even send in naval or air forces. The Labor Party has still compromised in the face of American pressure, and so on and so forth in the rhetoric.

“The matter of Korea is irrelevant now; I never heard of such a damned place until I was seventy-six.” Churchill said this in the House of Commons in an arrogant tone in front of all the MPs.

When Adderley arrived in Washington, the United States was in the midst of a grand funeral for Walker, the commander of the Eighth Army.

At this time Alan Wilson is also busy with his own things, preparing for the Brussels Conference, as well as visit Audrey Hepburn, who has not seen for a long time, for the man to come back, Audrey Hepburn’s heart is leaping, he has helped himself too much.

Women on men have a certain Mu strong psychological, Alan Wilson went to Asia to do commissioner, very let Audrey Hepburn recognized its cause, the two just met there are endless words.

“How now even you have asked about the war?” Hear Audrey Hepburn asked the situation in the Far East, Alan Wilson is really surprised.

“Other people are saying that there is a possibility of causing a third world war, I am also a little afraid.” Audrey Hepburn was a little embarrassed, “This would be the end of humanity right?”

“Ordinary people understand this, would the leaders of those big countries not understand? Our Prime Minister is visiting Washington with this purpose this time.” Allen Wilson expressed cautious optimism in front of the goddess, “We have to trust the ability of politicians.”

I don’t know how it happened, but Allen Wilson felt that there was some hypocrisy in his words now, and he was the last person to believe in such words. He was all for believing in the aristocracy, in monarchy, and none too much for believing in the so-called ability of politicians.

But it wasn’t all that much, for he had gotten figures from Whitehall after he returned home that last year Britain’s surplus was five hundred million pounds, which seemed inconsequential compared to the twenty billion dollars that the United States had just appropriated.

But it was already the largest single-year surplus in post-war Britain, now that Prime Minister Adderley’s biggest nationalization expenditure had been completed. Even if military spending was sure to rise because of increased pressure from Europe, it would not result in a deficit.

Overall, Alan Wilson believes that Prime Minister Adderley has visited, see Washington has just allocated 20 billion dollars of war spending, will also suck in a breath of cold air, if this is replaced by the United Kingdom?

If the United Kingdom if the troops, even if only symbolic troops, bring the surge in spending is not a small number. The fiscal surplus of the past year was only five hundred million pounds, which would immediately turn into a deficit.

“Audrey!” Alan Wilson expressed the idea of intimacy, wanting to do ballet with the ball flower.

“Bugger, always thinking about it every day, and it’s only just come back.” Audrey Hepburn’s face was full of red haze whispered, “You’ll affect the image in my heart.”

Alan Wilson with practical action to show that the image is not the image of this kind of thing, in fact, is not important at all. The atmosphere between the two gradually warmed up, a small farewell.

At this time because of the death of the Eighth Regiment Army Commander Walker, a new commander is stepping into office, arrived in Japan Li Qiwei and MacArthur had a detailed discussion, in the presence of the commander of the naval forces in the Far East, Lieutenant General Turner Joy, and the commander of the air forces in the Far East, Lieutenant General George Streitmeyer.

Before noon, Li Qiwei’s mind was filled with answers to every question that could be asked, and all the intelligence information that the others thought he needed. By twelve noon, Li Qiwei had left for Haneda Airport for his flight to Korea.

At four o’clock that afternoon, Li Qiwei stepped off the plane and onto the tarmac of the Great Mound, shivering slightly in the brilliant winter sun.

Just as just arrived in Brussels Allen Wilson is almost the same, now, after all, are the end of December, Europe, although the climate is good, but also and at the equator of Malaya can not be compared to the return to Europe not a few days of Allen Wilson, is always in the return to British Malaya, the brilliant sun, especially at this time of year is more so.

It was a good thing for Allen Wilson that the United States was so caught up in the war that it was a good thing for the world that the United States was important and the Soviet Union was important, but it would have been great if there hadn’t been the United States and the Soviet Union.

The economic cooperation part of the current Brussels Conference did not have him as a colonial commissioner, naturally there were other important civil servants in Whitehall to be in charge of it, and what he was responsible for was the part about, the second Berlin Conference.

At this time, Adderley, who had already arrived in Washington, was relaying the concerns of the European countries about Truman’s earlier remarks on the use of nuclear weapons, asking Truman to clarify his earlier remarks and control the scale of the war.

This Edley succeeded in, and Truman’s tentative remarks had gotten back to him, so in front of Edley, Truman insisted that it was a police action and that there had just been a few lapses.