Chapter 894 – Establishment of the British Army in Australia

“Alan, it’s good to see you.” Turing was also heartened to see an acquaintance from far away in Australia and took the initiative to come forward to greet him, “What are you doing here? I remember you said you were working as a commissioner in the colonies.”

“Oh, the Malayan Colony, not really a stranger to Australia because of business.” Alan Wilson brushed off why he was here, “I happen to be in charge of some of the work at the launch site.”

Turing nodded and introduced himself to each other behind himself, then said, “This is my team, you are aware that the rocket launch mission involves a huge amount of computing power, there is also the fact that we may not be able to get the instruments over by air, but only by sea, computers are not small objects.”

“Indeed not a small item.” Alan Wilson knew that Turing was right when he thought of the volume of computers in this era, he was also curious about the computer Turing brought, after all, this was a well-known historical figure, so he might be able to look forward to it.

“Alan, you guys know each other.” Harold Wilson happened to see this scene and came over to strike up a conversation to introduce himself.

“The minister in charge of the aerospace industry, Senator Harold Wilson, he is the cornerstone of the aerospace industry.”

With so much at stake, Alan Wilson didn’t mind wearing a high hat at this time, all for the greater good.

Harold Wilson was about to leave anyway, the day after Turing arrived.

“Hello, Honorable Minister.” Turing clearly appeared to have changed a bit from his initial mute appearance.

It was probably because he had suffered a change of heart, and after being fished out by Allen Wilson, he understood the importance of human relationships. Turing now had a considerable change in the way he received people.

Like now, greeting Harold Wilson like this, in the past Turing would never have been able to be so silky smooth.

Alan Wilson, on the other hand, introduced Turing’s achievements during the Second World War and his current authority in the field.

This made Harold Wilson appreciate it, and interjected, “Like said, this kind of large-scale project will make many industries serve it, and ultimately generate huge economic and social value.”

“Minister, your observation is very sharp.” Alan Wilson had a face of recognition, “Space technology and its products being promoted and applied accordingly in various fields of the national economy will profoundly change our society. It will eventually produce social and economic benefits.”

At least in the early days of the space race, the industrial changes brought about are still quite huge, as for the Star Wars stage, that stage of the United States and the Soviet Union is obviously gone off the deep end, not that the space race does not have the promotion of society, but not so great is also the fact that the two countries are investing more and more huge.

Red Star Wars and Star Wars, even if not continued because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, can only satisfy the tastes of military enthusiasts to see whether the U.S.’s national missile defense system is more robust or the Soviet Union’s air and space nuclear strikes that include combat space stations are sharper.

However, as far as Alan Wilson is concerned, if it is based on defense, it will not work, Star Wars is the background of the Soviet Union in the nuclear attack power and the ability to break through the premise, the United States is afraid of the nuclear balance is broken out of the plan.

The Soviet Union’s Red Star Wars as a more offensive plan is certainly stronger, history has repeatedly proved that offensive weapons are significantly faster than the development of defensive means, the long evolutionary history of the Earth proved a point, stacked armor dead end.

The stage that can only be carried out by two lunatic countries is still far away from now, Alan Wilson does not have to think that far, but for Turing, the existence of the World War, deciphered Germany’s claimed unbreakable dumb machine, he still expects a miracle.

Now the conditions than at the beginning has been too good, Turing can be distracted, the space program of the various data are calculated.

If Turing could do that, it would already save the space program a great deal of energy.

“Turing?” Pamela Mountbatten saw her husband come back to raid this man, a hint of suspicion flashed in her eyes, and she suddenly stepped forward to sniff lightly with her nose for a long time before saying, “He’s made mistakes, so you’d better be careful.”

Turing was arrested because of the orientation problem, this matter Pamela Mountbatten already knows, what a man to bring a team to Australia, her heart could not help but be a little worried, this person don’t bring their husbands bad.

Alan Wilson a helpless face, looking at his wife’s skepticism swore, “What I am a man, you have not experienced it.”

“Even if you are a man, you should always protect yourself.” Pamela Mountbatten admonished without changing her mind, “Your contact with him is more dangerous than contact with Marilyn Monroe.”

Taught! Alan Wilson saw this face of his wife, decisively bowed his head and conceded, reasoning is the next best thing, he should have realized this a long time ago.

Of course his wife’s concern was not unreasonable; for that group of Turing’s people, the discriminatory mentality of most people, to be honest, was open and consistent, and was not subject to anyone’s will.

Is that fair? Of course it’s not fair, but that’s the way it is in this society, playing political correctness can be handled when there are few ups and downs, and when the first signs of turmoil appear, the consequence of all the political correctness is that it is met with even more violent retaliation.

Outside of stripping away political correctness, it’s up to the individual to struggle to solve the problem.

It was as if Turing was now, beginning to try to reach out to political figures, the only way he could avoid, a repeat of the old story of being picked up by the police.

The next morning, he and Turing both appeared at the same time again, this time to send Harold Wilson on the plane, back to London to submit the draft space program, including dual-use, economic value and social value of the outlook, the contents of the forest, the briefcase he carried with him stuffed.

“The space program requires enormous computing power, it’s up to you.” Waiting for the Comet airliner to take off, Alan Wilson turned his head to look at Turing with a smile. To which Turing, of course, responded with a smile and said he was doing his best.

The scene made Pamela Mountbatten, who had driven over but not gotten out of the car, feel a tightening in her heart.

“I’m a researcher, and I’m happy to face one difficulty after another. Just wait for the arrival of the mainframe computer that was shipped over by sea.” Turing was full of solemn promises, “I hope I can still do my bit for Britain’s national strategy.”

Alan Wilson, of course, begged for this, and he even hoped that Turing would be able to perform a modest miracle for Britain against the overwhelming odds of the United States and the Soviet Union.

After a long flight, Harold Wilson brought back this space program, which was the most clear-cut and layered space program in this era, which was formulated by Alan Wilson with reference to the stages of the space race.

Behind every part is the accumulation of countless manpower and material resources, and the sky is full of fireworks in the casting out.

Compared with the heavy cost behind this plan, the fireworks set off by the explosion of blue light missiles in the air is just a figure of joy, nothing counts.

This space program, also got the Royal Aerospace Association and the Interplanetary Association’s high evaluation. And at this time in the cabinet, Prime Minister Adderley was discussing, and this time the space race related things.

“The rocket plan that Harold brought back condensed the sweat and crystallized wisdom of the British Empire’s space field.” Saying words that made the colonial commissioner sneeze straight before Prime Minister Airdrie said, “I’ve discussed it with Earl Alexander, the Minister of Defense, considering Australia’s attitude, and the importance of the space program. There is an idea to be implemented.”

“Another need for financial allocation?” Finance Minister Gaitschke’s heart tightened, the Defense Minister’s favorite thing to do was to ask for appropriations, while he, the Finance Minister, was the opposite.

“Uh, not this time as it happens.” Being so shotgun white by Gaetzke, Prime Minister Airdrie was almost interrupted in his train of thought, looking to the less than amicable Foreign Secretary Morrison, “Rather, it has something to do with the field of diplomacy.”

Things have come to this point, Prime Minister Aidley will not be sold, Australia’s own military strength is not strong, the Woomera launch site is in Australia’s territory, the space program is so important to the current world at this time. In order to guarantee the security of the Woomera launch site, and at the same time to prevent espionage by hostile camps as well as suspicious allies, it is necessary for the United Kingdom to increase its investment, and this investment is more than just appropriation of funds.

The security of the Woomera launch site may be a bit difficult for Australia to take care of on its own. For this reason, Adderley has put forward his own idea in the Cabinet to create a British army in Australia that would be dedicated to the security of the Woomera launch site.

“There is no excuse for this idea, and I am also confident that Prime Minister Menzies will have absolutely no objection to it.” Foreign Secretary Morrison, despite his complicated relationship with the Prime Minister, would never object for the sake of objecting at this point in time.

The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, quickly reached a consensus on the issue of establishing a British army in Australia, and as for the idea of Australia, it didn’t even stay out of the two men’s minds for even a second longer.

What remains is the question of how to form the British Army in Australia, the British Army has 800,000 active duty soldiers, there are three main blocks, domestic, European and colonial garrisons, fighting strength is of course the strongest British Army in Germany fighting strength. But directly facing the Soviet Army in Germany they cannot be moved.

Tossing and turning within the confines of 800,000 British troops is also not an easy thing to do, after all, the plate of the British Empire, compared with the current military force is still very large.

“With reference to the independence of Sudan, one part of the former British army in Sudan was withdrawn to South Sudan, and one part was replenished to the Middle East Joint Operations Command. Now that Nigeria is calling for autonomous territories, we can use this to withdraw some of our garrison in British West Africa. Plus the splitting of the Middle East and Far East Operations Command to call out some of the troops as part of the British Army in Australia.”

Earl Alexander, the Minister of Defense, gave his suggestion, “As for the command structure, the Far East Joint Operations Command in Singapore is not far from Australia, so it would be fine to directly assign it to the Far East Command.”

“That will be fine, Morrison, have a good talk with Prime Minister Menzies.” Airdrie nodded at Morrison.

In November 1956, the first troops mobilized from the British Army in Malaysia landed in Australia as the first of what would scale up to six thousand British troops in Australia. British troops in British West Africa, similarly, received orders to redeploy and began to withdraw from Nigeria.