Chapter 898 Convincing the British Commander
This is a good news of sorts, but Alan Wilson knows in his heart that counting on three thousand five hundred kilometers range blue light missiles, still can not be a threat to the Soviet Union, land based missiles Britain certainly can not be placed on their own soil, although that is much closer, can threaten the essence of the Soviet Union’s European part of the region.
But again the UK’s strike resistance, and the Soviet Union is not a level, so even if they had them they could not be deployed on the mainland.
Deployed in other locations, three thousand five hundred kilometers of range will not be enough, if deployed in Kalimantan, must cross the entire East Asia in the ability to reach the Soviet Union, which will have to be more than six thousand kilometers of distance. And then to the European part of the Soviet Union, so the range of the Blue Light Missile is far from enough, at least eight thousand to ten thousand kilometers of range is worth deploying.
The Blue Light Missile’s body, however, was more than adequate for launching satellites, and as the High Commissioner overseeing the rocket program, Alan Wilson immediately communicated the idea to the Woomera Launch Complex through an executive order.
The variants of the Blue Light Missile went in two directions, the first being to increase the range in preparation for a land-based strike. The second criterion was diametrically opposed, to reduce the size of the Blue Light missile so that it could be housed among nuclear submarines.
This was explained in the telegram and Alan Wilson informed his wife, Pamela Mountbatten, that he would visit her in Perth some time.
Pregnant Pamela Mountbatten did not idle, in undertaking the operation of Western Australia’s hydroelectric system at the same time, because of Timor Island’s oil and gas exploitation problem, is and the Australian government and the Western Australian government, talk about building oil and gas pipeline, Timor Island’s oil and gas resources to Australia’s matter.
For the time being, although they did not meet, the couple kept in touch at all times, urging each other to promote common progress.
Alan Wilson was motivated to create one for Britain, a transit point connecting the world’s mines with two of the world’s most densely populated regions. From this point of view, the Malayan colony was the most suitable place.
Geographical advantage was the most significant advantage of the Malayan colony at the moment, and the only advantage that could be utilized.
Population size is not to be thought of, in the short term Malaya is impossible to catch up with Japan, but Japan that shit place, lost Hokkaido foreign dependence is even more serious, is a good news.
People can personally experience the happiness, with clothing, food, housing and transportation can be summarized in four words. This a person’s activities are closely related, why the latter days of Japan and South Korea account numbers are very beautiful, Japan and South Korea, but the people always feel more tired than the developed countries in Europe.
It is because the local resources are poor, can not put the cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation down. Japanese agriculture is a drag on the existence of sky-high watermelons used to protect the interests of farmers, the same need for Japanese citizens to pay the bill.
Japan’s cabs are quite expensive, and even when women’s boxing is prevalent, women take the man for their cab as a standard of whether they love her, the root cause is not the lack of oil and gas resources in Japan.
Japan’s problems Korea almost all have, but Europe and the United States do not have this problem, Europe has France, the agricultural powerhouse.
As for the United States is the bottom of the agricultural empire, the United States in the food, not to mention Japan and South Korea can not be compared to the price of many of the total production more than the second largest block of China is also low.
U.S. food is cheap or built on the basis of a large number of waste, there is such a bottom, inflation of five percent on the figure of a music.
Inflation and then tripled, only and China, want to approach the food prices of Japan and South Korea, but also to continue to inflate down to the line.
After all, it is claimed that a Kansas can feed 200 million people in the country, other countries really can not be compared, Japan and South Korea are considered happy, at least compared with Egypt, Saudi Arabia is still very happy.
But the basic conditions of the Malayan colony can make the cost of similar food down, after becoming an industrial base, the only shortcoming is the line of clothing, food, housing and transportation, as long as the discovery of oil and gas resources, this aspect is no longer defective.
The resource base of the Malayan colony decided that if it could be on the same level as Japan, life would certainly be easier than Japan.
The West Malaysia Railway, which began construction in 1957, was reported in the report to Whitehall in the name of the completion of infrastructure, Alan Wilson portrayed an uplifting scene for Whitehall, the current round of construction is complete, and in the future, the Malayan colony waited to collect money on the line.
“You asked me to join my name and your initiative to absorb the colony’s military sources to form combat units?” Lt. Gen. Sconce expressed surprise at Allen Wilson who came to the door and pressed, “Didn’t your two High Commissioners, before and after, always oppose the establishment of combat troops with colonial subjects?”
This is true, Allen Wilson, as well as the previous High Commissioner, Gerald Edward, were opposed to absorbing Chinese and Malays to form combat units, this is because before, after the Japanese ravaged the country, the strength of British rule was washed away quite a bit.
“It’s different now, General.” Alan Wilson posited flexibly, “The combined garrisons around the globe have overwhelmed Britain, and we only have a population of fifty million and a standing army of eight hundred thousand. We can’t afford to increase the garrison as the Malayan colony grows in importance. Where are we going to get the men from, not to mention the fact that some troops have just been withdrawn to Australia?”
“After this round of city building is completed, it has become inevitable to absorb the colonial population to build up combat troops. I prefer to make this happen during my term of office, it’s a very important matter and I don’t want to push it to my successor.”
Alan Wilson had a worried look on his face, “Plus, the Nepalese are not easy to use. With Chinese and Malayan dominated forces, it makes more sense to cover the military costs through the colonial government.”
Allen Wilson, who came prepared, gave numerous reasons without stopping his mouth; burdening the military was once the responsibility of British India, and if Malaya could not do it, there was no talk of replacing British India.
Of course times have changed, back then Britain needed a sea of expendable goods, that was to maintain Britain’s world hegemony.
Now that world hegemony is all but lost, the military responsibility of the Malayan colonies is to protect Britain’s vested interests. So there was no need to build up a standing army of hundreds of thousands of men on standby, like the British Indian Army did back then, and the Malayan colonies didn’t have the manpower for it.
“The Malays and Chinese would each create a division, two divisions totaling 28,000 to 30,000 men in size. It would probably relieve a lot of the pressure on our defense. Equipment left over from World War II can be used.” Alan Wilson voiced his thoughts.
“Wouldn’t be too hard.” Lieutenant General Sconce was relieved to hear that this High Commissioner was still restrained. He was calculating that adding the size of the British army in Malaysia should be considered just right.
Just then he heard Allen Wilson continue, “General, I’m talking about creating an armored division, not an attached police force.”
“What did you say?” Lieutenant General Sconce was taken aback, “Allen, I don’t understand, you should understand very well what this means.”
“Of course I understand, a vital force that the British Empire relies on when emergencies come.” Alan Wilson didn’t feel anything was out of place in the slightest, and spoke eloquently, “I have my reasons, the benefits of pouring in the training would be immense for Malaya, while the hidden dangers could be removed.”
“You have to realize how devastating such a force could be once it rebels.” Lt. General Sconce had a grave look on his face, reminding Allen Wilson of the seriousness of the matter.
“The Malayan colony is a coastal colony, and the major cities of the Malay Peninsula are within range of the battleships. Whether the land forces are strong or not doesn’t really mean anything. Sea and air power are in our hands and will not change.”
“And on the contrary, after the colonial resistance movement after the war and up to now, we should realize. Guerrilla warfare is the type of combat that makes us wary. That’s why the attached police force, which normally carries out low-intensity military missions, will instead increase the risk to the colony in the event of a rebellion. An armored force that has undergone rigorous combat training isolates the affiliated police force from those habits.”
Allen Wilson instead argued that it was less dangerous to form an armored division with Chinese and a marine division with Malays.
This is after historical reference, using the Qing army during the Daoguang period as an example, there is no doubt that the British army defeated the Qing army.
Similarly, the British army attacked Afghanistan during the same period and was completely defeated. This is not the point, the point is that in the same period of the Daoguang period, the Qing army to pacify the Zhang Geer rebellion, the pressure has been declining Afghanistan a head of the Khanate of Hao Han, made like a great enemy.
The British army in Afghanistan was completely destroyed, and the Qing army to deter than Afghanistan strong Hohan Khanate is the same period. Before and after only a few years difference in time, and then the British army against the Qing army’s record is a great victory.
Appearance of this situation will need to be carefully analyzed, the British army attacked Afghanistan when Afghanistan is in civil strife, the Hohan Khanate is in the tail end of the strong than Afghanistan to be a lot stronger.
This can be considered. The Qing army was in the combat comfort zone of the British army, and those pacifist countries in Central Asia, were also in the combat comfort zone of the Qing army, but the Afghan pacifists were not in the combat comfort zone of the British army.
Applied to the current era, that is, guerrilla warfare is not a comfortable mode of combat for the British forces in Malaya.
It was the presence of nearly 100,000 British and Dutch troops that ensured the Indonesian infiltration of Malaya was ineffective.
That’s all already a notch above the record of the original historical British Army in Malaya, which was 40,000 men for a long time, being outmaneuvered by a thousand Indonesian airborne guerrillas.
Establishment of the colony’s armored combat troops, even if it is a rebellion, the British army, on the contrary, easier to cope with, the British army is not untouched by armored warfare, more than tanks are also the British army in Malaysia, next to the battleships to look at it.
Far East Combined Operations Command, Lieutenant General Sconce has been listening to the Whitehall-educated commissioner’s long speech, and ultimately believes that this set of combat comfort zone analogy has a point, “Regular offensive warfare is indeed better to deal with than godforsaken guerrilla warfare.”
“The General recognizes this, I’m not here for nothing after all.” Alan Wilson, whose throat was on the verge of going up in smoke, didn’t make himself at home, and received a glass of water directly in the commander’s office to cool down his dry mouth, “This is a valuable lesson left behind by France.”