Chapter 29 Rapid Expansion
The appearance of Thunder International in Morocco surprised the people who participated in World War Gambling. Similarly, the speed of their establishment of military bases also surprised almost all European military experts.
Even European and American powers who participated in the anti-China alliance have begun to worry that if there is an armed conflict with the Chinese Federation in the future, will it be enough to deal with these armed forces relying on the power of existing countries?
While sending military officers to North Africa to learn about Thunder International's military power, the countries in the anti-China alliance began active activities. Their non-marks are not elsewhere, but South American countries. As countries that have not participated in the European war, they should also provide a large amount of vitality.
At least Franklin Roosevelt’s opinion is as follows.
"If the Satanic Eagle was to ignore the danger of destroying the entire earth for the benefit of the Chinese Federation, then do we also express our intentions? If we must destroy, should we fall on the battlefield!"
With this idea, the United States began to take active actions in South America. Seeing the actions of the Americans, Germany naturally was not willing to fall behind. With the active actions of both sides of the war, the scope of World War II expanded dramatically.
But in terms of this matter, it is not a matter of success easily. Regarding World War II, after the Pearl Harbor Incident, the speeches of the leaders of the Uruguayan National Party at that time best represent the voices of South American countries.
"This war should be resolved by the golden-haired people and the yellow-sexed people themselves. Anyway, this is the battle between the lion and the lion for prey."
Almost all South Americans also have such an attitude of not being involved in the matter, so the vast majority of South American countries have not been involved in the war. However, at this moment, due to the cruelty of the war and the changes in military equipment and combat methods, it is much greater than that of another World War II. Due to the relatively accurate attacks of television-guided munitions, both casualties and equipment losses have made the warring countries feel a heavy burden.
Although with the development of the war process, the scientific and technological achievements reserved by various countries during peacetime have been converted into various equipment, it will take time to change the cruel war. Therefore, striving for more alliance countries has become an important means for both sides of the war.
Argentina, Brazil, and Chile are all allies that the US government intends to win. As for other countries, they are strengthening economic control. Regardless of whether they participate in the war or not, the Americans do not intend to face enemies like Germany.
The only threat near the United States is Mexico, which had fought a war decades ago. However, the domestic chaos has just ended, and the United States only has to use airships to patrol the border and arrange enough troops. I believe they will not do anything randomly.
With a large amount of US dollars invested, Brazil first joined the allies at the same time, and dispatched about 3 ground troops and an air force brigade to join the United States' operations. Of course, the equipment of these troops must naturally be provided by the United States.
Shortly after Brazil decided to participate in World War II, Argentina, which received a lot of economic assistance, and Chile organized a certain number of troops to be armed by the United States and devoted to the European battlefield in accordance with the conditions for Brazil to participate in the war. Although the United States was burdened with some burden, the participation of these countries in the war itself will also promote the enrichment of various resources and ensure the security of the United States.
Although the United States has added a South American Army Corps, how to safely travel to the United Kingdom, including the United States' already trained troops is often a problem that has to scratch one's head.
As of the current situation, the Atlantic Ocean needs the American Atlantic Fleet to carry out, that is, it is not sufficient or sufficient protection. A large amount of supplies from South America were intercepted because of the German attack fleet with simple aircraft carriers, and a large number of merchant ships were sunk and captured.
The worst thing is that the participation of German airship forces caused many of the war materials from these captured merchant ships to be plundered back to Germany. Although Germany did not have as large airships as the Chinese Federation, they still had an air transport force of almost 2,000 ships.
Originally, this would not have happened if the German ocean fleet was blocked by the British local fleet. Unfortunately, because the Norwegian coast and the Faroe Islands in Denmark were occupied by the Germans, it formed a favorable condition for the German ocean fleet to appear in the Atlantic Ocean.
In particular, the aviation bases on the Faroe Islands and Iceland and the supply bases and ports of the raid fleets have caused huge losses to the Atlantic transportation routes of European allies. These are the developments achieved by German naval officers after being educated by the "naval offensiveism" of the Chinese Federation.
This "naval offensiveism" comes from the ghost captain, Duke Lukner, who created the military combat theory of the Chinese Federal Navy, with his distinctive personal style.
Alfred Mahan, the author of "Naval Strategy", believes that naval battles distinguish attack and defense based on their combat purposes. In naval battles, no matter whether the nature of the battle is offensive or defense, the fleet always achieves the battle goals with offensive purposes. Even when performing escort tasks and cover tasks on maritime transportation lines, they should use all their strength to drive away the enemy fleet away from their own traffic lines, or fight against enemy attack fleets.
As the ghost captain, Duke Lukner, emphasized more that the use of the navy's flexible and deadly attacks and cooperated with the operations of other troops to carry out devastating strikes on the host of the enemy's maritime power, the port and the base of naval activities, the airport of the nearshore land-based aviation.
At the same time, a powerful strike force will be formed by a fleet with naval aviation to stop the maritime activities of enemy fleets. It will seize islands at sea, form multiple air force bases, and cooperate with the fleet to form transportation security channels and maritime blockade lines.
In the end, we will rely on cooperation with the national strategic strike force - the Chinese Federation Air Fleet to completely destroy all the facilities needed by the enemy's shipbuilding industry. It includes the entire port city, roads, seaports, ships, and naval aviation, and use of naval aviation to prevent the restoration and use of these facilities at any time, thereby completely winning the victory of the maritime war.
It is impossible to say that if Duke Lukner's theory is not able to work without relying on the naval strength and strategic strike force of the Chinese Federation. Therefore, Germany's "naval offensive" theory mainly implements the first half, namely, seizing islands and cooperating with the maritime fleet, forming a safe transportation channel and blockade line.
The naval battles that are constantly underway in the Atlantic Ocean are precisely based on these goals. They are also one of the reasons that restrict the United States from large-scale reinforcements of Europe and seize the initiative in the war.
For this reason, the US government's ideology hit the Caribbean countries. With the participation of South American countries in the war, this is also the reason why the scope of World War II has expanded dramatically.
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Similar to the methods of South American countries, they will provide sufficient manpower to be armed and trained by the United States. They will form ground forces called the Caribbean Navy Corps, and will also dispatch hunting fleets with a large number of simple aircraft carriers, destroyers and frigates as the main forces. With the United States helping to arm the navy, they will participate in the South Atlantic pursuit of German attack fleets.
Their request is now a very cost-effective armed plan for the US government.
From the perspective of the air force alone, many fighter jets and bombers that have just been produced and have been outdated on the European battlefield happen to arm these low-demand armies. Especially when these combined fleets with the US 50,000-ton medium-sized aircraft carrier as the core will have sufficient ability to fight against German attack fleets on the Atlantic Ocean and greatly improve the comparison of Atlantic Ocean's maritime power.
The only regret is that these recent support cannot be immediately reflected in the strength of the war. After all, the armed forces of the Caribbean armed groups in South America and the Caribbean armed groups will take time to train, and at most it may not be possible to form qualified combat capabilities in one year.
Before this, shipping on the Atlantic Ocean and European ground warfare were not an easy military operation to be launched on a large scale. Therefore, for the time being, the US government is more inclined to invest its land, sea and air forces more on the Pacific battlefield. Especially the seemingly failed Midway Naval Battle, which had just been completed, just made the US government see the possibility of victory in the Pacific.
Therefore, when the armies of the Caribbean countries in South America and the Caribbean began to assemble and train, more US troops continued to enter the Pacific battlefield. As in history, the American general MacArthur, who fled to Australia, also began his career as commander-in-chief of the Southwest Pacific Theater.
With the US military's massive increase in troops in the Pacific, the war began to burn quietly on the sea, which had just become calm because of the Battle of Midway.
Chapter completed!