"Secretary-General, you are back. The Prime Minister is waiting for you." Alan Wilson had just appeared, and the Prime Minister's Chief Private Secretary appeared in Brest. "The Prime Minister is also more concerned about this intelligence exchange. The Americans must have said something.
Perspectives on the Vietnam War.”
"I'll go right away!" With panda eyes, Alan Wilson did not dare to delay and went directly to No. 10 Downing Street. After the meeting, Eden inevitably paid attention to the physical condition of the Cabinet Secretary. He found that it seemed that every time
The secretary-general went abroad and when he came back, he felt as if his body had been hollowed out.
Naturally, Alan Wilson explained the long journey, lack of acclimatization, and busy work, and recounted the itinerary of the Pentagon and the CIA. It definitely had nothing to do with the manned spaceflight industry.
When asked how the United States would fight the Vietnam War and what suggestions he gave, Alan Wilson opened his mouth and said with a very embarrassed smile, "The problem is that I still don't understand why the United States is fighting, no matter what it is."
Whether it's the CIA or the Pentagon, their assumptions are very forward-looking and backward-looking. There are many contradictions, and I can feel the hesitation."
"Is this so?" Although Aiden had already made up his mind to ignore the Vietnam War, he still felt his heart tightening when he heard this description. "Tell me how you feel."
"The specific feeling of this is that Americans seem to be afraid of a country with a strong army." Alan Wilson thought for a long time, compared the process of previous American wars in his mind, and expressed his opinion.
Although we, the Great Britain, were put on the back burner and ridiculed decades later, when we were fighting for world hegemony, we fought against Spain, France, Imperial Russia, Germany, and the Far East. We also fought against the Qing Dynasty. We also fought against the United States twice. I, the Great Britain, fought against us.
The Army is also a ruthless character, but the Navy is stronger.
Looking at the United States again, the one that faced the strongest enemy country in terms of relative strength and won was Japan. Japan is not an army power at all. It is about the level of Czechoslovakia in Europe. After winning World War II, if the US military landed in Japan, it would crush Japan's resistance head-on.
, maybe it will help the United States build confidence on land.
But the fact is that just a few years after the end of World War II, the United States suffered a blow in the Korean War when it felt most good about itself. The Army's self-confidence has not been established. To be honest, even if the United States took the opportunity to attack India once, it would not have confidence in the Army.
It would be much better if we established the city. When formulating strategies, we would not consider the problem of the army not being able to win. We fought defensive counterattacks in South Vietnam for more than ten years.
Every time something happens, the United States thinks of betraying a slave country. In this regard, the United States is inferior to Japan. Japan really dares to fight a full-scale war with Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union.
This lack of confidence in the country's army has also deceived the United States in later generations. George W. Bush's Middle East road map was produced when the United States was most alone and seeking defeat. Afghanistan to the east of Iran and Iraq to the west have been captured. As long as Iran is eliminated,
, there will be no thorns in the World Energy Center.
As a result, after so many years of delay, the United States did not take action. In the end, it withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, and the Middle East road map failed. The consequences of the failure of this strategy were comparable to the destruction of Imperial Russia by Churchill's two warships.
"Alan, are you exaggerating?" Aiden grinned after hearing this and asked, "You said the same thing at the Pentagon."
"The marshal told me not to expose shortcomings with the allies. What I said at the Pentagon was that the US military would win. But in reality?" Alan Wilson said with some difficulty. "Strategically, it is no more than the 17th parallel north latitude, with nearly 200,000 people.
The U.S. military is staying in South Vietnam waiting for North Vietnam to attack. Isn't this a strategy of not believing in the combat effectiveness of the army? I feel that Moscow will see that the U.S. military has not launched an attack sooner or later, and will understand that this strategy is simply unwinnable."
Throughout the Vietnam War, even decades later, no one could understand what the U.S. strategy was. They could only understand that the Vietnam War actually happened and the U.S. spent hundreds of billions.
After finishing his thoughts, Alan Wilson has not forgotten that this is Mountbatten's opinion, and from a personal perspective, he hopes that Prime Minister Eden will not say it out. He is not passing the responsibility to his father-in-law. Mountbatten did reveal,
The United States' arrangement, which is almost like a coward, cannot win at all.
The question arises. Even a marshal of the British Navy can see that the war cannot be won. Why does the United States fight the war like this? Is the Pentagon just trying to make money from the beginning?
"What a pessimistic view. If you say this in the Pentagon, it may destroy the good relationship between the marshal and the US military." Aiden couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"So we still have to support the United States in public opinion, and portray the extremely passive strategy of the United States as a positive image that has no ambitions and only protects the freedom and rights of South Vietnam. By the way, we pray that the United States must win, otherwise it will lose the war and create a lot of images.
On the positive side, crimes committed during the war will also be exposed."
This is for sure. Before Alan Wilson came back, Li Mei once said that the Pentagon was in talks with Dow Chemical. If he remembered correctly, Dow Chemical had two high-profile incidents. One was the production of orange during the Vietnam War.
The other is the Bhopal incident in India. The former created millions of human body deformities, while the latter made Bhopal lose hundreds of thousands of laborers overnight. Chemical weapons are so terrifying, no wonder they are called atomic bombs for poor countries.
Aiden nodded clearly, and this was the only way to do it. He hoped that the United States would not have the worst outcome, such as defeat. At the same time, the United Kingdom could not get involved and should show a flexible stance.
Eden informed Alan Wilson that the current diplomatic work was to mediate the India-Pakistan war with the Soviets in Stockholm. Based on the communication with the Soviets at the diplomatic level, the two countries agreed to bring India to the negotiating table.
Recover losses on the battlefield.
In fact, India did not lose anything, but it did lose 500 square kilometers of land on its books. Such a large piece of land was a drop in the bucket for India and Pakistan, but both Britain and the Soviet Union believed that this land should be returned to India.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! From this perspective, India must have suffered a loss. In this war, India suffered a big loss in its air force. It was entirely due to the country's size advantage that it stabilized the front and allowed
Pakistan could not continue the fight. At this time, Pakistan was still a reserve NATO country in the eyes of the United States, so it provided support in many aspects, including radar technology.
Pakistan has multiple prevention and control early warning radars, and these radars are guarded by anti-aircraft guns. The Indian Air Force cannot rely on these radars, but it itself was discovered two hundred kilometers away, and there is no chance to attack Pakistan's military bases.
Of course, in order to stop the war between India and Pakistan, after the tank war phase ended, the United States announced an embargo against Pakistan, and the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union also announced an embargo against India. That's right, in normal times it should be the other way around.
But during the war, when Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union wanted to stop the war between the two countries, they chose to impose an embargo policy on the countries they supported.
India and Pakistan have nominally heeded the call of the United Nations, but in fact they are sending people to Stockholm to seek support in deciding the ownership of those 500 square kilometers. Because the United States is busy with the Vietnam War, Britain and the Soviet Union have decided to sideline and let
India takes back occupied lands.
Eden has promised Shastri to help take back the occupied land. Alan Wilson expressed his approval of the Prime Minister's foresight, "Under the embargo, India can mobilize far more troops than Pakistan. Don't look at it.
Now Pakistan has gained a little advantage. Once India completes its mobilization, the land occupied by Pakistan cannot be defended. If Pakistan does not agree to hand over the land, reopening India in the event of war can still achieve its goal."
This is the advantage of having a large land and a large population under the same technological level. Even if India suffers a temporary loss, it will be Pakistan that suffers in the end if it continues.
"But in terms of public opinion, now that India has lost its land, we should portray India as the loser and reflect the British role in upholding justice for India. I wonder what the Soviets think?"
Eden listened to Alan Wilson's words and felt that it was more in India's interests to portray India as a loser, which would help establish British leadership at the subsequent Stockholm Conference.
Alan Wilson listened to Eden's expression of optimism and said in his heart that Britain's loss of India was a countdown. India would become more and more biased towards the Soviet Union, because Brezhnev had come to power, and the Soviet Union would definitely not be able to keep up with the benefits offered by the Soviet Union.
But I can't do that kind of thing.
However, Britain will find opportunities to establish influence. What is scary about the United States is not that it can lead the world to make a fortune. In fact, the most terrifying ability is that the United States can also destroy the pot, but the United States generally does not do this, because
The United States is the biggest beneficiary of the world order.
The UK can also throw the blame. For example, the next time the third India-Pakistan war leads to the independence of Bangladesh, the UK can completely sublimate it and send troops to protect Bangladesh's human rights. After India defeats it, get out quickly and remove Bangladesh from the Indian army.
rescued from occupation.
Of course, that is a matter for the future. Now let’s deal with this India-Pakistan war first. Eden finally told Alan Wilson a piece of good news. Regarding the plan for a large battleship-based test ship, that is, the guided missile battleship HMS Mountbatten, the Cabinet
Agreed in principle, we will vigorously roll out all the latest equipment.
Permanent Undersecretary of Defense Marks, in a subsequent report, stated that the two Eagle-class aircraft carriers have returned to the mainland and will be upgraded and installed with steam catapults.
Just as the Stockholm Conference was about to convene, the Battle of Drang Valley began. This was the first large-scale ground battle since the U.S. military arrived in South Vietnam.