Chapter 1719 The Footsteps of the United States Catching Up

In this year's time, human science and technology ushered in the first big bang development, and the development in the global military can also be described as extremely rapid. ?

The United States ushered in a new president. With deep helplessness and regret, Obama left the world's attention and stepped down from the political arena. Americans ushered in a new president.

The annual military finance bill for the last year of Obama's tenure was also officially passed by the U.S. Congress. This year's U.S. fiscal expenditure directly reached 800 billion U.S. dollars, reaching the highest fiscal budget in U.S. history.

Obama, who left with regret, was willing to endure the loudest protests from the American people, but the bill was passed, and 800 billion U.S. dollars was also included in the annual military budget.

This money has also been transferred from the Federal Reserve to the U.S. government. Nothing can be changed, but the changes to the U.S. government are undoubtedly very huge.

After Obama left the political arena under the greatest pressure, the United States restarted the Raptor fighter production line, started the sub-upgrade of the Raptor fighter, accelerated the research and development of the sixth-generation fighter, accelerated the development of new strategic and tactical bombers in the future, and added the Lightning fighter The order of the new main battle tank started, and a large number of new ship orders were added.

The biggest change in the U.S. government, the arms sales bill to stable allies, was approved by Congress after Obama proposed it.

In the new ally military sales bill, the list of weapons and equipment that can be sold to allies includes 85% of the active equipment of the US military. Even the Raptor fighter jets and aircraft carriers that the US did not let go of before are on the list of sales among.

Even Newport News has undergone upgrades. The shipyard that could only build one super-carrier at a time has been expanded into two dry docks, which can almost simultaneously carry out the hull construction of two super-carriers.

These policy changes of the US government are almost at all costs, in order to be able to establish a powerful military force that will not be overrun by the Middle East Federation.

Selling advanced weapons and equipment in active service is also a helpless thing, because the US military development needs more funds, otherwise it is all nonsense.

However, it is impossible for Congress to fully meet the needs of the military every year. Therefore, the military needs its own financial resources, and the sale of advanced weapons and equipment is the military's main source of funds. Obama's move can also be regarded as doing to the military. Last effort.

In fact, the top leaders of the United States understand that the development of the Middle East Federation is unstoppable. If the United States cannot develop quickly, it will eventually be completely overtaken by the Middle East Federation.

The future is bound to be eventful, and many Western political observers even regard the Middle East Federation as Germany during World War II.

This metaphor has been supported by many people in the Western world.

Although the future technology group has found new interests in the future, compared with the super cake of space, the interests on the earth are really a drop in the ocean, but it is undeniable that in the next few decades or even hundreds of years, the earth will still be a place for human beings It is one thing to compete for the homeland, and it is difficult to leave the homeland. The main point is that it is impossible for all human beings to immigrate out in one go.

What's more, the competition for space interests is still impossible to be peaceful, unless it encounters a common and irresistible foreign enemy.

Therefore, the Western world is more willing to believe that the rise of the Middle East Federation will inevitably and greatly threaten the current interests of all countries on the earth. Just like the rise of Germany in the late eighteenth century and early twentieth century, some inevitability is difficult to avoid.

Regarding such arguments, Cai Ruichen and the Middle East Federation did not make any response. They are still moving forward step by step according to the plan, and a lot of attention is still placed on the space field.

Of course, as the outside world has said, Cai Ruichen has never diverted his main focus from the earth. Cai Ruichen also agrees with many of the viewpoints in this argument, and he is also very clear that in the next ten or twenty years, the focus of competition will still be On Earth.

The biggest basis for Cai Ruichen's point of view is based more on the degree of space science and technology exhibitions in various countries.

In his view, it is completely impossible for countries to truly compete with themselves in the space field without a decade or two of technological development and accumulation.

And Cai Ruichen has no time to develop at all. At that time, the Middle East Federation will be even stronger, so the interests of the earth are still the core focus of competition among countries.

The eagerness of the United States is completely understandable in the world, because during this year, the military development of the Middle East Federation has not stopped.

The regular army has increased to one million people, and with the garrisons of various countries, the total strength has exceeded 1.5 million.

Although the number of regular troops is similar to that of the United States, all of them meet the requirements of the elite troops of various countries in terms of the construction requirements of the garrison troops, and the quality requirements for regular troops are even stricter.

In contrast to the construction of the National Guard of the United States, the garrison forces of the Middle East Federation are significantly higher. The most important thing is that the military construction of the Middle East Federation this year has been largely inclined to the construction and improvement of the navy, air force and missile forces.

This means that the Middle East Federation has begun to move from conventional combat readiness to strategic combat readiness, and the construction of its military force has also begun to lean towards the type of active attack. The development of the navy, air force and missile force is the best interpretation.

In the past year, the second Ford-class ship, the USS Kennedy aircraft carrier, was launched and outfitted, and the hull construction of the third Ford-class ship was nearly half completed, but this did not bring much warmth to the Americans.

During this year, the Middle East Federation served three heavy-duty nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, all of which belonged to the Baghdad-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. One of them was named after Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, and the other was named after Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine. One is named after Tehran, the capital of Iran.

The addition of three aircraft carrier battle groups at once has brought almost unprecedented pressure on the United States and the entire Western world.

Previously, the Middle East Federation already had three aircraft carrier battle groups, plus three heavy-duty nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that were launched in one go within a year, and immediately had six aircraft carrier battle groups, compared with the current seven aircraft carriers in the United States. There is one less battle group.

In other words, within a year, the United States has completely lost its position as the maritime hegemon, and the global naval power structure has begun to reshuffle.

But this is not what worries the Western world the most. What really worries the Western world is the heavy news announced by the Middle East Federal Guard Naval Command.

(To be continued.)