Chapter 1305 Defensive Counterattack Strategy

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"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, acclimatization, and busy work, and recounted the itinerary of the Pentagon and the CIA. It has absolutely nothing to do with manned spaceflight.

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 until now, I still don't understand why the United States is fighting, whether 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, Great Britain, were laid to rest and ridiculed decades later, when we were fighting for world hegemony, we were attacked by Spain, France, Imperial Russia, Germany, and the Far East, and we were also attacked by the Qing Dynasty. We also hit the United States twice. The British Army is also a ruthless character, but the Navy is stronger.

Looking at the United States, 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. In Europe, it is about the level of Czechoslovakia. After winning World War II, if the U.S. military landed in Japan and crushed Japan's resistance head-on, it might 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, and the Army's self-confidence was not built up. To be honest, even if the United States takes the opportunity to attack India once, it will build confidence in the Army much better. When formulating strategies, it will not consider the issue of the Army's inability to win. It has been engaged in defensive counterattacks in South Vietnam for more than ten years.

Every time something happens, the United States thinks of betraying a slave state. In this regard, the United States is inferior to Japan. Japan really dares to fight an all-out 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 thorn in the world's 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 the Russian Empire 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 weaknesses in 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 that does not believe 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. This strategy is simply unwinnable."

Throughout the Vietnam War, even decades later, no one could understand what the United States' strategy was. They could only understand that the Vietnam War actually happened and the United States spent hundreds of billions.

After finishing his thoughts, Alan Wilson had not forgotten that this was Mountbatten's opinion, and from a personal perspective, he hoped that Prime Minister Eden would not say it out. He was not shirk the responsibility to his father-in-law. Mountbatten did reveal that the United States could not win at all with this almost cowardly arrangement.

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? Could it be that the Pentagon was 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, LeMay once said that the Pentagon and Dow Chemical were in talks. If he remembered correctly, Dow Chemical had two high-profile incidents. One was the production of orange in the Vietnam War. The other is the Bhopal incident in India. The former caused millions of human body deformities, while the latter caused Bhopal to lose hundreds of thousands of laborers overnight. Chemical weapons are so terrifying that no wonder they are called atomic bombs for poor countries.

Aiden nodded clearly, and that was all he could do. He hoped that the United States would not have the worst outcome, such as defeat in the war. At the same time, the UK cannot get involved and must show a flexible stance.

Eden informed Alan Wilson that the current diplomatic work is 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 on 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.

From this point of view, 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 made it impossible for Pakistan to 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 at all, but it itself was discovered two hundred kilometers away and had 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. Yes, it should be the other way around in normal times, 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 implement an embargo policy against 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 was busy with the Vietnam War, Britain and the Soviet Union had decided to sideline and let India take back the occupied land.

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 large population under the same technical 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 Britain's 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 interest 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 the countdown. India would become more and more biased towards the Soviet Union. Because Brezhnev had come to power, 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 the human rights of Bangladesh. 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. 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, all the latest equipment will be launched in a drastic manner.

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 after the U.S. military arrived in South Vietnam.