Chapter 3236 Red Dawn (Part 2)

With the order from Malashenko, the leaders and participating troops who had already entered the attack starting position and taken their positions immediately launched the attack.

This was a large-scale attack with a total of 20,000 troops from all arms. Before the rolling steel torrent rushed into the battlefield, Jack, who was holding a telescope and staring at the battlefield, first heard the whistling sound from far to near.

"Oh God, that's - Russian missiles! Missiles are coming!"

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh -

Four ground-to-ground short-range tactical ballistic missiles rose from the launch position beyond the visual range in the distance, whistling over the view of the director's office and the guest seats, aiming at the target position and falling straight down.

Bang, bang, bang--

Four tactical ballistic missiles landed accurately on four high grounds marked in advance. The missiles without warheads were like huge iron lumps falling from the sky, firmly hitting the positive slope, reverse slope, or near the top of the high ground. The dust raised by the huge kinetic energy rushed straight into the sky and flew at least 20 to 30 meters high.

As soon as the missiles fell, the directorate where Malashenko was located immediately took action.

Many Soviet generals present were either making phone calls or holding radios to confirm the situation, and a group of school officers were also busy. After just one minute, a major general walked quickly to Malashenko to salute and report.

"Report to the commander, the tactical missile brigade of the leader's army has completed the strikes on the four predetermined target positions, and all hit the targets accurately. The personnel and equipment of the East German troops hit have been determined to be completely destroyed."

"I know, I saw it, it was really good and accurate. The director's office will record it truthfully and report the damage to the East German battlefield command, and all the personnel and equipment that have been determined to be completely destroyed will be withdrawn."

"Yes, comrade commander."

After Malashenko gave the order, Jack, who was sitting next to him, saw it with his eyes and remembered it in his heart. He still had many puzzles about this first live Soviet military exercise.

After the major general who came to report took the order and left, Jack, who had been thinking about what he had just seen, asked Malashenko.

"General, I have seen the four points that were just hit. The materials say that they are the four commanding heights and guard positions of the East German troops. In fact, no troops are deployed there. I understand that this is to avoid accidental injuries."

"But I don't understand. The materials clearly show that there are two battalions of East German troops stationed at these four positions. Why can they be determined to be completely destroyed in the first place?"

Jack's meaning is very simple.

I know that you Russians are simulating missile strikes, but isn't the power of your missile a bit too strong?

The warhead of a tactical ballistic missile weighs 800 kilograms to one ton at most. The power is indeed not small, but it is still a bit too "shocking" to instantly kill a position with one shot.

Jack expected that Malashenko would definitely not do those pretentious tricks to fool people, and Malashenko's next answer was nothing but shocking.

"It's a tactical nuclear missile, Jack."

"The ballistic missile brigade of the leader army is equipped with tactical nuclear weapons. Our campaign and tactical nuclear doctrine is defined based on the "three firsts" of "first to use nuclear weapons, first to form a breakthrough, and first to cross the nuclear explosion."

"What you are seeing now is the scene after this theory is transformed into practical operation. The leader army is the attacker in this live-fire confrontation exercise. This is what it means to be the first to use nuclear weapons and to be the first to form a position breakthrough."

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In the past, I only learned some basic concepts of the Soviet campaign and tactical nuclear doctrine from intelligence with high or low credibility.

Although the Soviet Union has always been open, very clear and clear about its strategic-level nuclear doctrine, it is known to the world, and has established and maintained a fairly high strategic deterrence.

However, the campaign and tactical nuclear doctrine that has sunk to the Soviet battlefield combat level has always been in a strategic ambiguity state of partially open and partially confidential, which makes the enemy see but not guess and unable to make accurate judgments and conclusions.

Moreover, the Soviet military's operational and tactical nuclear doctrine is not static. As far as Jack knows, in the years since Malashenko took office, the operational and tactical nuclear doctrine of the East German cluster has been revised several times, reported to the higher authorities for review, and finally approved.

As for the details, I'm sorry, I don't know anything.

The CIA, which takes funds for nothing but does nothing, has raised a bunch of good-for-nothings. It can't even get any relevant information about the adjustment of the Soviet military's operational and tactical nuclear doctrine.

And there is something even more embarrassing. If you are really caught by the Russian KGB, it's fine. After all, everyone knows what the Russian KGB is capable of. It's not on the same level as you CIA, which can't do anything from assassination to rebellion.

What makes Jack speechless is that the CIA's waste can't even escape the eyes of the Germans in East Germany. Every now and then, they are invited by the Stasi to the basement to eat German dinners.

Without the Russians taking action, the Germans first killed most of the CIA's intelligence informants, spies and agents.

This kind of "embarrassment on the face of the lackeys" made Jack, who was in charge of the NATO Joint Forces Command, feel embarrassed, not to mention how the CIA felt about itself.

Facing the inquiries and reminders sent by Malashenko in the same city, it was like a slap in the face. And he couldn't say anything after being slapped, the more he said, the more embarrassed he would be.

The real understanding of the operational and tactical nuclear doctrine currently being implemented by the East German Cluster was through seeing it with my own eyes at the East German Cluster’s own exercise field, and with Malashenko’s explanation on the side, it was through the literal “enemy charity” that I was able to understand the details.

Don’t look at Jack’s calmness on the surface, that’s because he is in a high position and has long held power. Seeing that someone who is about to be promoted to the highest military attaché of the US military will not be able to do even this little cover-up.

But what is the reality?

Jack, with thousands of grass mud horses in his heart comparable to the Russians’ steel torrents rushing by, has already scolded those self-propelled gluttons who eat people’s food but do nothing for hundreds of times.

Intelligence work has been done to the point where you need to go to the enemy’s home and be invited by the enemy to understand it clearly, then what is your intelligence work?

With the mentality of “Forget it, anyway, this mess in Europe will not be my responsibility soon”, I chose to forget about it, and left the trouble to my next successor after returning home to figure it out.

Jack turned his attention back to the training ground in front of him and continued to stare at the steel torrent that the leader army had already launched. What he saw was the Russians' new main battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles rushing forward in the dust.