Chapter 874: Island Operation Plan

"Now is not the time for a decisive battle with the island nation's navy. [6] [9] [s] [h] [u] [x] [.] [c] [o] [m]" Former Navy Commander-in-Chief, current Staff Officer Lieutenant General Andrew, Chief of General Staff of the Ministry, shook his head and objected: "

This is obviously not in line with our plan. It is not a good thing for us to defeat the island country quickly at this time. We also have to face the more powerful Germany.

What's more, would Australasia, which had defeated the island countries and gained hegemony over the entire Pacific, be less of a threat to Britain and France than Germany?

In order not to worry our allies, let's play with the islanders for a while first. "

Although the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and the Chief of General Staff are both at the rank of lieutenant general, there are still some differences in status.

The military structure of Australasia is somewhat different from that of other countries. As an autocratic monarchy, the military's primary target of allegiance is naturally Arthur.

This also resulted in the fact that the highest institution of the military was the Ministry of Defense serving Arthur, rather than the general staffs or other institutions of other countries.

The Ministry of National Defense has four major departments: the Navy, Army and Air Force Headquarters, the General Staff Department, as well as smaller departments such as the Logistics Department.

In the promotion of senior military officers, the staff officers of the three services will be promoted to commanders, and the commanders of the three services will be promoted to chiefs of general staff.

The Secretary of Defense is a position similar to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. It is the highest-ranking of all military positions and the highest-ranking military rank.

General Daniel immediately calmed down after hearing what Andrew said about the staff plan.

The so-called plan is actually to turn the war in Europe into an internal conflict between Britain, France and Germany and Italy through war with island countries.

Without the United States, Australasia, as the strongest player outside Europe, is obviously the biggest beneficiary of Europe's internal friction.

As long as Europe weakens, Australasia will be able to acquire a large amount of the heritage of European countries and gain the opportunity to master world hegemony.

Of course, this is still very risky.

First of all, it is necessary to grasp the balance between the two major military groups of Britain, France and Germany and Italy. Australasia has always been on the side of Britain and France, which also means that the winner of the war can only be Britain and France, not Germany and Italy.

Secondly, Britain and France must win, but Britain and France must also have most of their national power consumed by Germany and Italy.

Judging from the current combat effectiveness of the British and French armies, it is very difficult to achieve this goal.

Only by weakening the strength of Britain and France, especially the British, as much as possible, can Australasia gain more land, and in a relatively peaceful way.

Places such as the British Straits Settlements, the Chagos Islands in the center of the Indian Ocean, and Mauritius in the western Indian Ocean are not that important to the British.

At least in the face of large-scale wars related to the survival of the country, the importance of these lands is not that high.

In order to win this war, Britain must make some concessions of interests. What Australasia requires is actually these geographically important lands, including post-war resource allocation and so on.

According to historical experience, there will be almost no large-scale wars in the nearly hundred years after the end of this war.

Of course, history is only a reference after all, not necessarily the standard answer.

But this actually probably shows that after the world's major countries have powerful nuclear weapons, those countries with other ambitions must also curb their ambitions.

After all, you can search or even destroy a country because you suspect it has nuclear weapons, but you will never search a country because it possesses nuclear weapons.

Suspicion and reality are two different outcomes at the diplomatic level.

Since World War II was the largest war in a century, it was also the war most likely to change the world situation.

Then, Australasia's planning in this war is understandable. After all, if Australasia cannot become a world hegemon after the end of this world war, it is destined to be impossible in the next few decades.

Throughout world history, since the age of navigation, the replacement of world hegemons has often been accompanied by wars.

It is almost impossible to become a world hegemon through peaceful means. After all, no country wants to see itself slowly stepping down from the altar.

The British Empire has maintained its hegemony for nearly a hundred years. Naturally, the British do not want to see Britain become an ordinary great power, even if the new world hegemon is Australasia, which has almost the same origin as Britain. Even the royal family was originally a country of one family.

Therefore, the only way for Australasia to become a world hegemon is to weaken Britain as much as possible in this war and make the British realize that Britain is no longer strong.

"Then what should we do? Is there no response to this attack by the islanders?" Navy Commander Daniel looked at Chief of General Staff Andrew and asked.

"Of course not." Chief of General Staff Andrew shook his head and looked at Arthur. After receiving Arthur's nod in agreement, he continued: "

Of course we must retaliate against the attacks by the islanders, and we must make the islanders bear a hundred times the losses.

But the time for revenge is not now, now we have other plans. "

Seeing that he had successfully attracted everyone's attention, Andrew smiled, took out a document, and then introduced: "

Please see, this is the latest plan of the General Staff to attack the island country.

Because our allies (Philippines, Kalimantan, West Coast United Kingdom, California) have declared war on the island country, we can form a huge army of more than 1.5 million in a short time.

The closest to the island country is the Philippines, but it is still nearly 1,700 kilometers away.

Obviously, such a long distance has a very significant impact on our combat plan.

Therefore, the first step is to quickly land in the Okinawa area of ​​the island country from the Philippines to the north.

The northernmost tip of Okinawa is only about 300 kilometers away from the island country, and even some closer islands have a round-trip distance of less than 500 kilometers.

This also means that the aircraft we deploy in the Okinawa area can easily harass the island country's mainland.

Secondly, regarding the navy, we also have a more detailed combat plan.

According to the current situation, the main sources of materials for the island country, in addition to the Asian continent, are basically America and Africa.

The task of the navy is to completely blockade the island country's trade routes to America and Africa, and cut off the island country's possibility of obtaining supplies from the outside world.

The island country lacks sufficient supplies, and their attacks will become more crazy. Once their attacks fall into the final madness, our chances of winning will be greater.

In addition, some islands of the island country in the Pacific, where there are not many garrisons, are also included in our first step of the capture plan.

As long as the island country's routes to the east and south are gradually blocked, this island country wandering on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean is destined to become an isolated island with no help. "

It can also be seen from Australasia's combat plan against the island country that the army did not attach too much importance to the island country, a so-called great power.

In fact, this is true. Because of the shortcomings of its own mineral resources and oil materials, the island country is somewhat unworthy of the name of a great power.

Their main achievement in becoming a great power was to defeat part of the Russian army that was not well prepared in the Far East at that time.

But the opponent at that time was only the Russian army in the Far East, not the entire Russia, so the island country still took a great advantage.

After gaining hegemony over part of the Far East, the island country's industry began to grow rapidly. But they also had to face a bigger problem, that is, the mineral resources of the island country were very poor, which not only seriously limited It has restricted the industrial development of the island country, and also made the island country's comprehensive national strength and potential remain at a lower level among the great powers.

This is also the reason why this country continues to expand outward. If they do not expand, they are destined to become the bottom of the great powers, and even become weaker and weaker, and step down from the altar of the great powers.

No matter what they do, they can never change the fact that the island country has a small land area and poor mineral resources.

Even if the island country has a larger population among the great powers, in the eyes of the more powerful European powers, the island country is still just an Italian-level, mediocre great power.

In terms of industry, Australasia can easily crush the island country.

For Australasia, this competition is a time-consuming one. The longer it is, the easier it will be for Australasia to win.

The island nation is the country that cannot afford to delay the most. The only hope for the island nation to win is to win the naval battle, then gradually blockade the Australasia mainland, and break through the overseas territories of Australasia one by one.

But the problem is that Australasia's industrial scale far exceeds that of the island nation, and the speed of building warships is naturally far faster than that of the island nation.

If both the island nation and Australasia are producing at full capacity, for every main battleship built by the island nation, Australasia can build at least 2.5.

This is the first, and the second is the economic imbalance between the two sides.

The island nation has such a large army and warship scale, and it is inevitable that the whole country will tighten its belt to live in poverty. Dilemma.

But Australasia is different. Australasia's economic level is not the best among the great powers, but the government's financial situation is definitely relatively good.

Moreover, Australasia itself has a large amount of mineral resources and oil, and the cost of industrial construction is much lower than that of island countries.

If island countries want to maintain a certain level of industry, in addition to snatching ore from other countries, they can only buy it from more distant areas at a high price and waste more time.

This also limits the island countries' industry from developing to a larger scale because they don't have any raw materials at all.

If you want to build a building without cement and steel bars, you can't just build a few air walls!

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