In Camp David, in the president's office, Bush pressed his temples with his hands with a tired face, and his mind was a little confused by the national security meeting that had just ended..........

"Fortunately, things are settled!"

Bush could only comfort himself in order to calm down his restless thoughts: Concealing Kuwait, allowing Iraq to carry out its actions, and then carrying out a large-scale military attack on Iraq from the moral high ground, and then urging Iraq to cross Iraq, while firmly controlling the Middle East region, is the lifeblood of the United States, laying a solid foundation for US hegemony in the post-Cold War era. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The goal is very ambitious, but to be honest, until now he has not been sure whether his decision is correct, knowing that Iraq's military strength is second to none in the Middle East, not to mention that if you want to drive Iraq out of Kuwaiti territory, it is necessary to engage in a ground war, and this means heavy casualties, just as Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said just now:

"For the U.S. military, which has just emerged from the shadow of the Vietnam War, ground warfare is a beast of prey, because it represents tragic casualties. ”

For a country that values life and liberty above all else, heavy casualties would provoke a domestic backlash and even plunge the United States back into the tears of the Vietnam War, which Bush did not want to see, because that would mean the end of his political life.

But if he didn't, his political life would have continued? The answer, of course, is no, because the one at the Bairdro farm will not hesitate to abandon him, and perhaps in a few weeks he will be reduced from a high-ranking president to a despised waste, but that person is so terrible that even he, the high-ranking president of the United States, is jealous..........

"Jingle Bell~~~~"

Just as Bush was pondering whether his decision was feasible, the rapid ringing of the phone interrupted his train of thought, and he rubbed his tight cheeks vigorously with his hand, and then he picked up the phone with a frown, and then his deep and steady voice rumbled through the telephone receiver:

"Mr. President, excuse me!"

Hearing this voice, Bush's heart could not help but tremble, and the tired look on his face was instantly replaced by undisguised surprise: "You are .........?"

"Yes, Mr. President, I am!"

Before Bush could finish speaking, the voice on the other end of the phone rang out sonorously and vigorously, like a spring thunderbolt, bombarding Bush's weak heart and causing it to beat more rapidly:

"It's true that things in the Middle East are tangled, but your decision has made them the cornerstone of our success, and I am confident that this meeting at Camp David will go down in history!"

"I hope so, but you also know that if we do this, we will have to engage in a ground war with Iraq, and casualties will be inevitable........."

"Are you afraid we'll be caught up in a Vietnam War-like quagmire again?"

"Yes, this may not be nothing!"

At this time, Bush had also calmed down, and the Vietnam War of that year was hastily launched by interest groups in the United States, which eventually led to chaos in American society, and finally caused the interest groups that agitated for the Vietnam War to completely lose their position, and it was precisely because of this favorable opportunity that the Baierdero Farm quickly took the position to become the behind-the-scenes helmsman of a new generation of American interest groups, and it was precisely for this reason that Bush believed that the farmer on the other end of the phone should understand the risks of a ground war with Iraq.

"Iraq is indeed a tough nut to crack, the eight years of the Iran-Iraq war have given them great battlefield experience, and our children are inferior to them in this regard, but in other aspects CENTCOM Commander Schwarzkopf has a different opinion, you can ask him when you have time, you must know that he made a code name a few years ago The battle plan of the military assassin is officially Iraq, although there is no formal exercise, but it has also been deduced by computer simulation, and some of the tactics and ideas in it are very interesting, oh by the way, the person who made this plan is an Air Force colonel, named Christ, he is a very interesting person............"

There seemed to be some fragments on the other end of the phone, and there was no sentence to say, and there was no sense of logic before and after, but Bush listened very seriously, and Bush would also use a pencil to write a few key words on the white paper, so the two chatted for a while, and then hung up the phone, but Bush did not rush to rest, but picked up the white phone on the other side again, and directly called Admiral Schwarzkopf, commander of the US Central Command.........

In the early morning of the next day, the sky was just bright, and in the headquarters building of the Central Command at McDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, a huge giant computer was running at high speed.

Admiral Schwarzkopf, commander of the U.S. Central Command, stood in front of the glittering screen, his muscular body standing as tall as a mountain, his broad shoulders carrying the heavy general star effortlessly, his expression solemn, his mind kept recalling the president's phone call last night, although he was very confident, but still held twelve points of caution.........

"General, the results are out!"

At this moment, Air Force Colonel Christer, the operational staff officer of the Air Force Command of the Central Command, did not come over, and did not care about the red circles under his eyes due to staying up late, and handed over the results of the computer deduction conducted overnight to Schwarzkopf.

"Iraq's last troops will reach a million!"

"If Saddam Hussein really wants to keep Kuwait, a million-sized army is a must, so our scale must be at least 500,000 to 700,000 to compete with it, so I think that our strike method should give more prominence to the strike capability of aviation equipment, that is, to use large-scale and long-term strategic air strikes in order to eliminate the hidden danger of our army's attack, and only in this way can our casualties be minimized!"

Schwarzkopf nodded, then raised his head, stared at the fixed screen again, and immediately looked at it, and commanded in a deep voice:

"Compile a detailed plan, and in two hours, follow me to the HSD to report to the president in person.........."

Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, the night breeze before dawn slowly blew through this ancient civilized city, but this time it did not bring a refreshing coolness, but a storm that destroyed everything, and the source of the brewing storm was the underground command room of the General Staff building,

At this moment, the lights are bright, the soldiers are shuttling out and looking busy, but they are also in order, the modern communication and command system is constantly receiving and sending confidential messages, sending out the sound of "doo~~~", at midnight Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is not as good as the combat command room under the escort of bodyguards,

At the same time, the Medina Armored Division, the Hammurabi Armored Division, and the Baghdad Mechanized Division of the Iraqi Republican Guard deployed on the Iraqi border have completed their final pre-war preparations, hundreds of black guns are aimed at Kuwait across the line, nearly 100 advanced fighters are parked on the runway with ammunition, and Iraqi special forces that have infiltrated Kuwait in advance have been stationed at major bridges, intersections, and Lurking near the main road, Iraq's vast war machine will crush Kuwait, which has less than 20,000 troops, to smithereens at the sound of an order...........

Time passed bit by bit, and the night wind blew stronger and stronger, sweeping across the Middle Eastern desert with the dry heat characteristic of August, as if it was a warning, but more like a wail, because the sad wind was not so much whistling as it was sobbing, crying the sorrow of Kuwait, and more crying about the future of Iraq,

An hour passed in a flash, and when the time was fixed at one o'clock in the morning, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein did not hesitate to grab the red command phone in front of him, and issued an order that shocked the world in an unquestionable loud voice:

"Target: Kuwait, attack!"

The cold voice reached the Iraqi border in an instant through the radio waves, and in a few moments, this coldness turned into the fiercest flame, sweeping towards the weak Kuwait..........

At 1 a.m. on August 1, 1990, three divisions of the Iraqi Republican Guard crossed the Iraq-Kuwait border and launched a surprise attack on Kuwait, until 5:30 a.m., the army was on the verge of the capital Kuwait City, and at 19 o'clock in the evening, Kuwait City fell, and the entire territory of Kuwait was occupied by Iraq the next day!

When this explosive spread throughout the world, the whole world was shocked, no one expected that Saddam would invade his former allies, just when everyone was surprised by Salam's outrageous move, another shocking news immediately occupied the front pages of major media,

The two aircraft carrier battle groups "Eisenhower" and "Independence," cruising in the Arabian Sea, immediately assembled in the Persian Gulf, while at the same time a reinforced battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division deployed on the US mainland rushed to Saudi Arabia as an advance team on C-5 transport planes and stationed in Italy on two F-1 planes. The 15th Squadron, forming an air defense force, flew to Saudi Arabia, and the whole process was completed in more than ten hours, followed by a larger and more powerful military force, for which the US military gave this defensive build-up operation a very apt code name:

"Desert Shield"

At this point, the bay inevitably fell into the flames of war............ (To be continued.) )