Chapter 587: Marshal Ustinov's Decision
The cold wave from the Arctic is raging over Moscow, and the biting north wind and goose-feather snow make the people of Moscow, who are accustomed to the cold, a little uncomfortable, but compared with the severe cold outside, the war games in the operation room of the Soviet General Staff are as warm as spring.
In the just right vent that is covered, the heated heating is constantly blown in, so that the operating room always maintains a just right amount of comfort, however, in the eyes of the two top leaders of the Soviet army who stand oppositely, there is no comfortable warmth, but like an iceberg in the Arctic Ocean, it is cold and chilling
"It was you who sent the invitation, Comrade Marshal Ogarkov!"
In the face of Marshal Ogarkov's cold words, the Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union, who was over seventy years old, a close comrade-in-arms of the late Soviet leader Brezhnev, and the actual controller of the huge military industrial sector of the Soviet Union, Marshal Ustinov just smiled with a touch of indescribable indifference, as if reminding the other party, but Marshal Ogarkov didn't care about it, glanced at the messy wargame sandtable next to him, and still replied coldly:
"It's a pity that you came late, and the nephew General Konstantinovich, who you had high hopes for, still did not win!"
"Under your direction, no one can win!"
"I'm not directing, I'm stating a fact!"
"With your light bulb-like transistors and poker-like circuit boards?"
Marshal Ustinov twitched the corners of his mouth with disdain, and the wrinkles on his face twisted together at this moment. In addition to showing a touch of morbid ruddyness, it also revealed his long-standing "experience", and then raised his old eyes, which were already a little cloudy. Through the thick cross-framed reading glasses, he glanced at the wargame sandtable with obvious hostilities, and smiled sarcastically as if he was looking at a child's toy:
"These things can only be cannon fodder in front of nuclear ~ weapons ~ weapons, Comrade Marshal Ogarkov, please don't forget that in our Soviet military doctrine. The importance of nuclear ~ weapon ~ weapon, that is the key to victory!"
"However, in ordinary local wars, nuclear ~ weapons ~ weapons obviously cannot be put into use. Therefore, conventional forces are still the most effective means of solving problems, as we are in Afghanistan."
"What we are preparing for is an all-out war with Western imperialism, and the local war you are talking about is nothing more than coaxing children to play their own lives!"
Without waiting for Marshal Ogarkov to finish speaking. Marshal Ustinov interrupted him. And from his blunt tone, it can be heard that the obviously old Minister of Defense is obviously a little impatient, he was invited to participate in the war games held by the Soviet General Staff, but he did not arrive on time, because he knew that his arrival would inevitably clash with the Soviet Deputy Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, Marshal Ogarkov.
Now the contradiction between him, the Minister of National Defense, and the Chief of the General Staff has become an open secret in the top echelons of the Soviet army. Speaking of which, there was no political disagreement between the two, in order to raise the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army to a new level. It's just that Marshal Ogarkov's ideas are obviously too radical,
Marshal Ustinov, as Minister of Defense, obviously could not accept this by putting all his eyes and spirit on the so-called field of electronic information, and for this reason he also wrote a book saying that the future war would be an information-based war and an electronic war, and tried to popularize the so-called "electronic information" revolution in the Soviet army.
You must know that he is a staunch supporter and defender of the traditional military doctrine of the Soviet Union, especially for the theory of large-scale in-depth operations created by the Soviet Union during World War II, as well as the theory of victory by nuclear ~ weapons ~ weapons put forward by famous nuclear strategy experts in the Soviet Union.
It is precisely because of this that Marshal Ustinov hated Marshal Ogarkov's "crooked theories", and the contradictions between the two on the future construction and development of the Soviet army became deeper and deeper, but Marshal Ustinov, with the trust of Brezhnev and the support of the powerful conservatives of the Soviet army, always pressed Marshal Ogarkov.
However, this situation has undergone extremely subtle changes after the recently concluded Battle of Khorlamshahr, in which the Soviet Union has always been proud of its large-scale armored cluster offensive and the theory of large-depth operations have completely failed.
Putting aside the backward quality of the Iraqi army, which was completely suppressed by the enemy in terms of strategy and tactics and weaponry, the picture of the destruction of the T-72 tank by the new tank broadcast on Iranian state television also shocked the Soviet military very much, and it only felt that its own tank had been overtaken by other countries in the world in terms of performance.
However, compared with some "monkey version" tanks (performance simplified version) were penetrated, the Soviets who held tanks with more advanced performance were not very worried, what really shocked and frightened them was the so-called "death steel rain" in the mouth of Iraqi soldiers, which shocked the Soviet army, you must know that if the number of hostile countries have this weapon, it is equivalent to the complete loss of the Soviet Union's proud armor cluster, which is simply fatal to the Soviet Union.
It was against this background that Marshal Ogarkov seemed to seize an excellent opportunity to promote his military doctrine, and at this time, the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died of illness, and the high-ranking Minister of Defense, Marshal Ustinov, was also seriously ill.
It's just that out of respect for the Minister of Defense, Marshal Ogarkov will regularly send irrelevant briefings to Marshal Ustinov's hospital room and ask him to read them, but Marshal Ogarkov didn't know that his every move had long been under the control of Marshal Ustinov, and when he was in a little better, he came to the General Staff of the Soviet Army and met with Marshal Ogarkov at the end of the war games, just to have a showdown with this unruly Chief of the General Staff:
"I don't understand why you let the enemy of the Soviet Union ~ Vyig ~ Egypt not solve it, but blindly calculate your so-called winning 'number' here!"
Marshal Ustinov said coldly, and an imperceptible coldness had been revealed in his cloudy eyes. With the cleverness of Marshal Ogarkov, it was impossible for him not to notice, but for the man in front of him who had just gotten up from the hospital bed. The old Minister of Defense, who didn't know when he was going to lie down on the hospital bed again, had nothing to fear, and said proudly with a straight waist:
Let me see that the real enemy of the Soviet~Viybeans~Egypt is ourselves, our own old brain, and if we do not replace and repair it, all that awaits us is destruction!"
Marshal Ustinov looked awe-inspiring at Marshal Ogarkov, who was full of energy on the opposite side. The smile on his face was brighter, and the tone was more soothing. But like a rusty steel knife, rubbing against a grinding stone repeatedly, it pours into the ears of men:
"Comrade Marshal Ogarkov, you are responsible for what you said!"
"I'm in charge all the time!" Marshal Ogarkov replied crisply. But as soon as he said that. His adjutant pushed the door in with an anxious look, and then whispered a few words in Marshal Ogarkov's ear.
"Is it always ~~book~~ remember Andropov?"
The adjutant nodded affirmatively, and Marshal Ogarkov no longer asked when he saw this, but stared at Marshal Ustinov, who couldn't see any thoughts on the other side, with resentment, helplessness, chagrin, and sadness in his eyes. However, these complicated expressions finally converged into only one unforgettable look, that is, deep disappointment!
I don't know how long it took. Marshal Ogarkov finally withdrew his gaze, then picked up his overcoat and left with the adjutant, but at the moment when he was about to push the door out, he slowly stopped, looked back at the Minister of Defense who was already in his last years, and his face was filled with indescribable bitterness, but he still said intriguingly:
"Comrade Minister of Defense, I still hope that you will continue to implement my methods, even if it is only 10%, not for us, but for the USSR!"
"You are still the Chief of the General Staff, Comrade Marshal Ogarkov, I wish you a smooth inspection and visit!"
Marshal Ustinov was very polite and smiled very kindly, but Marshal Ogarkov, who had worked with him for many years, knew that his heartfelt words did not hear a word into the ears of the old Minister of Defense, so he looked at Marshal Ustinov again with an expressionless face, turned around, and walked out of the door of the operation room without looking back.
At the moment when Marshal Ogarkov left, Marshal Ustinov's nephew, Deputy Chief of the Operations Department of the Soviet General Staff, Lieutenant General Konstantinovich, who had just been scolded by the Chief of the General Staff, immediately flashed in, and with a smile of successful conspiracy, he stood up to his uncle, Marshal Ustinov, who was also the top boss:
"Comrade Marshal, I am ready to rush to Iraq at any time!"
"En!" Marshal Ustinov glanced at his nephew and nodded with satisfaction: "Let's go as soon as possible, General Ivashutin of the General Directorate of Military Intelligence is too disrespectful there, Comrade Andropov is very dissatisfied, but our chief of the General Staff is not on this, and now the comrades of the Political ~~~~~ Bureau are very disappointed in him, so you must save the image of the Soviet Union this time, understand?"
"Yes!" Lieutenant General Konstantinovich once again stood upright, with a victorious gesture on his face (to be continued. )
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