Wilson managed to convince his political team to support the war. But then the question arises, what about the Panama Canal?

Do you want to do your best to keep the Panama Canal? Once the canal is lost, the US Navy will be split in two, and as for the transoceanic military movement, it is estimated that the US Navy will starve to death on the road!

The coalition forces dared to go on an expedition across the ocean, because there were a large number of people in Canada, Mexico, and South America who were responsible for logistics and supply, but they did not directly start from London and kill directly to the United States, and the colonial government was responsible for logistics along the way!

In order to plan for this war, as early as more than a year ago, the British had been stockpiling supplies in advance, otherwise how could they say that they would send troops?

John Joseph Pershing, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, one of Wilson's most trusted generals. Well, in this era, there are really no famous generals in the United States, and generals can only be selected among short people, and John Joseph Pershing finally passed the Spanish-American War!

He was so powerful at the behest of an incompetent group of generals that he had only killed the peasant rebels during the invasion of Cuba and then suppressed the indigenous uprisings in the Philippines.

If they have not participated in the world war, the American GIs naturally have no chance to perform, so the chief of the army general staff promoted by Wilson is not as good as any division commander in the three countries of Britain, France and Bulgaria!

William Sheiver Benson is the secretary of the U.S. Navy, he was not promoted by Wilson, the U.S. Navy is much stronger than the Army, and Wilson, the president, has not been able to interfere with the appointment of their Secretary of the Navy.

Now they are here at the White House, along with the US Cabinet, plus President Wilson, and they are working out the battle plan together, or they are deliberating on the military's battle plan!

Wilson said passionately: "The United States of America has reached the most critical moment, even if the British burned down the White House back then, it cannot be compared with the present!"

Having won this war, the United States is still the United States, and if this war is lost, this land will once again be reduced to scorched earth! ”

Well, his expression is white, everyone here is an old fritter, who cares about these official articles?

Wilson's face sank, his majesty as a president was almost swept away, he paused, swallowed back all the words in his stomach, and said coldly: "Two generals, take out your battle plan!" ”

William Schiffer Benson was the first to speak: "This time the enemy is menacing, attacking from both sides at the same time, our navy is limited in strength, and it is unable to resist the enemy on both sides at the same time, the Admiralty has decided to concentrate all the warships in the Atlantic Ocean to defend our most elite eastern coast!" ”

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice immediately retorted: "How can this be done? The Navy all went to the East Coast, what will we do with the West Coast? Is it just thrown to the enemy? ”

Benson said coldly: "I'm sorry, our navy strength is limited, even if we want to defend our east coast, we can't do it, if we divide our forces again, we don't even need a battle plan, we can directly admit defeat!"

On the East Coast, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida are among the best places in the United States.

From the perspective of maximizing interests, only by keeping the East Coast as much as possible can we preserve the vitality of the United States to the greatest extent.

It's a big deal to learn to be the Continental Army to deal with the British, if you win, you will fight, if you can't win, you will run, although the League of Nations is menacing, but they are also full of internal contradictions, as long as time drags on, they will collapse on their own! ”

In fact, this is just a scene, these states on the east coast of the United States, accounting for most of the country's population, more than seven layers of economic aggregate, it is inevitable to give priority to defending the east coast, as early as Benson proposed that this is a plan, the US Navy has already acted.

The opposition was only for the sake of political correctness and to prove that the government really had no choice but to abandon the coastal defense of the Pacific coast!

As early as when various countries confiscated US overseas assets, the US Navy quietly transferred its main fleet to the east coast, and now it is the last batch of navies to be transferred.

And most of them are still old-fashioned warships, and several capital ships are also the earliest generation of dreadnoughts of the US Navy, and their combat effectiveness is not very good.

This is similar to what the British guessed, the real main force of the Royal Navy is also in the Atlantic Fleet, and most of the capital ships in the Pacific Fleet are first-generation warships.

The deployment of the navy naturally made the army very dissatisfied, and John Joseph Pershing retorted: "General Benson, I'm afraid you have mistaken the target, this time our enemy is the whole world, not just the British Empire!"

Our Army's defense zone is to draw a circle with the United States, do you think it is that easy? The enemy will land from Canada, Mexico, and these thousands of kilometers of coastline, and you tell me how to defend it? ”

Benson said coldly: "This question is also what I want to ask, it would be good if the navy could hold the east coast, as for the issue of the army, I personally recommend continuing to expand the army!"

The Germans could face the Allied forces of eight million Entente countries alone in Europe for half a year, or collapsed because of lack of supplies!

You can learn, there will never be so many enemies against you, with our resources and industrial strength, as long as you can stop the enemy, the government will never let you starve! ”

The contradictions between the navy and the army are not small in every country, and the United States is naturally no exception. Now that the navy has retreated from the west coast and wants the army to fill the hole, Pershing naturally can't bear it!

Pershing said angrily: "Our army does not have this ability, this problem is just look at our military spending, a few years ago our army total strength was only 26,000, just one division!"

Now it is an expansion of the army, and soon the total strength of our army will reach 8 million, and even more than 10 million in the future, but unfortunately most of these troops are the militia of the federal states, how many of them can be mobilized by the War Department, this is still a serious problem?

As for your navy, what do you do with so much military spending every year? If we all gave us the Army, we wouldn't have to bother so much now! ”

Wilson interrupted angrily: "Stop, I called you over today, I didn't come to quarrel, the war has begun, and we have no extra time to waste!"

Everyone come up with the battle plan, continue the topic just now, whether you agree with the plan of the Admiralty or not, vote directly! ”

On the issue of concentrating the navy's forces to defend the east coast, everyone still adopted this combat plan.

Pershing said with an embarrassed face: "The deployment of the army's troops is very troublesome, and we will not transfer the militia of the coastal and border states that we choose, and the army that the War Department can really mobilize now is actually very limited!"

Since there are so many places where the enemy can attack, we plan to deploy our land forces on several nodes so that reinforcements can be readily available.

Deployment ......"

The total strength of the U.S. Army is as high as 8 million, and the army directly under the Department of War has just reached more than 3 million, even these troops are the troops that Wilson personally coordinated with the consortium and used their huge influence to pick out the hands of the state governments!

The coastal states and border states are very supportive of the government's military expansion, but this support is limited to words, and most of their expanded troops are left to defend their hometowns, and as for the defense of the Federation, this problem is left to others!

At present, the main force of the US Army is basically recruited from inland states, and they also have little interest in defending the country!

Without World War I, the U.S. government was not able to establish a perfect national conscription system, and now it is very easy for the states to recruit militias, and everyone is still very active in defending their hometowns.

The army in Pershing's hands is now almost a shelter, and in order to make up the number of soldiers promised to the central government, the states have opened the prisons, released the prisoners, and let them make meritorious contributions for their crimes!

Of course, these are not enough, so some federal states have an idea, and if there are not enough whites, there are still blacks? Everyone is American, how can we not have them when defending our homeland and country?

So now the main force of the U.S. Army is actually Uncle Black, and this proportion is still increasing, and other races, such as Indians and Asian races, have also appeared.

There is no need to discuss the issue of combat effectiveness, the US Army in this era is only able to bully the natives, but when the militias of various states defend their hometowns, they have some combat effectiveness!

Seeing that everyone was silent, Wilson reluctantly announced: "Since everyone has no opinion, let's do it!" ”

For a war with no hope in sight, don't expect everyone to be very passionate, if there is a choice, it is estimated that this time the US military will become the most fierce anti-war faction!

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When the U.S. government began to mobilize the whole country, the pace of war was getting closer and closer to them, not that no one wanted to take the initiative, the problem was that it was useless to win now!

What if you beat Mexico and Canada? Could it be that they could be wiped out in just half a month?

Since you can't kill the enemy, then don't waste your precious troops, the main job of the American people now is to dig trenches, and the Americans also learned a lot in this world war, and trenches are one of them.

In order to win this war, the Americans began to dig trenches indiscriminately, and the states organized their own defenses, so many times there was a situation of irony.

For example, when honest Americans were digging trenches, they accidentally dug up the road to the neighboring state; Or they didn't think about the actual situation and dug a big ditch; Or digging ......

That's the case in countries where everyone has guns, and you don't have to worry about weapons in times of war. Even with such an aggressive military expansion by the U.S. government, they can still guarantee that everyone has a gun!

Don't mention the problem of logistics, it is estimated that General Pershing does not know how many kinds of weapons his troops are equipped with, let alone supplies!

It's not enough to have guns, they also need guns, so the old antiques that have been preserved by collectors are invited out, not too old, most of them are the products of the Civil War, and in a third of the countries of the world, these equipment are okay!

Even if he was so hungry, Pershing only scavenged more than 3,000 cannons for the army, and the rest was of course still in the workshop of the arsenal!

In addition to artillery, machine guns, tanks, and armored vehicles are also all lacking, even if the United States is the world's largest industrial power, but there is definitely no one in the top three in the military industry.

Even during the world war, they increased their production lines, but at the end of 1917 the capitalists disposed of them and now they have to start again.

With the American system, when the capitalists have completed the adjustment of the production line, there will be no time for a year and a half, so don't ask for extravagance!

If you don't see a rabbit, you don't scatter an eagle, although the Wilson government has long asked the capitalists to carry out a wartime economy, but unfortunately they don't see orders, they just don't change the production line!

And in peacetime, President Wilson wants to expand his armaments, so let's pass the congressional hurdle first! Without the approval of the parliamentarians, he, the president, has no right to expand arms warfare!

The most important thing is that the government has no money in its hands, whether it is raising taxes or issuing bonds, it must be passed by Congress, so Secretary of State Rice has found it again!

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said worriedly: "Mr. President, the bonds we issued have been given a cold reception in the market, and several major domestic consortia are not interested!"

Since our overseas assets were frozen, at the end of last year, the domestic economy was in trouble, and the stock market had long since fallen to the bottom, and now there is no sign of recovery, so we have imposed war taxes and are also in trouble! ”

Wilson said angrily, "Damn the crumbs! Don't these capitalists know that their lips are cold and their teeth are cold? Once we are defeated, will they still expect the League of Nations to protect their interests?

What plans do you have to get us through this crisis? ”

If the American consortium knew Wilson's thoughts, they would definitely cry out for injustice, I really thought that they were so wealthy, and the American consortium in this era was not the American consortium after World War II!

With the early end of the world war, they were at most a second-rate consortium, close to a first-class consortium, and with the annihilation of overseas investment, they also suffered heavy losses and were re-beaten back to a second-rate consortium.

It is also necessary to support the national defense construction of the base camp, so naturally there is no spare energy to buy the bonds of the central government, and of course, worrying about the government's ability to repay is also a very important factor!

Rice thought for a moment and said: "There is no good way, economic experts told me that the government can take over the Federal Reserve and get through this by issuing dollars!" ”

Hearing this suggestion, Wilson fell silent, and this was not the first time he had thought about it.

Taking over the Fed is not that simple! Of course, at this time, he doesn't care about offending the consortium, the problem is that he doesn't have enough gold reserves in his hands?

The US dollar can become one of the mainstream currencies in the world, and the consortium behind the Federal Reserve has made great efforts, without their support, the gold reserve problem alone is enough to make the US government struggle for another 30 years!

Rice made this suggestion, apparently they also knew the problem, the gold reserves did not increase, that is, they were indiscriminately issuing money, taking advantage of inflation, plundering wealth from the people for war!

Wilson is not an economic idiot, on the contrary, he is an economic expert, and he knows that this matter will not stop from the beginning.

It may only be an increase of 10 percent of the dollar, but inflation may be 50 percent, and this is mainly a matter of people's confidence in the dollar.

In peacetime, we can still find ways to restore the confidence of the people, and don't think about it in wartime, it is estimated that no matter how optimistic the American people are, they do not think that they can win this war!

Most people's purpose is just to keep their hometown, and if they are defeated, they will be defeated, anyway, as long as they don't harm their own interests!

"Well, do as you say!" Wilson said helplessly

After making this decision, it is estimated that the American people's impression of him, the "worst president" in American history, will become even deeper!

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