"Robert, what are you going to do with it?" John was still very concerned about Crawford. Unlike orthodox officers such as Bradley, Eisenhower, and Clark, Crawford's military career had too many similarities with John himself. Subconsciously, John has a natural affinity for this logistics officer, who has outstanding professional ability and a fairly clean background.

Utilitarian factors aside, after contact in the past few years, he and Crawford are quite close friends. Even Adele and Julia have become good friends, and they have a common language on the education of little Ella and Xiulan.

"I thought it would be better for me to change places, but I didn't think about where to go. Mark suggested that I go to Fort Leavenworth for some time to avoid the limelight. Robert apparently had an in-depth conversation with Clark about where he was going next.

John muttered for a moment, but did not speak. Letting Crawford go to Fort Leavenworth Military Academy first to find a short-term training class to cross the water, and temporarily jump out of the army staff, which is the place of right and wrong, is indeed the easiest and most effective way to solve his current predicament.

Although you can't learn anything real from this kind of short school, it's not a bad idea to let Crawford hide and clean up, make some contacts by the way, and "decorate" his resume.

And it's not that difficult to do. Although the training places at Fort Leavenworth Military Academy are tight, they are also divided into people. General McNair is also the principal of Fort Leavenworth Military Academy. All it takes is John or Clark to talk to his secretary "Little Fox" Fox.

However, John did not want Crawford to go to military school at this time. He counted the days, and estimated that before Crawford was closed, the Pearl Harbor incident should have broken out. When the time comes, the national war machine will be running at full capacity, and it is likely that neither John nor Clark will have time to care about Crawford. Nine times out of ten, this old friend of his will become a sweet spot in the eyes of the commanders of various units like other experienced officers, and will be coaxed and snatched up.

"If you go to Fort Leavenworth Military Academy, then you won't necessarily be able to do logistics after you graduate. Do you want to go to combat units and become commanders? John asked tentatively.

"Pull it down, I can't compare to you." Crawford waved his hand again and again, "I'm just dealing with numbers, commanding operations, and I can't even read combat maps." ”

Indeed, if it were someone else, it might not be a bad thing to fight the troops. Since then, the sea is wide and the sky is high and the birds can fly, maybe they can achieve a career and embark on the peak of their military career.

But John knew very well that Crawford was a good hand at logistics, and fighting a war was really not that material. Historically, Crawford does seem to have worked for a time under Fredendoll, a high-achieving MIT student who had just graduated from West Point, commanding an armored battle group. As a result, in the Battle of Kesselring Pass in North Africa, he was beaten to the ground by Rommel's Afrika Korps, who had retreated from El Alamein.

Fredendor was dismissed as commander of the Second Army, and after returning home to train new soldiers, Crawford was also sent to the Middle East to look at the supply warehouse. Later, if it weren't for the fact that the old chief, Major General Bull, needed a logistics staff officer when he took up his post at "Cosak" (the agency that planned Operation Overlord) and transferred him to London, Crawford would probably have been eating sand in the Middle East until the end of World War II. There would have been no such thing as him later becoming the head of logistics of the Supreme Command, taking charge of the logistics of the million-strong Allied army.

John had always believed in letting professional people do professional things, and he didn't want Crawford to leave the logistics system. Whether or not he will be in charge of logistics in the Supreme Command in the future is still very important to John's future plans. If Major General Bull didn't think of Crawford, his old subordinate, then his wishful thinking would not have come to naught.

But if he didn't go to Fort Leavenworth Military Academy, and didn't want to stay in the staff to be a target, where could Crawford go? Get him a logistics staff officer errand in a combat unit?

Some time ago, when Eisenhower was passing by Alexander, he complained to John that he was not very satisfied with the logistics of the Third Army, and that he wanted to dig into John's corner. John would not have refused Crawford's recommendation if he had recommended him.

But Eisenhower himself was a passing god in the Third Army, and it would not be long before he was transferred back to Washington as deputy secretary of operations for Asian affairs. In such a short period of time, it is difficult to say whether Crawford will be able to gain a foothold in the Third Army, let alone register with Eisenhower. Crawford is gone, and it is likely that he will never return to the center of the army, and at best he will be a first-class character of Mahler.

Or let Crawford go to General Somerville? Then Crawford won't even be able to go to the battlefield at that time, and he will organize production and construction in the rear.

After thinking about it, John suddenly had an idea. "Robert, do you dare to take a risk?"

"Adventure? What risk? Crawford asked, confused.

"Go to London and see for yourself what war is like." John deliberately bought a pass.

"John, you mean, next month's tripartite meeting?" Clark reacted first. Next month, the military and political leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union will hold a high-level meeting in London to discuss the specific distribution and transportation of war materials.

"That's right. Robert, haven't you been involved in the aid to Russia lately? This is a good opportunity, and I will go and talk to Mr. Hopkins and add you to the list of delegations. ”

"This is a good opportunity, Robert!" Clark slapped his face and said excitedly, "It's better than going to Fort Leavenworth Military Academy for further study." ”

Crawford didn't understand for a moment, and asked with some confusion: "It's nothing to go to London, haven't you been there before?" However, this is not a long-term solution. At most, it's more than a month, right, but what about when you come back? ”

"When you come back?" Clark was amused by Crawford's "naivety", "When you come back, who of those guys will dare to beat your idea." ”

"Although you have been involved in the implementation of the rental price bill, you can only be regarded as a peripheral participant, the executive level." John patiently explained, "After attending this meeting, even if you are really involved in the core affairs, even if you are running errands, you are running errands under the noses of those decision-making bigwigs, saying that you know whether you have entered the eyes of any bigwigs." With this amulet, the average person who dares to easily hit your idea. ”

"Yes, the tiger skin of Hopkins can still work very well sometimes." John said with a smile.

In fact, there is a greater benefit of this plan, which he has not yet said. That is, Crawford could remain in the Department of Operational Planning, and in the future he and Eisenhower would be colleagues in the same department. As long as John pulled the string slightly, Crawford would be able to get out of the future Allied commander-in-chief, and the road to the Allied High Command would be much smoother in the future.