A night of cranky thinking had no effect other than to wake John up the next morning dizzy and listless. In the end, John had to admit that his head could not study such a profound philosophical question.

If it had been in his previous life, he might have been able to consult some psychological materials and cases to find out the reason. But now, he doesn't think Freud's theories will help him.

So, in the end, John simply gave up on being ready to dwell on this issue. Anyway, he's been over for more than four years, and there's no big problem. Perhaps those occasional outbursts of emotion were just a "side effect" of his own inheritance of John's own memory.

John secretly "persuaded" himself not to be overly sensitive. In my previous life, I didn't read much online articles, so many "crossing predecessors", and I didn't see anyone who ended up schizophrenic. Besides, he should have hung up in that accident in his previous life, and now he has earned an extra day of life, so what else is there to worry about.

Despite the uneasiness in his heart, John forced himself to turn his attention to today's seminar. General William Lee is still waiting for him, an "expert in airborne theory", to save the day.

At about 9 a.m., John arrived at a conference room on the fifth floor of the Army Staff, as instructed. It seems that the scale of today's seminar is not small, and there are still more than 20 military officers gathered in the venue half an hour before the meeting begins. William Lee arrived early with several directors who led the paratrooper test unit, as well as Captain Gavin, who became famous for co-authoring the book "Tactics and Techniques of the Airborne Forces" with John.

"Colonel Vanderbilt, thank you!" Seeing John's "reinforcement", General William Lee took the initiative to come forward and say hello.

"Hello, General Lee. There are quite a few people here today. John hurriedly stepped forward and chatted warmly with William Lee.

"Now the people who are there are people from the Army Aviation Command, as well as scholars from various military academies. The staff probably arrived before the meeting. William Lee explained quietly: "I heard that Chief of Staff Marshall will be present in person, and there will be representatives from the White House. ”

"Yes." John really didn't expect that the specifications of this seminar would be so high, and it seems that he will have to perform well today.

"But what's going on with those two groups of people?" John asked curiously, noticing that the officers with flight badges in the conference room were clearly divided into two distinct groups.

"The one on the left is from the Army Aviation Agency, and the one on the right is from the Office of the Director of Aviation." William Lee explained.

John forgot that for a long time, in order to suppress the aviation force and prevent it from becoming independent, the upper echelons of the army divided the upper echelons of the aviation force into two parallel departments, the aviation bureau and the office of the director of the aviation force. The director of the aviation department is responsible for training and operations, and the director of the aviation department is in charge of personnel and procurement. It wasn't until shortly before John joined the army that the U.S. Army added the post of commander of army aviation to manage the two agencies in a unified manner.

When John helped Arnold set up the Statistics Control Office, he had heard of the fierce infighting between the two departments. It's just that the project he was in charge of at that time was personally led by General Arnold, so he didn't feel it deeply.

After waiting for a while, Chief of Staff Marshall, Deputy Chief of Staff Arnold, and the bigwigs of the Operational Planning Department, the Training Department, the Personnel Department, and the Intelligence Department all came to the venue one after another. McNair, as head of the Army's training and establishment reform efforts, sat directly to General Marshall's left-hand side. Even Embique appeared in the conference room as an adviser to President Roosevelt.

At the beginning of the meeting, a young and young major of the Intelligence Service gave a briefing on the basic situation of the battle in Crete. John wasn't sure if the Cretan battle in this life would be any different from his previous life, so he listened very carefully.

"Before the battle, there were 6,000 British troops on Crete. Later, part of the Greek and British troops retreated from Greece to the island. The defenders had a total of 1 division, 1 brigade, 2 regiments, 11 battalions and 5 companies, with a total of about 44,000 people, including about 14,000 Greek troops and about 30,000 British Commonwealth troops, under the unified command of Major General Freiberg, commander of the New Zealand division. ”

"On the Germans' side, our intelligence is not very complete. It is now certain that the air offensive forces are mainly from the 8th and 11th Air Armies, to which the 4th Air Force belongs, and that the combat units are mounted on the 7th Parachute Division, 1 regiment of the 22nd Parachute Division and the 5th Mountain Division. ”

The campaign lasted 12 days, and eventually the British and Greek forces were forced to withdraw from Crete, losing control of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean routes. The land lines of communication of the Germans in southeastern Europe were reliably secured. ”

"From the information we have so far, both sides have suffered significant losses in this campaign. The total number of British and Greek casualties was around 30,000. In particular, during the evacuation of Crete, the British Navy was attacked by German bombers. In total, 3 cruisers, 6 destroyers were sunk, 1 aircraft carrier, 3 battleships, 6 cruisers and 7 destroyers were damaged. The German casualties were around 15,000, and the 7th Division of the Paratroopers was basically reimbursed, and the division commander, Major General Sussman, was killed. ”

The officer of the Ministry of Intelligence spent about half an hour briefing everyone on the battle for Crete. Except for the fact that the commander of the 7th Division of the German paratroopers, Major General Sussmann, went from missing to killed, the basic situation was not much different from what John remembered in his previous life.

After the major finished speaking, the chief of intelligence, General Strong, added: "We are still collecting further details about the battle. At present, most of the information we have comes from the report of Major Bonnafellers, the military attache in Egypt. I have here some photocopies of the report, so you can circulate them if you are interested. ”

After that, several secretaries of the women's auxiliary team began to distribute the report to everyone. In a previous life, I had also heard of this famous report. As he bowed his head to study the contents of the study, General William Lee was already in a heated argument in the conference room with several officers who opposed the formation of a large-scale airborne force.

"The Battle of Crete has amply demonstrated the undesirable tactics of large-scale airborne landing. On a tactical level, this time the Germans were a complete defeat. For paratroopers to play their role, they must guarantee the suddenness of their actions, which is difficult to do with a massive airborne. In the early stages of the campaign, the German paratroopers had not yet landed, and the operation was mastered by the British defenders, which led to the failure of all three airfields, and the 7th Parachute Division was almost wiped out. ”

John glanced up and was speaking from a brigadier general from the Army Aviation Command. At the beginning of the "Air Infantry" program, the Army Aviation wanted to bring paratroopers under its own management. They have always wanted to create a small airborne force that has always belonged to them, rather than being directly subordinate to the army, as they are now.

"Although the losses of the German Airborne Forces were relatively large, their strategic intentions were basically achieved. Originally, relying only on the naval forces of the Germans and Italians, they could not carry out landing operations under the threat of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet. It was only by airborne that the island of Crete could be occupied and the British threat to southeastern Europe could be lifted. At a strategic level, the losses of the 7th Parachute Division were fully worth it. General William Lee fired back unflinchingly.

Soon, the two sides and their respective supporters began to argue, and the more they talked, the stronger the smell of gunpowder became. John had attended many internal seminars in the General Staff before, but it was the first time he had seen general-level bigwigs go into battle shirtless and tear them up in person.

It seems that even generals can't calm down on the key issues involving the distribution of resources and interests. This time it was a real eye-opener. John watched with relish, and for a moment he forgot what he was here for.

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