On Monday, at the regular office meeting of the Operations Planning Division, Major General Bull was listening to his deputy chiefs report on the previous week's work. In the Army General Staff, the operational planning department, which holds the power to examine and approve plans, is a well-deserved first department, and the chief of the operational planning department is often directly concurrently served by the deputy chief of staff.www.biquge.info Correspondingly, the work tasks of the department are also the heaviest in the entire general staff.

In John's view, the relationship between the Operations Planning Division and other divisions was somewhat similar to that between the "National Development and Reform Commission" and other ministries in later China. Take material procurement and deployment as an example, the procurement plan and material deployment plan are formulated by the operational planning department, and the demand applications submitted by the troops below are also examined and approved by the planning department, but the specific implementation of the plan is completed by the supply department.

Today's battle planning department is far from bloated, but it is full of hills. Some deputy directors have been sitting in this position for 10 years and have not moved their nests, so they will naturally form one small circle after another. This is not surprising, human nature is probably like this. When John first arrived, didn't he start to build his own coterie as well.

To put it mildly, historically, several of those high-ranking US Army generals on the European battlefield in World War II were not in Marshall's "small circle". Otherwise, how did the notorious "China Gang" come about. (Most of the Army generals in the Pacific theater belonged to another hill, and the eldest was MacArthur, who was older than Marshall.) ）

Therefore, John was not surprised by this "political ecology" of the department, but he was really surprised by the low efficiency of the department. The long-term peace has made these veteran officers accustomed to working in a step-by-step manner, and an application for the expansion of the barracks of an infantry regiment of the Western Military Region actually has to go through six approvals, and finally it has to be filed with the deputy director in charge of the barracks construction plan. A set of procedures went down, and half a year passed.

No wonder Marshall was anxious to replace these old men with young officers, who would not have been able to complete the preparations for war in 10 years with their efficiency. John could see that Major General Bull, as Marshall's new chief, was also very dissatisfied with the efficiency of these people, but he couldn't do anything with these "old fritters" for a while.

Finally, it was Colonel Wells' turn to report to work. The old guy rambled on for almost ten minutes, and there was nothing dry at all. Not even a word was said about the three export applications for which John was responsible. It's not because Wells suddenly found out in his conscience and wanted to let John go. Rather, as soon as he got to work in the morning, John told Captain Chandler that Mobil Oil, Ford Motor, and Kaiser Steel would send someone to withdraw their previous application in the morning and let him do a good job of reception.

John did this so that Chandler could inform Colonel Wells. Wells knew that his previous arrangements had all failed, so he naturally wouldn't be bored at the office meeting anymore. John didn't think about waiting for Wells to publicly pick on the three companies at the meeting before telling the news that the three companies had withdrawn their applications. This kind of public slap in the face was certainly cool, but John gave up in the end.

The first is that it is not necessary. None of the people in this conference room are well-informed, and everyone knows the dirty things that Wells did to John behind his back. Now that Wells himself has died down, they will naturally inquire about the reason. In this way, John's goal of showing the means has been achieved.

The second is that the gains outweigh the losses. If John had publicly torn his face with Wells at the meeting, even if he won, it would only have damaged Wells' face and would not cause any substantial damage. On the contrary, it will leave a bad impression on the old people in the department who are sharp and unforgiving. Maybe someone will "hurt his kind" in private and sympathize with Wells, who has been "bullied" by the newcomer.

John has lived for almost 70 years in his two lives combined, and he has long passed the age of pursuing happiness and revenge. Even if he hates Wells, he knows the truth of "being a man and leaving a line, and I want to see him in the future". Besides, the two will have to work together in the same department in the future, and it is really too stiff, and the above will only think that both parties are responsible. "A slap doesn't make a sound", Wells will certainly have no good fruit to eat at that time, and John will not be much better.

Today, he chose to take the initiative to take a step back when he had an absolute advantage, and he opened up the level of himself and Wells. No boss doesn't like a subordinate who knows how to take care of the big picture, and at the same time, it can also make a deep impression on other colleagues. After all, no matter who is facing a colleague who is young, has a deep background, has a hard background, has ability, has political skills, and knows how to advance and retreat, even if he doesn't want to take the initiative to make friends, he won't want to offend easily, right?

As for whether Colonel Wells will receive his favor in the future, and whether he will "take revenge" on him again, John doesn't care at all. He was confident enough that if he could clean up Wells once, he could clean him up twice. And next time, it's definitely not as simple as dropping his face.

By the afternoon of the same day, news of the withdrawal of the previous export applications by Mobil Oil, Ford Motor and Kaiser Steel spread throughout the building. A considerable part of this is due to Pakarina. This little beauty, who had been aggrieved for John for several days, finally raised her eyebrows, and took the initiative to help him become a volunteer propagandist at lunchtime.

This "skirmish" between John and Wells even reached the ears of Chief of Staff Marshall. Of course, it wasn't Pakarina's kid who was talking, but Director Boole. Unbeknownst to John, Marshall had kept his henchmen on his radar from the first day he reported to the General Staff.

In Marshall's view, it was too wasteful to just make John a logistics officer. John's greatest advantage is that he is backed by the huge family of Vanderbilt, has a wide range of contacts, has a broad vision, has had contact with the upper echelons of Britain, France and Germany, and has a language advantage, which can play an important role in future foreign-related military work.

"I really didn't expect that kid from the Vanderbilt family to endure it." After his debriefing to Marshall, Major General Bull was surprised by John's performance.

Marshall still appreciates John's approach. "I'll just say that this young man is not simple, what's the matter, your previous plan has come to naught."

Major General Bull had long wanted to get Wells out of the battle planner. He had planned to use John as a pawn and use him to hit Wells. "Who knew that this kid retracted back at a critical time, and he didn't take the bait."

"Okay, if he is so easily used as a gun by you, how can Stimson take a fancy to him." Marshall pulled out the "legendary" little black notebook, added a few words to the page with John's name on it, and then said to Major General Bull: "He hasn't touched the specific logistics yet." You go back and make arrangements and test his abilities. ”

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