This chapter is subtitled: The Economics of War, Not the Economics of War

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"Captain Arnold, your signature."

In fact, the U.S. military has a dual-track system of wartime (temporary) and permanent (official) ranks. This is to adapt to the US military service system.

In non-war times, the United States implemented a fully voluntary military service system, which means that the government will not forcibly recruit anyone except volunteers, so the size of the army must be small. Therefore, the rank of the officers should not be too large, otherwise there will be a big joke that there should be only a hundred people under the major at the deputy battalion level.

In times of war, such as the Civil War and World War I, there was compulsory military service, which allowed the size of the army to expand rapidly, so standing officers were given wartime ranks in line with their commanding status.

For example, this Captain Arnold, who had the rank of colonel during the First World War, was in charge of an aviation group. As soon as the war was over, he was reinstated to form a captain, and only this year was promoted to permanent major.

And our little Mr. Chandler, his major was actually a wartime rank, but he was discharged before the end of the war, so he retained this rank. In fact, his permanent rank is only a second lieutenant.

Therefore, the permanent rank of the US military is very valuable, and it can at least jump two or three levels in wartime.

Captain Arnold, who is now Chinese New Year's Eve five, has a much higher gold content than the twenty-five-year-old Major Cao Linsheng. (Author's note: I saw that some patients did not understand the US military rank system very well, so I explained.) ）

The future second-class person's father picked up the magazine and looked at it, only to see that it read:

To Captain Henry Harry Arnold,

I wish you to be a global eagle.

Your friend, Neo-Yuan.

"Global Eagle...... Hahaha. Mr. Captain said happily, "Thank you, Mr. Yuan." But I'm happy to be an American Eagle. ”

This benevolent brother is as cheerful and funny as the information says, and deserves the nickname "Happy Arnold". At the Joint Chiefs of Staff during World War II, he was always smiling and Kim was in stark contrast to the straight-faced Kim.

Our Master Yuan smiled and said, "Whether it's the American Eagle or the Global Eagle, anyway, in my opinion, your Air Force (pun intended, meaning both air strike force and air force) will definitely dominate future wars......"

He shifted his tone and asked, "By the way, Captain Arnold." Do you know Mr. William Mitchell? ”

When the current member of the Army Aviation Committee heard this, his eyes flashed with strangeness, and instead of answering, he asked: "Mr. Yuan, do you also know Brigadier General Mitchell?" ”

Speaking of Air Force pioneers, the most famous is naturally the Italian Giulio Dublack and his book "Air Supremacy", published this year. However, there are also two people who are considered to be the pioneers of later theories of air warfare, one is General Hugh Trenchard, who served as commander of the Royal Army Air Corps during the First World War, and the other is Brigadier General William Mitchell, whom they refer to.

Mr. Brigadier General is a French-born native of Wisconsin and currently serves as Deputy Commander of the Army Air Service and Chairman of the Aviation Committee. He was an important figure in the history of American aviation and the construction of the Air Force.

"No, I don't know him......" Our Master Yuan shook his head and said, "But I've read his article. The article said that airplanes had turned battleships into obsolete and useless things. I couldn't agree more. ”

By that judgment, Brigadier General Mitchell is indeed a genius.

Of course, for a time-traveler like him, who had played naval chess, it was a matter of course for an aircraft carrier to eat a battleship, but in the eyes of people at the time, it was a big joke that a toy made of wood made of steel made a fortress made of steel was really a big joke.

"I see...... Captain Arnold nodded, "of course I know Brigadier Mitchell, who is my boss. However, when it comes to this article, we still have some internal controversy. ”

Cao Linsheng couldn't help but say in English: "Neo, you're talking about a battleship, a battleship worthy of the name of a sea hegemon, a battleship that collapses and cracks in the ground with one shot. And the plane is just a big kite with an engine, what role can it play in the face of a battleship? ”

Hey, this guy really can only go to be a teacher and do business, and he really doesn't have any talent in military affairs. However, Yuan Yanqian is not pretending to be for him.

"Lance, you can't just look at the eyes." Master Yuan pointed around and said, "It's like saying that the train we took was slower than the horse-drawn train when it first came out. Now, half a day's work can send us hundreds of kilometers away......"

"Master Ball, what I'm going to say next doesn't matter, does it?"

"Host, don't worry, in fact, Du Hei and they have already made such a prophecy. If you can say it now, you will be nothing more than a more knowledgeable intellectual. ”

Yuan Yanqian, who was relieved, said with confidence: "As long as the technology continues to develop, then aircraft with faster speed, larger payload and longer range will definitely appear." When the time comes, not to mention the battleships of the water fortresses, even the real fortresses on land will be just fixed targets in front of the aircraft. ”

Major Cao said a little unconvinced: "Neo, won't the battleship continue to develop?" Besides, if there is a spear, there is a shield, so wouldn't it be enough to transform a cruiser or destroyer into a dedicated air defense ship? ”

Well, this guy deserves to be a West Point graduate, and he still has a bit of military common sense.

"Lance, you're right, but you're still missing a crucial question." Yuan Yanqian said unhurriedly.

The other party naturally asked, "What is the problem?" ”

"Value for money!" Master Yuan habitually lit a cigar and began to cut people...... It's ridiculous.

"In fact, we economists also have corresponding war economics about war, for example, Adam Smith called soldiers 'unproductive workers'......"

Just this year, one of Keynes's greatest rivals, Arthur Pigou, would publish a book of his book entitled The Economics of War, which made him "the leader of the economics of war."

"As far as I am a student of economics, war is nothing more than a game of exchanging one's own resources for the other's resources, similar to chess."

"It doesn't matter if these resources are oil, steel, aluminum, crystal, gas, food, wood, population...... Well, anyway, the so-called winner is nothing more than that it still has resources to put into the battlefield, and the loser is either exhausted or no longer willing to spend its own resources. ”

"Lance, then think about how much resources an airplane consumes, and how much resources does a battleship cost. So at the end of the day, it's just a math equation. ”

"As long as the cost performance of the aircraft greatly exceeds that of other tactical weapons, then it can become one of the most important and critical tools of war!"

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