The second update, the chapter name is wrong, it should be three hundred and forty-four chapters

Yanayev's promotion of the Molle tactical vest was not recognized by the majority of Western European countries, but on the contrary, it aroused the interest of some small countries, especially the armies of Belgium and Saudi Arabia who were willing to spend money on their own soldiers. The first customers of tactical vests came from them. The Saudis, who are more generous than Belgium, ordered 500 sets of 6094 vests almost in one go for small-scale testing in the army.

Yanayev's program of armament reform did not go unnoticed by those with a keen sense of smell within the army. For example, after surviving the illness in 1994, Marshal Ogarkov, who was supposed to die on a winter morning, was still standing in front of Yanayev, and when he was reinstated as the head of the Strategic Deception Bureau, he immediately planned to sacrifice Yanayev's precious world to talk about his thoughts.

However, the current strategic deception bureau does not have the strength to cover the sky with one hand before, and can only obediently become a certain subordinate department of the General Staff. As a man with the idea of militarism and the continuation of total warfare, he has always been an unstable factor for Yanayev, who needs the acumen and talent of this guy, but does not dare to give him too much power, lest he will not be able to control the double-edged sword and hurt his own hand.

"In recent years, General Secretary Yanayev has been advocating digitalization and electronicization within the army, and promoting and reusing those generals who advocate the modernization of the army. If the stupid people who spared no effort in the 70s to develop strategic nuclear submarines and strategic bombers had taken my tactical thinking seriously, it would not have been the turn of the United States to shine with electronic warfare in the Gulf War in 1991, would it? ”

William Perry, then Deputy Secretary of Defense of the United States, after carefully studying Ogarkov's theory. Accepted Ogarkov's revolutionary ideas and vigorously promoted a new military revolution with information technology as the core. Soon, this achievement was fully verified in the Gulf War. Many US generals even believe that the Gulf War was won with US military technology and Ogarkov's military thinking.

"Yes, but your ideas affected the future of a large number of people at that time, so they were banned." Yanayev replied nonchalantly. The seventy-year-old marshal still had a flame of ambition burning in his heart, and he wanted to see this great army transform from its old shell again, just as it was in the Second World War.

"And now the idea of the development of the Soviet army is point warfare. We only carry out point-to-point attacks on important enemy targets. The targets selected for the attack are often the key points of strategic significance of the opponent, such as the command and control system, reconnaissance and early warning system, electronic countermeasure system, logistics supply system, and important economic targets in the battlefield system. Although there are not many targets to choose, they can all have the effect of affecting the whole body. Once successful, strategic or campaign objectives can be quickly achieved. This will change the posture of the opposing sides, which is different from the approach that Comrade Ogarkov strongly advocates for the massive number of precision-guided weapons that will have an extremely terrifying lethality to the entire economic system. ”

"To borrow a phrase, the idea of ending a war by dropping a bomb into your bathroom one afternoon is inexplicable, so while we have the same starting point, we end up parting ways at some intersection. You just want to accurately remove all the organs of our enemy and cause them to die, and we just stab him in the heart with a sharp knife and end the war with a surgical precision. ”

Every word of Yanayev made it impossible for Marshal Ogarkov to refute. As a forerunner and leader of the old era, Ogarkov's views are inherently limited by history. He hopes to destroy the entire country of the other side in the event of a full-scale war with the United States in the future. And Yanayev was thinking about how to catch up with the development ideas of the US military.

So if it weren't for the political incorrectness, Yanayev would really want to promote and reuse Marshal Ogarkov to serve as the Minister of Defense of the USSR after Yazov left office. However, because of physical problems, Ogarkov may not have a few years left, and even if he survives the illness in 1994, then he may die at any time in the next few years. It is better to let him spend the rest of his years in a strategic deception without a dazzling halo than to be forgotten and grow old alone.

Ogarkov finally understood that his former figure at the forefront of the entire military world was now becoming an unsociable conservative, at least the CPSU leader who had put forward a more sophisticated strategic thinking than himself, and that this development was likely to affect the Soviet army in the coming decades.

As for whether the planted seed will become a towering giant tree or a low bush, Ogarkov believes that he will not see the day when he will bear fruit.

"The young Zhuang faction in China has begun to take shape, and the development of their new generation of SAM precision-guided missiles is also developing rapidly with the strong support of the Ministry of Defense, but there are still a group of conservatives to deal with. If General Secretary Yanayev is willing to give me the slightest pitiful right, I can help you take to the grave all these conservatives who are blocking the development of digitization and informatization in the military. ”

"Shouldn't they pay a small price for me missing the most glorious times of my life?" Marshal Ogarkov said.

Yanayev and Ogarkov were ready to fight to the end against the conservatives who did not advocate informatization, to help Yanayev clear the last stumbling block that hindered the large-scale reform of the army, and at the same time to provide a favorable environment and conditions for Yanayev's large-scale transformation of the army.

"The future belongs to digitalization and electronicization, I can't see this future anymore, the only thing I can do is to help clear the conservatives who block my great ideals, although the future development ideas are different, but one thing is the same thing is our philosophy, it is urgent to build a high-end Soviet army, we have been pulled away by the United States for more than ten years, and no one wants this distance to continue to expand."

Speaking of which, Ogarkov expressed his last wish.

"My only hope is that the Soviet army in the future, under the leadership of General Secretary Yanayev, will bring the shock and fear that the West brought to them when it was not inferior to the August 1 military exercise." (To be continued.) )