(There is another chapter to be updated in the evening)

Someone once said that the director of the General Supervision Group of the Soviet Ministry of Defense was the power department of the Soviet army, where the new blood of the middle and upper echelons of the Soviet army and the twilight of the losers of power coexisted, and the other was centered on Defense Minister Yazov, which attracted the new generation of young Zhuang faction of the Soviet army and became the most likely pillar of the Red Imperial Army in the future. They will all have a certain amount of learning here, and then they will be better able to take up important positions in the army.

On the other hand, there is a small group of daunted people, most of whom have lost the struggle for power and retreated to this nursing home far from the whirlpool of the real center of power, who have lost their pursuit of the supreme power of the military, and most of whom are buried in the vast military texts of Russia, occasionally raising their heads to look away from obscure monographs, and watching their ambitious juniors rise or sink like them as outsiders.

Marshal Ogarkov was undoubtedly one of the latter, and as a hawk who emphasized the importance of Soviet industry in the service of the military, the banner of industrial defense not only threatened the interests inherent in the Soviet Union, but also contraindicated the idea of instilling the idea of the gun command party into the reform ideas of the Soviet Presidium. He was also dissatisfied with the slow pace of information reform in the Soviet army, so much so that Ogarkov had unpleasant frictions with some other generals, likewise deepening the risk of marginalization in the army.

So Ogarkov's final result was to be expelled from the General Staff, transferred to the Western Theater as commander-in-chief, and then became the director of the General Monitoring Group of the Ministry of Defense, where he was grieved and grieved in this disguised nursing home, and finally died quietly three years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Ogarkov scribbled on his desk as he scribbled over a paper, his latest paper on the importance of building an information-based electronic force, and whether or not the top brass was willing to raise their eyes and glance at the thin sheet of paper, he hoped to arouse a small group of people in the twilight of the Soviet army to be reformed.

"The flower of reform in the new era will inevitably give birth to a new life on the huge corpse of the dying old society." Ogarkov carved these words on his desk with a utility knife to encourage himself to work for the future of the Soviet Union.

Perhaps Ogarkov was too devoted to his books and did not notice Yanayev standing behind him, and Yanayev ordered the people around him not to speak, so he watched Ogarkov write a large paragraph of dense text, and regretted that such a good person actually violated the supreme will and instructions of the Party Central Committee.

When Ogarkov raised his head from the immersive world of words, he was surprised to find that President Yanayev was staring at his paper with interest, Ogarkov quickly stood up and said to Yanayev, "I'm sorry, Your Excellency, I really didn't notice your appearance, it's really rude." ”

Yanayev would not reproach Ogarkov for his preoccupation, he picked up the manuscript that was laid out on the table, blew it lightly on the paper, and waited for the ink to dry before saying, "I would also like to thank you Comrade Ogarkov for your foresight, which taught us all a profound and thought-provoking lesson. Information warfare is indeed changing the mode of warfare, and at the same time, it is also affecting the world's science and technology. ”

"For example, just like the recently concluded Gulf War, early warning, command, control, communications, and intelligence are important means on which modern warfare is conducted. During the Gulf War, the US military used electronic warfare to deprive the Iraqi army of its communications capability in this regard and to seize the right to control the electromagnetic field on the battlefield, which became an indispensable mode of combat for carrying out key strikes. Before the war began, the US military used electronic warfare planes to strongly jam the Iraqi army's electronic equipment and suppress the Iraqi army's communications and early warning radar systems, thus ensuring the suddenness of the air raids. In the course of the war, the US military also carried out powerful electronic warfare against the command, control, communications, and intelligence systems of the Iraqi army, and suppressed the Iraqi army's electronic equipment, air defense radar, and communications network. As a result, the Iraqi army lost its command, lost communications, lost its air search and counterattack capabilities, and was in a passive position to be attacked. ”

"In the same way, the Soviet Union must also speed up the reform of electronic information technology, otherwise we are likely to be at a loss like headless flies under the interference of the US military with backward means of communication alone." After talking so much, Yanayev specially emphasized in front of Ogarkov that he valued the other party's ideas, hoping that Ogarkov would be willing to cooperate with him in friendship.

Ogarkov applauded a few symbolically and replied in an almost indifferent tone, "Of course, the top brass of the Soviet army is a layer of far-sighted idiots, and they have always held the stubborn idea that all electronic equipment will fail after the outbreak of a nuclear war, hindering the progress and development of the army, so President Yanayev, do you want to be an innovator of reform, or a guardian of the old order?" ”

Yanayev shook his head, he propped his hands on the table, looked at Ogarkov in front of him with the eyes of a powerful man, and said in a deep voice, "I really need you, Comrade Ogarkov, your war talent and keen eye can always point out the problems of the army, but there is one problem that I want you to understand." ”

Yanayevpi's unsmiling expression made Ogarkov's heart suddenly clench, thinking of the previous rumors in the army, he was suddenly afraid of his own indiscretion just now.

Yanayev approached Ogarkov's mouth and said lightly, "The degree of information reform of the Soviet army and your position were all given by the Supreme Presidium of the Soviet Union, so you put away that naïve plan to try to 'command the party with a gun', I Yanayev gave it to you, and you can ask for it." I don't give it, and you can't make any decisions, otherwise even if it is a respected high-ranking person like you, I can still throw you into the ice and snow to be the company of polar bears. ”

In the past, Yanayev threw people like Ogarkov directly into this position and waited for death, and he would not even raise his eyelids, but now is the time when the Soviet Union is in urgent need of talents for various reforms, as long as Ogarkov keeps to himself, Yanayev can not blame the mistakes he made before.

"Your Excellency the President is right." Ogarkov muttered in a low voice, "Then this time I came here, it may not be the information reform plan that I am comparing." I don't see much sincerity in your eyes. ”

Yanayev was stunned, he didn't expect Ogarkov to find out from his eyes that he was not here to discuss information reform, so he had to honestly admit it, "Of course not." You are the first person who has been able to outwit high-level think tanks such as political advisers and chief of staff in the White House and the Pentagon, and you have withdrawn in the whole body. So, I really have one more thing I want to ask you for today. ”

Ogarkov held up a pencil and motioned for Yanayev not to speak, he thought for a while and said, "Let me guess, the current environment of the Soviet Union is indeed very bad, and the president needs a certain stable external environment to develop the economy, that is to say, you mean to blackmail the West in an unprecedented way, make them rein in, and strive for the Soviet Union to win a certain external environment for reform?" But as for how much time there is, it depends on when those people in the West will understand that this is a hoax. ”

Yanayev was stunned, he didn't expect that the other party would even calculate his own thoughts, and it is no wonder that the old foxes in the West will be played around in his true and false strategies. If a strategic deception bureau could be set up in the Soviet Union, Ogarkov would undoubtedly be the first one.

"Red mercury hoax." Ogarkov put it bluntly, "Who can instill fear in the Americans with a red mercury nuclear weapon as a deterrent?" If this plan had been cleverly arranged, the Americans would probably have been afraid to make an excessively coercive choice against the Soviet Union for more than a year or two. I believe that the lives of American politicians and the Soviet Union, which is at the end of its rope and ready to fight a difficult beast with economic sanctions, will choose the former. ”