The two world wars did not affect the United States, and after the war, with the Cold War confrontation with the Soviet Union, the United States has always been one of the most powerful in the world. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But now, with the fiasco of war after war, the strength of the American army is much inferior to before, whether it is the air force, navy, or army, it is impossible to gain an advantage in front of the Soviets, and in terms of numbers, the American army is also decreasing, and the American army has to be deployed globally, so the number of American troops in the United States itself is not too large, and the number of American troops in Alaska is even less.

Now Alaska has only two division-sized troops, the 25th Infantry Division and the 94th Mechanized Infantry Division, with a total number of less than 40,000 people.

Again, this is because this is the height of the Cold War.

However, it would be extremely wrong to think that Alaska's defense is so strong.

Among the armed forces of the United States, in addition to the regular army, there is also the National Guard!

Some people will simply make an analogy and say that the US National Guard, like our armed police, is actually completely different. The National Guard of the United States is equipped with M1A1 main battle tanks and F-15 fighters, so to speak, what the army has, their weapons and equipment are almost the same as strength!

In fact, it should be understood in this way that the National Guard is a local militia unit in the United States and a reserve force of the American army.

At the beginning, the guns of Claxington started the American Revolutionary War, drove out the colonists, and officially established the United States, and in this process, it has always been the militia who fought bravely.

And after the end of the war, there was also a heated discussion about the militia, is this kind of establishment necessary?

After that, Washington decided that the United States needed to quickly build up a national conventional army and at the same time, completely reform the militia system!

Each state in the United States retains militias, and the governor serves as the commander-in-chief of the state's militia, which is generally not under the jurisdiction of the president, and only when it is necessary to enforce federal law and in the event of rebellion and foreign invasion, the federal government has the right to conscript the militia of the states to serve, and the president has temporary jurisdiction over the militia. In other words, the militia can be quickly and effectively expanded into regular forces.

In fact, sometimes, when the regular army of the United States is reduced, it directly becomes the National Guard.

This represents democracy in the United States, where the states have their own armed forces! At the same time, these two forces do not interfere with each other in peacetime, the US military is external, and the National Guard is internal! Otherwise, it is a violation of the Constitution.

The National Guard listens to the governor, the military listens to the president, it seems to be very democratic, in fact, many times there are dirty, in later generations, when Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government wanted to send the military to help with disaster relief, but the governor of Isiana disagreed, that is, did not let the federal government troops come. As a result, George W. Bush became angry, desperately unconstitutional, deployed troops in New Orleans to strengthen disaster relief efforts, and forcibly took over the law enforcement of the Louisiana National Guard.

And now, in Alaska, in the face of the aggressive attitude of the Soviets, the state-owned National Guard has also been urgently mobilized. After an emergency mobilization, the National Guard, totaling 8,000 men, was mobilized and deployed to the long coastline of western Alaska, as well as to the Aleutian Islands.

At the same time, in the **ER in Alaska, the headquarters of the US military garrison in Alaska, a discussion is also unfolding.

The commander of the garrison, Lieutenant General Dana Atkins, smoked a pot and listened to the analysis of his subordinates.

"If the Soviets want to attack, it must first occupy the Aleutian Islands, and then our Holland Harbor." A staff officer said.

Aleutian Islands! This archipelago is like a long arm of Alaska, between the Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, stretching westward from the Alaska Peninsula to Kamchatka, and the shape looks like an arc.

The archipelago consists of more than 300 tiny volcanic islands, 1,900 kilometers long, with a total area of 17,666 square kilometers.

This archipelago zone belonged partly to the Soviet Union and most to the United States. During the Cold War, it was also an absolute frontier, and the United States deployed 2,000 officers and soldiers in the entire Aleutian Islands to stand guard on various islands.

In World War II, the island nation attacked the Aleutian Islands, took several islands, used these islands as a springboard, and then attacked Alaska.

"No, probably not." Another staff officer said: "If there is no large-scale ability to carry troops, then the Soviets will definitely use the Aleutian Islands as a springboard, but now, the Soviets have ground-effect aircraft, we have observed, they can send division-level military forces at one time, just like when they were in South Africa, so the Soviets will definitely not dispute these islands, but will directly land on our Alaska!" ”

What's the use of occupying these small islands, landing directly is the most suitable solution!

"In my opinion, the Soviets are bluffing, if it is winter, it is not bad to take the Bering Strait, now, they are not necessary, this war, even if it is fought, will not be able to do it until winter." Another staff officer said.

Until now, the army of Alaska has not even had a complete defense! And they can't be blamed for that, because they're shielded from the eyes!

The reconnaissance satellites left by the United States in outer space are almost equal to 0! The United States lacked effective means of reconnaissance and did not know about the Soviet troop movements, so how could it analyze the combat plan that the Soviets were going to adopt?

If you lose space, you lose your victory!

Now, they can't even analyze whether the Soviets will fight or where they will fight, and they can't do a plan to deal with it.

"General, General!" At this moment, finally, a staff officer took a document and hurriedly walked in: "Our maritime patrol aircraft, which discovered the aircraft carrier formation of the Soviets, is advancing towards our Gulf of Alaska!" ”

Since there were no reconnaissance satellites, they could only fly a large number of maritime patrol aircraft to search for possible threats at sea, and now, at last, they had a harvest and discovered the movements of the Soviet Navy!

The south, it's actually the south! Looking at the sand table that had been looked at countless times by himself, Lieutenant General Dana put down his smoke pot: "The Soviets must want to land from our south, and we must mobilize our troops to the south!" Strengthen our defenses in the south! Especially those flatter areas and shores! ”