According to a few months, even the most apolitically ill-informed military personnel knew who was the head of the Union

For federal government officials and senior U.S. military generals, a major event has been encountered. It is not uncommon for the president to throw the blame on the secretary of state. So no one was surprised when Mrs. Loebling summoned federal ministers, as well as the Army, Navy, Air and Space Marine Corps, and other generals of the Joint Force, to the State Department.

After the meeting began, the four directors and the directors of the bureau first introduced the situation.

Unlike when Landers presided over the meeting, after the two intelligence officials had briefed the situation, Mrs. Loeblin did not rush to the main topic, but let the "Diplomatic Information Administration" under the State Department be. The person in charge gave a more in-depth explanation of the current situation.

It can be seen that Mrs. Loeblin has more trust in the intelligence units she manages.

It is an information management unit similar to the Archives Service, but it is actually the main intelligence agency under the U.S. Department of State. Although it is not well-known due to the influence of the fourth-class large intelligence agencies, and few people even know that this agency, which has only more than 1,000 members, is an intelligence unit, but it "plays a very important role" among many intelligence agencies in the United States.

In general, it is a pure intelligence agency.

Because of the restrictions imposed by relevant laws, "it can have its own team of intelligence personnel, and when the fourth year was founded, the US Congress passed relevant legislation, that is, in the field of foreign-related intelligence, only the four have the power to train and direct intelligence personnel, and other intelligence agencies are not allowed to train spies, so if we attach importance to collecting intelligence through high-tech means, managing all military satellites under the US Department of Defense, and are responsible for monitoring communications in the United States and even around the world, we can make great efforts in other aspects.

As an intelligence agency under the direct leadership of the State Department, it excels at obtaining intrusions from overt and semi-public sources, and extracting useful ingredients from that information. To put it simply, it is to analyze and process public and semi-public information to derive important information.

After a comprehensive briefing by the Director, the meeting moved on to the thematic phase.

The participants knew that the situation was very unoptimistic for the United States.

According to IV, the evidence submitted by the representatives of the Republic to the International War Tribunal in The Hague is highly credible that Turkish Prime Minister Özal did indeed issue secret orders to the Turkish army behind Duchway's back, taking advantage of the fighting in the south to eradicate extremists among the Kurds. Perhaps Ozal's real intention is simply to take this opportunity to get rid of some Kurdish extremists who oppose national reconciliation and want independence rather than autonomy, but de jure it is not certain that these people are extremists as long as they do not act, and there is no reason to eradicate them by illegal means.

It is like not convicting a person when he or she has an intention to sin but does not commit a crime. As a result of this, the US authorities have already suffered de jure losses when they are holding on to the Turkish government.

Mrs. Loebling did not deny this, and that was the first important topic of the whole meeting.

When Mrs. Loblin suggested that the United States should adopt a more conservative strategy when there is no way to prove that the Turkish authorities have not committed crimes against humanity, that is, to actively assist Turkey while not fulfilling other alliance obligations, such as declaring war on the invading Turkish republic, the other participants agreed and supported this view, and all believed that the United States had no reason to go to war with another major power for an ally suspected of killing innocent civilians.

This high degree of coherence illustrates two issues.

There are many high-ranking officials in the U.S. federal government who believe that there should not be a war with the Republic, at least not for a less important ally. Although this does not mean that these people are short-sighted, it at least proves that at least some of the interest groups behind these officials believe that good relations with the Republic should be maintained. Not all interest groups need to be made through war to achieve their interests.

Second, the US generals are not very sure of victory, and some generals even believe that the United States will lose the war in the event of an all-out war. Although Duchway made it clear in his discussion of this issue that the Republic could not have superiority in all directions, let alone victory in all directions, he did not have much hope for the combat effectiveness of the Turkish army and believed that more attention should be paid to another strategic direction.

Influenced by both, Mrs. Loeblin's views were not radical.

This also reflects one of the characteristics of the American Iron Lady, that is, she will not be influenced by mainstream public opinion.

Compared to Landers, Mrs. Loeblin's greatest characteristic is when it comes to making decisions.

After discussing the situation, Mrs. Loblin did not continue to solicit opinions, but made a very decisive decision that the United States would actively cooperate with the International War Tribunal in the investigation of crimes against humanity committed in Turkey, impose limited sanctions on Turkey in accordance with the resolutions adopted by the United Nations Security Council, engage in direct diplomatic contacts with the Republic, and make a final effort to resolve the Kurdish issue peacefully.

Lady Loeblin was very arbitrary.

It was only after making this series of decisions that she turned the conversation to the impending war, that is, how much military force the United States would need to commit to victory after a failed peace effort.

This time, the main speaker is only one catty" that is, Du Qiwei.

According to Dudgway, because the state of the republic has been authorized to fight in the most ridiculous way, it is customary to do so. The authorities of the Republic would make a final diplomatic effort before Operation 26D, that is, to issue an ultimatum to the Turkish authorities in the form of a formal diplomatic note, but the preliminary military deployment of the Republican ** Force had been completed, and it was able to devote the full striking force of 60,000 ground troops and six aircraft carrier battle groups after the start of the war, and the fourth combat unit and the combat units of the air force within the time of the attack. In this case, the chances of victory for the Turkish army are basically zero, and Turkey is likely to collapse within a week.

There is only one way to avoid the end of Turkey, and that is to send troops immediately.

For the combat effectiveness of the Turkish army, Du Qiwei did not have any hope. According to him, the combat effectiveness of the Turkish army is not even comparable to that of the Korean ** team back then. Although Turkey is mountainous throughout the territory and the roads in the southeast are even more rugged, the Republic Army has long been accustomed to fighting without relying on road traffic networks, and has proven its mountain warfare capabilities in the Peninsular War and the Indian War. After the modernization and reorganization, the size of the Republic Army has been greatly reduced, but its combat effectiveness has been comprehensively improved, and in particular, the comprehensive combat capability of all units has far exceeded that of the Indian War. In order to attract the attention of Mrs. Loblin, Duchway did not have any reservations when talking about this issue, and said very bluntly, that is, as long as the support forces of the Republic Air Force were deployed in time and the Republic Army was put into action, the combat units could capture Ankara within a week.

Mrs. Loebling did not doubt Dudgway's judgment, but felt that the matter was not so simple.

Duchway did not shy away from the question raised by Mrs. Loblin whether the Republican Air Force could be deployed in a timely manner, and whether the Republican Army could use all three combat units deployed to the theater of operations on the Turkish battlefield.

According to Duchway, the Air Force of the Republic has the largest fleet of strategic transport aircraft in the world. Together with the tactical transport fleet belonging to the Army Aviation of the Republic, the airlift capacity of the Republic definitely surpasses that of the United States. Because six aircraft carrier battle groups have been deployed to the front line, the Republic Air Force only needs to deploy combat aircraft to the front line to ensure air supremacy and complete the air support combat mission. In this case, even if only air freight is relied upon, the basic deployment can be completed within an hour.

As for the ground forces, since the 1st, 2nd, and 9th combat units have already entered the theater of operations, the Republic can initially use all three combat units on the Turkish battlefield. In order to deal with possible threats, the Republic will send the fourth combat unit to the war zone as quickly as possible, that is, the tenth combat unit that has already left the training site. As long as the 10th Combat Unitary is able to shoulder the defensive combat mission in the direction of the Golan Heights, the Republic will first concentrate the forces of three combat units to defeat Turkey.

To prove this, Dudgway specifically mentions one thing.

That is, the commander of the 10th Combat was the brigade commander of the Airborne Fighter Brigade that had withstood the onslaught of the Indian army at Ranchi by 2 or 4 times, and the officers and men of the 10th Combat Unit were mainly from the 3 Airborne Brigades. In terms of defensive combat capability, I am afraid that there is not a single unit in the whole world that is above the 10th combat unit. The most conservative estimate. Relying on the Syrian army's defensive positions built up for decades, the 10th combat unit was able to hold back more than the Israeli army in the direction of the Golan Heights, or fortify it layer by layer, and finally retreat to Damascus until reinforcements arrived.

Although Mrs. Loblin did not understand military matters very well, it was impossible for the generals of the Joint Staff not to understand what Duchway meant.

In the Korean War, the Republic let the Airborne Brigade hold out in Wulao for several days, which eventually led to the annihilation of the two most elite divisions of the United States Marine Corps, and even the military flag became the trophy of the Republican Army. There is no doubt that the 10th combat unit, which was transformed from the Airborne Forces, should not be underestimated.

What's more, it was Pei Chengyi who commanded the republican ** team to fight this time.

The Korean War is Pei Chengyi's famous work, the Indian War is Pei Chengyi's crowning work, and will the Middle East War be Pei Chengyi's final work? Whether it will or not, one thing is for sure, that is, Pei Chengyi will not easily let go of the opportunity to win, and he will use the best way to achieve victory.

What is Pei Chengyi best at?

Almost every American ** person, especially the American general who wears the general star after the year of the dish, knows that in a large-scale regional war, Pei Chengyi's specialty is to attack the east and the west. In the terms of the military theory of the republic, it is to concentrate superior forces on local battlefields to achieve maximum victory. To use an oriental idiom, that is Tian Ji horse racing.

That's what Duchway is trying to say.

With the 10th Combat Unit in the battle, Pei Chengyi must have hoped to use this extremely strong and well-known defensive force to hold the fragile defensive line in the south, and then concentrate superior forces to attack Turkey. As long as Ankara can be defeated within a week, the Turkish regime can be overthrown, and a few Turkish dignitaries can be arrested, the authorities of the Republic will be able to provide more "conclusive" evidence to the International War Tribunal in The Hague, thereby nailing the Turkish authorities to the frame of historical shame and providing a legal basis for supporting a pro-China Turkish regime. Militarily speaking, after taking out Turkey, Pei Chengyi had every reason to use the troops of Iran, Iraq, Syria and other allies to occupy Turkey and concentrate his forces to attack the Gogao Heights in order to help Syria recover the lost sea and pay Israel to the ground.

Because Israel has no strategic depth, no one can guarantee that the war will stop in the Jordan Valley after the Republican ** team captures the Golan Heights. According to the assault ability of the Republican ** team, it will not take Sun Bushi to fight from the north to the south of Israel and completely destroy this Jewish state

In general, this martial art of going north and then south was able to provide the most desirable results for the republic.

The problem is, Mrs. Loeblin is not the kind of person who is not assertive.

Turning to this question, Mrs. Loeblin asked a very pointed question as to why the Republic had to deal with Turkey, which had a much larger territory, instead of dealing with Israel, which had no strategic depth.

Undeterred, Dudgway immediately gave three reasons.

It is that the IDF is much stronger in combat than the Turkish National Army, and its strength is not below the average of the Republican **; Moreover, the Israeli army controls the Golan Heights and has a defensive advantage, and the Republican ** team will definitely encounter a lot of trouble when attacking. Second, the situation in the Middle East is more complicated, and because Israel is backed by the Mediterranean Sea, it is easy to receive strategic assistance from the United States. It's hard for the Republican team to have the advantage here. Third, the Golan Heights belong to the Arab-Israeli dispute, and there are not only Syrians but also Israelis living on the Golan Heights, and there is no reason to use the Golan Heights issue against Israel when the ethnic contradictions have not intensified, or if the Republic has not obtained conclusive evidence.

Dudgway's explanation was largely satisfactory to Mrs. Loeblin.

At this time, the meeting entered the third stage, that is, how to solve this catty. Issue.

This time, it was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a four-star admiral from the Navy.

The mother doubted that the situation was not very optimistic, but there was no need to be pessimistic.

Because of the advance mobilization, six aircraft carrier battle groups of the US Navy have already arrived in the theater of operations. According to the admiral's explanation, as long as the aircraft carrier battle group of the Republic Navy cannot enter the waters of the Red Sea, it can only dispatch carrier-based fighters to strike at the northwest regions of Israel and Turkey, and cannot use the dreaded large-caliber electromagnetic guns, and the other three aircraft carrier battle groups are operating in the eastern Mediterranean. If all goes well, the Navy's last three carrier battle groups will reach the Eastern Mediterranean around next month.

On the air side, three tactical aviation wings and fighter support aviation wings have already arrived in Turkey, two tactical aviation wings have reached Italy, and two tactical aviation wings have been deployed in Bulgaria and Romania. Because the Greek authorities refused to allow US fighter jets deployed on their territory to carry out combat missions in support of Turkey, it was temporarily unable to deploy tactical aviation to Greece and South Cyprus. In addition to this, there was a bomber of the Strategic Air Wing deployed in the British "A support air wing of tankers was deployed in Malta. At this point, the US warplanes deployed near the theater of operations were persuaded to fight, and about four of them were tactical fighters.

On the army side, the Lycá Division and the 3rd Infantry Division, which are deployed in Europe, have completed mobilization. The 4th Infantry Division, 7th Infantry Division, 1st Heart Assault Division, and 8th Hungry Division, which remained on the U.S. mainland, all began mobilization. However, it is very regrettable that with the exception of the vanguard units of the 1st Armored Division and the 3rd Infantry Division, which were the first to be mobilized, they will not be able to reach the theater this month, and some of the combat units will only arrive in mid-July at the earliest, and may even be delayed until the end of July.

On the Marine Corps side, the strategic projection fleet transporting the 1st Marine Division has reached the Eastern Mediterranean, ready to send more than 20,000 Marine officers and men to Tel Aviv's beaches. The 2nd Marine Division has been assembled in Djibouti and is awaiting the arrival of the fleet that will send it to the front line, while the strategic projection fleet from Australia will arrive in Djibouti by the end of the month, and the 2nd Marine Division is expected to be able to reach Israel by July. In other words, the Marines will once again act as the vanguard, rushing the main forces to the battlefield ahead of the Army.

As for the Space Army, all kinds of mobilization have begun in an all-round way, but the combat operations of the Space Army have been greatly restricted. In the words of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, if the Space Forces are used to attack the military space systems of the Republic, then the emergency response mechanism of the Space Forces of the Republic will be immediately activated, and the losses of the US Space Forces will not be as small as this, and they may even lead to a devastating war in which the major powers drop strategic nuclear weapons on each other.

In general, the preparations of the US military were carried out in an orderly manner and in full accordance with the calculations.

Here's the problem, because Landers didn't get congressional authorization for war, so he could only mobilize at the military level, as prescribed by law, and not for emergency war mobilization. To put it mildly, because according to the provisions of the US melon law, the president can only use the Marine Corps in peacetime, which is also the main reason why the Marine Corps, as an independent branch of the army, actually accompanies various combat units such as the Air Force, so even if the war breaks out immediately, the United States can only dispatch the Marine Corps, but cannot use other combat forces.

In a sense, Landes's "speech" in Congress was even more significant.

When it came to the fourth and final topic of the meeting, Mrs. Loebling only allowed Duchway to stay, and to be precise, only the communication signal with Duchway.

There are some things that can only be told to this front-line commander-in-chief.