United States, White House.

President Ronald Wilson Reagan, Vice President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberg, National Security Advisor Poindexter, Secretary of State George Schultz, Secretary of Energy James Edwards, and White House Chief of Staff James Addison Baker are listening to CIA Director William Casey.

"As we all know, the situation in the Middle East is related to the stability of global oil prices, and now, Iran and Iraq have been waging a war for more than a year, although the victory or defeat is not decided, but the current situation has undergone subtle changes." Casey explained.

"It can't be that Khomeini started a counteroffensive under the slogan of jihad, right?" Bush asked.

George W. Bush, 36, is already vice president of the United States, and he is in the most vigorous stage of his life, and he always looks energetic.

The others laughed, and when it came to Khomeini, everyone was full of disgust with him, so it was natural to make fun of him when they had the chance.

"The vice president is right, it is Khomeini who has already started a counteroffensive. It was from the southwestern province of Khuzestan that the counterattack began. Casey said.

"Khuzestan province is rich in oil resources, and as soon as the war broke out last year, Iraq's main offensive direction was here, and it was fought for more than a year, and Abadan was not defeated, so it was time to counterattack." Weinberg then said teasingly, "Tell me what your reconnaissance satellites have found?" ”

Compared with Bush, Secretary of Defense Weinberg is already over 60 years old, and although his face already shows signs of time, his eyes are still very bright, and he does not look like an old man at all when he speaks, but rather like a wise middle-aged man. At the same time, he was a representative of the hawkish faction who was born in the Republican, and he resolutely advocated a tough posture against the Soviet Union, and he continued to increase military spending, and large-scale development of strategic armed forces, including stealth bombers and missiles, to counter the Soviet Union, so that the United States achieved the largest increase in spending in peacetime.

Weinberg prefers to use reconnaissance planes to reconnaissance satellites, and already has the U-2 Black Widow high-altitude reconnaissance plane that can fly to 28,000 meters and the SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane that can fly to a height of 30,000 meters and reach a speed of 3.5 times the speed of sound.

(About the Goddess of Aurora, until now, it is also a mystery, it is speculated that the Goddess of Aurora is 32 meters long, 7 meters high, and has a full load of 83 tons, of which more than two-thirds is fuel, the cruising altitude is between 30,500 and 36,600 meters, and the maximum cruising altitude is about 38,000 meters, using a ramjet engine with an unusually simple structure composed of only the air intake, combustion chamber and nozzle, and the maximum cruise speed is about Mach 6, even now, there is no means to shoot it down.) ）

With the rapid development of military science and technology, satellites have increasingly become an important reconnaissance tool. However, the spy satellite is not omnipotent, it flies at high altitude, and the orbit will be detected by powerful countries, such as China, then, this kind of satellite, when it arrives in the sky over where, can be inferred, even if it suddenly changes orbit, it can also give the enemy enough time to react, so reconnaissance satellites also have certain defects. As another important reconnaissance tool, strategic reconnaissance aircraft has always played an important role, and sometimes its role is even greater than that of reconnaissance satellites.

Weinberg was a supporter of the reconnaissance plane, and naturally had some prejudices with the CIA, which always liked to use spy satellites for analysis.

Casey didn't refute it, this old man who always exudes the humor peculiar to Americans, Casey still has respect.

"This is a picture we took from a reconnaissance satellite." Casey said, handing out one to everyone.

President Reagan took it, and although Casey, the subject of the meeting, had been reported to him in advance, he still didn't understand the photo when he got the photo and looked at it for a long time.

"Casey, let me tell you, except for the professional staff, I'm afraid that none of us here can understand this photo of yours, and it's not a Hollywood star." Baker said.

"This is a photo taken by our reconnaissance satellite yesterday, the photo is on the Karon River in the west of Aladan, and the white spots on it are produced when a bomb explodes, and on the ground, the ant-like things are Iranian tanks, and here are enlarged photos."

As she spoke, Casey pulled out an enlarged photo.

People still don't get it.

The picture taken by the satellite is a top-down view, that is, a photo seen from the top, which is very different from the usual view from the side, and ordinary people can't see what it is at all.

In Casey's eyes, it is very clear that the machine gun on the top of the turret alone is the British Chieftain tank equipped by Iran.

"What kind of bomb is it, with such a big spot of light?" Edwards asked.

This meeting called the energy minister, because any disturbance in the Middle East will be linked to the lifeblood of the world economy: oil.

"This is napalm dropped by the Iraqi army, and the lethality is huge, and these Iranian troops, I'm afraid all of them will die here." Weinberg said.

In the end, ginger is still old and spicy, Weinberg saw the key at a glance, in the flat land on the bank of the Karen River, the army exposed to the wilderness will definitely be blown up by the air force to the point that there is no scum left.

"According to the summary of all our intelligence, our CIA has finally determined a war situation: Iran has begun a counteroffensive, first starting from the Susangild marsh two months ago, which was originally a surprise attack, but it was discovered by the Iraqi army and launched a large-scale tank battle in the swamp, Iran failed, and a tank division was lost. And just yesterday, it was supposed to be a counteroffensive by the Iranian army, which defeated the Iraqi army that had surrounded them for more than a year, but when the Iraqi army fled to the Karon River, the Iraqi air force, just in time, appeared and completely wiped out the Iranian army in this place, with an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 casualties. With Casey finishing, the room fell silent.

Everyone knows what that means.

Iran has always been on the defensive, and it was easy to start a counteroffensive, and now, tens of thousands of soldiers have been accumulated, and they have begun to counterattack.

The US strategy is to greatly weaken the comprehensive national strength of both sides through this war, and when the time comes, it will be much more convenient for the United States to intervene in Middle East affairs.

And because Khomeini overthrew the pro-American Bavelie political axe and propagated the United States as a big Satan everywhere, the United States supported Iraq at the beginning of the war, and many top-secret satellite images were secretly provided to Iraq. However, if Iraq occupies Iran entirely, that is not what the United States wants to see.

A strong Middle Eastern country is definitely not in the interests of the United States.

In particular, the ground in the Middle East is buried with black gold.

"Casey, well done, we must pay close attention to the situation of the Iran-Iraq war and not let the balance of war tip to either side." Reagan said.

"I have a question, this time Iraq's air force and army are so cleverly coordinated and perfect, it is absolutely not something that those self-righteous military officers in Iraq can do, let alone Saddam's behavior, can you know who is in command of this operation?" Weinberg asked.

"Our agents in ambush in Iraq confirmed that this battle was a battle plan formulated by Saddam's youngest son Qusay, the cooperation of the Air Force and the Army, and also included an air force that attracted the attention of the other side, and there was a shadow of Qusay in it." Casey said.

The CIA has spent a lot of money on this information, and since the last time Susangild was in the marshes, the CIA has been collecting all the information about Qusay.

"Qusay? That little guy hasn't grown a beard yet, has he? National Security Advisor Poindecker asked incredulously.

"Yes, that's him." "This boy, who is not yet eighteen years old, has suddenly become a military strategist with a genius for command, and it is said that now in the Southern Iraqi Military Region, from top to bottom, he is full of admiration," Casey said. ”

"The Middle East is related to our energy security, Casey, Qusay, this person, must have his first-hand information!" Reagan said. "Weinberg, if Iraq really has the upper hand, how can we help him?"

Weinberg knew that the so-called him meant Khomeini, a man who was an enemy of the United States, but when it had to be, the United States had to think of pulling him along. There are no eternal friends, there are no eternal enemies, there are, just unchanging interests, and this is politics.

"Iraq was able to achieve these victories because they already had air supremacy, and the Iranian fighter planes, because of our arms embargo, I am afraid that there are very few of them that can take off, if we..."

"I'll talk about that later." Reagan suddenly interrupted Weinberg's words: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Middle East is related to our country's economy, and the two oil crises have greatly restricted our industry. ”

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