The year 1952 was destined to be very interesting, and not long after Britain successfully detonated its first atomic bomb, the first American nuclear fusion test was a complete success, which was a shot in the arm for the so-called liberal democratic world. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoFor a time, all kinds of public opinion that sang about the Soviet Union rose one after another, as if the Soviet Union would fall overnight.

Interestingly, however, the Soviet reaction to this was still not strong, or not at all, and even the American journalists, who deliberately came to the door to see the Soviet jokes, were unable to extract anything from the spokesman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.

In the opinion of the free world, it is said: "This is ostrichism in the Soviet Union, and they think that it is enough to pretend that they cannot see the hydrogen bomb of the United States...... This shows how deformed the society of the Soviet Union was, this is a closed iron cage! ”

Anyway, for more than a month in a row, the American political arena has been quite hilarious, all kinds of sarcasm and sarcasm are endless, and American politicians are happier than Christmas. The consequence of this euphoria is that there is a resurgence of adventurism in American politics that it is time to begin to expand and expand the sphere of influence of the United States.

Especially those capital giants, they can't bear it anymore, and they desperately want to open up new markets to earn more blood and tears. This gave Eisenhower great political pressure, who let this American president be the White House that capital carried him into!

So Eisenhower had to take action, and he began to look around the map to see where the knife would be more appropriate. In the end, Eisenhower chose two points, one for Vietnam and the other for Palestine.

In fact, the comrades in these two places are very familiar with the fact that the United States has been fighting in Vietnam, but the large-scale sorties are all air force and naval and air forces, and only special detachments of the army have entered the battlefield in Vietnam, and the scale of the war is not large on the whole. As for Palestine, in the last brief military conflict between Egypt and Israel, the Israelis won a complete victory, inflicting heavy losses on the Egyptian army, and finally ended in a multifaceted political deal that made the United States very angry and barely took advantage of it.

Eisenhower felt that he was still much better at military affairs than Truman, and that he should be able to lead the United States to a brilliant victory like World War II.

So near the end of 1952, Eisenhower suddenly issued a presidential order to send Marines into Vietnam. It's not that Eisenhower liked the Marines, but that the Marines have a special status in the United States. Literally, the Marine Corps should belong to the naval system, but unlike in the United States, the Marine Corps in the United States is an independent branch of the military, equal to the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

That is to say, the horse run (marine) is also called the moon. UnitedStatesMarine Corps abbreviated USMC, abbreviated as MC. Month. The abbreviation of meridian-menstrualcycle is also mc, of course, it can also be understood in Chinese English, that is, marines = mc = monthcross = month. Menstrual = month. The Legion is not a Marine Corps in the traditional sense, but an independent branch of the armed forces in its own right.

And this independent military branch is also very special, that is, Marun is the only military that the president of the United States can use without congressional authorization. So there is also the so-called first-class air force, second-class navy, third-class army, livestock Ma Run. To put it bluntly, Ma Run is an animal who specializes in doing dirty work for the president of the United States, and basically this cargo will rush to the forefront if there is an armed conflict.

Of course, it is not that Eisenhower liked to use this animal, but it will take time for Congress to go through the process, especially since the large-scale use of the Army is very time-consuming. Eisenhower had no choice but to use cattle to go up before Congress approved it.

The first group of thousands of Marun cattle were soon assembled and transported to Vietnam to fight in the fighting. A large number of US warships and cargo ships are also heading for Vietnam's ports, and as the saying goes, the soldiers and horses go first before they move their food and grass, and for the American GIs, who have high requirements for their quality of life, there is no way for them to fight the war without adequate provisions. And that's what it's like in the United States.

This traditional atmosphere has a long history, not to mention the fact that during World War II, when the Japanese had eaten the last meal but did not have the next, when the Soviet people were worried about food rationing, the American GIs complained about the continuous delivery of Spam luncheon meat, and from time to time they were picky about the taste of the chocolate in the rations.

So much so that people who experienced the torture of war and famine during World War II have the impression that American GIs drink Coca-Cola casually, chocolate is used as a snack, chewing gum is sprinkled everywhere, and field rations are given away casually.

In fact, this is not an exaggeration, it can be said that the quality of life of the US military was quite exaggerated at the beginning of the establishment of the army. After the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the daily ration standard for soldiers of the "Continental Army" established by the Second Continental Congress was: one pound (about 454 grams) of beef or three-quarters of a pound of pork or one pound of salted fish (usually pickled cod at a good price); a pound of bread or flour; One pint (about 0.473 liters) of milk, one quart (about one liter) of spruce beer or cider. Each soldier also had three pints (about 0.55 liters of dried pints of American production) of peas or broad beans per week, or other vegetables at the rate of $1 per bushel (about 64 pints of a bushel) of peas or broad beans; no one had a second pint of rice or a pint of cornmeal a week; and a company (100 men) without beer or cider supplies would receive nine gallons (about 3.78 liters) of syrup a week.

Note that this is the standard of the late 18th century, and to put it mildly, the PLA of the 20th century may not be able to compare with this standard. The American Civil War standard was even more frightening, as the U.S. War Department issued a standard on August 3, 1961, for each Northern soldier to receive a daily ration of 12 ounces of pork or bacon (about 28.3 grams per ounce), or one pound or four ounces of fresh or corned beef, one pound of soft bread or breadcrumbs, or one pound of hard bread or four ounces of cornmeal. For every 100 rations, one gram of beans or peas (about two gallons) is also provided; 10 pounds of rice or corn flakes (porridge); 10 pounds of green coffee beans or 8 pounds of roasted coffee beans, or 8 pounds of one pound and eight ounces of night checks; In addition, there are 15 pounds of sugar; four quarts of vinegar; a one-pound four-ounce candle; four pounds of soap; three pounds of twelve ounces of salt; four ounces of pepper; a quart of molasses; Thirty pounds of potatoes.

This set of standards was quite staggering, higher than the food standards of the empire, the world's leading power at the time, and the Americans were about 1.2 times as much, twice as large as the French army, and more than twice as large as the Russian, Prussian, and Austrian armies. At that time, the standards of the Americans made the whole world envious, jealous and hateful.

But this is also a matter of no choice, who let the Americans live too comfortably in the New World, every day is a small day with wine and meat, want the Yankee to enter the army to remember the bittersweet memories, hehe, no one will be a soldier directly - of course, the US government is not really afraid of not being able to recruit soldiers, but is afraid that the soldiers will be recruited because their lives are too poor, so that these pampered uncles will lose their lives due to malnutrition.

In fact, as early as 1818, the U.S. Secretary of War John . Calho spat out: "We are far inferior to most nations in our ability to endure hardship. Under the same conditions, a Tatar may live comfortably, while an American may starve to death! ”

It's also funny to say that the amount of supplies that the U.S. government has painstakingly provided to the military is huge, but the waste is also staggering. Irving. General McDowell once said with great humility: "What we waste is enough to supply a French army equal to half of our army." ”

Interestingly, the initiator of this waste is also the senior officers of the US military, in the civil war, the northern generals are suffering from severe "squirrel disease", the generals have a special hobby of hoarding materials, whether they can use it or not, they are desperately demanding, for fear that the speed of supply in the rear can not catch up with the speed of consumption, and there are often generals of the northern army who refuse to march on the pretext that they need to store enough supplies. President Lynkeng was almost driven mad by the hamster-like habit of the generals. In November 1961, he wrote to General Banksy that he was on the verge of losing his breath: "Dear General, this unbridled expansion and hoarding of baggage has so far almost bankrupted us, and if we do not change course, we will surely go bankrupt at last!" ”

It's just that Lincoln's generals still go their own way, no matter what the supplies are, whether they are useful or not, store them a little first, maybe they will be used one day?

This fateful habit continued into the new century, and for American GIs, a full stomach was only the most basic need, and they had to eat well and eat well. Therefore, the consumption of all kinds of materials is astronomical. Therefore, if the logistics department of the United States does not make preparations in advance, it will really cause a big mess.

For example, the Soviet Union discovered through various reconnaissance methods that the United States was exporting a large amount of materials to Vietnam, and there was only one possibility, that is, the US military was about to expand the scale of the war against Vietnam.

This information aroused Li Xiaofeng's great attention, and almost as soon as the Americans launched the operation, he took power at his suggestion. For the first time, the scope of aid to Vietnam has been expanded. The first is the supply of more advanced jet fighters, the second is the deployment of the S75 missile system (Sam II) to Vietnam, and the third is more advanced light weapons. and gave Vietnam a certain amount of economic and material assistance.

In the words of Li Xiaofeng: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the Americans did not know that Vietnam was a quagmire, they rushed into it with a big grin, it was time to bleed them!" ”

Obviously, Li Xiaofeng's intention is to use Vietnam to bleed the United States, at least to achieve the same effect as in history, right? In fact, Li Xiaofeng believes that this time it should be more effective than in history, because the US imperialism at this time is not as powerful as it was in the sixties in history.

On December 24, 1952, during the last congressional discussion before Christmas, Eisenhower's demands were fully met, and Congress authorized the president to take all necessary measures to maintain peace in Vietnam, including the direct deployment and use of the Army!

This meant that Eisenhower could do whatever he wanted in Vietnam. At the first time, the president sent 50,000 troops into South Vietnam with a wave of his hand, nominally under the pretext of maintaining peace, but in reality they would be thrown into the battlefield as the main force attacking the Viet Cong.

At the same time, the import of various materials into Vietnam from the direction of China was also increasing in large quantities, and although the Viet Cong complained about the stinginess of the Soviet Union before, they also breathed a sigh of relief when the new batch of aid arrived.

Large numbers of Viet Cong guerrillas were rearmed and trained by Chinese and Soviet military advisers, and over the next decade they would have to fight American GIs armed to the teeth.

Naturally, the new moves of the United States in Vietnam have also attracted the attention of the international community, but the statements of the two camps are not exactly the same, and the statements of the United States are naturally nonsense about maintaining peace, while the Soviet Union naturally accuses the United States of interfering in Vietnam's internal affairs and engaging in aggression and neocolonialism. Anyway, it's a two-sided scolding, which is more lively than the vegetable market.

It's just that under the hustle and bustle there are some hidden crises, and some people think that the current situation is a good opportunity. This man is the Nasser we know earlier. In the last armed conflict, Nasser almost lost his underwear, and if it weren't for the Soviet Union's demand for the Suez Canal to make that deal, Nasser really didn't know how to end it.

For a period of time, Nasser has also been actively recuperating and accumulating strength to prepare for a comeback, in his words, he will get up from where he falls. The destruction of Israel has become his obsession.

Now that the Soviet Union and the United States are in Vietnam, it is natural that the attention to the rest of the world will not be so sufficient, as the so-called tiger monkey in the mountains is called the king. Nasser felt that if he did it right, he could win a surprise attack on Israel at this time.

So Nasser was not at ease, and on the one hand, he quietly dispatched troops, and on the other hand, he began to visit other Arab countries under various pretexts or entrusted Sadat to visit other Arab countries.

So are Nasser's little moves really hidden? It should be said that it is impossible to hide such a big matter, especially the secrecy system of the Arab countries is like a sieve, and almost nothing can be hidden. The Soviet Union and the United States were aware of Nasser's small actions almost at the same time, and it is interesting and intriguing that the Soviet Union and the United States took almost exactly the same attitude towards this - pretending not to see it...... (To be continued.) )