Chapter 804: Brutal War

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However, the difference between jet fighters and teardrop-shaped submarines and piston engines and boat-shaped submarines is too great, and it will take a long time for the troops to form combat effectiveness after equipping them. Moreover, it is not only the Pacific theater that has made a major breakthrough for the US military

When the Allies occupied the Azov and Madeira Islands, they quickly gained complete control of the sea in the Atlantic, and in fact became invincible. Although the maritime trade route between South Africa and Germany had been cut off by the Allies after the fall of the Azov Islands, South Africa's accession still had a significant international impact, especially after the Allies were able to send their fleets into the Indian Ocean again after obtaining supply points at the southern tip of Africa, to the east to reinforce the currently war-torn British India, and to the north to threaten the Middle East, where the Arab Commonwealth was relatively weak, and its most militarily powerful ally, Ethiopia.

By the end of 1946, all other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, which had become independent with the help of the Krim, had already achieved considerable success. Although the local guerrillas caused some trouble to the Allied occupation forces, in the context of a world war, the Allies did not care at all about the total casualties so far of less than 100,000.

And more importantly, the victory of the "Second Colonial War in Africa" is fully proven. The Muslims, though brave in battle, were poorly organized, especially the blacks, who were nothing less vulnerable to a rabble without the direct command of a genius commander like Kerim. The Allied leadership quickly decided to start with the areas where the Krim was out of reach, depleting them of their forces, and then launching a general assault on the core areas ruled by the Krim

In addition to direct military strikes, the allies were also very good at using diplomatic means to divide and disintegrate the enemy, and Kerim's most important ally, Ethiopia, finally announced its withdrawal from the Islamic State League in September 1946 and immediately joined the coalition of allies under the coercion and temptation of the allies, especially the great temptation to recognize several Italian colonies around Ethiopia as Ethiopian territory. Gave Kerim a big blow.

Although the Ethiopian emperor feared reprisals from the Krim and being used as cannon fodder by Westerners. The mere refusal to declare war on the UAE and allow Western ground troops to land on Ethiopian soil or use Ethiopian airfields to bomb the Arab Federation, but simply by supplying Allied ships, allowed the Allies to bypass North Africa, the core of Kerim's rule, and land directly in the Middle East, where their rule was relatively weak.

But what the Allied top brass did not expect. Kerim left his native Morocco and came to West Asia to coordinate and command the local troops. It was devastating for the Allied forces that landed on the Arabian Peninsula. It's even more troublesome. Although Ethiopia's accession to the United Nations allowed Allied forces attacking West Asia to receive supplies of fresh water and food nearby, the larger quantities of weapons and ammunition had to be shipped from the United States. This required crossing the Atlantic and then bypassing most of Africa, a supply line rarely seen in the long run, and the threat of German submarines increased tenfold. Even with the unparalleled sea capacity of the United States, it was a little unbearable for a while, and it could only choose one of the two options of reducing the size of the force and lowering the supply standard.

If there were fewer landing troops, it would naturally be difficult to defeat the Alliansia Corps under the personal command of Kerim, so the U.S. army, which has always had deep pockets, had to lower the supply standard this time to ensure the strength of the troops invested in the West Asian battlefield, but this inevitably seriously affected the combat effectiveness. It is not surprising that hundreds of thousands of allied troops were wiped out by the Arab coalition army, which was commanded by Klim himself and whose morale was greatly boosted.

At the same time, the Allies thought they had found an opportunity to launch another attack on Morocco, which was also a miserable defeat because Rommel had been granted full authority by Kerim.

The losses on the two fronts were all combined, and the number of permanent attrition of the Allied forces exceeded 700,000, although the total number of military and civilian deaths in the Arab Federation exceeded one million, but the Arab Federation was not the core of the Axis after all, Germany, and it was undoubtedly extremely impossible to fight so many lives with them, and Roosevelt was once again questioned by Congress

World War II to the present, the loss of all countries has far exceeded the extent of history, if the death toll caused by some civil wars and famine during World War II is also included, since the beginning of China's all-out war of resistance against Japanese aggression, the total number of unnatural deaths in the world has been no less than 80 million, and the total number of deaths at the end of World War II in history is not so much, and it must be taken into account that in this time and space, China's war of resistance against Japan ended the war early, even if the subsequent civil war and war against Britain are added, The total number of military and civilian deaths is more than 5 million, while the total number of military and civilian deaths in China in history has exceeded 20 million (some say that it is more than 10 million, but the total number of deaths in the world under that statistical method is only 50 million, and the proportion is actually about the same). In other words, the losses of other countries in this time and space are certainly much greater than in history, especially on the part of the allies, and the losses are far from comparable in history.

For example, the total number of military and civilian deaths during World War II in British history was less than 400,000, and the total number of British military and civilian deaths was close to 6 million before World War II was over, almost 15 times that of history; The total number of military and civilian deaths in the history of the United States is less than 270,000, but the time and space has reached more than 3.6 million, more than 13 times the number in history

In terms of economic losses, the other major belligerents in the time and space except China paid a huge price far greater than in history, and even the United States, which was in the best position of the country, had its economic development stagnant in 1946, and the surprising prosperity of the early years of the war was no longer visible, let alone other countries (to be continued......