The United States has sent 500,000 troops and China has sent more than 100,000 troops, which are the two largest military forces, and the military strength is also at its peak and the level of equipment is also very high, and it will become the mainstay of the coalition forces. The second level is the NATO allies of the US military, mainly Britain, France, Italy, Germany and other European countries, although the scale of the troop is not as large as China, but they are closer allies with the United States, and they are more relaxed in cooperation. The third level is the Middle East countries, led by Saudi Arabia, but also include Egypt, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and other countries, these countries are actually the most critical in the situation, but most of the countries are small and have few people, so the strength is not enough. Finally, there are some countries in the third world that have been promised preferential terms such as material support and foreign debt forgiveness by the United States and other allies, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Senegal, Niger, Argentina, Honduras and other countries.

Of course, there are some countries that will not send combat troops, but will also provide medical and other logistical help, such as Poland, Hungary, South Korea, India, etc. Japan does not send combat troops to the Gulf, but Japan is responsible for the war. $6.1 billion in cash and value7. $800 million in in-kind assistance for construction and engineering support, vehicles, electronic equipment, medical equipment, transportation, etc. In addition, the Japanese Cabinet announced that it would continue to increase the amount of aid if necessary.

A large part of Japan's willingness to be the culprit of this injustice and to provide such a large amount of military support is stimulated by China, which has caused tremendous repercussions in the international community and has attracted a lot of attention in the international arena by sending the second largest number of troops after the United States. Of course, Japan is not willing to let China become more and more a world power in this way, and become the second largest in East Asia, but Japan cannot show itself in the form of sending troops, so it can only spend money to pretend to be big.

According to the agreements signed between China and the United States and some other major participating countries, China and the United States will share 85 percent of the military aid provided by the allies, of which the United States will receive about $54 billion in military spending and China will receive $10 billion as the cost of sending troops.

It seems that China has received much less than the United States, but with this $10 billion, the Military Commission basically does not need to approve an additional budget for this troop dispatch. In this way, in wars far from the homeland, the main expenses are the expenditure on delivery and transportation, the loss of equipment and ammunition, and the cost of personnel, of which the loss of equipment and logistics supplies account for a large part of the expenditure. For example, the launch of a cruise missile is nearly a million dollars, which is a waste of money, and there will be no more if you throw it away. If a fighter is shot down, that's tens of millions of dollars in losses.

But in fact, most of the PLA equipment and part of the supplies were provided by Qi Yiming's Red Police base, and the cost was almost none, so the expenditure in this area could not be measured in a normal way at all. At the very least, the PLA has the same firepower effect as the US military, and the cost may be one percent or even less than that of the US military.

Qi Yiming was even thinking that he would take advantage of this war opportunity to consume a large amount of hoarded ammunition, so as not to waste it until it was scrapped. Even some inconsequential ammunition can be distributed or sold cheaply to partner countries that also use the same system.

But transporting these things to the Middle East is a big headache and bleeding project. With the huge transportation capacity of the United States, it also has to turn to allies and the civilian sector for help. Japan, Greece, Norway, Denmark and other countries have provided the United States with large transport ships and transport planes, and 46 percent of the supplies the United States has transported to the Gulf region by chartering transport vessels from allied countries. The transfer of the US Seventh Army from Germany to the Gulf was basically organized and implemented by four NATO countries using military and civilian agencies, and a total of 465 trains, 312 barges, and 119 convoys were mobilized. Saudi Arabia spared no effort in providing assistance to the US military alone, providing 800 general-purpose transport trucks, 5,000 fuel trucks and trucks, and 20.4 million tons of fuel and drinking water, as well as spare parts, communications equipment, and other important logistical supplies.

Theoretically, China could also use the civilian or military transportation of its "allies" to transport its more than 100,000 troops to the Gulf region, but Qi Yiming repeatedly gave up borrowing other countries' transportation capacity to help. The main factor is the consideration that China and the United States, Japan and Europe are not really allies with one heart and one mind, and at most they are taking advantage of each other. If China's equipment and logistical supplies are sent to the Gulf region through the transport ships and transport planes of these countries, it is absolutely not surprising that a large number of spies will disguise themselves as relevant ports or crew members and take the opportunity to spy on the secrets of China's military equipment.

Fortunately, in the past two years, Qi Yiming no longer manufactured warships for the military, in addition to building his own Red Guard fleet installed in frozen space, he also used the capacity of the Navy Shipyard to build more than 3 million tons of transport ships. These transport ships are specially designed by the base, a type of ship can be used as civilian ro-ro wheels in peacetime, a helicopter platform is reserved, can be used as a medical rescue station in wartime, the carrying structure has been strengthened, can directly carry heavy equipment such as main battle tanks, can be put into the battlefield in a whole system, and basically do not need any modification. With a displacement of 50,000 tons, four such transport ships are capable of delivering a whole heavy mechanized division.

The other is container ships, which mainly containerize military supplies and then deliver them to the war zone. In addition to general containers, it can also be specially equipped to carry military insulated containers, refrigerated containers, ammunition containers, complete sets of maintenance spare parts containers, etc., this kind of container ship, full load displacement up to 160,000 tons, larger than an aircraft carrier.

Originally, under normal circumstances, Qi Yiming still needed to equip the PLA with large oil tankers, because just relying on the existing ocean-going comprehensive supply ships was almost only for the supply of naval ships, and ordinary army units and air force units still needed logistics supplements. However, this time the situation is a little special, when you go to the Middle East to fight, there is no reason to bring fuel yourself, and the fuel will mainly be provided to the PLA by Saudi Arabia and other countries, and no money will be charged.

These transport ships, which were all named as a shipping company in the hands of Qi Yiming in non-wartime, have begun to emerge in the international shipping industry in recent years; In the event of a defense need, all the transport ships owned by the shipping company will be requisitioned to carry large quantities of supplies and troops for the PLA.

In addition to some of the PLA's own transport capacity, the requisitioned transport ships of some other units, although the number of PLAs participating in the operation is very large, but the capacity of several million tons can still be basically guaranteed.

Although the PLA now has a powerful aircraft carrier fleet and amphibious assault groups that can quickly project troops to hot spots and participate in battles, the scale and intensity of such battles are limited. Once it reaches the level of such a major battle, hundreds of thousands of troops, operations above the scale of the group army, if the battlefield is thousands of kilometers away from the mainland, the transportation capacity of the PLA will still be weak.

In modern warfare, more and more things are fought, and at the end of the day, there may only be a few hundred people in a battalion, but what you have to bring is the amount of equipment carried by a division that fought a war several decades ago. The country's economy is in the ascendant, and some shipyards that have received technical support from the Red Alert base have been able to start building some relatively large ships, but the demand is like a gluttonous mouth, no matter how much supply is always eaten. Even though several major shipyards such as Jiangnan are desperately trying to build all kinds of ships, China still needs to order a large number of ships for various purposes every year.

After Qi Yiming learned the military's idea, he proposed a new concept to the military, that is, the sea preset ship. This concept was also put forward by Lao Mei in another plane, mainly to supplement air and sea transportation and shorten the time to deliver urgently needed equipment and supplies to the war zone. This is done by deploying these huge ships in some areas, which contain a lot of equipment, ammunition, and supplies, so that in the event of a war, they can quickly move to the nearest place of occurrence and supply the troops who rush there immediately.

Therefore, with the sea preset ship, it is completely possible for the soldiers to walk on the transport plane empty-handed, and then fly to the war zone, directly obtain the required equipment from the sea preset ship, and then put it into battle.

At its peak, the U.S. operated 36 maritime preset vessels, serving the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, and Air Force. In the 90s, the United States used the Watson-class maritime preset ships, which used this type of preset ship with a full load displacement of up to 62,930 tons, and four preset ships could transport a U.S. Marine Corps expeditionary brigade. It opened the door for the U.S. Army to go into combat around the world.

Through the Gulf crisis, the PLA was determined to build a preloaded fleet of scale, but it could not reach the size of the United States. First of all, China does not have so many military bases around the world to operate these pre-positioned ships, and secondly, it may be a waste of resources to build a large number of pre-positioned ships at a juncture where there is basically no great possibility of a major war.

However, it is obvious that the development of preset ships is a very important topic in the field of military projection in the future, and the military has already set up a research group to study whether it is necessary to develop some preset ships for use.