Iraq, not far from the Caucasus, is still under the control of China and the United States, and although the two countries have reached an agreement to deliberately demarcate the sphere of power, the question of post-war reconstruction and order in Iraq remains unresolved. The other countries that participated in the war basically knew each other, and after completely surviving the Resident Evil, they returned to their homeland one after another, and no one wanted to stay in this ghost place for another minute. China and the United States, on the other hand, have taken this opportunity to maintain a relatively large military presence in Iraq.

The tide of public opinion in the United States has not yet subsided, and the death of thousands of Americans is not just a matter of talking, and US President George H.W. Bush is certainly responsible for this; there were already Democratic congressmen who planned to impeach him, but because of worry, Bush Sr. fell ill at a meeting and was hospitalized for many days to recuperate, and he was sure that he would no longer participate in the election of the new US president. The Democrats thought that there was a good chance of catching the Republican pigtail, so they didn't dwell on the issue anymore.

With the Democratic Party dragging its feet, the various arrangements of the US military in Iraq can be described as difficult, and even many US soldiers who occupied Iraq have become unstable and want to go home, and finally the US Department of Defense has to transfer back the US troops who participated in the war in a rotational manner, and then redeploy new troops in Iraq. Although the new troops did not like this errand either, there was finally nothing left in Iraq that could threaten the US military, so they pinched their noses and confessed.

China, which has won successive wars in the Middle East and even saved the Resident Evil, has become the most popular person in the Gulf for a while. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chinese trade delegations frequently enter and leave the Gulf countries, and sign a series of business cooperation agreements and tariff reduction agreements with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and other countries, and a large number of Chinese goods have also taken this opportunity to begin to show a situation sweeping the Middle East. By the time anyone notices the problem, Arabs in the Middle East are accustomed to high-quality and inexpensive Chinese goods, and China's economic power has successfully penetrated the region.

In particular, the sales of some high-value-added industrial products, such as telecommunications products, petroleum extraction and chemicals, environmental protection technology, seawater desalination and other things, the Gulf countries did not know that China has such a strong capability, but they took this opportunity to learn about it, so that this kind of products began to enter the Middle East on a large scale.

Of course, the most conspicuous thing is that several of China's major oil companies have also taken this opportunity to sign a number of cooperation agreements with local oil companies, some of which are directly developing oil fields, some are providing technical support and guarantee for the royal family's oil companies, and some are underwriting agreements. In this regard, several major oil giants in the West couldn't help but shout wolf, and BP, Shell, and Mobil, which were originally very influential here, have all been affected to a certain extent.

Qi Yiming's plan was very hidden, on the one hand, he built up earning power by exporting a large number of goods to Middle Eastern countries, and on the other hand, he used oil transactions to hedge his surplus. After a period of time, Middle Eastern countries will find that this kind of transaction using the dollar is actually not as cost-effective as using the yuan, so oil, a real modern hard currency, will be decoupled from the dollar and pegged to the yuan.

In fact, this monetary strategy was slowly implemented in Iran and other countries after more than 20 years of China's economic influence, and it was not enough to affect several important oil-producing countries in the Gulf, but with the convenience of this time, Qi Yiming was confident that he would carve up the influence of the US dollar's reserve currency and common foreign exchange. For the time being, no one will be able to directly understand Qi Yiming's attempt, but when people do, it will be too late for the United States to use any tricks to save it.

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Because of his performance in the war and the recommendation of the troops, Li Chen was successfully promoted to work after the war and became a second lieutenant. Compared with ordinary ensigns, he is a little older, and his future development prospects are actually not optimistic, but Li Chen still cherishes what he has gained today.

After the battle, he returned to China to marry his sweetheart Dilinaer, but their sweet newlywed life did not last long, and a paper order had to separate the sweet newlyweds for a while. Because the troops of two battalions of the 310th Division under his command were re-recruited and sent to the Doha Barracks in Kuwait and the Basra Barracks in Iraq for a six-month rotation.

Not only are they tasked with maintaining security and order in southern Iraq, but Li Chen also has the task of helping the Kuwaiti Army to form a "medium armament brigade."

After the Gulf War, the Chinese Army's devastating, overwhelming, and invincible spirit on the battlefield shocked and admired many countries, especially Kuwait, whose territory was occupied and fled from the royal family, hoped to obtain the same combat strength as the Chinese Army, so that it could better defend the country.

Coincidentally, the Chinese Army was stationed in Kuwait, and Kuwait proposed that the PLA send a military advisory group and instructors to assist the Kuwaiti Army in learning the training model of the Chinese Army, so as to improve its combat effectiveness as soon as possible and build an army with limited scale but extraordinary combat effectiveness.

In order to build such an army, Kuwait paid a lot of money and exchanged a complete set of Chinese-made weapons from the Chinese army almost from beginning to end. Including the VT-1A main battle tank, VN-11 tracked armored vehicles, etc., which they had ordered earlier and had not yet fully arrived. Even they chose the Chinese 5 for their rifles. 8mm caliber, 100,000 Chinese Type 85-II (95-II) automatic rifles were purchased.

With the help of the Chinese PLA, the Kuwaiti Army will create three armored brigades, two mechanized infantry brigades, one mechanized reconnaissance brigade, one artillery brigade, one engineer brigade, and two reserve brigades. In order to complete the construction of these units, Kuwait pursued the purchase of more VT-1A tanks, and also added a variety of army equipment such as VN-1 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, 155mm caliber PLZ-45 self-propelled artillery guns, and 122mm caliber SR-3 self-propelled rocket launchers.

Of course, it is impossible for PLA to help Kuwait build a new army in full accordance with its own formation model, because of the different degrees of informatization, the Chinese army has basically achieved the level of digital troops, and the export of these equipment is still about the end of the mechanization era, with a strong communication capability, but it is still slightly inferior to the level of real digitalization.

Kuwait naturally also knows that it is basically impossible for the Kuwaitis to completely learn the skills of the Chinese Army, although drawing a tiger according to a tiger may not be able to draw a tiger, but at least it will not be too outrageous to draw like a cat, like a leopard or something, the Kuwaitis are very satisfied.

Therefore, in fact, the Chinese military advisers and instructors who trained the new Kuwaiti Army were engaged in a specious set of things. A lot of things are the content of the Blue Army Division 310, but it also incorporates a lot of the tactical ideas of the Red Army, but things such as the revolutionary spirit of the Chinese army have been removed by the Kuwaitis, and they probably need to replace them with ideas such as loyalty to the Kuwaiti royal family.

Li Chen is one of the instructors, and he doesn't speak much Arabic, but his English is not bad, so he can make some Kuwaiti soldiers who also know English understand what he means. He and the entire advisory group of instructors have been training the Kuwaiti Army for many months, and the quality of the Kuwaitis is obviously inferior to that of the Chinese, coupled with the surprise of language and culture, so the process is more troublesome.

“…… Tanks must not advance too suddenly, and must pay attention to the speed and rhythm of maneuver, and keep at all times in areas where their own covering artillery fire or air power can be taken into account, so as to cover their own security and form the most effective suppression of the enemy...... "Although he is a grassroots officer, he is by no means ambiguous in theory. With the development of China's military level, a set of systematic theories of war has gradually evolved, and the art of war that the PLA pays attention to today is a collection of factors such as logistics capability, command level, equipment level, and soldier morale.

The great improvement of equipment has not raised too many "Wang Fan'er" of PLA, although PLA pays attention to the suppression of firepower, but pays more attention to the accuracy of firepower delivery. In addition, in the real battlefield confrontation, a relatively big difference between the PLA and the US military is that the PLA is extremely fond of mobile warfare, paying attention to the mobilization and mobility capabilities of various units, interspersing large and small, disturbing the front and rear flanks, striking the enemy from the east and attacking the west, and other attack modes, which dazzled the Kuwaiti trainees and made them even more fascinated.

A colonel in Kuwait couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Sure enough, it is the country where the "Art of War" was born, and the accumulation of thousands of years of war art has created the smartest army in the world!" "The so-called "Art of War" is actually the Art of War, and even in military academies in the United States, it is the second most required reading, second only to the U.S. Constitution.

Naturally, it is impossible to disassemble and crumple the Kuwaitis to teach them in detail, and some things are given as examples, and as for how much they can learn, it is their own creation. In just a few months, the Kuwaiti Army has become more or less similar when it comes to conducting exercises. At least Li Chen judged that although the Kuwaiti Army was somewhat inferior to any of China's ground forces, in the Middle East, such a force could already be regarded as well-trained and elite.

The King of Kuwait was also greatly pleased, and not only presented honors and other awards to these Kuwaiti troops, but also specially invited the Chinese advisory group and the instructor group to present medals and cash rewards.

The progress of the Kuwaiti Army made the Saudi side also a little red-eyed, and then Saudi Arabia also asked China for an advisory group and an instructor group in the name of military cooperation, but the equipment in the Saudi Army was relatively mixed, unlike the Kuwaiti ship, which turned around and changed all the equipment made in China. The Saudi army has both American-made M60 tanks and Chinese-made MIFV multi-purpose infantry vehicles, but it is not easy to coordinate these things.

Saudi King Fahd has spent a lot of money to ask China to use the data link system developed by China for Saudi Arabia to reintegrate the Saudi Army and improve the combat effectiveness of the Saudi Army.