While Lin Youde was having fun with the orchestra, the Americans, as his opponents, were studying how to deal with the situation in the Persian Gulf.

If you count from the beginning of '52, this military operation has been going on for more than a year, spending thousands of dollars, and paying more and more casualties.

At present, the anti-war sentiment has not yet been ignited in the United States because of the orders brought about by the war, the economy is improving, and the people are enjoying the benefits of the war, but as the number of killed and wounded continues to rise as time goes on, this will definitely go wrong.

The war in the Persian Gulf was not the same as the Korean War in another time and space, and the opponents of the United States were also well-equipped and well-trained, and they were more familiar with fighting in desert areas -- many of the officers of the US military had experienced the war in North Africa, so they were quite familiar with desert operations, but many ordinary soldiers of the US army were not adapted to the hot and dry weather.

Seeing that Christmas in '53 is approaching, the top leaders of the United States are also becoming more and more worried about this war.

White House, large conference room.

MacArthur banged hard on the table: "We should use nuclear bombs, use nuclear bombs to blow up these cities of Basra in Baghdad, those damn yellow-skinned monkeys will never be able to fight anymore!" ”

The others looked at each other, and none of them responded to MacArthur.

Finally, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was the theater commander of World War II with MacArthur, said: "Personally, I think the use of nuclear bombs is also an option, but then what if Germany uses nuclear bombs to fight back against us?" ”

"Germany's nuclear bomb control is in the hands of the German army, and Lin Youde can't be so smoothly mobilized."

"General, according to the reliable information we have, Lin Youde still has unassembled nuclear bomb parts and enough weapons-grade plutonium in his hands, because they are not assembled, so they are not considered weapons, and the German government and the Wehrmacht have nothing to do. He was ready to assemble and launch his rockets into the Persian Gulf whenever he needed to. We cannot put our fleet and soldiers at risk. ”

In this era, the number of nuclear weapons is still relatively small, and there is no ability to directly bomb the earth back to the Stone Age, so the use of nuclear weapons in this era has always been regarded as an option.

In another time and place, the situation did not change until the '60s, when scientists discovered that while nuclear weapons could not directly blow the Earth back to the Stone Age, manufacturing and nuclear winters could already cause enormous and indelible damage to humanity, enough to destroy most civilizations.

As a result, the use of nuclear bombs began to be seen as a last resort, and the governments of major powers no longer seriously considered the use of nuclear bombs as an alternative.

The first time a U.S. president seriously considered using nuclear weapons in another time was Kennedy's decision to drop a bomber on the Lop Nur nuclear weapons test site on the eve of China's nuclear explosion. This crazy idea frightened many people in the United States, so these people, after discovering the clues that the radical anti-Kennedy elements were planning to assassinate Kennedy, chose to stand by and do nothing. Then Kennedy was assassinated just before the bombing order was issued, and the printed order was not signed and therefore not executed.

Since then, the US president has not really seriously considered the use of nuclear weapons.

This is also the inevitable result of the late stage of the Cold War.

During this period, the nuclear war strategies of various countries were very different from those of the early days of the Cold War.

In the early days, everyone was seriously thinking about how to use nuclear weapons in war, for example, the Soviet Union's idea of using nuclear weapons in the early days was to wash the ground with nuclear bombs before the Panzer Corps attacked, so as to open the way for the Panzer Corps.

France's approach to the use of nuclear weapons was the opposite, and the French were prepared to wash West Germany with nuclear bombs after the Soviets began to attack, and to wash away the Soviet troops that had penetrated into West Germany along with the defending West German troops and American troops.

Britain seriously planned to attack Soviet troops in France with nuclear bombs after the occupation of France......

But in the late Cold War, everyone's strategy for using nuclear weapons was based on one principle, which was: If I am attacked, I have to drag the whole world into the water, and we have to play together.

So in the late Cold War, if the United States was suddenly attacked by the Soviet Union, the United States would launch nuclear bombs at China, Japan, Britain, France, and Germany while counterattacking the Soviet Union. The logic of this strategy is this: If the United States and the Soviet Union destroy each other -- that is almost certain -- then China, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan, which have not been attacked, will become the new masters of the world, and the United States will certainly not allow these countries to profit.

The same is true of the Soviet Union, which will launch a nuclear counterattack against all the great powers of the world in the event of a nuclear attack by the United States. In fact, this is also the case with China, which is why a significant part of China's nuclear warheads are aimed at Russia, which seems to be an ally. Of course, China has relatively few nuclear bombs, and it cannot ensure the simultaneous destruction of Russia and the United States, but after the two countries are attacked, they will launch their own counterattack plans, and then the world will play the game.

Therefore, in China in another time and space, some people are not accustomed to patriotism, and claim that patriotism will lead to the nuclear leveling of China, but for these people, it can only be said that they have no understanding of what the five hooligans are.

In any case, none of the five hooligans will be nuclearized, and the big hooligans will keep an eye on those countries that are uncontrollable.

You see Iraq is building a nuclear reactor, the Israelis blew up the nuclear reactor, and the Security Council didn't let a single fart go, because Saddam Hussein is dangerous, and Saddam Hussein cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons, this is the consensus of the five hooligans.

After India and Pakistan engaged in nuclear weapons, the five hooligans did nothing, because both countries are under the control of the big hooligans, India's economy is strictly dependent on the United States, and Pakistan is China's iron buddy.

Looking at North Korea again, before North Korea did not have nuclear weapons, China helped North Korea stand on the platform, and after North Korea possessed nuclear weapons, China immediately changed its face, no matter how the two fat and three fat came to Beijing to intercede, and when the Security Council wanted to rectify North Korea, China resolutely abstained, and no longer had to veto power to support this disobedient neighbor.

North Korea is so miserable in the 21st century because of the nuclear bomb.

And in this time and space, the Cold War has just begun, just like Eisenhower said, using nuclear bombs is an option, but I am afraid that after opening this Pandora's box, Lin Youde will also drop nuclear bombs in the Gulf, and the two sides will wash the Persian Gulf into a radiated wasteland, which will not benefit anyone.

Moreover, no matter how many casualties Lin Youde suffered in the nuclear attack, he is not responsible, the people who died are all people from the Republic of Mesopotamia, and Lin Youde's popularity and support in Germany will not be negatively affected, and he may even make some speeches criticizing the inhumane behavior of the United States to continue to gain sympathy; On the side of the United States, all the Americans killed and injured by Lin Youde's nuclear counterattack were Americans, and if Lin Youde used nuclear bombs first, it would be fine, and if the United States itself dropped nuclear bombs first, the Americans who died after being attacked by nuclear counterattacks would be counted as the government.

MacArthur would not have to bear this anger at that time, but Eisenhower was sure to lose the next general election because of this anger.

Eisenhower did not intend to ruin his chances of re-election.

"Is there anything else to build other than the use of nuclear bombs?"

Eisenhower's voice fell, and everyone present had a solemn expression, even Charlotte, a special adviser who usually had a strong desire to speak, remained silent.

At present, the situation facing the United States is very delicate, and Xinming is conducting large-scale military exercises in the northeastern region north of the Korean Peninsula, and more than 1.5 million troops are assembled in the northeast in the name of the exercise, and it seems that it may move south to reunify the Korean Peninsula at any time, and the United States has no choice but to increase its military presence on the Korean Peninsula.

In Europe, the Alliance for Human Innovation is conducting a naval exercise codenamed Ocean Storm, and the German Navy has taken out the ships that have been completed after the war, and the French Navy and the Italian Navy that sailed away from the Mediterranean Sea are having fun in the North Sea, and the United States suddenly found that because a number of aircraft carriers were injured in the Persian Gulf, they now can't take out aircraft carriers to monitor this military exercise, so they can only quickly let the aircraft carriers overhauled in the dockyard end the overhaul ahead of schedule and go to the North Sea to defend Britain.

Lin Youde's intention could not be more obvious, that is, to distract the whole world from the United States, and not to concentrate on fighting the Persian Gulf War.

"We must maintain our military presence on the Korean Peninsula and in the United Kingdom," Defense Secretary Boris Johnson said, "and the amount of combat power flowing into the Persian Gulf is not destined to be too much." Unless we can call up further reserves. ”

"If the reservists are further called up, there may be more complaints in the country." Someone at the conference table immediately objected.

The reservists are all young and middle-aged workers, and the action of calling up reservists may affect domestic production, and now in the United States, the post-war baby boom generation is still a little baby, and the demographic dividend period is far from coming, on the contrary, because of the post-war baby boom, most American families have multiple children to raise, and if the men in the family are called up to serve, the life of the whole family will be problematic.

It is not the Second World War, when factories accepted female workers in large numbers, but American society, like another time and space, quickly reverted to its pre-war attitude towards women after the war, and the gap between the jobs and wages that women could find and the wages they could receive was quite large compared to that of men.

Therefore, the conscription of men, and the families with many children to raise must breed great discontent.

Even with her husband's salary in the army, this dissatisfaction is bound to accumulate.

Of course, Eisenhower did not want to see such a situation, and Charlotte, who will definitely run in the next election, sat at the conference table, and she certainly hoped that the evaluation of the Eisenhower administration would be lowered, and that the more dissatisfied the people were, the better.

"No," Eisenhower shook his head, "we can't expand the size of the conscripted reserves, and the next batch of conscripted reservists will remain unchanged at 100,000." ”

"But the casualties on the front line are very large," Bradley said, "the number of dead has risen to 50,000, and there are more than 30,000 injured and unfit to return to the battlefield, and there are tens of thousands of injuries that are unlikely to fully heal in the next three months, and we now have a shortfall of about 150,000 troops, at least increase the number of drafts to 150,000, Mr. President." ”

Eisenhower took a deep breath.

"Well, 150,000, it can't be more." R1148