"Mr. President, have you ever seen a boxing match?"

Faced with Mr. President's question, Mr. Trueman did not answer him immediately, but asked an irrelevant question.

But there is no doubt that all four people in the room knew the importance of today's conversation, especially Trueman, the initiator of this conversation, who knew better than anyone else what he was doing, and what he was going to do.

Mr. President did not answer immediately, but thought about the purpose of Mr. Trueman's question, and then nodded, "Yes, I have seen it." ”

Mr. Tleeman bowed slightly, "Then you must know that boxing matches are divided into several weight classes, and before each fight, the fighters on both sides have to weigh before they can fight in the ring. ”

Mr. President nodded again, "Yes, I know what you said. He was very patient, and did not urge Mr. Trueman to end these irrelevant topics, but answered very seriously.

"Gavra is a very good, very good, heavyweight boxer with a proud record who has won a belt by knocking out one strong opponent after another. ”

"In the ring now, he is the best man to be, and we ......," Mr. Trueman shook his head, "but a newcomer who has just joined the ranks of boxers, and no one cares about us, no one values us." ”

"So far, we have been passive in the diplomatic battlefield of the international community, sorry, I see the diplomacy of the country as a war, and we are clearly among the losers. ”

"We have not proven our worth and strength in the same way as Gavra or other countries, even if they outwardly think that we are the same, but in their bones they look down on us, because we have never shown our muscles in front of any of them. ”

"It's an opportunity, it's a good opportunity, we can flex our muscles, let people see our strength, and then make them fear us!"

"This is indeed a war, a war about whether the Federation can rise in a rapidly changing international situation, and a war that we must fight and win!"

"In fact, we have a chance that no one else has, because in the next military operation, we will face the world's largest naval force, and we can test our own strength through this war, which is a very rare opportunity. ”

"Others who want to challenge Gafra don't even qualify, but we now have this opportunity and if we can win this war, then we can gain the respect of the people!"

Mr. President was always listening carefully, and Mr. Trueman used the profession of the ring and boxer to suddenly make the picture of the struggle between the interests of the countries in Mr. President's mind three-dimensional.

It's no longer a conceptual thing, but two strong boxers standing in the ring, ready to start fighting at any moment because of the ringing bell.

With such a three-dimensional image, it is easier for him to accept some of what Mr. Trueman says next.

However, he offered a bit of the opposite, "What if we lose?" and he changed his sitting position and supported his chin with his hands, "You can't think we're going to win, we're going to win, what if we lose?"

Mr. Trueman closed his mouth, and the second secretary of defense beside him coughed lightly and took over the conversation, "Dear Mr. President, I need to remind you that we will not lose." ”

The president looked at him and did not speak, waiting for his explanation, while the second secretary of defense, who was only forty-two years old, recounted his views very calmly.

"First, we are better prepared than Gevre, and we have the initiative in this local military conflict. ”

"They are not familiar with the models of our warships, with the performance of our warships, with the range of our artillery, with the destructive power of our warheads......"

"They are not familiar with everything about us, but we are more familiar with them than they are with themselves!"

Although limited by escapism (this policy has been nailed, there is no isolationism, only escapism), the development of the Union on the military side is greatly limited, but this does not mean that the military has done nothing.

In a state where diplomacy is almost at a standstill, the Federation's spies and spies are still running around the world, sending messages back, including information on the military equipment of the main Gavre.

For example, the models, performance, advantages and disadvantages of their various warships, etc., these things are piled up in a room, and people are always studying these data, and even studying every naval battle, constantly reviewing.

They can't participate in the war, they can only feel the tragedy of the war in this way, and a passion.

It is precisely because the Federation did not participate in the war that the whole world does not know whether the Federation's current warships can keep up with the times and dominate a sea area.

This provides great convenience to the navy, and they can completely fight a naval battle with variable speed through this unequal information gap.

Yes, in the past two days, the staff officers and generals in the combat headquarters of the Navy Headquarters have already devised a constantly changing tempo of a variable speed naval battle to destroy the Royal Navy of Gevrela, which they are so familiar with, through more than a dozen rounds of deduction.

"The second point is that our secret weapon is already available, sorry, Mr. President, because you have only been in office for a short time, and there are some secrets that you have not yet come into contact with. ”

"In fact, the Navy has been promoting a program called 'Wolf Pack' for the past few years, and now that we have entered the harvest season, this new weapon will greatly change the course of naval warfare. ”

Submarines have existed for a long time, but due to the limitations of materials, technology and other reasons, it cannot play a key role in warfare, especially the issue of attack.

In recent years, Weipai Industry has developed a new torpedo, which greatly solves the problem of submarine attack, making it no longer just a sneak attack transport weapon that cannot control the situation of the war, but a ghost hidden under the surface of the sea.

Therefore, a ship company named Schöpp got a design and production order for the Navy, entrusting them to produce a combat submarine that is suitable for the intensity of modern naval warfare and can play a role in naval warfare.

After five years of continuous modification and design, the submarine, codenamed "Phantom-I", was officially launched and successfully tested.

"Mr. President, from a military point of view, I don't think we will lose to the Gavra Navy, on the contrary, we have a great chance of winning. The second minister of defense said categorically, and there was some fanaticism in his eyes.

If you can meet the Royal Navy of Gavrela, if you can defeat the navy that is known as the strongest in the world, the reputation of the Federal Navy can be raised at once.

This is a golden opportunity, knowing that the two sides are now actually part of the same Covenant camp, they are both "their own people", and they cannot collide militarily for any reason other than for the reason of this coincidence, except until the next world war.

The military also believes that there will be a Second World War, which is the same view of most people.

If this opportunity is missed, it will only have to wait a few more years or more than ten years for the Federal Navy to prove that they are no worse than Gavre's Royal Navy, which is also the urgent idea of the Ministry of Defense and the military at the moment - to fight it.

Listening to the voices of these people with such determination, Mr. President began to think, these people told him that he had to fight, that he would definitely win, and that he was not really afraid of such a collision.

There are things that don't need to be repeated a second time for him to understand, as Lynch said, that the Union needs a war to reunite, and a victory to regain confidence.

"It's just the best assumption, isn't Nagalil not going to establish diplomatic relations with us now?", Mr. President asked again, still a little uneasy.

At this time, the top person in charge of the Operations Department of the Security Committee, who was sitting on the other side of Mr. Trueman, changed his sitting posture slightly, "Mr. President, if the officials of the United Kingdom of Nagalil harmed the citizens of the Federation without any reason, plundered the personal property of the citizens of the Federation, and even colluded with pirates to attack the merchant ships of the Federation, what should we do?"

Politics has always been dirty, and international politics is even more so, because there is no guilt for framing other countries even to the most basic level, and as long as there are enough interests, there is nothing that politicians dare not say or do.

The words of the top person in charge of the Operations Department of the Security Council made Mr. President realize that these people have already made up their minds, and he cannot hesitate to support or deny it at this time.

Once hesitating, it will appear that he is ...... It was useless, he looked at Mr. Trueman, "This is what you call war?!"

"Yes, Mr. President, that's what I'm talking about war, and there's a certain chance that it will become a reality, and we'll try to avoid it, but we'll still have to be prepared. ”

"But thankfully, judging from the current political situation of the world, even if we start this war, we will not confront the full force of the Upper Gevrela, and even their capital ship group will not compete with us!"

"Everyone needs to be quiet for a while, and whoever destroys everyone's quiet is a sinner!"

Mr. President took a deep breath and held it in his chest, he thought about it for about ten minutes, and finally nodded, "I agree in principle with you to launch this military operation, but I also have a request......"

"First, we must win!"

"Second, whether it is a local military conflict or a war against Nagalil, it cannot exceed sixty days!"