The Persian Gulf Territory is a very important area in Australasia, where most of Australasia's oil reserves are located, and it is the absolute energy center of the country's development in the next 100 years.

The garrison in the Persian Gulf Territory has evolved from two divisions to a whole corps.

At present, after rotation, the new Eighth Army is stationed in the Persian Gulf Territory, and the commander is Major General Eric, a young man who graduated from the Royal Australasian College and is very talented in military affairs.

Of all the senior officers in Australasia, Eric is one of the most promising generals.

At present, Major General Eric is only 37 years old, and even if he has seniority, he can easily reach the level of lieutenant general.

Once the war breaks out, the accumulation of a large number of military merits will give these guys in the military a chance to be promoted quickly.

Perhaps after the end of this war, Australasia will have several more lieutenant generals. Even more senior generals and marshals are not out of the question.

You must know that in the 36 years since the establishment of the Australasian army, the number of generals and marshals can be counted on one hand.

The Minister of Defence is the highest level in the Australasian military and currently has the standard rank of General. The current Secretary of State for Defense, Thomas, by virtue of his seniority, was promoted to general four years ago.

The ranks of the General Staff and the Navy, Army and Air Force Commands under the Ministry of National Defense are unified to the rank of lieutenant general.

The chief of the general staff of the General Staff, the commander of the navy, the army, and the air force, and the staff officers are all all in the rank of lieutenant general.

Further down, the commanders and staff officers of each army have the standard rank of major general, and a small number of them have reached the rank of lieutenant general because of the promotion of military merits.

But lieutenant generals are always in the minority. In the Australasian Army, few commanders were able to reach the rank of lieutenant general, except for the Guards Commander.

The standard military rank of division commander and staff officer of each division is brigadier general, and there are also colonels who are exceptionally promoted to division commander or staff officer.

But in the 36-year history of Australasia, there is only one marshal, and that is Arthur, who is the commander-in-chief of the three armies.

In fact, Arthur did not restrict the promotion of these military high-ranking officials, but in addition to the rapid promotion of military ranks such as war, it is difficult to promote to the rank of marshal by accumulating seniority in peacetime.

Especially since the previous period when the national army was not large and the defense ministers were only lieutenant generals, it was even more unlikely that the top military officials would be promoted to marshals.

So far, there is only one person in the Australasian active general rank, and that is Minister Thomas.

There are seven lieutenant generals, namely Chief of Staff Patrick, Army Chief Brady Ellison, Army Chief of Staff Charlie Tuke, Navy Chief Andrew Chief, Navy Chief of Staff David Skov, Air Force Chief of Staff Yana Collett, Air Force Chief of Staff Michael Beach.

In addition to these active military executives, the current prime minister, Raul Planger, received the rank of general for his military exploits during his tenure as defense minister.

But after becoming prime minister, his military status has ended, and naturally he cannot be counted in active service.

Including the former former Prime Minister Kent. During his tenure as Secretary of State for Defence, Kent received the rank of lieutenant general.

But after becoming the prime minister, the previous military rank is equivalent to retirement and has been automatically invalidated.

In the final analysis, the reason why the number of senior military ranks above the rank of lieutenant general is so rare, in addition to the fact that the country has not experienced too many wars until now, another reason is that Australasia has only 36 years of history since its founding.

The time for the founding of the country is too short, which directly leads to the fact that those soldiers who have been promoted by seniority have not been promoted to too high ranks until now.

However, it is believed that this phenomenon will be much better after the end of the war. Whether it is a war against an island nation or a war that may interfere in Europe in the future, there are plenty of opportunities for military merit.

At that time, Australasia will not only have a few more senior officers above the rank of lieutenant general, but also many more high-ranking nobles above the baron level.

The so-called military merit knighthood is nothing more than that. Mobilize the enthusiasm of the army with military merits, and then let these new aristocratic groups that have become nobles because of military merits serve the royal family, so as to achieve a good cycle.

By the time Arthur returned to Australasia, it was the middle of March.

In addition to making arrangements in Britain as much as possible and turning the British government into the main war faction, some changes to France are also necessary.

At present, the French government is an out-and-out peacemaker, and one of the most important reasons is the cowardly French President Albert.

At a time when the presidential system has not yet been abolished, the French president still has considerable power. As long as President Albert remains in office, it will be difficult for the French government to move from a pro-peace faction to a pro-war faction.

This is very bad for the situation in Europe. France's geographical position determined that it was the first line of defense against the German attack.

Once France gave up resisting Germany, Germany could no longer resist and could easily sweep through Western and Central Europe.

At that time, the casualties that would have to be paid to defeat Germany by means of war would be completely disproportionate to what it is now.

However, it is much more difficult to change the attitude of the French government than it is to change the attitude of the British government.

All Arthur could do was get the Australasian government to remind France that the Germans were definitely not just targeting a small Poland.

If the French continue to be obsessed, Poland, which is annexed by the United Partition, will be their final end.

Anyway, Australasia is on the other side of the world, and no matter how hot Europe is, it will not do any harm to Australasia, and it will even make Australasia make a lot of money.

In retrospect, France's poor performance in World War II is not surprising at all.

Both the weakness of the government before the war and the astonishing speed with which the French surrendered after the outbreak of war are impressive enough.

On the eve of World War II in history, it was really a worse era. Britain, France, and the United States all pursued a policy of appeasement, and eventually raised a behemoth that made the world tremble.

There may have been some reasons for France's swift capitulation. After all, both Britain and the United States were engaged in a policy of appeasement, could it still be imagined that the French would fight Germany alone?

After all, the end of World War I proved that France alone against Germany would ultimately benefit countries such as Britain and the United States, which were far away from the battlefield.

Victory or not, it will cause heavy damage to the country, so why not choose the option with less damage?

In order to change the attitude of the French government, we can only take the lead in changing the attitude of the French people.

After all, for a country like France, the attitude of the population is above all else. Even if President Albert was unwilling to start a war and was coerced by French public opinion, he had to become a staunch pro-belligerent.

Otherwise, the angry French people will continue to stand up against the government, and President Albert's rule will not be secure.

The big deal is to mobilize public opinion to put President Albert's rule in crisis, and then take the opportunity to prop up a French president who is the main fighter.

In any case, the forces opposing President Albert are not absent, and the main war faction in France also has a certain scale, and the matter has not yet reached the point of complete irreparability.

On March 27, 1936, Germany reduced the original Polish army of more than one million, and only retained some of the more elite infantry and artillery that had been baptized by war.

But Germany has no intention of reducing the size of its own army. This led to the size of the German army jumping to 1.4 million, making it the largest army in the world.

Faced with such a large army size, the French finally felt the pressure.

Arthur mobilized a large number of media outlets to promote the German threat theory. The proof of this is that Germany still retains more than 1 million troops, and these German troops not only have no intention of being dismantled, but are still conducting a lot of training.

And the major military factories in Germany were constantly producing weapons and equipment at this time. All this that Germany did proved the fact that they were planning a war that would be bigger than the German-Polish war.

On March 28, 1936, the Austrian Empire announced the expansion of its army, expanding its army to 850,000.

At the same time, the major Austrian arsenals were constantly producing weapons and equipment, and were constantly hoarding supplies to the front.

The expansion of the Austrian Empire was playing into the hands of Italy. The next day, Mussolini gave a public speech, in which he announced that he would officially expand the army by 500,000 and increase the size of the army to about 1.1 million.

At this time, it was impossible for the French not to expand their army.

Under pressure from Germany and Italy, France also announced an expansion of its army in early April, raising the size of its army to 1.2 million.

Immediately afterward, the island nation released a conscription plan, announcing that it would increase the size of the army to 1.4 million and build up the weapons and equipment needed for the army.

In Europe, after receiving material aid from Germany and Italy, Spain reduced the original 400,000 troops of the Spanish republican government to 200,000, plus its own army, and also gathered more than 550,000 troops.

This series of army arms races has raised tensions in Europe to the highest level. The British government could not help but start plotting, and there was a long debate about whether to intervene in the situation in Europe.

On April 17, 1936, King Edward VIII of England again proposed to the government a plan to marry Mrs. Simpson.

Because of the opposition of Prime Minister Baldwin before, Edward VIII also made concessions and proposed another plan that seemed to have the best of both worlds, that is, Mrs. Simpson did not have the title of queen after marriage, and the children of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson also automatically gave up the inheritance to the British throne.

For Edward VIII, such a concession was no longer a retreat. Renunciating both Mrs. Simpson's title of queen and the succession to the throne for their future descendants was already the biggest concession that Edward VIII could make.

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