Chapter 19 Great Power Strategy
If you have a gun, you are the king of grass!
This is the law that Sima Mulong came to after reading almost all the relevant data in his mind and thinking about it for a long time.
This is the ecology of power on this planet!
Only with supreme force can you stand at the top of the planet's food chain and point fingers at the entire chessboard.
The most powerful gun on the planet has ever been invented, and that is a nuclear weapon.
This is already the most powerful weapon on the earth at this stage, it not only has the powerful power of area killing, but also has the terrifying effect of nuclear contamination, in the face of the huge power of nuclear weapons, all human beings must remain in awe, and everyone is vulnerable in front of it.
Therefore, the country with nuclear weapons is the real power of this era, a nuclear power!
Only countries, even only truly powerful powers, top industrial powers with huge territories and hundreds of millions of people, can truly possess nuclear weapons and bear the huge benefits and huge risks that accompany nuclear weapons without being crushed.
The reason why the state, as a righteous entity with tenacious vitality and tenacious vitality that has existed since the beginning of the written language on the earth, and has become the most orthodox ruling force on the earth over various organizational forms such as "godheads", "companies", and "helpers", is that it rightfully owns the land and the people, and has the ruling structure, currency, laws, taxes, and armies that are closely related to it.
From birth to death, as long as a modern person exists in his own ethnic group, he will inevitably have to deal with the state, you must issue a birth certificate when you are born, you need an identity registration to go to school, you must reimburse medical expenses after hospitalization, and even issue a death certificate after death, which step is inseparable from the state.
It is inextricably linked to everyone, and it goes deep into everyone's daily life, and your dealings with it are as natural as breathing, it is in your life, and you breathe and share fate.
It is precisely because of this that a country has an incomparable vitality, and it can gather all the available manpower and materials in a country at any time and place to accomplish one of its missions, which is a tremendous energy that no other form of organization can possess except the state.
This is because, apart from the state, there is no other form of organization that can establish such an inseparable connection with people, so that it can easily mobilize a large number of people to respond.
Therefore, only the state can have no hesitation to stretch out its hands to nuclear weapons, to build them, to own them, to use them, and to fully expand and expand its meaning and extension.
In addition, no one can! can't teach the company, can't help the company, and can't help the pipe.
Countless countries, both to protect themselves and to fight for their interests, are scrambling to join the ranks of the nuclear powers.
But to become a nuclear power, it is not enough to have one or two nuclear weapons, and even nuclear weapons are not enough.
Nuclear weapons are consumables, and they have a shelf life, as well as the problem of damage and maintenance of electronic components after being irradiated, and this thing is related to the strategic significance of a major power, and it cannot be bought.
Therefore, you must have your own independent system of nuclear weapons development, production, stockpiling, maintenance, and destruction. Even, because of the scarcity of raw materials, in order to prepare enough nuclear weapons, you also need a large number of exploration and mining teams, as well as a sufficient amount of nuclear materials.
With such a systematic nuclear industry, you can be regarded as having independent and self-sufficient nuclear weapons, but the nuclear weapons themselves are so big and heavy, and the power is amazing, and if you want it to come in handy, you can't let a soldier throw it out like a grenade, so you must also have missiles with amazing range, strategic missiles!
Only when you have a huge number of strategic missiles that can cover almost the vast majority of the world, can you truly be regarded as a real nuclear power, with huge interests that are unique to you and no one can touch...... But this is not enough insurance, you need to be concerned about the problem if you are hit back by a surprise.
If you let others find out, or make others think, that although you have a huge nuclear arsenal, you don't have much reliable survivability and nuclear counterattack ability, then the more nuclear weapons you have, the more disasters you have inflicted on yourself.
If you are just a small country with a small population, not to mention that you simply cannot have enough manpower and material resources to have a complete set of nuclear and missile industry systems, even if you are lucky enough to do it, you really have all this.
Don't you worry that your neighbors, fearing your huge nuclear power, will suddenly break into your territory one night, which is only three to five kilometers deep, smash the bottles and cans that you are proud of, and pull your country's leaders out of bed, hang them on the gates, and slaughter your people by the way?
If you are deeply worried about this issue, then you will definitely consider such a question: if other countries want to invade us, or even want to exterminate me, how can I guard against it, how can I fight back, how can I expand my chances of survival, and how can I even make the enemy dare not even think so?
The answer to thinking about it is to definitely expand the territory first!
If you have millions of square kilometers of land and enough territorial depth, no matter how strong the enemy is, it is impossible to bulldoze you overnight, and once he has no way to kill you in the first place, then, the next moment, at this moment after you react, it is the other party that should be worried, your long-prepared nuclear arsenal, hundreds or thousands of missile reserves finally come in handy.
However, this can only be aimed at non-nuclear countries, and the real nuclear powers have the ability to destroy the country in the first place, and you may really not even be able to react, and the country will be ruined.
Then, the unmanned nuclear weapons base, the strategic bomber that stays in the air at any time, and the strategic nuclear submarine that is deep at the bottom of the sea and roams in the vast ocean where no one is around, will become your last counterattack!
They will turn your anger into an all-encompassing strategic missile, which will blow up all over the world, and in any case, your revenge will be avenged.
However, you will also have to develop such vehicles yourself, and each of them will be difficult to develop beyond the sky, which will require a huge amount of manpower and material resources.
But a strategic bomber weighing several hundred tons, a nuclear submarine hidden in the depths of the ocean, a land-based nuclear silo rooted in a barren land, or a road-mobile strategic missile launcher, you can't do anything about it.
And once you have this, maybe your enemy will be ruthless several times, and want to give you a surprise attack to destroy the country, but in the end you can't make up your mind, and finally let you escape.
However, nuclear weapons are stronger, but they are not omnipotent, at least, it has taken so much effort to get tens of millions of people to concentrate on this thing, but it cannot be eaten, it cannot be worn, it cannot be played, and it is not very useful except for spending money.
The nuclear powers standing at the pinnacle of the food chain, all have this kind of unsolvable weapon, and the number is huge, once everyone lets go of their hands to fight, they can completely destroy each other, and even the ecological environment of the entire earth by relying on nuclear weapons alone, and then everyone will perish, and human beings as a species will also be extinct at that time.
Obviously, the power of weapons has reached this level, and even if you build more and stronger weapons, it will be nothing more than to destroy the human race several more times, which is meaningless and worthless.
It's nothing more than dying a few more times, what's the big deal, is there a difference between dying once and dying ten times?
Everyone can destroy each other, and this will achieve a kind of nuclear balance, and it doesn't matter if everyone has more or fewer nuclear weapons.
It is precisely this kind of balanced strategic balance that allows several major powers at the top of the earth's food chain to stand on the same level at the level of strategic weapons.
If you can destroy me, I can also destroy you, none of us is better than anyone, and no one is better than anyone.
However, competition is endless, and there are contradictions between everyone, and it is impossible to stop fighting and fighting because of this, so we can only change the mode of struggle and seek new and more effective directions and ways of struggle.
As a last resort, new modes of warfare have emerged to partially replace conventional warfare, such as cyber warfare, financial warfare, trade warfare, and so on.
This has also led to the current mode of struggle between the top powers, which has turned into an all-round all-out war with no dead ends, forming a direct competition between national strengths.
The defeated side is prone to economic collapse, social unrest, and undefeated military power.
However, this trick is better for small countries, and for independent big and powerful countries, it is too much to scratch the itch of the boots, and the effect is slow, not to mention the poor effect, the key is that there is no way to eradicate the lesion.
As far as possible, we have used conventional weapons to engage in indirect confrontation in local areas, and nuclear weapons, as the last killer weapon, have been used as ballast stones and war-free cards, and it is already difficult to carry out a war of annihilation in the situation of direct war.
It is precisely in this situation that countries have begun to explore and develop in new directions for military weapons.
All kinds of new military weapons began to emerge, and this time instead of pursuing an infinite increase in the power of weapons, they instead developed precise control of the power of weapons.
Make weapons longer-range, more accurate, more miniaturized, more varied, and less detectable by radar and other means of observation.