Chapter 631: The Remake of "Desert Storm"
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In the Pentagon's presidential conference room, people sitting in a circle were staring at President Mario's face. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info none of them dared to speak out, because Mario, who was sitting at the forefront, had a more and more gloomy face. Just like the bald eagle badge hanging behind him, his face was grim and his eyes were sharp.
The atmosphere in the conference room was suffocatingly silent, and almost all of the top members of the U.S. government were present, all of whom were focused on the war that had broken out in the Caucasus. For President Mario, the war was about breaking Soviet rule in the Caucasus and creating an opportunity for American intervention in the Caucasus.
The result was a big disappointment for Mario.
"How much strength did the Soviet army hide? Why did this war come as a complete surprise to us? At the beginning, everyone promised me that this would probably be another replica of the Chechen war, and that the cost of the Soviet army would have been even worse than in Afghanistan, but now it seems that Uncle Sam's old friend has been suppressed by the rhythm? ”
The information placed in front of President Mario gave him the inexplicable illusion that what was in front of him was not the Soviet army, but a modern American army. Military observers sent to South Ossetia also came back to claim that Georgia was more like a reproduction of the U.S. military in an unequal war.
President Mario read out the contents of the intelligence word by word, "According to the Soviet Union's military operation plan, the first step of their integrated combat force, mainly the 58th Army, is to use the superiority of the sea and air to bomb the command, communications, liaison, air defense, airfields and other important military strategic targets of the Georgian rebels, so as to weaken or even destroy the potential of the Georgian war; The second step is a massive air strike on Georgian ground combat units and infantry positions on the ground, striking and weakening their combat effectiveness to the maximum. The first two steps have already been completed, and the third step is likely to be a ground offensive with ground forces and amphibious landing forces. ”
President Malayo slammed the intelligence on the table and said angrily, "Excuse me, is this any different from our 1991 Operation Desert Storm?" It's just the same. ”
The CIA was able to gather too much information from the news reproduced by Moscow TV that stunned them, including advanced integrated strike tactics, laser-guided missiles, laser-guided artillery shells, electronic warfare aircraft, and electronic jamming and communication technology, all of which were completely reproduced from the original Gulf War.
President Malato was not annoyed by the Soviet Army's successful modernization of military combat technology, but by the fact that the United States was unaware of the Soviet Union's military reforms! If he had the power, he really wanted to kill the top CIA officials in charge of Soviet intelligence gathering on the spot.
Before the start of the Georgian Civil War, CIA intelligence analysts believed that it would take at least three months for Soviet forces to quell the rebellion in Georgia, and that they might lose their fighters in terms of personnel deployment and logistics. And coupled with the brutal style, it was difficult for the Soviet army to have a chance to end the war in a short time.
And now the sudden appearance of the Joint Strategic Command of the South has taken all CIA leaders, including Tenet, by surprise.
Marshal Ogarkov's fraudulent strategy in recent years was very successful, and although the construction of the Soviet army did not hide from the eyes of the CIA, it misled Tenet's thinking, and he still thought that the Soviet army's development model was to create a "doomsday army". A large number of cheap military industry is the direction of development of the Soviet army, but I did not expect that the top level of the Soviet Ministry of Defense actually used the superficial phenomenon of camouflage to carefully cover up the reform and development of the Soviet army.
The advantages that Americans had managed to accumulate in the eighties were gradually smoothed out.
Director Tenet reassured President Mario, "It may just be the first to equip the Fist troops, as can be seen from this Georgian rebellion." The Soviet forces in Georgia and other regions of the Caucasus did not implement an advanced tactical data link of the three services, but still commanded the army through the old method of communication operations. Only the 58th Army, which is under the command of the Southern Joint Strategic Command, is the protagonist of this civil war. In other words, the Soviets are just showing us their fists. ”
President Mario is already feeling a lot of headaches, and the CIA actually knows nothing about the weapons that appeared in the civil war this time, which shows how well the Soviet army has done a job of secrecy. They were fully intent on overtaking American forces in the covert. It is true that the United States underestimated the determination of the top echelons of the Soviet Ministry of Defense and actually reversed the gap between electronic and information technologies in just five years.
However, as early as 1990, Yanayev was secretly planning a reform plan for the Soviet army, and only waited five years for the initial results.
What kind of terrible monster is the opponent? Why, no matter what he does, Yanayev is always one step ahead of President Mario.
"How likely is it that Gorbachev will be able to keep his army now?" President Mario asked. He no longer asked Gorbachev if he could keep Tbilisi, but directly asked Gorbachev if he could keep his army.
"Thirty percent." Tenet said dejectedly.
"It's the exact opposite of what you predicted that you would have an 80 percent chance of keeping Georgia." President Mario glared at him, displeased with Tenet's answer.
However, Director Tenet did not dare to say anything, the previous predictions were all based on the old armaments and combat systems of the Soviet army, and even the strategic forecasting company, which is known as the CIA think tank, did not expect that the Soviet army was no longer the Soviet Red Army of the year, but a copy of the "American army". It's just that reality slapped the entire top brass of the Ministry of Defense in the face.
"Once Gorbachev's garrison in Tbilisi fails, we can only let Turkey send him out of the border areas. When the time comes, I hope to be able to send secret troops to meet Gorbachev in the border areas. President Mario sighed, but at the same time he was worried that the Soviets would be desperate to provoke a border conflict, "We want to be able to keep the situation within our control, after all, the Russians' ambition to recover Constantinople has never ended." ”
"Let me say a word, President Mario." Defense Secretary William Perry looked around and began to state his opinion, "I don't think it's Tbilisi or Gorbachev that needs to be kept now, it's Turkey." ”
Perry's remarks caught the attention of everyone present. (To be continued.) )