How important the Middle East is, Serov believes that if the Soviet Union knows, the United States will definitely know. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info This is based on the fact that the United States and the Soviet Union are opponents of the same level. The Suez Canal was controlled by the Soviet Union, and the route for the mobilization of American forces was inconvenient. Will this unfavorable condition make the United States finally compromise and not interfere? This must not be possible.

As long as Iraq and Iran choose to divert the conflict from war and push up oil prices, no matter how inconvenient the transportation and how bad the geography is. The United States will gather a large army to kill from the Americas. This was not something that could be stopped by Soviet protests. No one can stop the United States with their mouths. North Korea and Vietnam have no major interests, and they can attract the United States to fight across the Pacific. Not to mention the Middle East?

It is very naïve to think that the United States does not dare to fight a war and is afraid of the dead. The United States is not able to have what it is today, not because of the war money of the two world wars, but because of the money of death, which was piled up with human lives. In order to aid China, so many planes crashed on the Hump route that the aluminum wreckage of the planes in the Himalayas looked like the Milky Way in the sun; The famous Memphis Beauty was put on the screen just because it completed 25 bombing missions, which shows that the number of crews sent to bomb Germany can survive 24 missions.

The firm belief that the United States will not stand out for some small countries is wishful thinking. Some things may seem small, but they have a bearing on the credibility and hegemony of the United States, and the same is true for the Soviet Union; as long as Serov now verbally supports the two Iranians in sending troops, the United States will come when the time comes, and the Soviet Union will have to fight the United States face to face.

When it came to real decision-making, the USSR could not count on the United States not to dare to make up its mind. Of course, this determination is also mutual, after the United States has made up its mind, can the Soviet Union make up its mind? This is Serov's problem, and his choice is to fight.

"Either a world war or a war in the Middle East, I believe that the latter is much more likely." Serov was still thinking with a cool head at this time, and it was necessary to refer to Reagan's thinking at this time. What was the Cold War? We win, they lose, that's the Cold War......

According to this simplistic thinking, which is more likely, a world war or a war in the Middle East? It should be a war in the Middle East. Well, while dealing with the war in the Middle East in detail, the best and worst preparation is a world war.

"Because the Iran-Iraq war did not break out, the military power of Iraq and Iran in this era is not as strong as it was in history, but there is still no problem!" Serov made a comparison on paper, listing the forces of the Middle East camps on both sides.

As a country directly responsible, Iraq currently has 500,000 soldiers, more than 6,000 tanks, and more than 2,000 armored vehicles. It can be said that even if Iraq's military strength is weaker than half, Ye can kill Kuwait in one day.

Kuwait is currently one of the richest countries in the world, with foreign exchange reserves of about 80 billion, overseas assets of 100 billion, and annual oil income of more than 10 billion. In such a situation, Kuwait is certainly reluctant to merge with Iraq, which is a matter of Kuwait's perspective.

Iraq's coastline is of paramount importance, with just over 50 kilometres of coastline and its only access to the sea, threatened by two Kuwaiti islands. The Soviet Union has the most say on the issue of access to the sea, think about the history of the Soviet Union and even Russia, and how many countries have fought wars with over the issue of access to the sea.

Iran has a population and size that is still higher than Iraq, with 650,000 soldiers, the strongest air force in the Middle East, and the strongest navy in the Middle East given to the Soviet Union. The reason why it was given to the Soviet Union was that the large warships of the Iranian Navy were incorporated into the Soviet Mediterranean Fleet because of the mutual assistance treaty signed between the Soviet Union and Iran.

If the Iranian Navy is still in its own ports, the US Fifth Fleet will never leave Bahrain, and Iran's goals will not be achieved. In comparison between Iran and Bahrain, Iraq and Kuwait, the Soviet Union had an absolute advantage.

In the outer circle, the allies of the United States also include Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Soviet Union had South Yemen and Syria. The United States had Turkey, the Soviet Union had Kurds. If you count the pro-British Oman, there is also Egypt on the side of the USSR. However, it is a question whether the British influential Oman and Jordan are counted as a circle of the United States.

Considering that Margaret Thatcher is still insisting on the position of prime minister, Serov still counts Oman and Jordan among them. It seems to be one-on-one, but in fact, there is also the cooperation of the Middle Eastern countries themselves under the surface, which cannot be clearly said in one sentence or two.

If you compare foreign aid, the Warsaw Pact is geographically closer to the Middle East, and after defeating Turkey to establish the Soviet Grad, the Soviet side of the Mediterranean shipping line also has an advantage, how to look at it, if the war starts, the allies of the Soviet Union will have the advantage.

All these advantages are based on the fact that the United States does not do it personally, and if the United States does it, all these advantages are basically equivalent to the United States, and a detour to go to war can make the United States spend a little more transportation costs, but it cannot change the fact that the United States has a much higher military strength than all countries except the Soviet Union.

Only the Soviet Union could withstand the American army, and only the American army was the opponent of the Soviet Red Army. For example, the US military is not a force that can be defeated by piling up numbers, maybe Iran can use its territorial depth to drag down the US military, and the remaining Middle East countries are almost as desert countries as Libya, and it will not be more difficult for the United States to beat them than Libya.

"The key point is still in Egypt, it takes five days for the Mediterranean Fleet to cross the Suez Canal to the Persian Gulf, and if the Suez Canal is open to the United States, it will be about this time!" Serov deduced the war plan, and finally slapped the table and said to himself, "That's it, if you dare to come, let me try the land combat capabilities of the US army." ”

A few days later, Marshal Akhromeyev sent another plan, attacking Iraq and Iran in the name of the US military helping Kuwait and Bahrain, including the question of the entire Middle East countries, how many military bases the United States can use, how much military strength the United States can get at the earliest, and even the role of Australia.

"Australia?" Serov was noncommittal about the country, and the conditions for triggering a war in the Middle East were to start with Indonesia, and Australia would be in danger and transfer away from the US Fifth Fleet and Japan's Seventh Fleet to protect and threaten Indonesia. Of course, there is also the role of the Soviet Pacific Fleet here.

As soon as the US Fifth Fleet left the Persian Gulf, this was when the Middle East blitzkrieg began. Serov approved the Defense Ministry's plan to stop the U.S. Sixth Fleet with the Soviet Mediterranean Fleet, although the Soviet Red Navy was slightly weaker. However, Greece and Syria with Yan'an, and Egypt holding the Suez Canal are not a problem to block the Sixth Fleet.

In the Mediterranean, the advantages of the US Navy could not be brought into play, and the Soviet Union had many land countries that could take advantage of it, such as Libya, Egypt, Albania, Yugoslavia, Greece, and so on.

Blocking the Sixth Fleet's rush to the aid is only an expedient measure, and as long as the United States shows determination, it will, as Serov believes, that inconvenient conditions will not give the US decision-makers a reason to retreat.

"Our Red Navy is not suitable for a decisive battle in the oceans, but with the situation around the Arabian Sea, we can confront the US Navy!" In the entire office, there were only two people, Marshal Akhromeyev and Serov, and Comrade Defense Minister gave a detailed account of the response of the Soviet side in the event of a war from the Arabian Sea.

The Soviet Union was at its most powerful in the seventies, and it was not the seventies that the military was at its strongest. The Army's in the early eighties had already reached absolute superiority over NATO. As for the Red Navy? It depends on the time, if the war starts this year, the Red Navy is the strongest this year, and if the war starts next year, it will be next year.

Because the Soviet Red Navy continued to build new warships, the same is true for the US Navy. With the current comparison of the navies of the two countries, the Soviet Red Navy is still weak.

"You mean to threaten the US Navy with nuclear submarines?" Serov felt that this seemed unreliable.

"The 42nd Submarine Division of the Mediterranean Fleet cannot act alone, and the lesson we have learned from the Cuban Missile Crisis is that there must be surface forces and submarine divisions to cooperate!" Marshal Akhromeyev said that he did not mean it this way, and as for the term submarine division, it was literal. A kind of formation of the Red Navy of the Soviet Union, a combat group with nuclear submarines as an organization. There are also anti-submarine divisions specializing in anti-submarine warfare, from which you can learn about the strong army traditions of the Soviet Union.

"General Secretary, if we transfer eight squadrons of Backfire bombers, combined with our geographical superiority in the Persian Gulf and our own naval forces, we can deal with eight empty hens at the same time." Marshal Akhromeyev assured.

"The U.S. aircraft carrier battle group is fifteen, no, it must be counted a lot of mothballed. With the Mediterranean Fleet plus a group of land-based fighters and backfire bombers, capable of dealing with eight aircraft carriers? Serov thought for a moment, in the Gulf War, it seems that the United States, Britain and France together used nine aircraft carriers.

There are US air bases in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Diego Garcia. And Iran, Egypt, South Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Kurddish all had Soviet air bases.

"Thank you, Comrade Akhromeyev." Serov came back to his senses, he always thought that the Soviet Union had far surpassed the United States, but in fact, after careful analysis, the United States was still very strong. He has already kept this plan, in fact, it can be regarded as a battle plan has been formulated, and the deployment of the army's troops does not need to be explained by the other party.