Attacking the Middle East, I have to say that France put forward a very constructive proposal, originally, within 10 days, the matter of cooperation has been negotiated, and then as long as the gradual integration can be carried out, the Entente will be able to give full play to its overall strength, Britain, France, and the United States are a little anxious, and it must be implemented, and it is best to see results before March next year to ensure the strategic superiority of the Entente next year. But in this case, France made such a proposal, ready to end the memory, because the French proposal was extended.

The combat effectiveness shown by the German Army made the Entente a little desperate, if there was no United States to join, I am afraid that Britain and France alone would have exhausted the potential of the population war, and they might not be able to kill Germany, if it were not for the United States to join, they would not even have the qualifications to hold on with Germany, but the United States is not unlimited, although the United States has 10 million mobilization capabilities, it does not mean that the United States can lose 10 million young adults and it doesn't matter, this is life, 10 million, at least 50 million immediate family members are involved, And even more so of the people who know it, which is a large number, almost a fraction of the size of the United States.

Even if the United States suppresses the media field, it is impossible to ignore the 10 million casualties, the previous millions, I don't know how to wipe them out, continue to fight, there will be more casualties, but they have already been on the ship of the Entente, they can only take one step at a time, on the one hand, suppress at home, with the help of the propaganda field, dilute people's perception of casualties, on the other hand, solve as much as they can solve and as much as possible.

If this is the end of the European war, under the current circumstances. The United States can easily erase such a thing, after all, the United States is a corporate politics. As long as the consortium can make money, nothing else matters. But the war is still going on, if Germany still maintains its strength in the future, there is not too much loss in strength, and if it continues to wear down with them with a sacrifice ratio of 1:3, even if it wins, I am afraid that the United States will be greatly damaged, and a whole generation will no longer exist, and the United States will not be able to bear such losses. It's not that they haven't thought of other ways, it's just that they think more from a strategic point of view, and Germany has no problem at a strategic level, and can only fight hard.

Now the method proposed by France, which is taking a different path, seems to be another way, but there is a great possibility as to why Germany is strong. The well-trained German Army is one aspect, and the key is firepower, and the United States has done experiments to increase firepower to the level of the Germans. The U.S. military can exert more than 85 percent of Germany's combat effectiveness, and if it is increased by 50 percent, the combat effectiveness of the U.S. military will be the same as that of Germany.

The same combat effectiveness may not be able to be defeated. But it represents a significant reduction in casualties, and the casualty ratio is no longer 1:3. It will be reduced to a bearable level, but unfortunately the United States cannot become like this. Small-scale experimental troops, or main forces, can increase firepower, but that requires training, not enough training, even if it increases, it is difficult to play a role, if all the troops, to the extent of Germany, it is not an ordinary difficulty, the reason is very simple, logistical pressure.

What the United States has never understood why Germany can support such a huge firepower, what he does not know is that Germany can use China's cheap arms, China's production capacity, and China's labor, so that the price of most of China's arms is only one-half or even one-third of the cost of the United States. Since the United States sells weapons, and even the concession treaty, it must want to make profits, and if there is not enough profit, how can it make profits for the consortium and exert influence through the consortium.

In this case, the price of arms in the US military is more than three times that of Germany, and this is not counting the impact of unlimited submarine warfare, which itself shined in the First World War, because of the emergence and improvement of China, the combat effectiveness of submarines has been greatly improved, and the ocean-going submarines of more than 1,000 tons, which were popularized in the middle of World War I, directly came up with mature 2,500-ton submarines under the intervention of the Northwest.

For any warship, tonnage represents combat effectiveness, and it can use stronger power, larger main guns, thicker armor, and submarines are such extreme ships, even more so, submarines do not need protection, because as long as their position is discovered by surface ships, no matter how thick the armor is, even if it is a nuclear submarine in later generations, it is the same, so he can only enhance to attack and power, 2500 tons of submarines, the increase in power is very limited, and the speed increase is not particularly obvious, However, the number of torpedoes has increased by at least 4 times compared with 1200 tons, and the cruising range has also doubled, so such a submarine can go out casually for a month or two without returning to the base.

This is not the result of one plus one equaling two, the number of torpedoes has increased, the combat time of unit submarines has been greatly enhanced, and in the entire North Atlantic, there are 125 submarines active for a long time, and the tonnage of merchant ships sunk every day is staggering.

According to the results of US calculations, 10 ships will be sunk once they go back and forth, this number is very amazing, this is the absolute one-tenth of the sinking number, a round trip to the North Atlantic, it takes about a month, so in this way, basically in a year, all ships going back and forth to the North Atlantic, will be sunk. The huge loss of merchant ships has always been the pain of Britain and the United States, except for the warships, almost all the slipways are occupied by merchant ships, and even for the sake of merchant ships, Britain and the United States also drank to quench their thirst and placed orders for China, and the number is quite huge.

Knowing that placing orders for merchant ships will increase the power of the Chinese and set up obstacles for solving China in the future, but if the number of merchant ships is not increased, there are not enough merchant ships to and from the North Atlantic route, and the Entente countries will collapse immediately, and such losses will be even more unbearable. Counting the loss of ships, and even the weapons themselves, this price will soar, even the Americans with deep pockets will not be able to bear it, and if the US military is all popularized to German munitions, then this logistical pressure will become unbearable. Knowing that the sacrifice would be very large, the United States still maintained its current weapons, which were higher than the time when the war began, but maintained a certain degree, which was somewhat different from Germany.

The 1:3 casualty ratio, the Americans have tried as hard as possible, but unfortunately with little success, but now, the method proposed by France is not to directly attack Germany and eliminate Germany's living forces, but the result is the same, the United States can not reach the level of German armament, but from another aspect, it can reduce the degree of German armament to the level of Germany, which is a different method, but it is the same way, in this way, in the future, it can defeat Germany and reduce the losses to a bearable level.

The French not only put forward the method, but also put forward a general plan, without too many people, with the mobilization of enough troops, just to mobilize a partial division, between 300,000 and 500,000, you know, the Middle East, the other side's layout is also quite weak. The feasibility of this method is not low, the Middle East, because of the relationship with the Suez Canal, Britain has a base here, plus Egypt, has the base of stationed troops, relatively speaking, the rest of the place is under the control of Turkey, Germany is at most help, can not directly station troops, in this case, their opponent, only Turkey.

What is Turkey, in the Russian-Turkish war, it has lost many times in a row, and it has been occupied by Russia step by step, and the current Russian army is rotten, even if the United States has not experienced the troops of World War I, they can easily deal with them, not to mention that now, after the baptism of World War I, the army has been strengthened a lot in all aspects.

France proposed, the United States was very interested, Britain was involved in the naval field at this time, the army just focused on Europe, I heard that it didn't take too much, so it recognized 100,000 people, 100,000 people before the start of World War I, it was definitely a huge number, but after the start of World War I, millions of troops fought together, and the daily losses were astronomical, 100,000 people, it was really too biased to be biased, for Britain, it didn't matter at all.

Basically recognized the opening of a new battlefield in the Middle East, and the three countries had disputes over the choice of targets, and the idea put forward by France was somewhat radical, preparing to directly take Basra and completely cut off Germany's maritime transport. If Basra is not chosen as a breakthrough, even if Baghdad is captured, it will only be blocked a little, unless the entire Middle East is occupied, and with the construction capacity of the Chinese, it will soon be replaced by railways. In fact, they don't know that there is indeed such a railway in the north of Iraq, which is itself a backup railway, but they have done the groundwork, such as the construction of some railway bridges, tunnels, etc., but once the construction starts, it can be seen in a month or two.

The purpose of the French is very simple, to drag China into the water, although Russia is dragging China, but Russia's strength is not very good, not only did not consume, but made China stronger, he also remembered the loss of the Indochina Peninsula, how good a large number of colonies and grain producing areas, just like this was taken away by China.

The French representative put forward his own opinion, but found that Britain and the Americans looked at him with strange expressions, the role of the capture of Basra, everyone knew very well that Basra, as the largest port in the Middle East, was almost the only overseas passage for the Allies, and the capture of Basra cut off Germany's access to the sea in the Indian Ocean, with the superiority of the British and French fleets, plus India, it was enough to control the entire Indian Ocean.

If Basra is in the hands of the Germans, Britain and the United States will certainly agree without hesitation, but Basra is in the hands of the Chinese, this is a huge problem, whether to pull China into the world war, has become the focus of discussion, France argues with reason, narrating the benefits of doing so, Britain and the United States are not confused by French rhetoric, the whole meeting, into a stalemate. (To be continued.) )

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