After Lieutenant General Nicholson briefly commented on the latest war, the topic changed, "In view of this, our fleet's combat mission to target the PLA's special-mix fleet was rejected by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The generals of the Supreme Command believe that judging from the current combat strength of the Fifth Fleet in the Gulf region, they do not have the ability to annihilate the PLA's special-mix fleet. Now our American naval main force is concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region and is undergoing combat preparations against the PLA's naval and air force. In this case, the Supreme Command believes that the United States cannot bear the serious consequences of the death of our Fifth Fleet and the PLA's special-mix fleet."

Although Lieutenant General Nicholson did not clearly state this serious consequence, the senior U.S. Navy generals present knew that once the two major aircraft carrier battle groups "Eisenhower" and "Truman" were missing, the US military's control in the Gulf and even the entire northern Africa would be unsustainable. Relying solely on the US military's air bases in overseas regions and the army forces stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US military will no longer be able to strictly control the Gulf, the world's largest oil-producing area.

Because in the short term, the US military is really unable to send two aircraft carrier battle groups to the Gulf to carry out combat readiness missions. In the case of serious absence of the US Navy, both Persians and Pakistanis may send navies to pose a serious threat to oil tankers entering and leaving the Gulf Strait of Hermuz, which greatly affects the supply stability of Gulf oil to the Western world. For the United States or Western countries, this consequence is too serious and is by no means something that the US military can afford.

With the narrow sea surface of the Strait of Hermuz, no matter how weak the Persians or Pakistan's navy is, they also have air force and shore-based anti-ship missiles and other means, which will make oil tankers entering and leaving the bay completely useless.

"The Supreme Command therefore requires us to find another way and severely damage the PLA's special mixed fleet at the lowest cost, especially their four large amphibious landing ships and the two 100,000-ton roll-ro-cargo ships loaded with arms. Do gentlemen have any good ideas for the latest orders from the Supreme Command?" Lieutenant General Nicholson finished speaking, looking at these senior generals of the Fifth Fleet with hope.

Now it is 4 or 5 days before the PLA's special-mix fleet arrives in Pakistan. Now the U.S. Supreme Command has canceled the originally planned combat plan and re-formulated a brand new combat plan and implemented it. This is undoubtedly a difficult task for Lieutenant General Nicholson, especially the goal of this combat plan is to severely damage the PLA's special-mix fleet while preserving the main force of the Fifth Fleet.

This extremely contradictory causal relationship is the most important reason why Lieutenant General Nicholson gathered everyone together to discuss, because in his opinion, this is simply an impossible task. At the beginning, with the main force of the Fifth Fleet as a prerequisite, half of the Air Force and the Indian Navy in the Gulf region were needed to be used as auxiliary. Only in the large-scale computer simulation results showed that in the worst case, nearly half of the Fifth Fleet's strength needed to be sacrificed, was the result of completely annihilated the PLA's special mixed fleet.

Of course, the prerequisite for this computer simulation is based on the strength of the PLA's main ships and air force fighter jets provided by the CIA before. However, in an air battle in the Andaman Sea, the PLA's combat power, whether it is a carrier-based aircraft or a main destroyer, the frigate, far exceeds the intelligence data provided by the CIA.

According to the data from the navy's re-evaluation of combat power based on the results of the Andaman Naval Battle, in the worst case, the main force of the US Fifth Fleet will be both defeated by the PLA. Especially when fighting against the eastern Indian Navy fleet, the PLA has not yet dispatched their submarine troops and the East China Sea-10 series cruise missiles and other killer weapons.

"Impossible, General, are the generals of the Supreme Command crazy?" Unexpectedly, as soon as Lieutenant General Nicholson finished speaking, the generals below were in an uproar. They had all participated in the formulation of the previous combat plan and had already understood the strength of the PLA's special-mixed fleet. Now that this special-mixed fleet has created a new result, these generals probably only increase the strength of the PLA's special-mixed fleet. Therefore, when they heard this extremely outrageous combat request, everyone was a little disappointed. Major General Turner Brosnan, commander of the 56th special-mixed fleet, said bluntly.

As the amphibious advance force of the Fifth Fleet, the 56th Special Mixed Fleet had no combat mission in the previous combat plan. In the future naval and air war, it was not the turn of the amphibious combat force to do anything. They were all light, so they were not afraid of being the first to be the one who stood up.

Faced with the general doubts of these generals under his command, Lieutenant General Nicholson had no choice but to throw out a new combat draft draft drawn up by his staff. "Okay, gentlemen, since you can't come up with any good plans for a while, why not take a look at the following plan?"

Lieutenant General Nicholson opened a new combat draft and asked Chief of Staff Rear General Mark Fitzgerald to explain it. This was a new plan that focused on submarine combat. It was inspired by the PLA's asymmetric combat tactics against the US aircraft carrier formations that year, that is, to allow US nuclear submarines to ambush the PLA's special-mix fleet to pass, and suddenly launched a sneak attack when the main force of the PLA's special-mix fleet passed by to attack the most important large transport ships in this fleet.

After reading the latest combat concept of the Fleet Command, the generals under the Fifth Fleet finally shut their mouths and began to think about the possibility of this new plan.

It has to be said that from theoretical deduction, the headquarters' combat concept has a lot of room for realization, because the naval generals here will not forget that the PLA Navy could use this tactic to approach the US aircraft carrier within 20 nautical miles in the South China Sea and the East China Sea with conventional submarines that were several generations behind the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines. One time, it almost appeared in front of the US aircraft carrier.
Chapter completed!