Han attacks Guam. It is definitely not as simple as occupying Digo Garcia.

In any case, Digo Garcia Island is just an isolated island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Although there is also the Chagos Islands to the north. In terms of geographical distribution, Digo Garcia Island belongs to the Chagos Qunwu, but is affected by area and terrain. The Chagos Islands are not suitable for garrisons, or even for human habitation. More importantly, Digo Garcia is far away from the core interest areas of the United States. Its existence is not obvious. The closest US military base is also kilometer away from the Liekou, namely the US Central Theater Command and Marine Corps Base in Djibouti. Although the United States also has troops in the Seychelles, it does not have a military base, but borrows Seychelles in the name of peacekeeping.

Military camps. It can be seen that even in the past century, the United States has been in control of the only ocean that has not been on the verge of the border and has curbed its opponents' expansion operations in the Indian Ocean region. It has been struggling to build Digo Garcia into the most comprehensive military basis in the Indian Ocean region. It also has a heavy army stationed here, let alone an indestructible military fortress, let alone an invincible fortress. From a military point of view, as long as the US fleet can be driven out of the Indian Ocean and gain absolute control of the sea, it is easy to occupy Digo Garcia. In fact, after the Navy of the Maldives, the Republic's Navy took over the absolute control of the sea in the Indian Ocean, and easily captured Biango Garcia.

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In comparison, Guam is definitely a military fortress. It can even be regarded as steel in the Western Pacific.

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Geographically speaking, Guam belongs to the Mariana Islands, and is the southernmost main island of the archipelago. There are several islands with a narrow area and little value, such as Cocos Island. To the north, there are several larger islands such as Rota Island, Ajihan Island, Tinian Island, Saipan, Anatahan Island, Pagan Island and Agrihan Island, as well as Sagan Island, Ancient Guam, Asuncion Island and Asuncion Island, which belongs to the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic Ocean, and several islands with a narrow area and little value. After World War II, the Mariana Islands were handed over to the United States by the United Nations. For its own interests, the United States separates Guam, which has a large area and the best natural deep water bay in the archipelago, which is independent of the rest of the parts, is called the rest of the world.

The Northern Mariana Islands, capital is located in Saipan, Saipan, thus making Guam a relatively special island. From the distribution point of view, the Mariana Islands are like a string of pearls scattered by God in the Western Pacific, or a flat chain, blocking the Ryukyu Islands to the west, Taiwan Island and the Philippine Islands outside the vast Pacific Ocean. The sea area between the Mariana Islands and the Philippines is also called the Philippine Sea and the Philippine Sea Basin. To the east, in addition to several isolated islands such as Nanbird Island and Wake Island, there are the Hawaiian Islands thousands of kilometers away. Therefore, some people compared the Mariana Islands to "the yoke of the Western Pacific, which can be said that if any country in the Western Pacific wants to become the master of the Pacific, it will break through this yoke.

The first one to face this shackle was not the Republic, but Japan more than four years ago.

In history, the first Portuguese navigator Magellan, who first discovered the Mariana Islands, served in Spain. By the year of the 2018, Spain colonized here. He named it Mariana Islands, the regent in Spain at that time, was the Austrians Mariana. After the Spanish-American War, Guam, the southernmost tip of the archipelago, was ceded to the United States with the Philippines. After the year, the Northern Mariana Islands were sold to Germany. This is also the origin of the difference between Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The first world major

During the war, Japan sent troops to occupy the Northern Mariana Islands as members of the Allies. By the time of World War II, North American troops occupied the Northern Mariana Islands. This shows that Japan took advantage of the great opportunity of World War I and controlled the passage to the Western Pacific without any blood. Of course, in terms of geographical location, the Japanese archipelago directly faced the vast Pacific Ocean. Is there no island in the east that can stop the Japanese navy? Therefore, the significance of Japan's control of the Mariana Islands is to go south, not eastward.

Obviously, the Republic does not have such good luck.

According to relevant American literature records, as early as the beginning of the century, when US President Bush held high the banner of the "War on Terror", the US authorities formulated a very detailed and comprehensive global strategy, clearly stipulated more than a dozen strategic locations that must be controlled, including Guam, and Guam's status is listed as the most important "sea throat" with the Panama Canal, Suez Canal, Malacca Strait, Mande Strait, the Strait between the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Strait of Hormuz, etc.

After the Fourth India-Pakistan War, which accounted for the year, as the rise of the Republic became unstoppable, the US authorities adjusted their global strategic deployment and also improved Guam's strategic position while improving Biango Garcia's strategic position.

There is reason to believe that at this time, the US authorities realized that the Sino-Japanese war was inevitable. Whether it was supporting Japan to contain the Republic or filling the loopholes in the Western Pacific strategic defense line after Japan was defeated, it can be seen from a geographical location that the importance of the Japanese archipelago on the Western Pacific strategic defense line is not below the Mariana Islands. Guam must be regarded as a strategic base. The following year, the Sino-Japanese War broke out. Although this was only a local war with a very limited scale and some people even thought it was a regional conflict, the Sino-Japanese conflict had intensified, and a full-scale war was only a matter of time. It was at this time that the US authorities began to build a large-scale construction in Guam in the name of assisting Japan's defense, and made a move on Tinian Island in the Northern Mariana Islands, and made the decision to incorporate the entire Mariana Islands into the Western Pacific strategic defense circle.

As a strategic military base, Guam is only the core part of the military base group, or a general term.

Guam, which is close to square kilometers, is not only the largest island in the archipelago, but also accounts for about 60% of the total land area of ​​the archipelago. In the past few decades, in order to expand its military base, the US authorities have filled up about a square kilometers of land on the sea. Thanks to this, and the relatively flat terrain, besides the volcanic mountains in the south, the limestone highlands in the north and the coastal plains in the west, are very flat, and Guam is also the most suitable island in the archipelago to build military bases. At the beginning, after the United States defeated the West, it did not take down the entire Mavayana Qunwu, and occupied Guam alone, and the geographical environment of the fierce breasts Sigang is not unrelated.

In fact, before World War II, Guam was just a pawn of the United States in the Western Pacific.

In any case, at the end of the old century, the United States was not a superpower, nor did it have the ambition to be a superpower. The direct intention of seizing Guam from Spain was to obtain a transit station on the trans-Pacific route to the Philippines that allows fleets and ships to dock temporarily. You should know that at the end of the old century, warships used butterfly boilers, and their endurance was very limited. Few ships had a trans-ocean navigation capacity of tens of thousands of nautical miles. Even if they set out from Pearl Harbor, they had to sail nearly 10,000 kilometers to reach the Philippines. The range from Guam to Pearl Harbor between Hawaii and the Philippines was a slump of 1,000 kilometers, and the range from Manila was 4 kilometers. It can be seen that after defeating Spain, the United States occupied Guam alone just to travel to the Philippines more conveniently.

Even in World War II, Guam's military value was not very prominent. As we all know, before the American soldiers landed on Japan, the emperor surrendered to the emperor before they dropped thousands of incendiary bombs and two atomic bombs. The Second World War also ended with Japan's unconditional surrender. However, before the Japanese emperor issued a surrender edict, the US military formulated a combat plan to land on Japan. "The landing troops did not start from the Pacific War Zone led by Nimitz, but from the Southwest Pacific War Zone led by MacArthur, that is, using Okinawa Island in the Ryukyu Islands as a springboard, landed first.

Kyushu Island or Shikoku Island in the southwest of the Japanese archipelago, and then landed in Tokyo Bay. It can be seen that even if the US military attacked Japan, Guam would not leave the base. In fact, in the previous strategic bombing, the US military's fierce bombers set off from Saipan and Tizuan Island, and the escort fighter jets set off from Iwoyu Island. There is only one backup airport on Guam and a dock for transport ships to dock. The reason why the US military chose the smaller Saipan and Tinian Island is very simple. These two islands are closer to Japan, which can shorten the round-trip flight time of the bomber and save a lot of fuel.

It was not until after World War II, during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, that Guam’s military value was slightly reflected.

In fact, during the Cold War of the United States and the Soviet Union, the US authorities attached more importance to the "first island chain" composed of the Japanese archipelago, the Ryukyu Islands, the Philippine Islands, the Greater Sunda Islands and the Malay Peninsula instead of the "second island chain" composed of the Japanese archipelago, the volcanic islands, the Mariana tribe, New Guinea and Indonesia, so Guam is still the "strategic rear." Its military value is not even as good as Thailand.

Of course, this is also related to the United States' opponent, its Red Soviet Union. As a superpower that only exports to the northwest Pacific, because only Vladige Stoke Sea Cucumber is a port that is not frozen for many years, so if the Pacific Fleet of the Red Navy wants to enter the Pacific, it must pass through one of the Sogoku Strait, the Tink Strait and the Osumi Strait. Among these three straits, only half of the Sogoku Strait is coaxed under the control of the Soviet Union. It can be seen that as long as the United States can gain a foothold on the Japanese archipelago, it can turn the Soviet Pacific Fleet into an inland sea fleet, and there is no chance to fight the enemy in the vast Pacific Ocean.

It can be said that it was not until the primordial century that the strategic value of Guam was revealed with the rise of the Republic.

Although in terms of geographical location, the Republic is not even as good as the Soviet Union and Russia. It is a pure Western Pacific country, with its estuaries in the Western Pacific. And they are all west of the first island chain. However, the Republic has its biggest advantage. That is, there is no problem of ports hiding. Except for some ports in the northern Bohai Sea frozen in winter, most of the ports are not frozen all year round, with Dalian, Qinhuangdao, Weihai, Qingdao, Lianyungang, Shanghai, Ningbo, Zhoushan, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Keelung, Jixiong, Shantou,

There are dozens of deep-water ports such as Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Zhanjiang, Beihai, Haikou, Sanya, etc., and each port has the infrastructure to become a naval base and a fleet home port. More importantly, as long as the Republic completes the great cause of peaceful reunification, the first island chain carefully constructed by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War will become worthless. At that time, the Republic's naval fleet can use Taiwan Island as a base to freely enter and exit the Western Pacific waters. In other words, the second island chain originally as the strategic rear will become a strategic frontline.

It can be said that even if the United States is willing to withdraw from the Western Pacific region, it will not give up Guam.

As mentioned earlier, behind Guam is the vast Pacific Ocean, further east is the Hawaiian Islands, and to the south is Micronesia leading to Australia. In order to protect the fundamental interests of the country, the US authorities will spare no effort to increase Guam’s military value without any effort when the first island chain cannot be expected.

Since the next decade of the previous year, the construction of military infrastructure in Guam has begun to heat up.

According to relevant records from the official U.S. archives, from the old year to the mountain year, the U.S. federal government spent as much as $10 million on the construction of Guam military bases. Mu Yong doubted that this was an amazing investment. You should know that during this mountain year, the U.S. federal government invested less than $4 trillion in all military bases, which means that the U.S. authorities spent more than 10% of the construction costs of military bases in one place. Don’t forget that the United States has the most overseas military bases in the world, and Guam is just one of many overseas military bases. Even if it is divided by importance, Guam is only one of the military bases determined by the U.S. authorities. In terms of proportion, the construction costs invested by the U.S. authorities in Guam are indeed very high.

Of course, such a huge investment will also be equally amazing.

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Not to mention, among the many overseas military bases of the US military, Guam has the largest "land-making" volume. This is also a forced matter. After all, Guam is not a US territory, but a non-sovereign area entrusted by the United Nations to the United States to manage. Therefore, the United States cannot requisition the land of local residents like in China. In other words, if local residents refuse to sell or rent private land to the United States for building military bases, the US military can only build a piece of land by reclamation. It can be said that this is also the construction fee of Guam’s military bases.

The main reason for using amazing things. Don’t forget that the U.S. territory closest to Guam is 1,000 meters away. Even if it is not a shortage of large islands, even if it is not a shortage of the depth, it is still a big island with a slash. What about Guam ten meters away? The straight-line distance of the Bin Islands is only 1,000 kilometers away. Therefore, if the US military wants to reclaim land in Guam, it has to transport ten soil from thousands of kilometers away. Moreover, all the necessary raw materials and equipment, such as steel bars and concrete used to strengthen embankments, engineering vehicles, etc., must be transported from thousands of kilometers away. The transportation costs alone are frighteningly high.

According to the budget expenditure statement submitted by the US federal government to Congress, the price of building a square kilometer of land in Guam is about 100 million US dollars, which is 4 times that of the US mainland. As mentioned earlier, during this mountain period, the US military filled nearly 10,000 square kilometers of land in Guam. Including inflation and other factors, this fertilizer alone is close to the US dollar, accounting for 60% of the investment in the construction of US military bases.

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The benefits of huge investment are also obvious. In addition to the need to purchase land from local residents and related cumbersome legal procedures, the land filled in is still the property of the US federal government. From a legal perspective, the US military has permanent use rights and there is no problem of renewal. You should know that the "lease renewal of contracts for overseas military bases has always been a major problem faced by the US federal government and the US military. According to unofficial statistics, during the Maeda period that was introduced in the century, the US federal government spent as much as $100 million in judicial proceedings for renewal of overseas military bases. And tens of thousands of federal government personnel were employed for this, and it had a serious negative impact on the US international reputation.

Another benefit of "will do whatever you want" is that it allows the US military to deploy military facilities more flexibly.

As we all know, the London Treaty has strictly restricted the nuclear forces of various countries, and the strict additional clauses also restricted the deployment of nuclear forces, which clearly stipulate that nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons delivery tools can only be deployed on the local land, but not on overseas bases. Although the original intention of this restriction is to first destroy tactical nuclear weapons and prevent nuclear countries from using nuclear weapons in local wars that do not threaten their own survival, in the specific implementation process, it is mainly aimed at superpowers with many overseas military bases. This is easy to understand. In addition to the Republic and the United States, the overseas military bases of other decorative countries of the London Treaty are very limited, and basically do not meet the conditions for deploying nuclear weapons, and other decorative countries are unlikely to use nuclear weapons in local wars.

After the London Treaty, there is also the Stockholm Agreement that restricts conventional weapons. The agreement also stipulates the deployment and use of conventional weapons. That is, the conventional military forces deployed by each contracting country outside the country are at most, and the specific restrictions on the specific military branches are also related to the military branches. For example, the upper limit of the army is the cloud, and the Navy is the Gundam. Because the Republic and the United States exceeded the upper limit before the signing of the agreement. The Republic deployed ground forces abroad

The irrigation of the total army's total force is equivalent to that of the local, and the naval fleet deployed by the United States abroad accounts for the total force of the ships. Therefore, when defining "local", other countries made compromises and concessions, that is, the land with all jurisdiction and ownership is "local". In this way, the land created by the United States on Guam becomes the "local" of the United States. By the same token, the land filled by the Republic on Okinawa and Nicobar also became the "local" of the Republic.

From this we can see that reclamation is not a stupid way to burn money.

Although from a security perspective, the United States did not deploy nuclear weapons on Guam, and even tactical nuclear weapons were not confirmed after the war. At that time, all the strategic nuclear weapons of the United States were local. The only ones deployed outside the North American continent were Pearl Harbor, but as a "local" it could deploy conventional military forces in Guam without restrictions, thus building Guam into the strongest military fortress of the US military in the Western Pacific.

According to relevant archives of the U.S. federal government, by the beginning of the year, there were a total of 7 military bases on Guam, namely the location of the U.S. Navy Western Pacific Command in the Apula Military Port, and the largest comprehensive military base of the U.S. Air Force in the Western Pacific. It is also the only air base in the region that can support strategic bombers. Only when the war broke out, the Upi Marine Corps did not deploy strategic bombers to the base. The Upi Marine Corps base was the largest camp in the Western Pacific. It is stationed in a land brigade in normal times, and the most during wartime.

There can be only one marine division. The Falfalo Comprehensive Fuel Base is shared by the US military. It is mainly managed by the Air Force in peacetime and is also mainly used to reserve the aviation fuel required by the Air Force's tactical aviation. During peacetime, the reserves range from tens of thousands of items to tens of thousands of gallons, and can be stored at most forty thousand gallons in wartime. The Barigada military supplies warehouse is shared by the US military. It is mainly used to store various non-explosive consumable materials, such as military rations, medicines, quilts, etc. The North Tiparau Navy Training Farm is nominally owned by the Navy, but is actually mainly for use by the Marine Corps, that is, the Marine Corps Site.

The training range of the military and the Aganya Military Medical Assistance Center The US military has complete medical facilities in the Western Pacific, with nearly a thousand permanent medical personnel. It can accommodate about a 1,000 wounded people in peacetime, and can receive tens of thousands of wounded people in wartime. In addition, the US military also has old military facilities on neighboring islands, such as the Naval Aviation Station on Tinian Island shared with the Marine Corps, the Air Force shooting range on Anathahan Island, that is, the Air Force bombing scraping training ground. The Navy Range on Agrihan Island is specially designed for naval artillery and Marine Corps artillery.

The shooting range used is a monitoring station with only one intelligence unit stationed at the Naval Intelligence Center on Asuncion Island. The main task is to collect radio information from the Western Pacific region. The Frogman Training Center on Sarigan Island specially set up a special forces training base for the Marine "Seal" special forces. Among so many military bases, the most mysterious one is definitely the ammunition depot on Rota Island and the submarine cave depot in Mautak in southwest Guam. The former is the largest comprehensive ammunition depot of the US military in the region. It is said that it can accommodate close to 10,000 tons of various types of ammunition.

More importantly, this ammunition depot is below the surface of the ground, and there are two submarine passes directly to Guam and Tinian Island. According to the outside world, in order to gather two bases and two submarine hidden tunnels, the US military customized the world's most diary excavator, which took years to build. The biggest advantage is that it provides hundreds of millions of earth and stone for the reclamation project. However, compared with the latter, the project volume is nothing.

In terms of geological structure, several large islands in the Mariana Islands, including Guam, are volcanoes. In other words, Guam is actually a crater, and the Lanlan Mountain in the southwest is the highest point of the island. Fortunately, the volcanoes below Guam stopped erupting tens of thousands of years ago, and the magma had long cooled down, becoming hard granite, and forming a lava area. It was precisely this that the US military decided to build a submarine cave in Mautak in the southwest. At first, the US Navy planned to deploy secretly here! Scatter strategic submarines to strengthen the strategic threat to the republic. As more and more military bases on Guam, considering that the risk of putting all eggs in one basket is too great, let the strategic submarines settle in Guanguan.

The island can only put other military bases on Guam to a greater threat, so the US Navy retreated to the second best, and built this submarine cave library into the largest submarine base in the Western Pacific, and all of them were used to support attack submarines. According to outside speculation, Mautak can at least serve as an attack submarine, and can even support attack submarines above the necessary ones when necessary. Of course, to achieve this capability, the project volume must be very amazing. From the land volume of the US military on Guam, it can be roughly estimated that Mautak's project excavation should be between not attracting party B. The construction period is likely to be more than the old year, and the total investment will not be less than US$400 million, which is definitely the largest military base spent by the US military in the Western Pacific region.

Some people also believe that the project volume of Mautak is not so large, because the US military will definitely refer to the defense operations of the Japanese army on Okinawa during the Japanese War and build a complete underground tunnel system on Guam. Even if we do not consider the construction of a huge network of underground military bases, we only use underground tunnels to connect all bases on Guam, and the project volume is above Party B, so Mautak's project volume is definitely below Party B.

In any case, this submarine cave library must be very large, and has complete infrastructure and can operate independently.

Someone must have discovered a very important problem, that is, there is no most important infrastructure on Guam and other islands, that is, a power station that provides power for military bases. In fact, there has always been a power station on Guam, and tidal power generation tests were conducted before Lilien. Lu's question is that with so many military bases, the demand for electricity must be very amazing. If the defense systems deployed in each base are included, the demand for electricity will be even more amazing. It must also be admitted that power stations will definitely become the enemy's primary target of strike. Therefore, it can be roughly concluded that the US military has deployed many mobile power supply systems or small power supply systems on the island.

Of course, the most important thing is Guam’s capacity, that is, the number of troops garrisoned on the island.

According to the Defense Blue Book released by the U.S. federal government in mid-year, before the war broke out, the number of U.S. troops on Guam would not exceed 30,000, including naval officers and soldiers. The remaining people, more than four airmen, more than four Marine officers and soldiers, and many of them were intelligence personnel in uniform. After the war broke out, the U.S. military organized at least two large-scale air transports. The equipment of two Marine officers and soldiers who had added two brigades to the island were stored in the Upi Marine Corps base.

After joining the war, the US military dispatched two additional marine divisions to the island according to the emergency mechanism. Moreover, the forces and main combat equipment of these two divisions arrived before the end of March. The US Navy also dispatched several attack submarines to Guam, and dozens of long-range maritime patrol aircraft were all deployed at the Naval Air Station on Tinian Island. The US Air Force dispatched a wing tactical fighter jets to the island according to the plan. Because the Guam base group basically has nothing to do with the US Army, the US Army did not add troops to Guam. Conservative estimates were that by early April, the number of US troops deployed on Guam had exceeded 10,000, including 60,000 Marine officers and soldiers. The combat aircraft based on Guam exceeded the JIN, including the JIN heavy fighter jets.

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With its perfect infrastructure, the US military turned Guam into a military in just a few months.

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More importantly, according to the MIIS estimate, the actual capacity of the Mariana Islands military base group must be more than 10,000. Guam alone can accommodate more than 10,000 US troops including 3 Marine Divisions. In other words, as long as the US military is willing, it can also increase troops to the Mariana Islands and strengthen other major islands north of Guam. For example, the defense of Saipan and Tinian Islands makes the entire Mariana Group become a wall of iron. In this way, the Republic's army will not only attack Guanwu, but the entire Mariana Islands. Not to mention, the US Marine Corps has electromagnetic guns with a range of hundreds of kilometers, so the Marine Artillery on Saipan can strike military targets on Guam. If the Republic's army does not control Saipan, then there is no military value to occupy Guam.

In fact, after the Naval Battle of the Maldives, the US military strengthened the defenses of Rota, Tinian and Saipan.

Conservative estimates are that by the end of the day, the US military will deploy at least two marine divisions on Rota Island, Tinian Island and Saipan Island. One of the marine divisions will be directly dispatched from Guam, increasing the ground troops of the entire Mariana Islands to a madland division. More importantly, over the past years, the US military's land reclamation project on Guanwu has been unclear, especially the amount of earth and rocks there is, I am afraid no one can explain whether the US military has secretly built underground military bases on other islands, especially Rota Island and Tinian Island, which have few permanent residents. For conservative considerations, I am afraid that the Republican army should make more plans.

On the other hand, the Republic's army also regards Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as thorns and flesh in their eyes.

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As mentioned earlier, the Republic sent troops to occupy the volcanic islands and made a big fuss on Iwoo Island, in order to use this to check and balance the Mariana Islands under the control of the United States.

The problem is that Iwo Huang Island is just an island as big as a slap.

Not to mention, during World War II, when Zhebo Mountain was almost hollowed out, the total strength of both sides was 10,000 troops, which made the battlefield extremely crowded. During peacetime, the Republic's army would definitely not let the soldiers drill caves, nor would they put all the facilities underground. More importantly, there were no other large enough islands in the volcanic archipelago, and the few islands closest to Iwoo Island that could build large military bases were under the control of the Japanese. Moreover, they were refuges for the Japanese and could not be controlled by the Republic's army.

It is obvious that Iwoo Island cannot become a climate.

Affected by this, before the outbreak of the war, the Republic could only make a fuss on the Ryukyu Islands. As mentioned earlier, the Republic also carried out land reclamation on Okinawa Island, and forced several "local" military bases with "full jurisdiction and ownership". Thanks to this, even in peacetime, the Republic also deployed a combat unit and a land brigade on Okinawa Island, with the ground forces twice that of the US military.

Of course, the number of ground troops is not the key. Whether the combat force can be quickly deployed is the key.

The problem is that no matter which country it is, it is impossible to maintain a sufficiently powerful amphibious fleet in peacetime. You should know that compared with the fleet, the amphibious fleet is a pure offensive force and an offensive force that serves the Marine Corps. It has very limited uses in other aspects. At most, it is sent to disaster relief, so the overall efficiency ratio is very low. Take the Republic Navy for example, usually only retains amphibious assault fleets in three directions. The US Navy is similar, with a total scale of only 7 amphibious assault fleets similar to that of the Republic. It is less than half of the cattle herd of aircraft carriers. More importantly, the amphibious assault fleet also has a long construction cycle. Even if the construction standards of most amphibious warships are much lower than those of warships, it will take several years to build an amphibious warship.

Affected by these factors, the Republic had to make a sharp stamp on civilian ships.

In fact, mobilizing civilian ships during the war is the choice of almost all countries, so it is no wonder that civilian ships are allowed to be built in peacetime to take into account military purposes. Not to mention, the size of the door cutouts of all Ro-ro-ship ships in the Republic, that is, the size of vehicle entry and exit passages, are designed according to the standards of the main combat equipment on the ground, far exceeding the size of civilian vehicles. The deck strength of the loading platform is also built at the military level, which is much higher than the civilian indicators. In order to facilitate mobilization in wartime, the Republic's authorities also clarified the obligation of flying the Republic's flag and the ships owned by the Republic's shipping companies to serve the country, that is, after the country enters the wartime state, the central government that has mastered all the war privileges have the right to recruit these ships, and the owners of these ships and crews on the ships must unconditionally obey the consignment order.

Because the Republic has long been the world's largest trading country and the world's largest shipping demand country. Although the Republic is not the largest shipholder, the tax revenue of the Republic is too high, many ship owners go to some small countries with low tax revenue, such as East Dibo in Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka and Maldives in South Asia, and Bahrain in the Gulf region. Legally speaking, the ship belongs to which country the country is registered, but it is the number of ships owned by the shipping companies of the world's largest shipholder, namely the number of ships owned by the Republic. Therefore, after the country enters a state of war, it can mobilize thousands of merchant ships within 3 months and complete the mobilization work within half a year.

Of course, not all merchant ships can be used to send combat troops.

Objectively speaking, there are very few civilian ships that can be used to replace landing ships. The proportion of the Marine Corps will not exceed the gills. The main ones are fast roll-off ships and fast container ships. More importantly, the displacement of these ships cannot be too large, mainly to control drafts and facilitate navigation near the sea. They must have self-loading and unloading capabilities. On the landing ground, there must be no loading and unloading equipment. They must have independent lateral propulsion systems that can rush to the beach on their own and leave on their own after unloading. There is no need to rely on tugs and barges, but also have certain damage resistance. According to the information held by the Republic's Navy, civilian ships that can meet all conditions will not exceed the ferocious ships, and cannot be mobilized.

In addition to mobilizing enough civilian ships, we also have to find ways to get these ships to their destination safely.

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You should know that even if you don’t have to consider air threats during your voyage, you have to consider threats from under the sea. From a realistic perspective, the biggest threat to the fleet is definitely not the bombers of the US Air Force. It is the attack submarines of the US Navy, especially those based on Guam.

It can be said that this is the key.

After the war with the United States, the Republic's Navy spent more than three months preparing. The main reason was that the Marine Corps was not enough, the transport of ships, nor was it that there were insufficient combat materials, but that there were not enough anti-submarine ships, so there was no way to form a powerful enough escort fleet.

Some people may say that the Republic's Navy sealed enough warships and also leased many anti-submarine ships to allies and friendly countries. It was mainly to control the total tonnage of naval warships. It was stipulated in the Stockholm Agreement, which took more than three months. It was enough to re-invest the sealed warships and reclaimed the loaned warships. Even if the war needs cannot be fully met, there will definitely be no problem in forming several escort fleets. In fact, in early February, the Republic's Navy formed the first professional escort fleet. By early April, there were already 4 escort fleets.

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The key is that these escort fleets were all sent to the Indian Ocean to protect the more important North Indian Ocean route, and they could not fully meet the needs. American submarines still killed a lot of transport ships on the North Indian Ocean route. More importantly, most of the re-activated and recovered anti-submarine warships have lagging behind in performance, and are not a problem to escort the commercial fleet, but to accompany the activities of amphibious assault fleets to escort the fleets that transport combat troops. That would be too forced.

It can be seen from this that the ship-building ability of the Republic to break out in the early stages of the war determined the direction of the Pacific War.

For many people, 4 months is not long. They can’t do much. But for the shipyards in the Republic, 4 months is not short and can complete a lot of important tasks!,
Chapter completed!