For the US Navy, and for the United States, the past seven years, it is a disaster day that I have forgotten...

In the early morning of the same day, after the US Navy's combat fleet voluntarily withdrew from the war zone, the US Navy ships operating near the Point Islands suffered unprecedented losses.

In the words of some Western war historians, the US Navy will no longer exist after this day.

According to the combat records of the Republic's Navy, during the battle that day, the Republic's Navy fleet seized the control of sea and air supremacy. The aviation and the army aviation forces in cooperation sank and captured a total of less than four of the remaining ships of various types of US warships, with a total tonnage of more than ten thousand tons of Gansu and nearly ten thousand American soldiers were killed. There were as many as ten thousand American officers and soldiers rescued within the next week.

War is cruel. And the winner gets everything, and loses everything.

Although the US Navy did not lose many large warships in this naval battle, and two of the three main fleets slipped away, and no one of the aviation fleets lost, the various auxiliary ships that the US Navy combat fleet relied on, especially the combat support ships that supported the fleet in ocean-going operations, were almost all sunk. In the words of a British naval historian, after the "North Atlantic Battle", the US Navy became the "North Atlantic Navy" combat fleet, which could only move on the North Atlantic, close to the American continent, and lost the ability to compete with the Republic's Navy for sea control in the ocean.

It can be seen that even though the US Navy has saved many large warships, it has lost its ability to counterattack.

Of course, for the Republic, the result of this naval battle can definitely be described as accidental.

Not to mention strategic decision makers like Pei Chengyi who don’t know much about naval warfare, even Hua Jianfeng, who made this naval battle, and Zhang Xuefeng, who coordinated and commanded in the rear, did not expect that the US Navy would make such a stupid move, and would rather throw away more valuable support ships than fight the Republic’s Navy fleet. You should know that before the battle began, even Hua Jianfeng and Zhang Xuefeng did not doubt the final result, and believed that the US Navy would undoubtedly lose, but both of them believed that the US Navy would fight to the death. Even if it could not be defeated, they would have to buy retreat time for many auxiliary ships, especially several maritime bases that had been deployed, to avoid greater losses.

It can be said that no one thought that the US Navy would become a coward at that time.

Importantly, this. The result is more beneficial to the Republic.

Strategically speaking, when the U.S. Navy lost its combat mission across the Atlantic Ocean, it was inevitable that the U.S. Army would lose the Middle East War. More importantly, the United States would not only lose the Middle East War, but also lose the entire North African region, and there was no need to continue to guard the Strait of Gibraltar.

To put it simply, if the Republic's Navy can occupy the Cape Verde Islands, it can use the Cape Verde Islands as a springboard to march into the Caribbean. In addition, the Republic has an unorthodox relationship with several countries on the southern coast of the Caribbean, such as Venezuela and Bolivia, so as long as the Republic proves that it has the ability to march into the Caribbean, it can make these countries that did not dare to offend the United States and stay outside the battlefield become intensive group allies. Become a republic and march into the north.

The springboard for the US mainland. In this way, the Republic's Navy can march into Panama from three directions southeast and west. After controlling the Panama Canal, it can deliver supplies from the Pacific to the Caribbean. This route is slightly shorter than the route through the Indian Ocean and bypassing the Cape of Good Hope to the Caribbean Sea, and is only slightly longer than the route through the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar to the Caribbean. It no longer needs to go to the United States to the Strait of North Africa and the Strait of Gibraltar.

Politically, this allowed the republic to bypass Europe and Zhejiang, thus marginalizing Europe.

It can be said that this is the fundamental reason why the Republican authorities have to conquer the Cape Verde Islands at all costs.

In any case, world wars are different from general wars and are a collection of multiple local wars. Therefore, political factors in world wars are much more important than military factors.

Although China-EU cooperation has greatly accelerated the war process and even had a great impact on the final outcome of World War III. However, fundamentally speaking, the Republican authorities certainly do not want to be like the United States that was fierce many years ago. After struggling to win the World War, they have to face a powerful opponent. Even if this situation is almost impossible to rule out, that is, Europe will definitely replace the United States and become a superpower with the strength of the Republic.

Stopping Europe's rise was basically the main purpose of the Republican authorities in the late stages of this war.

It must be admitted that even if the war is won, the Republic will be greatly damaged.

Although in the entire war, thanks to the strategy of land first and sea first, that is, to concentrate troops to attack Russia, ensure land security, then turn to the ocean, and compete with the United States for global hegemony. In addition, Russia is too weak to win, which is much worse than expected before the war. It does not even have the strength to resist in front of the Republic's army, and soon loses the war. It will not be able to pose a serious threat to the Republic's mainland, so the Republic's mainland is basically not threatened, and even if it has been bombed, the losses are not large. But no one can deny that in order to win this war, the national strength of the Republic has been greatly affected by all the capital accumulated over the years.

According to a document declassified nearly a hundred years after the end of the war, as early as when the dawn of victory in the Pacific War could be seen, the Republican authorities established a secret agency responsible to the head of state, specifically assessing the losses caused by the war and the basic conditions required to restore strength after the war. Six When the agency's priority is to provide strategic decision-making suggestions for the Supreme Command, such as which areas should be controlled during the war and which resources should be reserved in the name of war. More importantly, these suggestions have a common purpose, that is, after the war is over, restore national strength at the fastest speed and seize the interests of the war.

Among the Wudo suggestions put forward by the agency, it includes curbing Europe.

According to the decrypted data, whether it can successfully curb Europe's rise has become the key to whether it can gain benefits from war and dominate the world.

In this report that has been sealed for nearly a hundred years, the anonymous drafter clearly mentioned that if we cannot try to marginalize Europe during the war, the republic will face a dilemma after the war, that is, we must either be prepared to fight the Fourth World War with the Western world, or share the fruits of victory with united Europe.

In a sense, there is no choice at all.

To put it bluntly, even if the Republican authorities are willing to take a step back and share the fruits of victory with Europe. As the Western world unites again with Europe as its core, the Republic will inevitably face even greater challenges. In other words, this only delays the outbreak of World War IV.

To avoid World War IV, Europe must be marginalized.

This can be clearly seen from the Republic's strategy.

It can be said that when it comes to the issue of European participation in the war, the republic authorities made full use of Europe. Although almost all Europeans regard Russia as an Eastern country and Russians as an Eastern country. However, from the perspective of basic culture, Russians are more like Europeans than Asians, or Europeans that are more inclined to Christian civilization. Europe joins World War III by declaring war on Russia, which is itself a strategic mistake. The biggest impact is that it makes Europe lose the possibility of alliance with Russia. In the short term, this is beneficial to Europe, because the existence of Russia has prevented Europe from being with

The danger of the Republic being directly neighboring has gained a broader space for development for Europe. But in the long run, as long as the Republic achieves the final victory of the war, it will land on the American continent and strive to control the Pacific Rim, thus forming a situation of two pairs of European pairs, making Europe lose the opportunity for large-scale expansion. In other words, even if Europe can control the European continent, go south to control North Africa, and control the North Atlantic, it will be at most a regional power, or a world power with very limited influence. It will not be able to become a superpower like the United States.

If you want to change this situation, Europe's only chance is to enter the American continent.

In other words, Europe should take advantage of the opportunity of the Republic to defeat the United States, gain a foothold on the American continent, and gain the opportunity to enter the Pacific from the Americas, thereby breaking the Republic's blockade and becoming a superpower with global influence and strength no less than that of the United States.

By understanding this, you will be able to understand what the Republic is going to do.

On the other hand, the Republican authorities have been delaying the Middle East battlefield for a long time, which means they do not want Europe to play a greater role in the Middle East issue.

The failure of the Republican authorities to march into North Africa to march into North Africa is also related to this.

Of course, it is obviously not that simple when it comes to entering Morocco.

From the perspective of curbing Europe and preventing global expansion of Europe, the ideal way is definitely not to build high walls around Europe. You must know that before the outbreak of World War III, the United States had spent more than 40 years proving that the encirclement could only allow powerful major powers to take the extreme path, but could not fundamentally resolve conflicts between major powers.

It can be said that before cultural integration, the effective solution is to create trouble for the object and make the object unable to expand.

In fact, this is exactly the basic way the United States treats the Republic before Li Nian. If the Republic had not mastered the key technologies of the power revolution, the troubles created by the United States for the Republic became the stepping stone for the rise of the Republic. Otherwise, with the situation of the Republic, let alone for forty years, even if there were another forty years, it would not be possible to obtain the strength to challenge the United States, let alone replace the United States.

The most effective way for the Republic to prevent Europe from rising is to cause trouble for Europe.

Creating conflicts between Europe and Russia is creating trouble for Europe.

The problem is that Russia is not an authentic European country after all, and has never been recognized by European countries. Therefore, Russia can only be regarded as an external contradiction in Europe at most. If you want to deal with Europe, you must grasp the internal contradictions in Jizhou.

The problem is that there are not many internal conflicts in Europe. Even the ethnic conflicts that triggered the first two world wars disappeared within decades after the establishment of the EU. More importantly, European countries also attach great importance to internal issues. Continental European countries led by France, Germany and Italy have been working hard to resolve internal conflicts by using war. For example, after the war broke out, they tried to change their minds. They distanced themselves from the United States and joined the European Continental National Group. They were successful in about 2 years.

Norway, which wins over Scandinavia, has never been a member of the EU, adding a member state and consolidating the EU's northern wing defense line. By the mid-year of the Anvil, Belarus and Moldova were brought into arms, and a pro-European regime was established in the occupied Western Ukraine. When the Republic's Navy fought repeatedly with the US Navy in the Cape Verde Islands, Europe was still ahead of the Republic. It ended its military control in the Russian-occupied area and established an interim government dominated by Russians.

Importantly, Europe pursued the secret agreement, and with its mutual country, the United States jointly cursed the post-war ownership of Britain. That is to say, before the war was over, Europe had consolidated its local defense line.

To be honest, if the Republic wants to make a fuss in Europe, its only option is to start a war with Europe.

This is not impossible, at least according to the secret document, the Republican authorities have considered this issue several times from the second half of the year to the middle of the year of Judea.

According to some unconfirmed rumors, at the beginning of the Tian year, the Supreme Command of the Republic instructed the General Staff to formulate a general war plan for the attack on Europe, and made a general estimate of the issues such as winning, investing troops, and combat time. This strategic plan was handed over to the head of state in the middle, but it did not become a practical action until the end of the war. Even so, it can be seen. By the second half of the following year, the Republic's authorities placed the strategy against Europe in a very important position. It was not until the second half of the year that the Republic's authorities gave up their plans to take risks in Europe as the approaching of the Atlantic Ocean approached. Understanding this principle, it is not difficult to understand the strategic actions of the Republic after the Battle of the Point Islands of Buddha.

In the early months, when the Republic's Navy supported the Marines to board the Cape Verde Islands, the Republic's Army launched a combat operation code-named "Changbow" based on Jigo's military base in the West African region as a springboard, spanning more than a thousand meters of concave and captured Rabat, Casablanca and Tangier in Morocco by a sudden attack.

Although the Republic had long been expected by the US military, even Duchiwei did not expect that the Republic's army would impress Ganges so much and attack three large port cities at the same time. More importantly, these are the three most important ports in Morocco!

Affected by this, only the defenders of Casablanca fought tenaciously.

Judging from some information released after the war, the US military firmly believed that the Republic's Army would enter Morocco, and its primary target was Casablanca, mainly Casablanca, which was a large port with a throughput capacity of over 100 million tons. From a military perspective, after occupying Casablanca, the Republican team could use this as a base to control the Atlantic coastal areas of North Africa, without seizing more ports, let alone gaining a foothold.

In a stable situation, attacking Rabat, who was defending heavily, reduced the risk of combat. It is precisely because of this that the US military formulated a relative combat plan. That is, after Casablanca was attacked, Rabat's defenders immediately went south to block the Republic's army. The US military staying on offshore transport ships would enter Rabat within an hour. Strengthen defense and launch a counterattack when the Republic's army's offensive was frustrated, driving the unstable Republican team out of Morocco.

This plan is ideal, but lacks flexibility.

More importantly, Rabat's Moroccan army went south to attack Casablanca, which gave the Republic Army the opportunity to assault Rabat. As a result, Rabat's defenders were surrounded and annihilated on their way south.

The U.S. military did not get the required mouth for an hour. Rabat was occupied by the Republican team before the first troops landed.

Because Tangier was also attacked, the US military immediately gave up the idea of ​​counterattacking Rabat. You should know that Tangier, located on the south bank of the Strait of Gibraltar, has a more important strategic position. If the Republican team was allowed to occupy this port, it would not only provide a reliable mooring location for the Republic fleet that entered the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal and then headed to the Atlantic Ocean, but also easily control the Strait of Gibraltar.

Unfortunately, when the US military defected and prepared to counterattack Tangier, the Republic Army had already sent a main combat unit at an extremely fast speed.

The result is conceivable. Unless the US military gathered more than 10,000 ground troops and invested enough sea and air support, they would not have thought of capturing Tangier, guarded by a main combat unit. At that time, the US military ground troops stayed near the coast of Morocco would not be less than 10,000, but the sea and air forces that could provide support to the ground troops were pitifully small.

Not to mention a shrewd commander, even the stupidest commander will retreat.

The US military was forced to abandon Morocco, which was equivalent to abandoning millions of troops on the Middle East battlefield.

Military speaking, the Republic's army's strategic detour on the African continent created a war miracle. When the gates were closed, many people realized that all the Republic's actions on the African continent were to serve combat operations on the Middle East battlefield. No matter what, the price of sweeping the West African battlefield and marching into Morocco was much lower than the decisive battle with millions of American troops on the Middle East battlefield.

For the millions of Americans trapped, all that is left is to surrender to.

At this point, Europe has no choice but to get involved in the Middle East War as soon as possible and save millions of American soldiers, otherwise the entire Western world would fall apart.

Strategically speaking, the Republic won this time very beautifully.

Of course, this is just the beginning. If you think the focus is on the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean, it would be a big mistake

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