Chapter 73 Mastering military power is the most important
The tracer bullets of anti-aircraft guns can be seen clearly even during the bright day. The anti-aircraft missiles sometimes flew into the sky and fired at the invading opponent's planes. The planes carrying bombs were lumbering away.
What Iran lacks the most is anti-radiation missiles. Otherwise, during the Fourth Middle East War, several Syrian air defense missile brigades were almost wiped out, and they were all done by anti-radiation missiles.
The air defense forces shot down an aircraft, but the opponent's aircraft group broke through the defense line. Suddenly, bombs fell from time to time over Baghdad. A bomb hit the power plant. Suddenly, thick smoke rolled, and half of the city fell into a state of power outage.
In the underground air defense command and combat center, the phone ringing kept ringing, and information from various places was reported quickly.
The staff officers gathered the information and marked it on a large map in the center.
In an instant, Zhang Feng had an illusion, as if he had returned to the War of Resistance Against Japan. At that time, he used maps to mark this backward method. He had long been accustomed to transmitting the war situation to the command center in real time through data links and displaying it vividly on the big screen. This method is what modern warfare needs most.
Information, what is fought in modern warfare is information warfare!
Zhang Feng is very confident because he is at a height that people cannot see in this era. In this era, the Internet has not yet appeared. The method of quickly centralized analysis of data and then centralized processing has not yet come out. Zhang Feng is definitely at the highest point.
Saddam was calmly listening to reports from all sides, pondering in front of the map.
Suddenly, a news came: an Iranian plane cruising at high altitude was probably a Tomcat fighter, and according to various data analysis, it was likely that it was shot down by Lieutenant Arslan who took off.
When the news came, everyone in the command was shocked. MiG-23 met the Tomcat and had almost no room for resistance. How did Arslan do it?
Especially the Air Force Commander Major General Abid, when he heard Arslan disobeying and taking off, he was so heartbroken that this guy was causing trouble at such a critical moment. It is very likely that the president would be in trouble in his anger. The president had no trust in the Air Force and dared to disobey. This was to be a dangerous thing.
Now, I heard that he had taken a tomcat, so if he had to deal with his merits and demerits, at least he would be able to deal with it himself.
Then, there was news that Arslan was shot down, and everyone felt a little regretful, especially the senior officials who had a friendship with Arslan's father, who felt sorry for his shot down.
But Saddam had no expression, and was listening to the war situation and pondering all the time.
Finally, the Iranian plane left, and Baghdad returned to calm again. The fire trucks quickly dispatched to put out the fires ignited everywhere due to bombing.
A grand welcome ceremony was a messed up by several ignorant Iranian planes.
"Kusekusek, even the Persian planes are here to celebrate you." Saddam finally returned to normal.
Abid quickly said: "His Excellency President, this time the Air Force has dereliction of duty, and the other party's plane dropped bombs on our capital. We..."
Saddam waved his hand, his expression as if he was driving a fly.
Abide immediately stopped.
"Father, our air force did not perform well this time. With the air defense force, we can never guarantee our absolute safety. Only by being brave enough to attack and destroy the other side outside the border line is our most correct choice." Zhang Feng said: "Although our current equipment is not enough to deal with the Persian panda fighter jets, however, Lieutenant Arslan may provide us with an opportunity. We should find Arslan and let him introduce how he did it."
Saddam heard his son admire Arslan so much, but he was unmoved: "This Arslan has not resisted orders once, right?"
"This has been several times, but this time Arslan captured the tomcat..." Abid said hurriedly when he heard the president say this.
"No matter what great contribution he made this time, in short, he repeatedly disobeyed orders and must be dealt with seriously. Our military regulations are not placed there for people to see, but for all soldiers to abide by." Saddam said coldly.
"Yes, our Air Force will definitely deal with this matter seriously," Abid said.
Saddam looked at Kusai, full of his father's kindness. Kusai, although you have made several great contributions, you are still young after all, and you will not understand some things now. As a president, firmly controlling the army and holding military power is the most important thing. Arslan is capable and loyal, but if you do not strictly implement orders, such people will definitely not be a good sign in the army and must be stopped.
Iraq has been in turmoil for decades, with the army being the pioneer of almost every rebellion.
In 1932, Iraq broke away from British colonial rule and was ruled by the pro-Western Faisal Jade Dynasty, but, since the end of the country, it has been civil wars, mutinies, uprisings and cabinet replacements that averaged twice a year for decades.
In the spring of 1957, Brigadier General Karim Kasem, the commander of the 20th Brigade, led the "Free Officer Organization", formed the Supreme Committee, formulated the program of the uprising, and at 5 a.m. on July 14, 1958, the troops were divided into three groups and launched an attack on the palace, the Prime Minister's Office and the radio station. King Faisal II, Crown Prince Abdul Ira, other royal members and Prime Minister Said were all shot. The Faisal dynasty was destroyed from then on, and the Iraqi Republic was finally born.
However, after the successful coup, the proposed "Revolution Steering Committee" before the revolution was never established. After Kasem took power, he still implemented a political dictatorship. The Baath Socialist Party was excluded and attacked, withdrew from the government, and the political forces of various factions began to split. Ten years of turmoil began.
The Basing Socialist Party launched a struggle against Kasem. At this time, Saddam participated in the Basing Socialist Party and carried out the assassination of Kasem, but failed and was forced to flee to Cairo.
Ahmed Hassan Becker, a revolutionary general in the 1958 coup, then lurked in the government as the commander of the barracks. After planning, he launched a coup on February 8, 1963, overthrew the Kasem government and executed the dictatorial Kasem regime. The Kasem regime collapsed.
However, in less than half a year, the Arab Baath Socialist Party had another internal strife. Arif, a non-Bath Socialist Party member who served as president, took the opportunity to launch a coup and took over the regime. After Arif took power, he suppressed his political enemies. The Baath Socialist Party moved underground again.
It was not until 3 a.m. on July 17, 1968 that under the unified leadership of Hassan Becker, Saddam and Razak Naiv organized coupon troops to launch a tank attack on the Presidential Palace, ending the five-year rule of the Arif regime. Arif was ordered to retire.
After decades of difficult efforts, the goal of the Bauha Socialist Party in controlling both the army and the government has finally been achieved.
At this time, Hassan was old and his health turned sharply. A few years later, the regime fell into Saddam's hands.
Starting from the bottom and having experienced countless storms, Saddam certainly knows that in this world, powerful force is the most important, and an army that obeys orders is the most important. Only by firmly controlling the army can one sit firmly.
Moreover, he has lofty ideals.
Zhang Feng knew that it was the stupidest thing to directly contradict Saddam. In his previous life, he knew how to learn to be thick-mouthed.
"Father, this time the Iranian Air Force was dispatched during the day and directly bombarded our capital, which must be in revenge on us who killed one of their armored divisions in the swamp. Therefore, we must be vigilant to prevent the Persians from counterattacking." Zhang Feng avoided the topic just now and then mentioned the important purpose of his trip.
ps: First, correct an error. Due to typing errors, all "pandas" should be "tomcats", and you will definitely pay attention to this problem in the future.
Secondly, thanks to iloveyour for his reward and two update tickets for Fascist.
Third, I am very sorry, East China is a "glorious" people's teacher. He has always skipped work these days. As a result, he was checked by his leaders yesterday and the whole school criticized him. That's embarrassing! So, I have to be more restrained recently and can't always skip work. Therefore, sometimes, I may not have enough time to write, but I try to keep up two updates a day.
Both junior high school and elementary school teachers are very free, but high school teachers are the most tiring. I complained a little. I have been in a row for a month and have not had a rest. I have been attending classes on Saturdays and Sundays.
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Chapter completed!