: Self-disturbance

On November 23, the U.S. authorities made major adjustments to the overall strategy.

According to the information released after the war, after Lucas' approval, McCarthy gave up the Western Pacific strategy with the attack on Okinawa as the core, turned the focus to the Middle East battlefield, and sent five army divisions and two land divisions to the Middle East by the end of the year, and sent 800 additional combat aircraft to help Israel defeat the Arab countries. The Western Pacific offensive operation that General Jordan had been struggling to persist was postponed indefinitely.

This is the first time that the United States has deviated from its original strategic plan after the war began, or that it has denied its original strategic plan.

After the war, many people believed that it was this adjustment that made the United States miss the best opportunity to defeat China within two years and win the Third World War.

According to these people, if McCarthy did not adjust his strategic plan, he would still insist on attacking Okinawa as planned at the end of November and officially launch it at the end of the year, even if the United States is likely to be defeated in the Middle East, it would open a breakthrough on China's local peripheral defense line, laying the foundation for the formal implementation of strategic bombing against China, and thus destroying China through strategic bombing.

In fact, this is a very one-sided view.

First, after the outbreak of the war, China's first phase of war mobilization included the transfer of major factories placed in the eastern and southern coastal areas to the inland, and it began at the end of October, and by the end of 2052, 80% of the inland migration will be completed. With China's local air defense capabilities, the US military's strategic bombing operation is difficult to pose a threat to the inland, and will not achieve obvious results within at least one year of war. China is enough to complete three phases of war mobilization during this period, and the war potential will be fully erupted.

Secondly, the prerequisite for the United States to lose the war in the Middle East is to lose the control of the Indian Ocean. In order to gain absolute advantage in the Western Pacific, the prerequisite is to draw troops from the Indian Ocean. Therefore, the United States will inevitably lose the control of the Indian Ocean. This is equivalent to liberating the Chinese navy and allowing the Chinese navy to use troops in the Western Pacific in the subsequent battles, thus posing a fatal threat to the Western Pacific strategy implemented by the United States, and may even turn the situation around the Western Pacific battlefield, completely crush the United States' strategic plan, and enter a long-term consumption stage.

Third, by the end of November, China's ground troops deployed on Okinawa had reached 100,000, and it was growing at a rate of thousands of people every day. The number of combat materials stored reached millions of tons, which was enough for more than 1.5 million soldiers and civilians on the island to last for more than one year. More importantly, Okinawa is close enough to China's mainland and within the cover of onshore-based fighter jets, so the US military could not easily capture Okinawa Island. It must invest heavily here, and this would undoubtedly consume the US ground troops that were not sufficient in the early stages of the war.

Fourth, concentrating troops to attack Okinawa will only cause the US Navy fleet to lose combat flexibility, because only Guan Island can support the battle of Okinawa in the Western Pacific, and Guam is two thousand kilometers away, and the combat efficiency of shore-based fighters is far less than that of carrier-based fighters. In order to support the battle on Okinawa, the US military needs to deploy at least six aircraft carrier battle groups in this direction to provide support for ground forces in turn. In this way, in other directions, the scale of the US fleet is very limited, giving the Chinese Navy the possibility of each defeat.

Fifth, the US military's offensive operations in the direction of Okinawa have a fatal flaw in the serious lack of logistics support, that is, the US military must cross the Pacific Ocean to deliver combat troops and supplies to the front line. On this route of more than 10,000 kilometers, there are Chinese Navy submarines everywhere. Especially on the last route, dozens of fully electric submarines of the Chinese Navy are enough to pose a fatal threat to the US fleet. In comparison, the Chinese military has almost no logistical problems in the direction of Okinawa. It can not only be transported by sea, but also rely on air transport.

Sixth, in general, the importance of the Middle East is no less than that of the Western Pacific, because the Middle East is the crossroads of the world and the intersection of Asia and Europe. If the United States loses in the Middle East, it is equivalent to letting China control the main channel to the Mediterranean and to Europe. The result is obvious that the already-movemented France, Germany and Italy will definitely quickly complete the cause of European unification under the instigation of China. Strategically, if the United States loses more than half of its support, and even the Atlantic Ocean will be included in the scope of war.

Finally, and most importantly, the United States cannot abandon Israel.

Don’t forget that Israel is a Jewish country. According to statistics from another private survey company before the war, 65% of the American social wealth is 65%, and seven of the eight major Western consortiums are in the hands of the Jews. These consortiums, or the Jews who control many consortiums, are the initiators of World War III. Therefore, as long as there is no possibility, the United States will not give up on the Middle East.

In fact, Lucas, McCarthy and others were all spokespersons of the Jewish consortium at that time.

With this background, even if the war lasts, the United States will not give up Israel easily.

It can be seen from this that even if the United States abandons the Middle East and tries its best to achieve a decisive victory in the Western Pacific, even if it achieves a decisive victory, it is impossible to win the Third World War within two years. At most, it will only extend the war time. The longer the war is delayed, the more beneficial it will be to China.

Of course, this does not mean that abandoning the Western Pacific strategy is the right choice.

Judging from the situation at that time, this was definitely a wrong choice. The correct choice was: while maintaining a high pressure situation in the Western Pacific, the US military dispatched combat troops to the Middle East as much as possible, especially the ground forces that Israel urgently needed, and hoped to achieve a great victory in the Indian Ocean.

At that time, it was not General Jordan who recognized this reality, but General Harold, commander of the US Pacific Fleet, and Lieutenant General French, commander of the Seventh Fleet.

According to the information disclosed after the war, on November 23, General Harold submitted a combat report in the Indian Ocean to the Navy General Staff, and the main drafter of the report was Lieutenant General France. In this report, Lieutenant General France clearly mentioned that the Third Fleet and Fourth Fleet should be allowed to head north and under the cover of the air force, bomb military bases in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and other places, especially air bases. If necessary, strategic bombers should also be concentrated in the southwestern Pacific to ensure that the air strikes paralyze China's air base network in Southeast Asia. Then, the US fleet should defend the East Indian Ocean and wait for the Chinese fleet to come and fight to the decisive battle.

At that time, French proposed a very bold idea, which was to send all the other nine aircraft carrier battle groups.

In other words, fifteen aircraft carrier battle groups were concentrated in the East Indian Ocean, and with an overwhelming advantage, annihilated the last fleet of the Chinese Navy in a decisive naval battle.

If this is true, the task force will die very miserably.

However, this idea was too advanced. Not only could General Jordan agree, but even General Harold felt that this was a completely crazy way of playing.

You know, this means that the US military will give up the sea control in the Western Pacific.

Without fleet cover, the Chinese Marines could even attack Guam alone.

Of course, this is also related to Harold's original intention, that is, Harold believes that he should still attack Okinawa and should launch an attack according to the original plan.

In this way, it is impossible for the US military to send all its fleets to the East Indian Ocean, and it cannot even draw the fleet over.

As a result, French's bold idea was not written into the report.

Of course, Harold still supported French's other suggestions, that is, to concentrate the fleet in the East Indian Ocean and wait for the Chinese fleet to come and fight to the decisive battle.

Unfortunately, this combat report was eventually rejected by General Jordan.

The reason has nothing to do with the navy, mainly because the air force cannot destroy China's dense spider-web-like military bases in Southeast Asia in such a short period of time.

Given the situation at that time, the US military needed to use at least 2,000 fighter jets and 1,000 bombers to gain a decisive advantage in Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, it was not until mid-2035 that the US military could gather these fighter jets, and France's plan was obviously impossible to delay until that time.

If China's network of military bases in Southeast Asia fails to destroy China's military bases in Southeast Asia, letting the fleet pass by is equivalent to death.

You know, the Chinese Air Force has been waiting for the US fleet to come to your door.

Of course, French's plan is indeed very visionary. Its main purpose is not to encircle and annihilate the Chinese fleet, but to block the Chinese fleet that has entered the Indian Ocean by cutting off the waterways between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, causing the Chinese fleet to lose essential rear support.

You should know that the fleet cannot be active at sea all the time and must return to the base for maintenance and repair.

Although before the outbreak of the war, China attached great importance to the construction of naval bases in the Indian Ocean, such as building a dry dock in Kochi that can be used to repair super aircraft carriers, and also built a large number of infrastructure in ports such as Gwadar Port, Haoyang Port, Visakhapatnam, and Jeddah, the Kochi Shipyard was severely damaged during the sudden attack of the war, and other ports did not have the ability to repair super aircraft carriers. In this way, unless China finds a way to restore operations of the Kochi Shipyard, the fleet operating in the Indian Ocean will not receive enough maintenance support. Because large ship repair equipment can only be transported by sea, as long as the route between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean is cut off, China will not be able to restore the normal operation of the Kochi Shipyard, and it will not be possible for the fleet entering the Indian Ocean to obtain the necessary support.

With the continuous combat capabilities of the Chinese fleet, it will be dragged down by the US military at most half a year later.

For this world war, the United States does not lack this six months. Of course, the premise is that the US authorities no longer seek quick and fast victory.

Unfortunately, at the end of 2052, the US authorities did not have such a clear understanding.
Chapter completed!