Chapter 1433: 28. Land and Blood (13)

? It is the strategic and tactical requirements that determine the development of weapons, and the national strategy that determines the strategic and tactical requirements, and the national strategy is formulated based on the battlefield shape and changes in its own conditions. To put it extreme, there is no distinction between high and low weapons, only the question of whether it is suitable for the actual battlefield and the national strategic direction is correct and realistic. After all, the war is never over, and the killing stuff will not be outdated in any era.
Here is an example. The well-known M1 "Abrams" tank and T-72 tank, the development time of the two is similar, and the design was originally used for the hypothetical World War III, which can be called a NBC weapon. In addition, one of the most important "decisive weapons" on the land battlefield. However, the performance of these two types of chariots in the Gulf War and the subsequent Iraq War was quite eye-popping. The U.S. armored forces equipped with the "Abrams" tank and even the older M60 tanks were almost as unilaterally slaughtered as Iraqi armored units equipped with Soviet tanks including T-72. The performance of various flying turrets of the Soviet tanks has become a footnote to what constitutes "inferior products". The pictures of the various types of chariots used by the Russian army in the Chechen War were exploded by the Chechen armed forces, which even confirmed the impression that the Soviet/Russian chariots were "roughly manufactured" and "impacted." However, it is not.
In terms of national strategy, the US and the Soviet Union had different goals during the Cold War. NATO, headed by the United States, wanted to figure out how to block the torrent of steel rushing under the cover of nuclear bombs. The Warsaw, headed by the Soviet Union, was to prepare the war to break through the iron curtain at all costs and occupy the entire Western Europe. Ma Atlantic (this does not mean that the Soviet Union’s national strategy must necessarily be offensive. In fact, the Soviet Union’s core strategic objective has always been defense, but Mao Zedong who experienced the Great Patriotic War understands defense is "offensive is "The best defense", "pre-emptive strike", "the decisive battle to liberate all mankind once the war is launched").
Under the guidance of two very different strategies, the chariots on both sides will undertake different tasks from the beginning. The main task of the M1 is defense, wearing thick armor, equipped with high-precision main guns, and debilitating depleted uranium armor-piercing projectiles, equipped with advanced The sighting system is like a heavy destroyer with a turret installed. Even the work content is similar to that of the destroyer. That is, relying on the advantages of the high-power artillery and sighting system to contain the red steel torrent, the solid face gives it Strong survivability and long-lasting combat capability, so as to stick to the reserve team to catch up and strengthen the defense line; and the mission of T-72 is given to attack, more precisely to kill the enemy, in the tactical concept of the Soviet Red Army, Once the war begins, the armored assault cluster stationed in East Germany will strike forward with a nuclear bomb and NATO’s air and ground in a desperate charge. In the process, even if all the clusters stationed in East Germany are to fight, the NATO defense line will be torn apart. The corpse paved a way forward for the follow-up troops (typically the Soviet-style large regiment of large-scale deep combat thinking). Under this kind of combat thinking, chariots are basically similar to toilet papers, and they are disposable consumables that are thrown out after use. Therefore, there is no need to waste time and resources to design a perfect chariot as a work of art. As long as it is sufficient, it is enough to ensure that the enemy's armor can be destroyed at the normal combat distance.
It is not surprising that two types of chariots born under completely different ideas, fighting against the unexpected battlefield, have a more perfect system support, and have a firmer will and determination to fight against the Iraqi army. In turn, the Saudi armored forces, also equipped with "Abrams" and equipped with strong air support, were faced with Yemen armed forces with extremely simple equipment, and were still being beaten up. As for the Chechen War... In the anti-terrorist security wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, did the "Abrams" being blown to the sky show the flying turret from time to time?
Therefore, it is still the same sentence. Weapons are not superior or inferior, only whether they meet national strategic needs, and whether national strategic directions are correct and meet real needs.
National strategy is different from business behavior. Cost, investment and benefit are not absolute indicators, and even the standards of victory are vague.
What is victory? Defeating the enemy's army, destroying the enemy's government, and occupying the enemy's territory-these must not be considered final victories, not even staged victories. If it is to be defined, it can only be regarded as a good start. It is a favorable factor for achieving the ultimate goal, but it is by no means a reliable guarantee. In the beginning of history, the situation was very good. The middle market was beaten to doubt life, and there were too many cases of friction on the ground.
The ultimate goal of any national strategy is to ensure living space. The so-called core interests, important interests, and secondary interests are all graded around the highest proposition of living space. The vast majority of wars are also centered on the issue of living space. Markets, resources, population, territory, and geographical security are all part of the living space, until an external environment suitable for its development is created and this external environment can be maintained. For a long period of time, the question of living space is only over, and the war will temporarily stop.
The reason is very simple, but there is not much to keep in mind, or to be able to implement this theory to the end. Most countries provoke wars before accumulating sufficient resources. Later generations often criticize this behavior as irrational and gambling on the fate of the country and nation. However, few people have noticed that the countries that gamble on national games are mostly resource-poor countries. Before accumulating sufficient resources, they are likely to self-extinguish due to their own internal economic crisis. Using war to pass on the economic crisis may be a cup of poisonous poisonous wine, but in the face of a crisis that is about to die of thirst, how many people can refuse this cup of poisonous wine?
This is the case with Charlemagne. The country drank the poisoned wine made by itself and fell to the ground. The sacred Gilmanian empire that annexed its territory might not repeat its opponent's mistakes.
The elves know how powerful the resistance against oppression will be, and they themselves are the best role models.
Once the spread of the rebellious spark spreads, and the whole area is occupied with a prairie trend, the empire that was just born is likely to face a crisis of subversion. At that time, unless all the Charlie Man who resisted or suspected of rebellion were killed, never want to quell the flames of resistance. If at this time, with the intervention of foreign forces, when the enemies who were previously dissatisfied but had to swallow their hearts out, When the opportunity to launch an attack on the empire was behind the scenes, the real disaster began, and the fight was likely to evolve into a quagmire that would drown the empire.
The elves have a very clear understanding of their own problems. Since the beginning, they have tried to avoid falling into protracted wars. The existing forces of the Imperial Defence Force cannot guarantee the confrontation with the countries while extinguishing the rebellious flames of the rear and protecting those. Smooth and stable resource channels. This issue involves deep-seated strategic structural issues and cannot be solved by pure military operations and blindly expanding the military. Therefore, at the stage when the guerrillas first appeared, the performance of the Defence Forces was not so much restraint as appeasement. The reason is that they really can't get rid of these flies, and instead of rashly causing the bandits to turn into conflicts, it is better to wait and see the changes for the time being. As the situation worsened again and again, the General Staff of the Defense Forces had to admit that the situation on the border of the Alps had reached the point of "have to be resolved by surgery".
Although the determination has been made ~ EbookFREE.me ~ the will to execute is extremely firm, but where is the problem-where is the bandit's strength adjusted from? The fact that there is less is not enough, and if you want to send more, it becomes the demolishing of the east wall to make up the west wall. In order to solve the guerrilla armed forces on the border, the problem of insufficient troops cannot be circumvented and cannot be solved in the short term.
Having said that, it is not unthinkable, at least there is the possibility of using technical means to solve it.
As mentioned earlier, the elves have a very sober understanding of their own problems. From the moment the defense army established the army, this army showed two characteristics with very elven characteristics.
One is that the weapons design of the defense forces is based on the premise of "less wars and more";
The second is that the defense army is more keen to "use technology for life" than foreign counterparts who are keen to emphasize bravery, decisiveness and "long live charge";
When these two ideas are combined, after a series of chemical reactions, the most fearful results to date are about to be produced.
Beautiful poisonous flowers that have never been seen before are about to bloom among the Alps.