Chapter 1160 New Year, New Atmosphere?

It is said that the new year brings new atmosphere, but the bad start of 2004 did not make George Walton have an easy time.

The voices of opposition were getting louder and louder, and even he was under great pressure.

"We have no time to wait. Our people can endure the Vietnam War for several years, but they can only endure our Iraq War in months. Since the outbreak of the Iraq War, can our powerful military force only rely on air strikes to win honor for us?" George Walton was very angry.

In his national television speech on launching the Iraq War, he told Americans that the Iraq War would end soon.

According to the combat plan formulated by the army, first rely on high-intensity air strikes to attack the Iraqi army, destroy Iraq's war potential, and let the Iraqi army suffer great losses in the air strikes. This step is to destroy Iraq's air defense and air power.

Wait until the time is right, and then launch a ground attack.

And this is exactly what the United States has summed up from the experience of the Gulf War.

Therefore, before the outbreak of the war, the United States sent aircraft carrier formations to the Mediterranean, the Arabian Sea, and the Persian Gulf, a full six aircraft carrier formations, carrying a large number of missiles and bombs. Then a large number of missiles, weapons and ammunition were transported to Turkey, and a large number of aircraft were deployed.

But now, after launching missiles and air strikes by the Air Force, it has become apparent that they are strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

After consuming a large number of missiles and losing a large number of aircraft, they still failed to destroy Iraq's air defense and air power, not to mention destroying Iraq's war potential.

Up to now, the US finances have long been tight.

Now wars are all about money!

The US handled the affairs of Germany and Japan well. Although it will be difficult to affect Germany in the future, it has sucked a lot of blood from Japan, and together with the gains from the transaction, it is as much as hundreds of billions of dollars.

In theory, hundreds of billions of dollars is already a huge amount of money.

But you have to know that the United States is not only fighting the Iraq War, but also the Afghanistan War.

The daily consumption of the two wars is very astonishing.

Congress has approved the US 2004 defense budget, but George Wharton has not signed it yet.

In the new year, the US defense budget will be as high as 750 billion US dollars.

Although the United States has already started quantitative easing, coupled with the stimulus of the war, the U.S. economy looks hot, but Americans know how the economy is actually.

Look, the newly issued U.S. bonds can't be sold!

This is simply hell!

In addition, the families and relatives of American soldiers who died in the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq are making trouble, so George Walton didn't sleep well last night.

In the incident at the Celik Air Base, the United States must give a decent explanation to the country and use a clean and neat battle to show the strength of the U.S. military!

There are also doubts about the "Tomahawk" cruise missile and the "Patriot" missile, and there must be an explanation for this.

In this Iraq war, the performance of the "Tomahawk" cruise missile was unsatisfactory, far from the good effect that the U.S. military had previously estimated.

And the "Patriot" missile has been questioned since the beginning of the Afghan war, but because the guerrillas soon ran out of missiles, the latter doubts were slowly forgotten.

But the Iraq War is different. Iraq is much stronger and has a lot of missiles. The performance of the Patriot missile is disappointing. Even Israel is dissatisfied with the Patriot missile.

"The recent situation is unusual." CIA Director Kennett said: "According to our investigation, Iraq had no ballistic missiles before Christmas. The Scud missiles were exhausted, and we blew up Iraq's missile manufacturing plant. And according to the military's response, Iraq's air defense force was exhausted before Christmas. But now, Iraq's air defense force has been restored again, and there are Scud missiles. And it is obvious that the Tomahawk cruise missiles are obviously interfered and cannot be located by GPS. Iraq will never study these technologies by itself. There must be a black hand behind the scenes!"

"It must be the big Russia who did it. They have been against us. Now that we are attacking Iraq, they must be dissatisfied, so they will sabotage behind us! They can transport weapons to the Iraqis by air and land!" Powell said in a deep voice.

"It could also be Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. They have always been very dissatisfied with our launching of the Iraq War. We have evidence that they are providing weapons to Iraq and sending troops to help Iraq."

"And."

"Don't worry about these things!" George Walton waved his hand and said, "What we need to do is to use our powerful military force to crush Iraq! Overthrow Saddam's regime and support Iraq's new democratic government!"

These private things, who is doing it is actually no secret.

Just like when the Soviet Union launched the Afghan War, the United States also made moves in private, providing funds, weapons, and ammunition to the Afghan guerrillas, and training the Afghan guerrillas so that the Afghan guerrillas could strike the Soviet army and continue to bleed the Soviet army.

Similarly, when the United States launched the Vietnam War and eventually retreated to Vietnam, wasn't it because there was a socialist camp behind Vietnam?

Now that the United States has launched the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War, it is normal for other countries to make small moves behind the scenes.

This kind of thing cannot be discussed on the surface.

"Can our army launch an attack from the ground? Or a landing operation?" George Walton asked his staff.

"No! Iraq still has a strong military force. If the joint ground forces from the Turkish direction launch an attack and conduct a tough battle, we will suffer a lot of casualties. In the Persian Gulf, the Iraqis have deployed a large number of mines. Without destroying their air force and air defense forces, we cannot clear these mines and cannot conduct landing operations!" Rumsfeld shook his head and said.

"One month, give the Air Force and Navy another month to destroy Iraq's air defense and air force, and then launch a ground attack. We don't have much time left!" George Walton said firmly: "The people can't give us ten or eight years to fight Iraq, or even four or five years. We must end this war in the first half of this year and overthrow the Saddam regime!"

This year is not an ordinary year, it is an election year!

It is related to the election. Only if the Iraq War is ended in the first half of the year can George Walton be absolutely sure of being re-elected smoothly.

Otherwise, if it drags on, it will inevitably cause unexpected changes!

Now the opponent is grabbing the fact that he launched two wars and making trouble for him.

Only by winning the Iraq War and gaining tangible benefits will the opponents have no leverage over him and the people will support him. (End of this chapter)