From arms dealer to king of war

The boss's personal visit to the front line boosted the morale of everyone in P·B...

The preparation of the base, which had been slow before, sped up with the arrival of Qiao Jia.

In fact, the main reason is that the situation here is too bad. It is too close to Mosul and will be attacked when entering here. The defensive pressure on the base is too high.

Almost all military contracting companies are encouraging P.B. to move the logistics center back to Qayyara base, because it is only 40 kilometers away from Mosul, but the defensive pressure is many times smaller.

As long as P·B moves to Gaiyara, those mercenaries can justifiably be lazy.

After all, you have to travel 40 kilometers to work, so you can’t ask people to do too many things!

It's a pity that Boss Qiao has his own ethics. He took over other people's oil fields, contracted their logistics, and promised to make sure the people on the front line have hot food to eat, so he must do it.

Besides, Boss Qiao is still an arms dealer. The equipment of the Iraqi government forces is not bad, but doesn’t the ammunition replenishment still need someone to provide it?

This is big business, and the oil is in the hands of Boss Qiao. The Rumaila oil field responsible for the two barrels of oil will resume work soon, and the 'white notes' can be converted into cash soon.

The logistics channel has been initially opened. Is there any more convenient place to provide supplies than on the front line?

When selling bullets on the front line, asking for a price 50% higher than usual is simply unreasonable.

Although Boss Joe is crazily squeezing war profits like 'Master Bai', in fact Boss Joe is still in a state of paying for the war. The cannons, armored vehicles, weapons, and ammunition sent by Sevia are all required. Paid.

Maintaining four military bases that are half-civilian and half-military is no longer as simple as burning money for Qiao Jia, a private boss, but pouring money into the crematorium.

If Huaguo Energy hadn’t provided a ‘crude oil pre-sale business’ for the output of Rumaila Oilfield, it also provided a flexible billing model and a large number of sponsorships.

Before the humanitarian channel achieves large-scale profits, Boss Qiao's big business trip to Iraq will probably cost him most of his net worth.

In order to subsidize a little family income, it is only natural to charge a fee for providing support to mercenaries.

And the prices he asks are all conscience prices, and some are even cheaper than the mercenary company itself.

For the simplest air support, 20,000 helicopters per sortie is not expensive at all compared to the mercenary group using its own helicopters.

The missiles are a little more expensive, but only a little.

Despite the cheers of those in the mercenary group, what they actually complained about was not the high price, but the fact that support was too easy to come by, causing the mercenaries on the front line to frequently call for artillery fire, resulting in a lot of meaningless waste.

Mercenary companies don't spend taxpayers' money, they have to calculate the cost!

The support system provided by P·B is too simple and crude, and in order to attract customers, the artillerymen are also extremely efficient.

In fact, all regular troops have a very complicated procedure for calling for artillery support in actual combat, and specialized soldiers need to be trained to complete guidance and calls on the front line.

Only company-level units generally have such soldiers!

Air support is a little more complicated. The frontline control team even has to plan in advance the direction of entry of fighter jets or air forces, the shooting angle, and even the type of ammunition.

The regular armies of all major powers are becoming more refined, but P.B. has gone in the opposite direction and simplified everything...

As long as you use your own radio, report your team code and secret words, and then guide the position and wait for up to 5 minutes, the artillery shells will come to help.

Is it dangerous?

Extremely dangerous!

But is it worth it?

If we were surrounded, who would care about this?

Even worse now, there are helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and even jet fighters.

This is the real 'big business', and it is also the loss that will inevitably occur in the big orders taken by big companies.

If you are losing money yourself, why not let P·B help you with the "loss"? Who will make this money or not?

P·B actually saved them trouble, but because the action was too simple and crude, the loss of the mercenary company was amplified.

Because it is indeed too simple. In the past, when helicopters did not come, the 155mm howitzer in the base could cover the entire city of Mosul.

The advanced fire control system used by P·B artillery can control the error within a radius of 50 meters.

This is really a life-saving thing, and there are no barriers to calling, that is, there are not so many tedious links, and you can call for support if you can speak human language.

The 'irregularity' shown by P·B is a boon to the mercenaries who have gotten so far that they have to use guns to eat.

Many mercenaries from other countries have never enjoyed the privilege of being able to call for artillery shells or air support just by picking up a radio and shouting after more than ten years of service.

Moreover, with the flat call, the managers of large companies who stayed at the base could not even find an excuse to evade the call.

This is what several big companies can't stand...

For them, human life is actually a number that is recorded in the cost. If this continues, their profit margins will be compressed a lot!

Therefore, they complained in various ways, and in the end, the point was not to let P·B give away profits, but to set up call barriers and join the support command team.

At best, it's called "regularization" and "security." At worst, it means increasing the cost of calling frontline mercenaries.

The reality is so fucked up and unbelievable. The mercenaries recruited by those giant companies from places like South America and Eastern Europe are not valuable at all in their eyes.

There are also those war dogs that follow the giants and eat scraps. Unless their actions reach a critical moment and providing support will pay off, do you still expect the giants to waste money on them?

According to what the people from Triple Canopy told Qiao Jia with their heartfelt words...

“Artillery and air support can be provided, but must be within the company’s budget.

We are happy to hand over this part of the business to P·B, but we must have some control and cannot allow frontline mercenaries to waste the company's funds.

If we cannot agree on this, we will mobilize our own helicopters to provide cover.

Rockets and machine gun bullets are really cheap. "

The cost and risk control implemented by the company in the nature of capital war is so cruel on the front line.

No one cares what the final outcome of the battle in Mosul is, and many people even hope that the war will be prolonged so that they can win more contracts.

When Mosul becomes the focus of Iraq, the situation in the south will gradually stabilize.

When several large oil fields begin to resume operations, the Iraqi government will have money.

And the lobbyists, technical consultants, agents and the like of those big companies who stay in Baghdad will start to encourage the Iraqi government to buy high-end arms and high-end military services, and then send them to the front line to fill holes.

This is the important interest of the American military-industrial complex!

Much of American politics, policies and even wars serve the military-industrial complex.

From the attack on Iraq, it can be seen that the old Sana'a is indeed seeking death, but in fact, the one that the United States benefits most is not the oil group as people think, but the military-industrial complex.

They took a big bite out of the old U.S. military spending, and then took a bite out of the Iraqi government through gifts or forced purchases from the U.S. government.

The figures generated by these two can make many people stunned.

Not to mention that when this huge complex moves, it produces a mess of derivative benefits.

Among them, the annual demand for mercenaries of US$100 billion has actually created a series of military contractors in the United States.

Now they are repeating this routine in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, Afghanistan itself is too poor, and it is always the United States itself that is transfusing blood to the puppet government.

The military-industrial complex is still very happy to eat the military expenditures of the US military, but without the Afghan government, profits will always be less meaningful. When there are more places in the United States that need money, that plate will end sooner or later.

This is a huge complex covering energy groups, and capitalization and digitization make this huge and bloated complex group look very cold and cruel.

Those mercenary giants can only be said to be part of the military-industrial complex, but their 'businessman' qualities still make Qiao Jia dislike them.

Qiao Jia's business often starts with one point, and then keeps going in circles to bring many people on board.

The military-industrial complex intervenes at one point and then detonates from within, making the opponent lose the ability to resist, and then leads the community of interests to feast.

Therefore, Qiao Jia has always felt that he is not on the same track as these companies, because everyone's way of thinking and profit methods are completely different.

Faced with the temptations of a group of mercenary company representatives, Qiao Jia firmly shook his head and rejected the other party's request.

If you are not satisfied with my approach, just bring the things over by yourself. I will provide a venue for you to use, and you just need to pay a small amount of rent for the venue.

This is the business that P·B is engaged in. It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to pay the bill. We can shoot and fly according to the artillery. At worst, the mercenaries will have to pay the bill themselves.

I can even provide life-saving loan services. It doesn't matter if you have no money. You can keep accounts. As long as you are alive, you can help me carry out two armed escorts from Basra to Mosul and you can pay off the debt.

If you owe a lot and are not willing to take risks, you can go to the oil fields in the south and stand guard to pay off the debt. Food and accommodation are included when the debt is settled.

Qiao Jia's proposal gave everyone in the mercenary company a bit of a toothache...

The logistics provided by P·B are too convenient, relying on military bases, saving these large companies too much work and money.

The standard price of US$200 per person per day here not only provides delicious food but also safe accommodation.

If everyone is unhappy at this time, it will be difficult in the future.

Especially when they saw a huge reconnaissance airship being unloaded from a truck and inflated...

And after being strongly promoted by Boss Qiao, who claimed to have spent tens of millions on the ‘Dingtin Management System’ introduced from China, they knew that they would definitely not be able to escape from P·B...

The airship provides precise positioning and signal coverage for digital reconnaissance. The backfield commander can clearly see the battle situation on the front line. The mercenary clocks in at work, captures a building or kills a few terrorists and then takes photos, records and calculates KPIs...

This is a million-level additional service provided by Boss Qiao...

This is crazy...

Who can say no?

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