The Rise of Australia

"Now is not the time for a decisive battle with the island nation's navy. [6] [9] [s] [h] [u] [x] [.] [c] [o] [m]" Former Navy Commander-in-Chief, current Staff Officer Lieutenant General Andrew, Chief of General Staff of the Ministry, shook his head and objected: "

This is obviously not in line with our plan. It is not a good thing for us to defeat the island country quickly at this time. We also have to face the more powerful Germany.

What's more, would Australasia, which had defeated the island countries and gained hegemony over the entire Pacific, be less of a threat to Britain and France than Germany?

In order not to worry our allies, let's play with the islanders for a while first. "

Although the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and the Chief of General Staff are both at the rank of lieutenant general, there are still some differences in status.

The military structure of Australasia is somewhat different from that of other countries. As an autocratic monarchy, the military's primary target of allegiance is naturally Arthur.

This also resulted in the fact that the highest institution of the military was the Ministry of Defense serving Arthur, rather than the general staffs or other institutions of other countries.

The Ministry of National Defense has four major departments: the Navy, Army and Air Force Headquarters, the General Staff Department, as well as smaller departments such as the Logistics Department.

In the promotion of senior military officers, the staff officers of the three services will be promoted to commanders, and the commanders of the three services will be promoted to chiefs of general staff.

The Secretary of Defense is a position similar to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. It is the highest-ranking of all military positions and the highest-ranking military rank.

General Daniel immediately calmed down after hearing what Andrew said about the staff plan.

The so-called plan is actually to turn the war in Europe into an internal conflict between Britain, France and Germany and Italy through war with island countries.

Without the United States, Australasia, as the strongest player outside Europe, is obviously the biggest beneficiary of Europe's internal friction.

As long as Europe weakens, Australasia can obtain a large number of the heritage of European countries and gain the opportunity to master world hegemony.

Of course, this is still very risky.

First of all, it is necessary to grasp the balance between the two major military groups of Britain, France and Germany and Italy. Australasia has always been on the side of Britain and France, which also means that the winner of the war can only be Britain and France, not Germany and Italy.

Secondly, Britain and France must win, but Britain and France must also have most of their national power consumed by Germany and Italy.

Judging from the current combat effectiveness of the British and French armies, it is very difficult to achieve this goal.

Only by weakening the strength of Britain and France, especially the British, as much as possible, can Australasia gain more land, and in a relatively peaceful way.

Places such as the British Straits Settlements, the Chagos Islands in the center of the Indian Ocean, and Mauritius in the western Indian Ocean are not that important to the British.

At least in the face of large-scale wars related to the survival of the country, the importance of these lands is not that high.

In order to win this war, Britain must make some concessions of interests. What Australasia requires is actually these geographically important lands, including post-war resource allocation and so on.

According to historical experience, there will be almost no large-scale wars in the nearly hundred years after the end of this war.

Of course, history is only a reference after all, not necessarily the standard answer.

But this actually probably shows that after the world's major countries have powerful nuclear weapons, those countries with other ambitions must also curb their ambitions.

After all, you can search or even destroy a country because you suspect it has nuclear weapons, but you will never search a country because it possesses nuclear weapons.

Suspicion and reality are two different outcomes at the diplomatic level.

Since World War II was the largest war in a century, it was also the war most likely to change the world situation.

Then, Australasia's planning in this war is understandable. After all, if Australasia cannot become a world hegemon after the end of this world war, it is destined to be impossible in the next few decades.

Throughout world history, since the age of navigation, the replacement of world hegemons has often been accompanied by wars.

It is almost impossible to become a world hegemon through peaceful means. After all, no country wants to see itself slowly stepping down from the altar.

The British Empire has maintained its hegemony for nearly a hundred years. Naturally, the British do not want to see Britain become an ordinary great power, even if the new world hegemon is Australasia, which has almost the same origin as Britain. Even the royal family was originally a country of one family.

Therefore, the only way for Australasia to become a world hegemon is to weaken Britain as much as possible in this war and make the British realize that Britain is no longer strong.

"Then what should we do? Is there no response to this island attack?" Navy Commander Daniel looked at Chief of General Staff Andrew and asked.

"Of course not." Chief of General Staff Andrew shook his head and looked at Arthur. After receiving Arthur's nod in agreement, he continued: "

Of course we must retaliate against the attacks by the islanders, and we must make the islanders bear a hundred times the losses.

But the time for revenge is not now, now we have other plans. "

Seeing that he had successfully attracted everyone's attention, Andrew smiled, took out a document, and then introduced: "

Please take a look, everyone, this is the latest plan formulated by the General Staff to attack the island country.

Because our allies (Philippines, Kalimantan, West Coast United Kingdom, California) have declared war on the island nation, we can build a huge army of over 1.5 million men in a short period of time.

The closest our entire alliance is to the mainland of the island country is the Philippines, but it is still nearly 1,700 kilometers away.

It was obvious that such vast distances had a very significant impact on our operational plans.

Therefore, our first step is to head north from the Philippines and quickly land in the Okinawa region of the island country.

The northernmost tip of Okinawa is only about 300 kilometers away from the mainland of the island country, and even some closer islands have a round-trip distance of less than 500 kilometers.

This also means that the aircraft we deploy in Okinawa can easily harass the mainland areas of the island country.

Secondly, regarding the navy, we also have a relatively detailed combat plan.

According to the current situation, the main sources for island countries to obtain supplies, in addition to the Asian continent, are basically the Americas and Africa.

The mission of the navy is to completely block the island countries' trade routes to the Americas and Africa, and cut off the island countries' possibility to obtain supplies from the outside world.

The island countries lack sufficient material supplies, and their attacks will become more frantic. Once their offense spirals into ultimate madness, our chances of winning will be much better.

In addition, there are not many garrisons stationed on some islands in the Pacific by island countries, and they are also included in our first step to capture them.

As long as the island country's eastward and southerly routes are gradually blocked, this island country wandering on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean is destined to become an isolated and helpless island. "

It can also be seen from Australasia's combat plan against island countries that the military does not pay too much attention to island countries, a so-called great power.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Due to the shortcomings of its own mineral resources and petroleum materials, the island nation is somewhat unworthy of its name.

Their most important achievement in becoming a great power was to defeat part of the Russian army that was poorly prepared in the Far East at that time.

But the opponent at that time was only the Russian army in the Far East, not the whole of Russia. The island countries still took a big advantage.

After gaining hegemony over part of the Far East, the island country's industry began to grow rapidly. But they also have to face a bigger problem, that is, the island country's local mineral resources are very poor. This not only severely limits the island country's industrial development, but also makes the island country's comprehensive national strength and potential stay at the lower level among the great powers. horizontal line.

This is also the reason why the country continues to expand outwards. If they do not expand, they are destined to become the last among the great powers, or even become weaker and weaker, and step down to the altar of the great powers.

No matter what we do, it will never change the fact that the island country has a small land area and poor mineral resources.

Even if the island country has a larger population among the great powers, in the eyes of the more powerful European powers, the island country is still just an Italian-level power with a so-so level.

In terms of industry, Australasia can easily crush the island countries.

The longer this competition drags on for Australasia, the easier it will be for Australasia to win.

The island country is the country that cannot be delayed the most. The only hope for the island country to win is to win the naval battle, then gradually blockade the Australasian mainland and conquer Australasia's overseas territories one by one.

But the problem is that the industrial scale of Australasia far exceeds that of island countries, and the speed of building warships is naturally far faster than that of island countries.

When both the island country and Australasia are operating at full production capacity, for every island country building one main warship, Australasia can build at least 2.5.

This is one, and the other is the economic asymmetry between the two sides.

The island country has such a huge army and warships, and it is inevitable that the whole country must tighten their belts to live in a difficult situation.

But Australasia is different. Australasia's economic level is not at the top among the major powers, but the government's financial situation is definitely relatively good.

Moreover, Australasia itself has a large amount of mineral resources and oil, and the cost of industrial construction is much lower than that of island countries.

If the island country wants to maintain a certain level of industry, in addition to robbing ores from other countries, it can only pay high prices and waste more time to purchase from further areas.

This also limits the island country's industry from developing to a larger scale because they do not have any raw materials at all.

If you want to build a building without cement and steel bars, you can't build a few air walls!

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