The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Prince Fahd left.

Liu Tao was thinking about how to do this.

It's not that he has a guilty conscience, but the poor Kuwaitis!

Even if Saddam ordered the Iraqi army to destroy infrastructure and oil wells, Kuwait's financial resources are still enough to undertake post-war reconstruction. It won't take a few years for Kuwait to rebuild beautifully. With oil revenue, Kuwait will live a rich life again.

But this matter affected the interests of Panshan Group.

Because once Saddam destroyed Kuwait's infrastructure and oil wells, Kuwait would inevitably choose to lean to the United States in order to rebuild.

This is undoubtedly what Liu Tao doesn't want to see.

He has been pushing for all these years, that is, to let each country not lean to the United States, but pursue an independent foreign policy, preferably non-alignment.

In this way, the United States will inevitably be restricted.

Although Kuwait is a small country with a small population, it is very important because it has extremely rich oil.

If we establish a deep friendship with Kuwait, Panshan Group will have a stable source of oil imports.

And we will make Kuwait's national defense construction a template to show those wealthy small countries how to strengthen military construction and enhance national defense strength, so as to bring more business to Panshan Group.

The efforts of the past ten years have made Panshan Group have a great influence in the Middle East, and everyone will give it some face.

Just like now, Panshan Group can still import oil from Iraq. No matter how unhappy the United States and others are, they can only stare blankly, because some of these refined oil products are exported to Japan and South Korea, because Saudi Arabia and Kuwait support them, and even send warships to escort them every day.

"How to convince Saddam, that bastard?" Liu Tao pondered for a while, and began to think in his mind.

Suddenly, Liu Tao had an idea: "Oh, why do I have to convince that bastard Saddam? Can't I just convince his subordinates?"

"Help Rashid become the head of the Iraqi army in Kuwait, and then let him win a great victory and have a good explanation, isn't that enough!" The more Liu Tao thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

Rashid is now Saddam's confidant, a senior military official, and the most famous and most outstanding general in the Iraqi army.

Rashid was opposed to Iraq's battle plan against Kuwait, but he knew that he had no ability to change Saddam, so he didn't say anything. But Rashid and he were old friends and good friends, and some of his key intelligence naturally came from Rashid.

Rashid is now the commander-in-chief of the Iraqi-Persian border defense line, preventing Persia from attacking Iraq.

Once the Gulf War breaks out, facing huge pressure, as long as Rashid actively asks for war, Saddam will most likely appoint Rashid as the commander-in-chief of the Iraqi army in Kuwait.

Because Rashid is the most combative among the Iraqi generals.

After careful consideration, Liu Tao contacted the intelligence personnel in Iraq.

Rashid can call him by satellite at any time, but he cannot call Rashid by satellite at any time, so as not to put Rashid in a difficult situation.

Not long after, Rashid took the initiative to call Liu Tao by satellite.

The two communicated in Chinese. Liu Tao communicated with Rashid very frankly, saying that he would help Iraq as much as possible after the war and help him go further.

Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.

Theater Joint Forces Command.

Schwarzkopf, commander of the US Central Headquarters, rubbed his temple with a headache and frowned.

Although he was appointed as the commander-in-chief, he and Khalid, commander of the Saudi Armed Forces, jointly commanded the coalition forces.

But in fact, he was only the commander-in-chief of the US side.

According to the agreement reached by all parties, although all troops in the theater are under the unified command of Khalid and Schwarzkopf, the troops of each country accept the orders and instructions of the highest authorities of their own country. In fact, each country has its own commander and commands its own troops.

The 39-nation coalition means 39 commanders, each with their own ideas.

Even after the agreed deadline, the commanders of 15 countries have not yet arrived at the theater joint force headquarters to report.

He has nowhere to get angry, because several of them are allies of the United States.

What makes him very unhappy is that the US military is obviously here to be the savior, to help Saudi Arabia resist Iraq, to ​​prevent Saudi Arabia from being invaded by Iraq, to ​​help Kuwait drive out the Iraqis, and to help Kuwait restore its country, but Saudi Arabia and Kuwait do not welcome the US military. They have been treated coldly and coldly when they came to Riyadh.

Since he arrived, the King of Saudi Arabia and the King of Kuwait have not met him once.

"Damn it, how can you do things? Such a serious matter was secretly recorded without knowing it." Schwarzkopf couldn't help but curse.

Originally they should have been the saviors, but they turned out to be unwelcome in the Arab world.

Look at the original plan of the US military to take this opportunity to build dozens of military bases in the Middle East, but now it has all gone to waste.

The intentions of Saudi Arabia and other countries are very clear. They can be used as military bases for the coalition forces in the short term, but the coalition forces will have to withdraw after the war and the military bases will be taken back.

"It seems that we have to find a way to tempt Saddam to send troops to attack Saudi Arabia and force Saudi Arabia!" Schwarzkopf's eyes flashed coldly.

Being able to be appointed as the commander-in-chief of the US side, Schwarzkopf is naturally not a simple person, he is a real all-rounder.

Schwarzkopf is clear about the US plan.

For this reason, Schwarzkopf did not mind using a knife to kill the donkey and threatening and forcing Saudi Arabia.

As long as Saudi Arabia agreed, other Middle Eastern countries would definitely be affected and succumb.

"Also, we have to urge those guys to come quickly. If they don't come, this headquarters will not work at all, and we can't even hold a meeting!" Schwarzkopf was very annoyed when he thought of this.

After such a long time, the commanders of fifteen countries have not arrived yet.

This led to Schwarzkopf, who arrived first, not being able to hold a single meeting successfully after forming the headquarters.

Whenever he proposed to hold a meeting, there were always others who said that they had to wait until the commanders of other countries came before holding a meeting together, otherwise the meeting would be invalid and in vain.

This made Schwarzkopf very annoyed.

The current coalition forces are a mess.

He didn't even know whether he could launch an attack on the Iraqi army as scheduled at that time.

Therefore, the thing Schwarzkopf wanted to do most was for the commanders of various countries to arrive quickly, so that everyone could hold a meeting to communicate, including the distribution of military camps, the formulation of combat plans, etc., so that they could be finalized.

Look at it now. Except for the US military, no other country's advance troops have arrived. Even countries like Egypt have not been able to arrive.

This is simply outrageous.

Of all the countries, the United States is the most actively preparing for war, while other countries are simply scattered.