Mediterranean Hegemony Road

Wilson struggled to persuade his political team to support the war. But the next question comes again, what about the Panama Canal?

Do you want to save the Panama Canal? Once the canal is lost, the U.S. Navy will be divided into two. As for cross-ocean military mobilization, it is estimated that the U.S. Navy will starve to death on the road!

The coalition army dared to go on an expedition across the ocean, that is, there are a lot of Canadian, Mexican, and South American countries responsible for logistics supplies, not directly from London to the mainland of the United States, and the colonial government is responsible for logistics along the way!

In order to plan this war, as early as more than a year ago, the British were stocking up materials in advance, otherwise how could they send troops when they said they would?

John Joseph Pershing, Chief of Staff of the U.S. 6th Army, one of Wilson's most trusted generals. Well, in this era, the United States really has no famous generals, and can only choose generals from short people. John Joseph Pershing has passed the Spanish-American War anyway!

Under the entrustment of a group of incompetent generals, he appeared to be very powerful. In fact, he only killed the peasant uprising when he invaded Cuba, and then suppressed the indigenous uprising in the Philippines.

Without participating in the World War, the American soldiers naturally have no chance to perform, so the chief of staff of the 6th Army promoted by Wilson has no actual combat experience comparable to that of any division commander in the three countries of Britain, France, and Bulgaria!

William Chevron Benson, the US Navy Secretary, he was not promoted by Wilson. The US Navy is much stronger than the 6th Army. The President Wilson has not been able to interfere with the appointment of their Navy Secretary.

Now they have come to the White House together, along with the U.S. Cabinet, plus President Wilson, and they will formulate a battle plan together, or in other words, they are reviewing the military's battle plan!

Wilson said passionately: "The United States of America has reached the most critical moment, even when the British burned the White House, it can't be compared with now!

Win this war, the United States is still the United States, lose this war, this piece of land will be reduced to scorched earth again! "

All right,

His expression was in vain, everyone sitting here is old fritters, who cares about these official articles?

Wilson's face sank, his majesty as a president was almost wiped out, he paused, swallowed all the words in his stomach, and said coldly: "Two generals, take out your battle plan!"

William Chevron Benson was the first to say: "This time the enemy is coming and attacking from two sides at the same time. Our navy is limited in strength and unable to defend against the enemy from both sides at the same time. The Admiralty decided to concentrate all warships in the Atlantic Ocean to defend the Our best East Coast!"

Secretary of State Rice immediately retorted: "How can this work? All the navies have gone to the east coast, what about our west coast? Just throw it to the enemy?"

Benson said coldly: "I'm sorry, our navy is limited, even if we want to defend our east coast, we can't do enough, if we divide our troops again, we don't even need a battle plan, we can just admit defeat!

East Coast Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina , Georgia, and Florida, are the most elite places in the United States.

From the point of view of maximizing interests, only by keeping the east coast as much as possible can we maximize the vitality of the United States. As for the west coast, isn't there a 6 army?

The big deal is to learn to be the Great 6th Army to deal with the British. If you win, you will fight, if you can't win, you will run. Although the League of Nations is aggressive, they are also full of internal contradictions. As long as time delays, they will collapse on their own! "

In fact, this is just a passing scene. These states on the east coast of the United States account for more than half of the country's population, with seven layers of economic aggregates. It is inevitable to give priority to defending the east coast. As early as Benson proposed this plan, the US Navy has already action.

The opposition is only for political correctness, proving that the government is really helpless, and was forced to give up the coastal defense along the Pacific coast!

As early as when countries confiscated U.S. overseas assets, the U.S. Navy quietly transferred its main fleet to the east coast, and now this is the last batch of navies.

And most of them are old-fashioned warships, and several main ships are also the earliest generation of dreadnoughts of the US Navy, and their combat effectiveness is not very good.

This is similar to what the British guessed. The real main force of the Royal Navy is also in the Atlantic Fleet, and most of the main ships in the Pacific Fleet are first-generation warships.

The deployment of the navy naturally made the 6th Army very dissatisfied, and John Joseph Pershing retorted: "General Benson, I'm afraid you have made a mistake, this time our enemy is the whole world, not just the British Empire!

The defense area of ​​our 6th Army is to draw a circle around the United States. Do you think it is that easy? The enemy will board from Canada, Mexico, and thousands of kilometers of coastline. Can you tell me how to defend? "

Benson said coldly: "This question is also what I want to ask. It would be good for the Navy to hold the east coast. As for the issue of the 6th Army, I personally suggest that we continue to expand the army!

The Germans could face the 8 million Allied forces alone in Europe for half a year, but they collapsed because of insufficient supplies!

You can learn, there can never be so many enemies against you. With our resources and industrial strength, as long as you can block the enemy, the government will never let you go hungry! "

The contradiction between the 6th Navy and the 6th Army is not small in every country, and the United States is no exception. Now that the navy is retreating from the west coast, and the 6th army is required to fill the pit, Pershing can't bear it anymore!

Pershing said angrily: "Our 6th Army doesn't have this capability. You can see this problem by looking at our military spending. A few years ago, our 6th Army's total strength was only 26,000, which is only one division!

Now the army is expanding. Soon the total strength of our 6th Army will reach 8 million, and it will even exceed 10 million in the future. Unfortunately, most of these troops are militias from the federal states. How many of them can the 6th Army be mobilized? , is this still a serious problem?

When it comes to your navy, what do you do with so much military spending every year? If we all give us the 6th Army, we don't need to be so troublesome now! "

Wilson interrupted angrily: "Stop, I called you here today, not to quarrel, the war has already begun, and we don't have any extra time to waste!

Everyone has come up with a battle plan and continued the topic just now. Whether everyone agrees with the plan of the Admiralty, let's vote directly! "

Opposition turned into opposition. On the issue of the navy concentrating its forces to defend the east coast, we still adopted this operational plan.

Pershing said with an embarrassed face: "The deployment of troops of the 6th Army is very troublesome. We do not select the militiamen from the upper coastal and border states. The troops that the 6th Army can really mobilize now are actually very limited!

Since there are too many locations where the enemy can attack, we plan to deploy the 6th Army on several nodes to facilitate reinforcements at any time.

Troop deployment..."

The total strength of the 6th Army of the United States is as high as 8 million, and the army directly under the 6th Army has just reached more than 3 million. Even these troops were coordinated by Wilson personally and the consortium, and they used their huge influence to steal from the state governments. The troops come out!

The coastal states and the frontier states are very supportive of the government's military expansion, but this support is limited to words. Most of the troops they expanded have stayed to defend their hometowns. As for defending the federation, this issue is left to others!

Now the main force of the 6th Army of the United States is basically recruited from the inner 6 states, and they also have little interest in defending the country!

Without the First World War, the U.S. government was not able to establish a complete national conscription system. Now it is very easy for states to recruit militiamen, and everyone is still very active in defending their hometown. If the U.S. 6th Army recruits soldiers, almost no one cares!

The 6th Army in Pershing's hands is now almost becoming a shelter. In order to collect the number of soldiers promised to the central government, the states have opened the prisons, released the prisoners, and let them take the blame!

Of course, these are still not enough, so some federal states have an idea. Isn't there enough white people and black people? We are all Americans, how can we be without them when defending our country?

So now the main force of the US 6th Army is actually Uncle Black, and this ratio is still increasing. At the same time, other races have also appeared, such as Indians and Asian faces.

There is no need to discuss the issue of combat effectiveness. The 6th Army of the United States in this era can only bully the natives, but the militia of the states have some combat effectiveness when defending their hometowns!

Seeing that everyone was silent, Wilson reluctantly announced: "Since everyone has no opinion, let's do it!"

This war meeting ended in discord. For a war with no hope in sight, don't expect everyone to have high enthusiasm. If there is a choice, it is estimated that the US military will become the most violent anti-war this time. group!

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When the U.S. government started to mobilize across the country, the pace of the war was getting closer and closer to them. It’s not that no one wanted to take the initiative to attack. The problem is that it’s useless to win now!

What if you beat up Mexico and Canada? Is it possible to destroy them in this short half month?

Since it is impossible to kill the enemy, then don't waste precious troops. The main job of the American people now is to dig trenches. In this world war, Americans have also learned a lot of things, and trenches are one of them.

In order to win this war, the Americans began to dig trenches indiscriminately, and the states were self-organized for defense, so there were often ironic situations.

For example: when the honest American people were digging trenches, they accidentally dug a road leading to a neighboring state; or they dug a large ditch without considering the actual situation; or they dug...

This is a good thing for a country where all people have guns, and there is no need to worry about weapons in wartime. Even with such a radical military expansion by the U.S. government, they can still guarantee that every man has a gun!

Not to mention the logistical issue. It is estimated that General Pershing does not know how many weapons his troops are equipped with, let alone supplies!

Guns alone are not enough, they also need guns, so the old antiques that have been preserved by collectors are invited out. They are not too old. Most of them are the products of the Civil War. In one third of the countries in the world , these equipment are still doable!

Even if he was so hungry, Pershing only scavenged more than 3,000 cannons for the 6th Army, and the rest are of course still in the workshop of the arsenal!

In addition to artillery, machine guns, tanks, and armored vehicles are also all-encompassing. Even if the United States is the world's largest industrial power, it must be without them in the top three in the military industry.

Even at the time of the World War, they added production lines, but at the end of 1917 the capitalists got rid of these things and now they have to start all over again.

With the American system, when the capitalists have completed the adjustment of the production line, there is not a year and a half, so don't ask for it!

If there is no rabbit, there will be no eagle. Although the Wilson government has long asked the capitalists to carry out wartime economy, it is a pity that if they do not see the order, they will not change the production line!

And in times of peace, President Wilson wants to expand his armament, so let's pass Congress first! Without the approval of the congressmen, he, the president, has no right to expand the military and prepare for war!

The most important thing is that the government has no money. Whether it is raising taxes or issuing debts, it has to be approved by Congress, so Secretary of State Rice came here again!

Secretary of State Rice said with a frown, "Mr. President, our bank's bonds have been coldly received in the market, and several major domestic consortia are not interested!

As our overseas assets were frozen, at the end of last year, the domestic economy was in trouble. The stock market has long since fallen to the bottom, and there is no sign of recovery now. Therefore, we are in trouble when we collect war taxes! "

Wilson said angrily: "Damn bastards! Don't these capitalists know that their lips are dead and their teeth are cold? Once we are defeated, they still have to rely on the League of Nations to protect their interests?

What are your plans to get us through this crisis? "

If the American consortium knew about Wilson's idea, they would definitely be wronged. They really thought that they were so rich and powerful. The American consortium of this era is not the American consortium after World War II!

When the World War ended prematurely, they were at most second-rate consortiums, approaching first-rate consortiums. With the annihilation of overseas investment, they also suffered heavy losses and were beaten back to second-rate consortiums.

To support the national defense construction of the base camp, naturally there is no spare energy to buy the bonds of the central government. Of course, worrying about the government's repayment ability is also a very important factor!

Rice thought for a while and said, "There is no good way. The economic experts told me that the government can take over the Fed and pass the current hurdle with the dollar!"

Hearing this suggestion, Wilson fell into silence, and this was not the first time he had thought about it.

Taking over the Fed is not that simple! Of course, at this time, he doesn't care about offending the consortium. The problem is that he doesn't have enough gold reserves in his hands?

The US dollar can become one of the mainstream currencies in the world. The consortium behind the Federal Reserve has made great efforts. Without their support, the gold reserve issue alone would be enough to make the US government struggle for another 30 years!

Rice put forward this suggestion, obviously they also know this problem, the gold reserves have not increased, that is, they are indiscriminately using banknotes, using inflation, and plundering wealth from the people to wage war!

Wilson wasn't an economic idiot, he was an economics expert, and he knew it wouldn't stop right from the start.

Maybe it's only a ten percent increase in the dollar, but inflation may be fifty percent. This is mainly a matter of people's confidence in the dollar.

In times of peace, we can still find ways to restore the people's confidence, but don't think about it in times of war. It is estimated that the American people, no matter how optimistic, do not think they can win this war!

The purpose of most people is just to keep their hometown. If you lose the battle, you will lose the battle. Anyway, as long as you don't harm your own interests!

"Well, do as you say!" Wilson said helplessly.

After making this decision, it is estimated that the American people will have a deeper impression of him, the "worst president" in American history!

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