"Familiar plot."
Chen Nian looked at the sea map that Chen Guo projected on the screen and said with some emotion.
The area for this exercise was exactly the same as what he remembered from his previous life, but due to the difference in the number of ships, the arrangement was still relatively sparse.
However, modern warfare is not the infantry hedging of the medieval times. Combat unit density does not represent anything. Strike coverage is the king.
"familiar?"
Chen Guo asked slightly confused.
"Yeah, I always feel like I've seen similar military recommendations on some forum."
Chen Nian casually found an excuse to pass it off, but Chen Guo wouldn't ask further anyway.
"That's not surprising. This is a very standard tactical layout."
Chen Guo nodded in reply, and then continued:
"However, it is just a deterrent now - but some navigation rerouting is inevitable. It is a knock on the mountain to scare the tiger."
"Is it a big impact?"
"It's not big. You can tell from the reactions of various airlines. Most smart people can still see our intentions."
"This wave of superiors have considered it more carefully, which can be said to have pushed the process forward a big step."
"After that, we were much more calm."
After hearing Chen Guo's words, Chen Nian nodded in agreement.
In fact, after thinking clearly about the stakes, he actually did not agree with completing the grand strategy at this point in time.
There is only one reason: the cost is too high, which affects the scheduling of one's own resources and the layout of future development.
In a word, it doesn't matter whether you can get it now, as long as the enemy can't get it.
——
However, if we can calculate this, it is impossible for our opponents to fail to calculate it.
So, Chen Nian asked:
"What did the Americans say? Is there any reaction?"
"No."
"No?!"
Chen Nian was shocked.
How could there be no reaction?
Although in the current environment, the opponent can make very few counterattacks, no matter what, the cards in their hands have not been exhausted.
Just because of threats from a few member states, are they going to shrink to the bottom?
This is too unreasonable.
——
In other words, something happened in the training ground that I didn't know about yet?
Before Chen Nian could continue to ask, Chen Guo answered first:
"We intercepted two YJ-21s."
".055D intercepted?"
"Yes, the one used is Haihongqi-29."
".Reasonable."
At this moment, Chen Nian was completely relieved.
Chen Nian couldn't help but sigh:
"I'm doing a lot of fancy things now, and it seems I'm slowly gaining weight."
"Isn't that right? The richest company now is the Navy, and one-third of Spark's annual budget is eaten by them."
Chen Guo's tone was slightly resentful. After all, he had a background in aircraft design, and emotionally he was more inclined towards the Air Force.
——
Of course, this is just a joke. As the chief manager of Starfire, he knows the priorities better than anyone else.
"There is no other way. The navy is the most expensive branch of the military, bar none."
"However, the 096 project is almost completed, and the follow-up may be slower."
It was already March 2010, and nearly 8 months had passed since the launch of the 096 project.
According to the project plan at that time, this most advanced nuclear submarine in human history will be launched around the end of next month.
"The unstoppable .096 is over, and the 002 project will officially start construction again."
"As mentioned above, although most of the technical problems have been solved, we still need to allocate part of the money to support the construction of Project 002."
"After all, this time 002 is a flat-deck aircraft carrier, and there are some technical details that are different from 001."
Chen Nian had no objection to this point.
Since the birth of Spark, it can be said that most of the country's resources have been intercepted. At the beginning, each project under the group almost completely relied on central financial transfusions. In the most difficult times, even millions of funds had to be relied on in every possible way. arms sales to make up for it.
At that time, in order to support Spark's research projects, the central government even stopped a large number of sub-projects under pressure and relied on administrative power to ensure the operation of Spark.
Now that the conditions are good, it is also appropriate to make some feedback.
However, support is support, and sufficient resource investment must still be ensured for subsequent core projects.
"We are going to start a nuclear fusion project this year. I conservatively estimate that this project will require a budget of at least 200 billion. Can it be guaranteed?"
This number was not something Chen Nian said casually. In fact, he was referring to the total investment in domestic nuclear fusion projects in the previous generation.
The total capital consumption of several key projects, including the Shenguang series and the Circulation series, is roughly at this level.
Chen Guo made some calculations in her mind and replied:
"It's basically enough, accounting for 30% of the total package, which is similar to our original preset level."
"That's no problem."
Chen Nian nodded with satisfaction.
This is the advantage of a mature team.
All you need to do is ask for money, you don’t need to think about where the money comes from.
While Chen Nian and Chen Guo were happily exchanging the details of subsequent technological development, Bob was so angry that his veins were about to pop out.
Retreating across the board, knowing that the enemy was right in front of him, but not having the confidence to take action. This was the most frustrating situation he had ever encountered in his career.
How did that happen?
If we go back a few years, they may indeed choose to give in or avoid it, but the reason for making such a choice must be to maximize their interests.
Rather than like now, purely because of "lack of strength."
This made him extremely painful and angry.
What hurts me is my own powerlessness, what makes me angry is the indecision above.
——
It turns out that we still have a chance.
If the situation escalates before the opponent organizes an exercise, the allies will have no time to react and will have no choice but to stand on their own side.
But just a few days of "discussions" and "considerations" caused us to miss the last opportunity.
Now, the deal is done and the other party has completed its strategic deployment. How easy is it to achieve a breakthrough?
Thinking of this, Bob clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and asked:
"So what they're saying is that this is the end of it?"
"We stop reacting and let them run wild?"
The assistant on the side nodded helplessly and replied:
"Judging from the latest communication, this is indeed what it means."
"We don't have to."
"It's not unnecessary! It's just that they are afraid!"
Bob interrupted the assistant with an angry roar and punched the desk hard.
"We should not retreat, we should not show weakness. The consequence of a military collapse is a complete collapse of the economy and diplomacy. This is the foundation on which we are based. How can we give up?!"
"But we had to give up."
The assistant silently handed Bob a stack of documents, and then said:
"In fact, we're already starting to collapse."
"Four years have passed since the economic crisis, but our economic situation has not improved at all."
"We have failed to achieve growth for four consecutive years, financial market confidence has hit rock bottom, and previous big bets in the military field have been declared a complete failure."
"I'm actually not surprised that Congress made this choice."
"They just want to stop losses. Unlike us, their priority is to keep people alive."
Upon hearing this, Bob's originally extremely angry mood suddenly cooled down as if a bucket of dry ice had been poured on him.
"Is it serious enough?"
he asked subconsciously.
In fact, as a military chief, the only economic-related matters he cares about are military expenditures.
In the past few years, no matter how bad the economic environment has been, military investment has not been reduced at all.
Therefore, he always believed that the potential of this country was far from being exhausted.
But now, listening to what the assistant said, it seems that this is not the case?
"Maybe it's more serious than you think."
Then, the assistant unfolded the document and began to explain to Bob one by one.
Internal and external debt has reached the highest level in history, and has even reached an almost unsustainable level. In other words, the country can no longer borrow money from any open market. If it wants to maintain economic operation, it can only continue to overdraw its currency reputation. The price of forward inflation is exchanged for current stability.
This is pure drumming and spreading flowers.
Bank balance sheets are about to burst, and several major banks have issued clear warnings to the Federal Reserve for further policy support.
But the question is, what can the Fed do?
Further increase interest rates to maintain the overall oxygen supply, or cut off part of it and lose pawns to save the car?
With the deep involvement of capital, any policy is not so easy to implement.
In addition, the manufacturing industry is not optimistic either.
As of February this year, the manufacturing PMI recorded 45.3%, 47.5% expected, and the previous value 47.7%. This is the 14th consecutive month that the PMI has been below the boom-bust line, breaking the U.S. record in this regard.
It's a miracle that I can persist until now.
As a result, new orders, export orders, and imports all fell by more than 3 percentage points, which also reached the largest decline in a single statistics.
The most frightening thing is that the non-performing loan rate of US overseas companies has also reached a new high, which means that not only can they not make money at home, but their overseas market position has also been gradually replaced by a certain country.
Of all the data, perhaps the only one that looks good is the unemployment rate.
4.7% and has continued to decline in recent months.
Bob breathed a sigh of relief and said:
"The unemployment rate data seems to be relatively good, which may be a sign of the resilience of our economy."
"We still have a chance to give it another try."
"This is false."
However, before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by his assistant, who then explained:
"Within six months, the unemployment rate continued to decline and the number of employed people increased, but industrial electricity consumption was almost halved."
"Mr. Bob, do you know what this means?"
".means?"
"It means that our industrial sector has achieved psychic drive."
"."
At this moment, it's not really a funny joke.
But looking at the mocking look on the assistant's face, Bob truly realized the seriousness of the problem.
——
If a set of obviously unreasonable data is still allowed to be released to the outside world, it means that there is no way to maintain public confidence in this country other than publishing false data.
No wonder Congress is so hesitant
etc.
Bob suddenly came to his senses.
The purpose of the original strategy was to drag the opponent into the quagmire.
But in fact, it seems that what was really dragged into the quagmire was...
us? ?
(End of chapter)
