The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 490 Future Military Development
The confrontation exercise was launched immediately.

If it were other troops, just the preparation for the exercise would take a lot of time.

However, for the light combined brigade, the 81st Division, and the tank brigade, they can conduct confrontation exercises at any time.

Light, heavy and medium combined brigades are training every day and conducting small-scale internal exercises. All arms of the army exchange offense and defense and conduct inspections at any time to find out any deficiencies in the construction of the combined brigades, any omissions in the defense, and any loopholes in the offense.

The spear and the shield have always developed together.

There is never the sharpest spear, nor the thickest shield.

From the beginning of its construction, the combined brigade has required the troops to be able to set out immediately upon receiving an order and to engage in combat immediately upon arriving at the battlefield.

The 81st Division and the Tank Brigade had arrived at the Malon Military Training Base ten days to half a month ago and had already started training.

As a troop that will be transferred to the south later, the training intensity is also very high, and they are required to go into battle immediately upon receiving orders.

Command center, this is the confrontation exercise command center, where you can easily see the real-time situation on the battlefield.

"That's right now. If we wait until later, when we are equipped with enough helicopters, fighter jets, bombers and missiles, we can use missiles and the air force to defeat the 81st Division and the Tank Brigade!" Liu Tao said beside the old man.

An old man in military uniform said in disbelief, "How can we win the war by using only missiles and air force? That's impossible! Nonsense!"

Liu Tao’s idea is so scary.

In war, for any commander of this era, the air force and missiles are auxiliary.

The core is still the war of ground forces.

The navy and the air force are all auxiliary.

No one would think that a war can be won by relying solely on the air force.

Liu Tao smiled. He knew that the domestic air force was still stuck in the supporting role defense mentality of "cooperating with the army in combat and striving for victory in national air defense operations."

Just like the guiding ideology of Soviet military force construction, the Air Force is used to support the offensive of the Army's ground forces, ensure air superiority, and prevent ground combat forces from becoming targets of the enemy due to the loss of air superiority.

The MiG-29 is considered a relatively advanced fighter.

The Soviet military originally positioned this fighter as a front-line tactical support fighter.

It is only used to support ground troops in front-line operations, so its combat radius is too small and it is called the short-legged king by the world.

Among the Soviet Union's advanced fighter jets, the Su-27 is the main force of the Air Force, while the MiG-29 supports the Army.

This is not to say that this combat idea is wrong.

It can only be said that this kind of combat thinking is suitable for the Soviet Union, because the Soviet army has always been striving to play in the S3 season, and the Soviet Union has been calling for the liberation of all mankind for decades.

Large-scale troop combat, tank torrents, etc., these are all for the S3 season.

The Soviet Union is one of only two countries in the world that can decide when to start the S3 season, so there is no problem in building its military in this way.

But for China today, this kind of combat thinking has some problems, because China's judgment on the world situation is that peace and development are the mainstream of the world today.

In other words, China's judgment on the world situation is that the S3 season will not start in the next to years, or even in the next to years.

The S3 season will not start, at most it will be a proxy war or a local war!
China has the initiative!
As long as it is not against the Soviet Union or the United States, we will have the advantage against any side.

In this situation, we naturally need to focus on certain things and make certain choices rather than having everything.

When a big country confronts a small country, the advantages of air force and missiles were fully demonstrated in the Gulf War and the Kosovo War.

Of course, this is also very expensive. The more advanced the weapons, the more expensive they are.

Some people would say that the Gulf War awakened the armies of most countries, including China, and frightened military experts who had always dreamed of building a steel torrent like the Soviet army. It also made the armies of countries around the world understand that after building mechanized forces, they should turn to science and technology and informatization. Future wars will be high-tech wars and information wars.

Of course, some people would say that the Gulf War led the global military astray, because it was a war that only the United States could afford, and the targets of the war did not have the means of long-range attack. If it were other countries, they could use planes or missiles to attack those bases. Without military bases, the war would naturally be fought in a different way.

It is difficult to continue this kind of game between small countries, between medium-sized countries, and between big countries.

For example, in a war between superpowers in the Western Pacific and the Eastern Pacific, the material needs would be more than a hundred times that of the Gulf War. Military bases could be attacked with long-range missiles, and it would be impossible to gather such a huge amount of supplies.

However, this way of playing is suitable for big countries against small countries!
Liu Tao previously believed that the combined brigade was only a basic version because it had too few missiles and helicopters, no fighter jets, no bombers, no early warning aircraft, no electronic reconnaissance aircraft, no electronic jammers, and so on.

If his idea were to be followed, the 81st Division and the tank brigade could be directly destroyed using only the air force and missiles.

However, even though it is only a basic version of the combined brigade, and a light combined brigade at that, Liu Tao also wants the light combined brigade to achieve a resounding victory and completely defeat the 81st Division and the Tank Brigade in this confrontation exercise.

He hopes to use this confrontation exercise to tell the leaders that future wars will no longer be won by numbers.

A light combined brigade can defeat a Type A division now!

The future war situation is simply beyond the reach of people of this era!
Of course, not to mention domestic military strategists, even the Soviets and Americans did not know the future direction of their military development. After realizing the construction of mechanized troops, the Soviet Union and the United States were groping for the future direction of military development.

For example, after experiencing the Korean War and the Vietnam War, Americans have become confused and no longer know how to fight. They have not participated in a decent war in more than ten years.

In the Gulf War, the Americans themselves had no confidence in victory, as evidenced by the fact that they prepared 50,000 body bags in advance. During the Kosovo War, the Americans were even more worried about too many casualties, so they only sent out the air force for bombing, but ultimately won the war.

It was only after the Kosovo War that senior generals from various countries saw that the air force was the winner, and it is a fact.

The invincible image of the U.S. military is not something that exists in this era. The current mainstream military view is that if the U.S. and the Soviet Union go to war, the U.S. military will not be able to defeat the Soviet army, and the U.S. military can only withdraw from the Asian, European and African continents and retreat to the Americas. In the worst-case scenario, even South America will be lost and the U.S. military can only dominate North America.

The invincible image of the US military was established after it achieved a resounding victory in the Gulf War against Iraq, and won the Kosovo War through a long period of missile attacks and air force operations. In addition, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, it had no opponents of the same level, and it punched kindergartens and kicked nursing homes!
As for the US military fighting against a real military power, that has never happened in the future.

More than 30 years later, the Slipper Army is slapping the U.S. military in the face with slippers, and America's resolve is stronger than ever.

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