In fact, Raphael takes good care of his subordinates in life – he even had the experience of sponsoring unpaid assistants a few years ago. Only when it comes to professional academic content, he will be so strict that it makes students feel like they are in heaven.

Perhaps it is because of this reason that no one thinks that she is deliberately exploiting Palu in the group.

But the problem is that everyone has too little time… Logically, Willy spends every day in the lab, without wasting time, and he doesn’t talk endlessly in group meetings, but the things planned to be completed in a day are rarely completed.

There is not enough time and there are too many horizontal projects. Although they are all very promising and profitable, they are really too tiring.

When Willy heard that he would soon have to take over things from the US military and prepare to teach the new students in October, he suddenly felt hopeless.

What do you graduate from? Is there any difference between graduating and not graduating? No!

Willy wanted to pretend to open his mouth and close his eyes and say to Raphael: “Gu, kill me.”

Perhaps, it is simply because there are too few team members with independent abilities that their lives are so difficult, and everyone has their own headaches.

Take today for example. As Raphael’s first disciple, I have actually assumed the responsibilities of a laboratory manager. Due to my extremely high level, I have to take on the responsibility of answering questions for my younger classmates, and even instruct them on how to read literature and design experiments, as well as dealing with a bunch of administrative matters.

Not only that, he also has to comfort the excited and motivated young people who have just joined the team, lest they mess around and cause the server to crash or data to be lost.

These are all big things.

Today, there are junior students joining the team to work. As the actual manager of the laboratory, Willy must first lead them. Especially since there is a junior girl with a strong family background and great talent, he cannot afford to take it lightly.

If the rumor is correct, this junior girl’s father once worked at a research institute in Frankfurt am Main. In other words, she is the child of a colleague of her current mentor.

This happens quite commonly in academia.

Generally speaking, talented children will learn from outstanding peers, and only useless people will be left to rot in the pot.

This is actually quite despairing. He has a good family background and is not only talented but also very hardworking…

Willy glanced at the wall clock and suddenly felt his emotions stabilized. The issue of cultivating his own Palu must be put on the agenda.

Take time in the evening to hold a short meeting for the students in the group and the external assistants to discuss the matter.

Before Raphael gave the training plan, he had to come up with a preliminary plan first, so that at least the newcomers would feel that they had done the work and learned something.

Willy had a bad feeling that Raphael would probably use the previous plan to fool him and ask him to refer to it in order to keep up with the times.

On the other side, Raphael took out the laptop from her bag and activated the electronic warfare system to run it at minimum power. Today she wanted to see what was hidden in the data that was encrypted by the French.

Chapter 229: Subordinates are not allowed to talk back to their superiors

As expected, the French did not set passwords on their hard drives, whether out of confidence or other reasons.

In short, just connect the power and data cable and you can access it smoothly.

In fact, thinking of those agents conducting aggressive intelligence gathering work underground like moles, and the separately set up vertical cabinets – as long as the hard drives marked in red were removed, data recovery could be completed – Raphael was really not surprised that no password was set.

A diligent guard can easily become a jailer, and this statement applies to the French agents working there.

Their personal conduct was influenced by the environment, and the principles they should have maintained were all abandoned in the long and boring work.

Originally, a corresponding external decoder was required for decoding, but now, all of it was laid out before Raphael’s eyes without any obstruction.

She had prepared a lot of tools and even a clean room, but now…

According to the information collected by the French, they had mastered the Russian manpower deployment in Dresden and were preparing to intercept the intelligence delivery.

She glanced over and saw that the intelligence delivery had already passed.

Raphael found another interesting folder. In her opinion, the information inside was a treasure trove, containing technical information collected from different channels and cross-verified, as well as the locations of key facilities that ensure the normal operation of many cities.

She was shocked by the contents of the document.

Judging from these limited data, France had a very accurate understanding of Germany’s internal situation and believed that the civil unrest was proceeding in an orderly manner and would seamlessly transform into war one day in the future.

This war was bound to break out, and its roots can be traced all the way back to the reunification of East and West Germany in the 90s, with the direct trigger being the refugee influx and improper response strategies.

The situation among the people is far more complicated than what is mentioned in the brief analysis document. For example, they never mentioned the pushers hidden underwater.

Raphael was powerless, so he regretfully closed the hidden document.

She sat still for a while, trying to piece together the puzzle pieces she had obtained from the partial documents into a more accurate picture of the facts.

So far, all Raphael can point out is:

The management of most European countries and the United States not only knew that war might break out, but they were actively preparing for it. At the very least, they had no intention of preventing or easing the conflict. In addition, they planned to accelerate the process of the outbreak of war.

With this in mind, they secretly checked the deployment of police forces and the proper state of equipment of garrisons in various places. Someone mentioned that the National Defense Force had some unexpected difficulties in the equipment proper rate. No one knew the reason, but everyone knew the reason.

There was one sentence that made Raphael stare at the screen for several minutes:

“The Bundeswehr emphasizes that soldiers are citizens ‘in uniform’, a concept that comes from Scharnhorst.

The soldiers of the Bundeswehr uphold the rights they enjoy in the Basic Law, such as human dignity, freedom of conscience, belief and equality before the law. Unconditional obedience of subordinates to the orders of their superiors is abolished.

If the superior’s order violates the current law or puts the soldier in unnecessary danger during his service. If the superior’s order is a criminal act and a serious violation of international humanitarian law, the subordinate is even obliged to refuse to execute the superior’s order…”

Raphael found that the Wehrmacht had actually abandoned a strong command system with the concept of “internal leadership”.

In other words, the concept that “for military purposes, anyone with a higher rank can give orders to anyone with a lower rank at any place and at any time” was abolished.

In other words, the Wehrmacht’s principle of unconditional obedience – subordinates are not allowed to talk back at their superiors – was abandoned in favor of a more “humane” management method.

Thus, soldiers became armed office workers.

With only 41 hours a week, the National Defense Forces have repeatedly failed to complete military exercises. Since 17, there have been 13 farces of demanding overtime pay by threatening to “not participate in exercises.”

The “excellent” logistical support and “comfortable” personnel management resulted in the overweight rate of Wehrmacht soldiers exceeding 30%. There were even comical incidents where officers used the hot weather as an excuse to refuse to perform their missions.

Finally, the French said in their report: “No matter how good the equipment is, it cannot save an army with poor discipline.”

This statement appears several times in the text, and it is clear from the context that the French openly express their concern for their allies.

However, Raphael did not find their evaluation of the German troops in North Africa and the Wehrmacht that had just withdrawn from North Africa.

Perhaps the author did not have time to write down everything he knew, before Raphael and Asuka blew it all away with grenades.

So now she is sitting in front of the screen, eating a little cake and scratching her head.

Anyway, the stuff was already here, and she was beginning to lose her appetite for work.

Raphael locked his computer and imitated those old scholars, quietly slipping out of his office and peeking outside the office door of the research group in the neighboring laboratory to see if they were slacking off.

After turning around twice, she went to sleep.

The next day, Lingyin came over with some information because Asuka found something more important from what he had gotten before.

“There are companies planning to develop a civilian doll market,” she said straight to the point, then slapped the mobile storage device containing the data between the two of them.

Lingyin watched it over and over again no less than ten times before coming here, and her joy and excitement were beyond words.

“Let me take a look.” Raphael was not as excited as she was and read it calmly.

As expected, the new Soviet Union has taken a step further in the development of general-purpose robots. Based on the ALR-51C(T), the overall structure has been greatly modified, which not only improves its operability, but also makes its shape closer to humanoid.

Although the spy photos were not very clear, Raphael clearly noticed that many of them were similar to the features found on the autonomous robots of the ruins.

She wanted to say that the Russians had the same views as the heroes of the ruins civilization, but there was only a very low possibility that this was the case; it was more likely that members of the faction calling themselves “Beacon” within the United Nations Heritage Administration were providing technical support.

Otherwise, with the Russians’ speed, it would be difficult to achieve such a revolutionary breakthrough.

“Has this information been verified?” she asked Asuka.

“Confirmed, basically true.”

“Then the next step for this thing is to enhance its automation capabilities and try to equip it with autonomous AI. This is an explosive technological breakthrough. If it can be transplanted to the military, it will further enhance the Soviet army’s command and overall coordination capabilities.”

If you understand one principle, you will understand all principles. It’s so disgusting.

Chapter 230 Walking on Two Legs

The new Soviet Union has an advantage in the development of autonomous equipment, and the next breakthrough is AI.

Now Raphael can make a judgment. Once the German civil war breaks out, the Soviet army will advance southward without hesitation, quickly pass through Poland again, and meet with the East German People’s Army on the banks of the Oder River.

It’s not that she underestimated the capabilities of the East German army, but judging by its current strength, it was the case. The reason why they were able to appear on the banks of the Oder River was because the Poles’ main focus was on Belarus and Ukraine.

Perhaps the East German army would have performed better, or perhaps worse.

Because the prediction is only an extrapolation of the current available data, no one can guarantee that his prediction is accurate about what will happen when the war comes.

This is quite funny, the traditional European areas look more and more like a ward for sick people, with armies with missing limbs fighting each other.

As long as East Germany and the new Soviet Union join forces, strong artificial intelligence technology will no longer be a barrier to the new Soviet Union.

Of course, the technology Germany has mastered is only the foundation. It will still take a lot of time to make AI more human-like or intelligent.

Raphael believes that this is not the biggest problem for the Russians, the problem is how to get it.

As long as war breaks out, she and the American personnel remaining in Leipzig will leave, or at least go to the US military-controlled area.

In addition to the military, some civilian companies have begun to take an interest in civilian autonomous dolls.

Transactions in intellectual property related to the CSD-02 system and accompanying robots are increasing, and the companies that have purchased it are working on improving it.

These companies see the potential of bionic humanoids in the civilian market.

Perhaps the Russians learned about the U.S. military’s deployment of autonomous bionic military robots, and these companies’ attempts to develop civilian humanoids soon attracted the attention of some senior military officers.

They believe that if these studies are successful, they may be able to develop robot soldiers. More importantly, the Americans have already shown results on this path, so this is a smooth road.

This is very tempting for an army that is short of manpower.

Among them, General Carter of the Army General Staff attached extraordinary importance to humanoids. He believed that as long as the humanoids could meet the technical standards, they could completely replace the infantry.

This can significantly reduce casualties and increase the firepower density of individual soldiers.

He managed to convince the higher-ups, obtained special funding, and established a special Military Autonomous Humanoid Technology Committee to urge the project contracting companies to cooperate.

Raphael looked at the progress bar of data destruction and said:

“It seems that the Soviet army has a big appetite. While working on promoting the unmanned autonomy of heavy equipment, it is also trying to develop autonomous military humanoids.”

“Russia has a small population. If it suffers another major population loss, it will be completely destroyed.”

“That’s true.”

During World War II, the former Soviet Union mobilized 480 million active personnel, plus 2980 million reserve forces, totaling about 3440 million people, equivalent to 17.7% of the total population of the Soviet Union.

It is generally believed that World War II caused more than 2000 million civilian deaths in the Soviet Union, of which about 2900 million were casualties in the Soviet Red Army.

This means that at least 85.9% of the military personnel were killed, missing, injured, or sick during the war, which also accounted for about 15.3% of the total population.

Considering that the data mainly focuses on the group of “active military personnel” rather than the entire Soviet army.

The losses suffered by many militiamen, guerrillas, local air defense forces, local police forces and other departments involved in the fighting were not included, so the actual personnel losses will be higher.

The former Russian Federation raised the Soviet Army’s irreversible losses in World War II to approximately 1267 million people.

This led to extremely serious consequences.

The first was the exhaustion of manpower. The defeats in the early stages of the war caused the Soviet army to lose a large amount of technical equipment and personnel.

At that time, the national defense industry was still in the process of relocation due to the massive loss of national territory, and it would take time to resume production.

During this most difficult period, the Soviet Union could only rely on mobilizing a large number of soldiers and using limited equipment to delay and weaken the assault force of the fascist German army.

Although this tactic could thwart Hitler’s attempt for a quick victory, the constant consumption of manpower also overdrawn the vitality of the Soviet people.

A large number of agricultural and industrial people were consumed on the front lines as combat forces, and gaps in the labor force at the rear began to appear.

In order to solve the manpower shortage problem caused by large-scale conscription, the Soviet Union mobilized a large number of women, teenagers and the elderly to fill the labor gap caused by the loss of a large number of men.

The problem of manpower depletion continued into the postwar period, with the population not returning to 50 levels until the mid-1940s, and in some areas it took even longer to return to pre-war levels.

In addition, the massive loss of manpower also hindered post-war economic recovery.

However, according to official statements, the results of post-war reconstruction were more successful than expected, with total industrial output reaching the level of 1940 in the third year after the war.

However, due to the order of economic development being “heavy, light, and agricultural” and the aftermath of the huge destruction brought about by the fascist army, agriculture still had only 50% of its pre-war total output value by the early 85s.

Another consequence of the war is that the loss of a large number of men increased the proportion of women in the population.

During the war, there were about one million female soldiers serving in the Soviet Red Army, while the majority of the Soviet Red Army was composed of about 100 million male soldiers.

This shows that nearly 35% of the male population serves in the army, and it also means that the more than 2900 million casualties of the Soviet army in the war were mainly borne by men.

Statistics show that among those who were beaten to death or died of injuries before the age of 50 at that time, men were about three times more likely than women.

Although the natural birth rate of male newborns later became relatively high and the sex ratio began to gradually level out, there are still problems with the population structure to this day.

From the activity records of the new Soviet army officials, Raphael seemed to see that they had not yet come out of the painful collective memory created by the war.