The slight vibration caused by the car’s movement was an outlet for her current emotions.

After Fei Niao started the engine, he said, “Let’s talk business. What’s your judgment about following General Karl around these days?”

“It’s hard to say. Judging from the current situation, it may be similar to Russia, which once carried out special military operations.”

The strength assessment mentioned by Raphael refers to the evaluation and measurement of the ability and level of a combat unit to carry out combat missions.

“Judging from the paper organization of the troops, they are considered to be one of the stronger ones of their kind. But as you know, the evaluation of their training status will definitely give a different answer.”

Asuka nodded. “So, the division-level units of the East German People’s Army are composed of four combat brigades, one artillery brigade, and one division support brigade. Compared with the standard heavy divisions newly formed by the US Army for future large-scale ground operations, they lack the Army Aviation and divisional defense brigades.”

“The beast chess mentality is useless, and if you want to compete, you have to look at your opponent first. Don’t use the US military as an anchor for no reason.”

Raphael laughed.

“Compared with the Federal German Army, taking the 3th Division of the 7rd Army in Leipzig as an example, in terms of the number of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, the East German People’s Army has 1/1 more main equipment than the 4st Armored Division of the current Wehrmacht deployed in Hanover, and the 7th Division also has an advantage in terms of personnel.

But this is only half of the assessment of strength; the training status and assessment of the troops cannot be ignored either.”

At this point, Rafael pulled out a large company in the Middle East as a counterexample. They should have deep experience in the procurement and application of advanced equipment.

After buying all the weapons of Wuchang, basically all the weapons and various advanced modifications will be destroyed or even seized, becoming an important part of the path for the fellow villagers or local guerrilla forces to get on the regular track.

In fact, the more important and often overlooked link is “organization and command”.

The assessment of troop command is relatively complex, but the core components remain the command, combat support and guarantee core, among which the command system and combat methods are extremely important.

Because they determine how military orders are formulated, confirmed, issued and evaluated, having a reasonable and reliable command team can make subordinate units as flexible and powerful as an arm.

Like the battalion-level units in the traditional Soviet army, there is no complete command system, and the number of both staff officers and non-commissioned officers is much smaller than that of the US battalion-level combat groups.

Even so, the former Soviet Union was not unable to organize a battalion-level multi-service joint formation to carry out combat missions, but it required superiors to strengthen command capabilities. For example, a deputy brigade commander/regiment commander could be sent from the brigade or regiment level with several staff officers to command from the front.

However, it is hard to say whether this Soviet-style command method can defeat NATO units of the same level in terms of command flexibility and actual combat effectiveness.

Moreover, this habit is most likely the reason for the high attrition rate among senior generals in the former Soviet/Russian Army.

Of course, during the Cold War, these issues were not a problem at all for the former Soviet Union.

Because the battalion, regiment, and division-level units of the former Soviet Army were much smaller than NATO units of the same level, victory was achieved more by advantage of size.

To put it bluntly, the former Soviet Union was not thinking about an equal fight between battalions, but thinking that if you have a battalion in front, then I can deploy a regiment and crush you directly.

At the height of the Soviet Army’s power, it maintained nearly 200 active combat divisions, compared to the Soviet Union’s largest adversary, which had only 18 Army divisions and 3 Marine Corps divisions.

Having said that, the former Soviet Union’s tactical goals during this period were relatively simple, relying on a step-by-step offensive to pressure NATO.

It is not a problem that battalion-level units cannot carry out overly complex command tasks.

However, when the Cold War ended, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the Soviet Red Army became the Russian Army, the Russians began to struggle with the “illusion of the most beautiful future.”

After all, one cannot expect a weak Russia to be able to support the Soviet army. “Small but elite, few but complete, and stronger regional interference capability” has become Russia’s new pursuit.

In the “Xie-style” military reform, the measures of disbanding the army and merging military academies are understandable, after all, the size of the army has been reduced by half an order of magnitude. It is naturally impossible to maintain the original military academies.

It also caused all Russian military academies to be shut down for several years, with no enrollment at all, as if no one was worried about the talent gap.

But the problem is that the Xie-style military reform directly started by reducing the logistics budget, leaving the Russian army with the problem of insufficient logistics.

It can only be said that every cut he made was a serious one, and the consequences were almost irreparable.

Through repeated adjustments, the Russian army has degenerated into an army with outsourced logistics, severe shortage of trucks, no oil pipeline troops left, but a large number of front-line combat units.

The Russian Army, with less than 30 troops, was able to deploy about 170 combat battalions. At the same time, the U.S. Army, with 48 troops, had only 96 battalion-level combat groups.

Obviously, the US military has enough non-frontline personnel, while the Russian military has given all its personnel to combat troops…

The number of staff available to logistics units determines the upper limit of logistics quality.

When Ukraine attacked Russia for the first time, Russian troops from top to bottom could only eat frozen food in the snow and ice, and bread was enough to break bricks.

The lack of independent oil pipeline troops and the lack of water purification vehicles, water storage tanks and other equipment led to problems with drinking water supply in the early stages of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Looking back now, Raphael thought that it was almost an unrepeatable miracle that the Russian army was able to withstand the Ukrainian army’s undeclared war.

Look at the Guards Armored Division at that time, constantly discarding equipment while racing on the Ukrainian plains. This was the price they had to pay for the “Xie-style” military reform in the early years.

How you fool the world is how the world will fool you.

The current East German People’s Army is in a similar situation, but one difference is that their rapid expansion has resulted in a shortage of backbone forces and too many new recruits, while the Russian army is destroying itself bit by bit.

What the East German People’s Army lacks now is time. They must complete the army building and form combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time; for the Federal Armed Forces in the west, time is equally important.

If a war breaks out now, without external interference, it is hard to say who will win or lose.

“Right now, both sides are noobs.”

Chapter 234 Nervous

Along the way, Fei Niao thought a lot. She couldn’t understand the top-level design of the upper class and tried her best to push the war forward.

She also wanted to know what ordinary soldiers thought more about during the war: leading their subordinates to complete orders, or praying to God that they would not be killed by stray bullets.

If Raphael knew what Fei Niao was thinking, he would definitely say: “Go to the front line and fight a battle, and you will know what people are thinking… If you don’t have this experience, you will never be able to understand it, let alone guess it.”

In this corner of the clear blue sky, there is a twilight tint that is quietly creeping in.

She knew that the dusk would transform the thin clouds into thick sunset glow, dye the clear sky into a dark night, and end the summer feast that bloomed in the sky all day. All changes would happen in an instant.

This change is extremely equal for everyone.

The difference lies in whether it is anticipated, and the feeling at the moment, and the form in which it will appear in front of everyone.

The exact future cannot be seen, but interference from multiple parties is inevitable.

Ignoring the crisp sound of the access card, I walked up a secluded upward slope made of iron wire and green radish. Occasionally, I could see young men and women in fashionable clothes passing by, and also elderly couples supporting each other…

“…Forget it,” Fei Niao shook his head and walked quietly on the road.

“Why don’t you just say it?” Raphael was very sensitive. “You must have received some news that cannot be confirmed, but is very close to the current situation… It’s good to take three steps at a time, but it’s tiring to think about it all the time. Relax once in a while, it’s not the most tense time yet.”

“Tsk…” Asuka licked her lips, “You’re so stupid to be so heartless.”

“You are stupid. This is called the wisdom of a fool.”

“Fools are not really stupid.”

“I am the kind of person who is willing to work with the devil as long as he can do it.” Raphael was silent for a moment and said, “And you, if you think some of my decisions are too extreme, then help me find a solution that is both appropriate and not extreme.”

“What if you find it but you don’t stop?” Asuka asked back.

“That must be a situation where we can’t stop and have to keep going.”

“That’s it. I’m used to you… Besides, I don’t have that much autonomy, Raphael. You rarely cross the boundaries you set for yourself… At critical moments, the Puppet Protocol will take effect.”

Raphael glanced at her and smiled helplessly.

“But, weren’t the puppet protocols activated several times in the past to protect you?”

After she said these words, Fei Niao smiled and sighed, and her tone of voice also softened a lot. She didn’t want to admit her recognition of Raphael’s “host” identity through this strange little change.

“Listen, Asuka,” Raphael said, knowing full well that further conversation about war and death was unnecessary for either of them, “I have a question for you about everyday matters…”

Asuka raised her eyebrows slightly.

“Don’t worry, it has nothing to do with your daily affairs,” Raphael said directly, “I know your affairs well, and I don’t need to worry about them…”

“…Do you have any way to get more Keyhole satellites, or control of the newly launched Collapse Radiation Cloud Detection Satellite?”

“Why do you think of this?”

“I’m still worried. I feel that our current numbers can’t sustain the consumption of war.”

Raphael thought of the number of military satellites that the Falcon Heavy rocket had repeatedly carried into subspace orbit in the past year, as well as several publicly published papers on the use of nuclear weapons in creating electromagnetic pulses.

That is truly insane. Although it does not harm the human body, it can cause devastating damage to all kinds of electronic equipment that have existed for mankind on a large scale at one time.

These devices include radar, communications, navigation, computers, mobile phones, power plants, water plants, etc. All electronic equipment that makes modern society run will be interfered with or destroyed.

These devices themselves are very likely to lose some of their functions or even be permanently scrapped.

Under special circumstances, electromagnetic pulses can also cause collateral damage. The most obvious example is rail transit, where the relevant signal dispatching equipment happens to stop working due to the pulse, and there is a high possibility of tragic train collision accidents.

Then the property damage and casualties here are collateral damage.

“You are thinking about the use of nuclear warheads and the possible impact on us as the intensity of the war increases, right?”

Asuka pointed it out.

“We suffered a heavy loss from the last experimental non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse.”

Raphael hated the feeling of having no control over her body, like a lamb to be slaughtered. Thinking of this, she felt an unprecedented sense of urgency.

“But wasn’t that also a proof? We are very resistant to electromagnetic pulses. The signal lines in our bodies were only interfered with, not burned.”

“But……”

“There’s nothing wrong with that,” Asuka remembered the feeling of having a body out of control, but she didn’t think that nuclear warring parties were not so crazy. The indiscriminate use of nuclear warheads would only backfire.

The consequences of revealing your cards too early are obvious, and your opponent can respond calmly.

However, there are definitely people who are panicking. They may be old-fashioned people born at the end of the Cold War. It is not a pleasant feeling to have more than 10,000 nuclear bombs hanging over their heads and possibly falling at any time.

Some families still have simple air-raid shelters built in the 20s in their backyards.

In fact, losing a war is not terrible, what is terrible is losing the next war.

It’s like this now. After losing once, the enemy will grow rapidly like a snowball, leaving the opponent far behind at a speed that cannot be caught up with even with a horse.

Fei Niao sat on a cool chair in the backyard, his back straightened, looking at the gradually darkening sky and fell into deep thought.

It would be too hasty to be pessimistic and disappointed now. Simply strengthening the military will only lead to a new cold confrontation before the balance is broken. Although it is a bit too much to describe the situation in Germany as a “cold war”…

Originally, the living fossil of the Cold War disappeared due to the explosion of the Shinobuyama ruins 30 years ago, but who could have expected that the title of “living fossil of the Cold War” could be seamlessly transferred to Germany.

Could it be that the refugees whose relatives were killed by the Wehrmacht should be allowed to endure? How could it be possible? The current anger of the refugees was what the eastern region wanted.

And is it not realistic to follow the example of the United States and defeat its opponents through a half-century cold war?

Military construction must be accelerated, and more importantly, efforts must be made to weaken the opponent and grasp its movements, making its every move unilaterally transparent.

If we can achieve this, there is no need to worry about war, as the opponent poses no threat at all.

Chapter 235 Evacuation Order

“Okay,” the person on the other end of the phone said hastily, “You misunderstood the report from the assembly shop, but I’m willing to come over and explain.”

“I’ll be waiting in the quality control office.”

Fei Niao put down the phone, picked it up again, called the switchboard room, then took out the review minutes of the assembly workshop accident meeting from the table and began to read what people said at that time.

The meeting was not long, and the minutes were even shorter. But looking at the two pages filled with machine-typed text on the report, it is hard for people who were not in the assembly workshop at the time to imagine how these 17 workers died.

The steel cable lifting the turret broke, and a huge object weighing dozens of tons fell down, and no one had time to react.

Despite this situation, the workers in the final assembly workshop still made bold statements, saying they would improve efficiency.

“reckless.”

When the Polish Army major who inspected the products arrived at the scene, he was very rude. Because of the confrontation on the Polish-Soviet border, he had the right to disregard anyone’s feelings…

Later, even the Polish Army General Staff called Asuka, and the wording was not very polite. They hoped that she could resume supply as soon as possible and there must be no defective products.

Asuka was so angry that he had no choice but to speak harshly at the post-accident meeting, and then set up a complete accident investigation team to investigate the causes, consequences and root causes.

Some people will be fired, some will be held criminally responsible and go to MfS prison.

Fei Niao put the minutes into a folder, stuffed it into the filing cabinet, closed her eyes, and what appeared before her eyes was no longer the speech she was going to give in the final assembly line workshop tomorrow, but an endless field.

The entire horizon from left to right was filled with smoke, smoke that stretched as far as the eye could see…

The scorching wind and waves hit my face, and pungent smoke rose from the black shell craters.

My feet were stuck in the soft soil. I hadn’t stopped for nine hours and hadn’t had any hot food, but I had to keep going, from here to another village filled with black smoke and the rattling old AKs of the indigenous people.

After you enter and occupy it, a voice from the radio urges you to move on, go to the next village, and kill all the rebels who pick up guns along the way.

This is Raphael’s memory, a complete memory of three days and nights that happened eighteen years ago.

Fei Niao discovered that when Raphael was on the road and doing killing tests, what he thought about most was what to eat next.

When she experienced the end like watching a movie, her memory obviously concealed the later experiences. Fei Niao quickly defined Colombia based on the environment, race and language affected by the memory.

Raphael’s combat test mission at that time was very simple. He had to march for a long time and fight alone according to the route set by the CIA, and kill high-value people listed by the CIA and DEA. There was also a total number requirement…