The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Europe and the United States are fighting each other fiercely.

Old European countries such as France and Germany strongly oppose the US attack on Libya.

It’s not about ideology, nor is it about dictatorship or not.

Pure profit!
North Africa is a major market for EU exports.

The 'Arab Spring' has caused chaos in North Africa and has had a significant impact on EU exports.

The impact of the United States launching the war in Libya was even greater.

Libya is an export destination for industrial products to Europe. Although Libya is small, it has abundant oil and natural gas, making it the richest country in Africa.

Libyans feel that life is hard, but that is only relative.

You have to know that Libya’s social welfare is comparable to that of Northern Europe.

German and French cars have always been the monopoly in Libya.

This time, Germany and France welcomed Russia with open arms through diplomatic gestures, which showed their extreme dissatisfaction.

The United States and Britain have joined forces to remind Europe of the terror of the Tsarist/Soviet era and to remind European countries of the terror of the German army.

In World War I and World War II, Germany was the absolute main force.

The two world wars caused heavy losses to European countries. The whole of Europe was destroyed and Europe lost its position as the world hegemon.

This made some Europeans hate Germany, and some others dislike France, believing that France had betrayed its allies.

Of course, a considerable number of Europeans have regained their favorable impression of the United States. During World War I and World War II, the United States participated in the wars as the "savior" of Europe, and won both wars.

France, Germany and Russia joined forces to counter.

Russia sent more troops to Libya to help Gaddafi stabilize Libya.

The Libyan war has now evolved into a proxy war in order to avoid a direct war between the United States and Russia.

On one side is the Gaddafi government supported by Russia, and on the other side is the Libyan Freedom Organization supported by the United States.

Although Gaddafi was not liked by Saudi Arabia and other countries because he was too arrogant, at this time, because they were dissatisfied with the Americans for launching the "Arab Spring", Saudi Arabia and other countries provided Libya with a large number of weapons and equipment, and even jihadists from Arab countries.

For example, Syria was also affected by the "Arab Spring" and then faced a fierce backlash. Many Syrians went to Libya with rifles, pickup trucks, and resettlement funds issued by Saudi Arabia and other countries.

This "Arab Spring" even affected Iraq. On the Iraqi battlefield, Saddam's army, which was supported by a large amount of weapons and equipment, launched an even more ferocious offensive.

In the past, American planes firmly controlled air superiority, but after withdrawing a large number of planes, the remaining planes were no longer enough to control air superiority over Iraq. Even under the threat of Saddam's anti-aircraft missiles, these planes dared not take off.

What made the United States even more angry was that Saddam now had airplanes, a large number of advanced airplanes.

However, no matter how dissatisfied the United States is, it has to speed up its withdrawal from Iraq, and the withdrawn troops are deployed to Tunisia.

In just over a month, the US military withdrew from Iraq.

However, the puppet government staff and their families who were dependent on the US military almost had no time to leave.

As soon as the US troops withdrew, the Iraqi army recovered the lost ground.

Saddam, who was already 74 years old, led his army into Baghdad on his 74th birthday, staging a comeback as a king.

It has been exactly eight years since the United States launched the Iraq War in 2003.

Saddam looks much older than he was in 2003, but in the past eight years, he has been active on radio, television, and the Internet, and has always been an image of a steadfast fighter.

At this moment, the king returned and led the Iraqi army to drive out the Americans. Saddam was like a saint in Iraq.

Saddam delivered a victory speech in Baghdad, announcing that the great Iraqi people had defeated the invaders and that facts had proved that the Iraqi people were invincible.

The world's front-page news of the day was about Saddam.

Saddam held a victory parade in Baghdad. The troops participating in the parade were fully equipped with American weapons. If they were not civilian troops, they would probably have been mistaken for American troops.

Even Europe, in order to please the United States, widely reported the US defeat in Iraq and Saddam's entry into Baghdad to hold a victory parade.

In the United States, Barack's poll numbers are even lower.

The public was very dissatisfied with Barack, believing that if it were not for his incompetence, the U.S. military would never have withdrawn from Afghanistan and Iraq. He staged the "Saigon Moment" twice, making the U.S. military lose face.

Even in the Pentagon, many people openly expressed their dissatisfaction with Barack.

They publicly criticized Barack, saying that Barack's wrong decisions had caused huge losses to the national interests of the United States.

Barack was extremely overwhelmed and was filled with anger at the time. He did not hesitate to start disarmament for those soldiers who openly expressed their dissatisfaction.

After suffering such a severe setback, the US military's only remaining military presence in the Middle East is in Israel.

It can be said that the United States' geopolitical strategy has suffered a major setback.

The Kurds have become abandoned by the United States.

The United States refused to recognize Saddam's regime, but this did not prevent the Arab countries from sending congratulatory messages to Saddam, recognizing Saddam's regime and establishing diplomatic relations. Russia, Europe and other major countries also sent congratulatory messages to Saddam, congratulating the Iraqi people for driving out the invaders and regaining independence.

In a short period of time, more than 150 countries around the world recognized the legitimacy of Saddam's regime in Iraq.

Saddam was too lazy to pay attention to the protests and pressure from the United States, and the relationship between the two sides became hostile. Saddam showed no mercy to his enemies, and the properties of those puppet government officials were confiscated, and they were punished one by one, and some were even sentenced to death.

The oil and gas fields that the United States and other countries had occupied in Iraq were forcefully taken back by Saddam, who also imprisoned all the people there.

The major American energy companies that suffered huge losses were even more resentful of Barack.

You have to know that those oil fields and gas fields have at best barely recovered their costs over the years and can definitely not be said to be profitable.

In the past, it cost money to buy oil and gas fields. At the same time, it also cost a lot of money to build them.

As a result, they suffered such huge losses because of Barack's withdrawal.

As the saying goes, to take away someone's money is like killing his parents.

One can imagine how much they hate Barack.

If Barack hadn't strengthened security, it would be hard to say whether we could see the sun tomorrow.

But what is strange is that there is not a one-sided criticism of Barack within the United States, but rather two camps are cursing each other.

There is no need to explain why people criticize Barack. There are too many reasons to do so. All we can say is that Barack's performance in recent years has been terrible and he has completely failed to live up to the voters' expectations of him.

Some praised Barack for his good image, some praised Barack for promoting diversity, making the United States more diverse and inclusive, and some praised the health care bill promoted by Barack as a great thing. Of course, the most important thing is to praise the withdrawal of troops from the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, which has saved the United States from being bogged down in two quagmires and avoided continuous bloodshed. The end of the war is something that should be praised.

Naturally, Jewish capital has contributed to this.

Barack transferred 30,000 elite US troops in the Iraqi battlefield to Israel, which greatly ensured Israel's security and won the favor of Jewish capital.

Jewish capital controls most of the media in the United States. Amid the fierce competition between Europe and the United States, South Asia is undoubtedly on the geopolitical margins, and its attention has been greatly reduced.

By now, Barat could no longer fight.

The outbreak of famine caused countless people in Bharat to starve to death.

No one knows how many people starved to death.

The famine was repeated in Bharat.

The fourteen countries in South Asia have become twenty countries in South Asia!

Bharat completely lost its eastern access to the Indian Ocean and the Ganges.

South India and East India are connected as one.

Thanks to the efforts of all countries, the parties finally signed a peace agreement in the Maldives and established the border.

And various countries have provided humanitarian assistance to Bharat to varying degrees.

However, the humanitarian aid from various countries is just a drop in the bucket for Bharat.

The food aid provided by various countries is far from enough to meet Bharat's needs.

The situation of the other six new countries is relatively better, with the help of Nepal, Khalistan and others.

But Bharat, Nepal, Khalistan and other countries naturally could not provide any help. The war between the two sides caused considerable casualties and great hatred. How could they possibly help Bharat?

Sri Lanka was finally unified and officially began post-war reconstruction.

The only wars in the world right now are the Turkic War and Africa, especially North Africa!
In the Turkey-Kurdish War, although Turkey's comprehensive national strength is stronger than that of the Kurds, the Kurds have the advantage of geographical location, are more united, and are more brave and good at fighting, and they managed to block the Turkish attack.

The Turkish army's modern weapons and equipment are greatly limited in mountain warfare. Coupled with the terrain disadvantage, it is not easy to break through the Kurdish defense line.

And as Saddam returned to rule Iraq, Turkey had to be on guard against Iraq.

It was in Turkey that the United States and other coalition forces launched the war against Iraq, and Saddam was keeping account of it. Although Saddam also hated the Kurds, Turkey had to be on guard.

This even forced Türkiye to reduce its military forces attacking the Kurds and transfer them to the Turkish-Iraqi border.

And in North Africa, the situation is gradually evolving into a series of proxy wars.

The S3 season that people had been worried about did not break out, and the world was just in a false alarm.

The summer of 2011 was extremely hot.

At this time, inside a factory building of Panshan Machinery Factory, hundreds of robots were parked.

There are dog-shaped robots and human-shaped robots.
Based on the technology provided by Liu Tao, the scientific research team has made rapid progress in the field of robotics during this period.

Of course, for the current scientific research team, they are more considering military robots.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have come from the downtown area of ​​Kunming to Panshan Machinery Factory.

These military robot technologies have a very high level of confidentiality.

Liu Tao looked at these robots and nodded slightly.

He only needs to provide core technology, or solve core technology, and the rest will naturally be solved by the technical team.

A soldier, holding a stick, is hitting a humanoid robot as part of an impact resistance experiment.

Although these are all military robots, the materials used for robots in different application scenarios are actually very different.

For example, the cow-like robot is used to haul supplies. It is made of a very strong composite material and can haul hundreds of kilograms of supplies at a time. It can move through mountainous areas and forests as if it were flat ground. It can also be used as a carrier for cannons and cannons can be loaded on it.

Today's armored vehicles, whether wheeled or tracked, cannot adapt to all terrains.

This cow-shaped robot can play this role.

Even when on the road, you don't need a vehicle by replacing it with wheels, you can just move on the road.

There are also dog-shaped robots that are mainly equipped with rifles, assault rifles, and small mortars, and the materials used are slightly inferior.

They are both robots, so why are there differences in materials?
It's just to reduce costs!
On the battlefield, cost is also a huge advantage.

Therefore, in the military field, the more advanced the weapons and equipment, the better. Instead, the most suitable ones are the best, taking into account both performance and scale.

About ten minutes later, everyone was outside.

A mechanical dog equipped with an automatic rifle followed outside with brisk steps.

At the test site, a drone took off, and then a battle between the drone and the robot took place.

This mechanical dog is equipped with two thousand rounds of arsenal, and the drone is also equipped with two thousand rounds of arsenal.

The two sides had an air-to-ground shootout, sparks were flying, and it was very lively.

Liu Tao communicates with scientific researchers.

Although there is still a lot of potential to be explored from a technical perspective, there is no doubt that these two weapons are now mature products that can be truly equipped to the troops and thus become a force multiplier for the army.

At this year's National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, everyone was originally concerned about whether China would expand its military.

Unexpectedly, China did not expand its military at all.

One of the very important reasons is that with the introduction of a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, China's military strength is rapidly increasing even if the army is not expanded.

Take the various types of drones for example, the military has hundreds of thousands of them in service.

This is before the military explosion. Once the military explosion is carried out, it will be easy to deploy millions or tens of millions of drones.

There are also this type of robots. The military currently has a total of 300 robots of various types undergoing experiments and explorations.

In the future, military robots may cost hundreds of thousands or even millions!

We cannot say that future wars will be unmanned wars!
However, unmanned equipment will definitely play a vital role in future wars.

The entire military theory, strategy and tactics will continue to be innovated due to the commissioning of various new weapons.

The speed of this development was so fast that even many people in the military were shocked.

However, humans have strong learning and adaptability abilities, and a new type of weapon can be mastered within a few years.

Liu Tao communicated with the scientific research team and asked them to arrange a group of robots to go to the snow area to conduct plateau performance tests.

This is how military weapons work. They have to be tested in different environments, including plateau environments, desert environments, grassland environments, rainforest environments, mountain environments, etc.

Only after a series of tests are completed can mass production be put into service. (End of this chapter)