American Strategic Deception Bureau

　The first impression is to roughly divide the land outside of Europe into several large civilization circles without considering what the people in those lands would think. So, just as Europeans call all of Africa south of the Sahara Desert "Black Africa", they also call all tropical areas between Persia and China "India".

　By the way, they also include North Korea, Japan, and sometimes Vietnam as "China"...

　Specifically, the "Super India" drawn by Europeans on the globe is divided into three parts:

　The first is "Hindustan" on the South Asian subcontinent, which is modern-day India and Pakistan;

　The second is "Indochina" located between India and China, which is the modern Indochina Peninsula;

　Finally, apart from the Indochina Peninsula, the remaining islands of Southeast Asia are collectively referred to as "Indonesia".

　From the perspective of European white colonists, although these three regions have many ethnic groups and different languages, their culture, clothing and traditions are quite similar. They have also been widely influenced by Indian civilization in history and look more or less "Indian" - therefore, only the sum of "Hindustan", "Indochina" and "Indonesia" is the sum of the entire "Indian civilization circle" in a broad sense!

　(Watching Indonesian costume dramas and Indian costume dramas. As an outsider, it is really hard to tell them apart at first glance.)

　As a result, after India's independence, many self-confident Indian nationalists also inherited this view and ambitiously wanted to unify the "three Indias" - just like the European powers of all generations dreamed of unifying Europe and rebuilding the Roman Empire...

　Ugh, I don’t know how to describe this insatiable appetite!

　Of course, being extremely greedy for territory is not wrong. Didn't the United States, in its early days of independence, also propose its "Manifest Destiny" of expanding "from ocean to ocean"? And through a century of westward expansion, did it truly make this grand strategic expansion plan a reality?

　Similarly, the Japanese Empire once proposed a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," a concept completely out of proportion to its own size. After a frenzied war of aggression, it briefly achieved this goal on the map through the "Greater East Asia Holy War"—albeit a short-lived one.

　Since India has such a good appetite for expanding its territory after independence, shouldn't it also engage in aggressive military expansion and build up its army?

　Unfortunately, Nehru, the leader of India's Congress Party, has almost always treated the army as a thief since he led India to independence!

　why?

　Because India's independence wasn't won by the Congress Party. It was achieved peacefully from British rule through hunger strikes and starvation. Therefore, the Indian Army isn't a Congress Party army, but rather a British-built and British-legacy army, evolving from the British Indian colonial army. While the lower ranks are swayed by nationalism, the higher-ups are almost entirely British in spirit and don't particularly listen to Nehru's advice.

　In fact, the situation faced by Nehru when India gained independence was not much different from that faced by Ngo Dinh Diem when South Vietnam was established.

　The only difference is that Pakistan's Jinnah's fighting ability is much worse than North Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh...

　Since independence, Nehru had been engaged in overt and covert struggles with the Indian military, gradually strengthening his control. However, even by 1962, Nehru had not yet achieved complete control of the Indian military. Given the military's lack of reliability, the Indian government had little desire to increase military spending.

　In 1962, India had only 600,000 troops, even smaller than the armies of North Korea and South Korea.

　With such limited military strength, how can India attack the strong with its weak strength and take the initiative to attack the three million People's Liberation Army in the north?

　But in Nehru's view, India should still have certain advantages in this border dispute.

　First, this isn't a total war, but rather a limited, localized one. Fighting in the Himalayas gives India a logistical advantage, while China's supply lines must cross the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The PLA's sheer numbers are useless without adequate supplies.

　Secondly, with China and the US in fierce competition and Sino-Soviet relations having broken down, New China was under immense diplomatic pressure. Nehru was confident that China would not abandon its friendly relations with India over a desolate borderland. As long as he acted quickly, he could force China to yield.

　The problem is, this was purely Nehru's subjective thinking. Given the situation at the time, India's weight in the international community was completely insufficient. Meanwhile, China, facing internal and external troubles, desperately needed a punching bag to prove it could still fight... It was a two-way race.

　Next, according to Nehru, India provided assistance when the People's Liberation Army entered Tibet, so China should be grateful and repay it.

　Now, he has "magnanimously" given up "unrealistic ideas" such as annexing the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and stationing troops in Chengdu, and just wants to move the border line northward. How could the Chinese object?

　However, this was just Nehru's own words—he had never explicitly made any territorial demands on China before. Furthermore, the little help India provided when the PLA entered Tibet was, if not nothing, definitely not worth exchanging for a large piece of territory, right?

　Unfortunately, Nehru’s idea was also the general perception of Indians at that time: since Tibet had been “given” to China, China owed India a favor.

　It's perfectly reasonable for the Chinese to take a little more at the border, and they should just shut up and accept it.

　As for what the Chinese think, and whether the Chinese know what the Indians think, it is completely beyond their consideration.

　What's even more outrageous is that since Nehru had such an idea, he should at least send an envoy to negotiate with the Chinese side.

　Just like before Nazi Germany blitzed Poland, it first conducted diplomatic negotiations and demanded that Poland hand over the port of Danzig!

　However, in order to strengthen his resolve, Nehru declared that territorial issues were non-negotiable and that anyone who raised objections to India's border issues would be convicted and sentenced. At the same time, he also widely publicized that the combat effectiveness of an Indian soldier was six times that of a Chinese soldier.

　Indian lawmakers seized the opportunity to argue that since an Indian soldier was six times more effective than a Chinese soldier, shouldn't more military spending be allocated? Nehru immediately agreed, leading to the Indian army facing extreme logistical difficulties from the start of the war to its end.

　——As a result, the Chinese side was confused and had no idea what the Indians were trying to do.

　Want to negotiate with India? India refuses to negotiate at all, and instead desperately distorts the truth in public opinion, denouncing China's invasion.

　In short, after defeating the long-outdated Portugal in 1961 and regaining the Goa colony in South India, which had been ruled by Portugal for four hundred years, Nehru turned his attention to the Himalayas and launched the "Forward Policy", allowing the Indian army to cross the border to the north and attack Chinese border outposts.

　As for where exactly to attack? Nehru didn't know either. He just attacked wherever he could.

　At the same time, although the Indian government was unwilling to allocate more military funds, it was very good at leading the public opinion, making the public emotions boiling like a Bollywood musical. The whole country believed that this was just a police operation, and as long as the Indian army crossed the border, the Chinese would flee in embarrassment.

　Even the Indian soldiers on the front lines were infected by this fanatical atmosphere. They felt that although they had little ammunition, only 50 rounds per person, and very little food. Although they didn't even have a map and were completely in the dark, they were still absolutely confident that they could easily drive the Chinese away...

　China's diplomatic means were declared ineffective, and it was even more unable to understand Nehru's intentions. After thinking for ten days and ten nights and still unable to figure out why the Indians wanted to attack it, it could only mobilize troops and rush to repair roads to ensure logistics, preparing to compete with the Indians on the battlefield.

　Thus, the war began with the Indian army's domineering and heroic spirit, heroic and fantastical spirit, and fantastic and terrifying momentum.

　As a result, it wasn't until the full-scale exchange of fire that it became clear that, despite India's significant geographical advantage on paper, transporting troops and supplies should be much easier than China's, the actual number of troops that China and India could deploy to the battlefield was actually similar, at around 30,000 each.

　Even if India has convenient transportation, it still needs military funds and supplies! What’s the point of having a smooth supply line if there is no money and no supplies?

　There is no way. Indians have always been very good at planning, but very poor at execution.

　Because in the Indian way of thinking, as long as the plan is done, it is actually completed.

　As long as the supply lines are open, then the logistics are complete. As for whether the supplies are delivered to the front line? That is not a concern.

　This means that the favorable transportation conditions on the Indian side did not allow them to deploy more troops, and the logistical advantage was not converted into a manpower advantage.

　As for the combat effectiveness of the Chinese and Indian soldiers, the difference is even greater. Forget about the claim that a single Indian soldier is six times more effective than a Chinese soldier. They haven't even mastered the tactics of following an artillery barrage, and morale is abysmally low. A mere three PLA soldiers, lost, easily overwhelmed an entire Indian battalion, and then boasted, "Not only did the enemy refuse to surrender, they even dared to fire back at me."

　What is even more outrageous is that India's intelligence agencies are also filled with countless optimists who are busy making up all kinds of good news every day to present to Nehru to please him, and by the way, leak it to the news media, boasting all day long that "the Chinese are vulnerable" and so on, which makes the Indian people very excited.

　Then, in October, at the sound of a PLA artillery fire, General Kaul, the Indian Army commander, fled the front lines at lightning speed, flew directly to the capital, New Delhi, and from then on, he was stationed in Delhi, controlling the war remotely. Then, with a series of remote micro-manipulations, he quickly wiped out most of the frontline troops.

　Meanwhile, the Indian media had been constantly spreading false claims of "total victory" and "invincibility." Suddenly, the cover-up was broken, and what had been a "resolute victory" in the morning became a "total defeat" in the afternoon. For the Indian people, this was a bolt from the blue.

　Next, Indian Defense Minister Menon also announced that he was exhausted and unable to perform his duties. After scolding journalists about the incompetence of frontline generals, the lack of courage of soldiers, and the incompetence of intelligence agencies, and alarmist declarations that the capital was in danger, he resigned and left.

　In this way, Nehru's previous boasting and threats turned into a series of slaps in the face in a series of defeats, crushing defeats and defeats without a fight.

　Even worse, when the Sino-Indian War broke out, Nehru was not in the capital, but was leisurely visiting Sri Lanka by plane. When the news of the defeat at the front came in like snowflakes, he did not immediately return from abroad.

　As a result, the Indian people who could not find Nehru in the capital spread rumors that the Chinese were about to attack Singapore.

　So Nehru ran away!

　As a result, the Indians, bewildered by the sudden reversal of frontline reports, quickly fell into a collective panic. The wealthy in the cities fled to the countryside, while the poor in the countryside fled to the cities. Both sides irresponsibly spread rumors of "Chinese invasion," causing panic throughout North India. Major roads were blocked by refugees.

　The leaderless Indian government added fuel to the fire at this time, using radio to call on the people to report to the nearest civil affairs department to join the army to prepare to resist the Chinese invasion. It also organized a national donation campaign, asking the people to donate gold and silver to the country to purchase arms and so on.

　Next, the Indian government declared a state of emergency across the country, and government departments in the northeastern state of Assam began to evacuate... Then it was soon rumored that the Indian federal government had begun to withdraw from New Delhi, just like the French government fled Paris during World War II!

　To make matters worse, many government officials in New Delhi took the incident seriously, burning documents in preparation for their retreat. Some even issued random orders for citizens to build barricades. The Indian people, seeing this, thought, "Isn't this Paris during World War II? Damn it! New Delhi is really going to be lost!"

　Newspapers in New Delhi ceased publication, radio and television stations stopped broadcasting, and journalists fled to South India in the blink of an eye.

　In short, the Indian people's patriotism was completely unsettled. Instead, panic erupted, psychological defenses collapsed, and morale plummeted. The capital, New Delhi, was in turmoil. Officials in the Uttar Pradesh capital fled within a day, while officials in Assam telegraphed everywhere, requesting planes to pick them up. Those who couldn't escape began secretly embroidering red flags, preparing to welcome the PLA into the city...

　Faced with this unexpected development of the Sino-Indian war situation, the entire Western society was stunned and then worried.

　Although both the United States and the Soviet Union announced that they would provide weapons aid to India, distant water cannot quench a nearby fire. Could it be that India...really will perish like this?

　If it were in the past, no one would believe that such an outrageous thing would happen. However, there was the precedent of France being destroyed in 46 days during World War II, and then there was the Korean War, where South Korea was repeatedly defeated and its capital Seoul was captured twice... Who knows if India will repeat the same mistake?

　As a time traveler, Firi certainly did not believe that India would be destroyed in one battle - even if the People's Liberation Army really broke into New Delhi, it would be useless.

　After all, France and Germany are separated only by the Ardennes, while China and India are separated by the Himalayas. It's already November, and snow is about to block the mountains. If the PLA doesn't want to see its supply lines severed and its logistics collapse, it can only withdraw while it's ahead and call it a day.

　What really troubled him was that President Kennedy had just condemned China's "aggression" against India and announced arms aid to India. If General LeMay then flew to India to coordinate the aid, wouldn't they have to continue waiting in Japan indefinitely?

　"Ah, according to my speculation, General LeMay will definitely not go to India. Anyway, the Himalayas will soon be covered in snow, and the war will be over by then. In fact, we don't like India very much. The White House and the Pentagon even hope that India will learn a lesson."

　Dr. Kissinger waved his hand dismissively and said, "The aid the president promised India was just lip service. Otherwise, he would have sent it by air instead of by ship. Just look at this: before this war is over, not a single munitions ship carrying our weapons will reach India!"

　——At this moment, the United States’ ally in the South Asian subcontinent is Pakistan, and India is actually placed in the position of an imaginary enemy. In all the India-Pakistan wars, the United States has always stood up for Pakistan and tried its best to prevent India’s ambition to unify South Asia.

　However, the power gap between India and Pakistan is too large, and the United States is not sure that it can always suppress India's ambitions.

　If the PLA can beat up the Indians and then withdraw before the snow falls, the United States will definitely be happy to see it happen.

　"Besides, staying in Japan for a few more days shouldn't be a bad idea. While Asia is certainly ravaged by war right now, the US mainland is also in chaos! You should also know that the black people in the country are causing trouble again!"

　Dr. Kissinger shrugged. "In such a chaotic situation, it's better for us to stay abroad and watch the fire from the shore rather than be sucked into the vortex, right?"

　After the African-American movement came to power, there was a brief period of calm in 1962, and it was not until 1963 that it became a vigorous movement again.

　However, seemingly stimulated by the Cuban nuclear crisis, racial conflicts in the southern states intensified again in 1962. White rednecks denounced people of color as "Bolshevik spies" and demanded the restoration of racial segregation and discrimination to keep black people forever lowly.

　As a result, the KKK resurfaced in the southern United States, with incidents of burning black ghettos and lynching blacks occurring one after another. In addition, the police favored white people and even actively participated in the killing of blacks. At that time, the most famous KKK members in the South were police officers, sheriffs or militia leaders themselves, which led to the intensification of the resistance activities of people of color. In the summer of 1962, another vigorous national parade was held.

　It is conceivable that when black people go out on the streets, they will definitely set fire to stores and buy things for free, just like the Crusaders in the Middle Ages, eating wherever they go.

　On the other hand, white extremists across the country were furious when they saw that the black people not only refused to die quietly, but also dared to jump up and make trouble.

　Traditionally, conservative whites in the Southern states at this time were all supporters of the Democratic Party, and the Democrats were currently in power. If the president truly subscribed to the Democrats' consistent stance, he should have "talked to the niggers with bullets" and "let their flesh and blood stick to the tracks."

　(During Kennedy's presidency, the Republican and Democratic parties had not yet exchanged bases. Therefore, the South supported the Democrats and the North supported the Republicans, just as it did during Lincoln's Civil War years, but the exact opposite of the situation in the early 21st century.)

　But unfortunately, the current Democratic President of the United States, Kennedy, is Irish. He has long been the target of discrimination by the Anglo-Saxon peoples who have deprived him of his "white citizenship". Therefore, he generally stands on the side of black people - if you don't even recognize that I am white, why should I protect the interests of white people?

　Although the White House would order suppression when the Black movement became too intense, in most cases, President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, stood on the side of Black people, constantly fanning the flames and using the "international image" to silence white extremists.

　——If the blacks had not rushed to the front to cause trouble, how could the Irish, who at least still have white skin, demonstrate their powerful united front value and force those Anglo-Saxon aristocratic families whose minds are more stubborn than granite, to continuously give up rights to the Irish and Jews?

　Besides, the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for hegemony, and ideology was in power. As long as the United States persisted in racial discrimination and racial segregation, it would become a stain internationally and be targeted by the Soviet Union: How could a country that insisted on a policy of racial segregation be qualified to be a "beacon of human civilization"?

　So, you rednecks in the South should just bear with me! I just love seeing you guys being so reluctant yet having to be on equal footing with black people!

　Obviously, in the eyes of traditional Southern white Democratic supporters, President Kennedy's perverse actions were tantamount to betrayal - since this Irish Catholic president betrayed white people and the party, the Southern states naturally did not have to obey the leadership of the White House.

　Throughout the year, Southern states chanted old Civil War-era divisive rhetoric: "state sovereignty," "right to declare nullity," and "intervention." They even mobilized militias and the National Guard, reminiscent of the days before the Civil War.

　For example, as the main base of the KKK's activities during this period, the governor and state legislature of Mississippi openly mobilized troops in the summer to prepare for a bloody massacre of black people. President Kennedy's response was to mobilize 3 troops to enter Mississippi to directly engage in armed confrontation and protect the black civil rights movement.

　Seeing the White House willingly resorting to civil war to prevent its abuse of force against black people, white Mississippi legislators were furious, denouncing it as "fraternity enforced by the bayonet." The governor was also furious and filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court, accusing the president's actions of being "unconstitutional and invalid," and stating, "This military dictatorship must be nipped in the bud."

　Unfortunately, the current Attorney General, Robert Kennedy, was the president's brother. Therefore, Mississippi ultimately received only one answer from the Supreme Court: as the commander-in-chief of the nation's armed forces, the president had the right to deploy troops to any base he wished.

　——The federal system of the United States is essentially a feudal system. In the American political tradition, it is common for states to "arm themselves against the central government." It is also not uncommon for the National Guard to "refuse to obey imperial edicts" just like the feudal states of the Tang Dynasty. Clamoring for civil war is even a catchphrase of politicians.

　Therefore, we cannot view the United States through the lens of the political philosophies of the unified Ming and Qing dynasties. Instead, we should apply the political thinking of the late Tang Dynasty, characterized by the constant struggle between the imperial court and the feudal lords, to the United States, to find a more similar perspective. As for future developments, it's clear we'll just have to wait and see when an American Huang Chao emerges.

　Then, because Attorney General Robert Kennedy firmly stood with his brother, the president, and supported the civil rights movement, the southern states had to restrain their actions in suppressing black people, and they were furious. So they racked their brains to find some negative information about Robert Kennedy.

　It happened that on June 17th of this year, Robert Kennedy held a grand high-end party by the swimming pool in his backyard to celebrate his wedding anniversary. During the party, celebrities gathered and it was very lively. A large number of journalists came to take pictures and report.

　But because the table is placed far away from the swimming pool

　The swimming pool was too close, and when the minister's wife Ethel stood up to dance, she slipped and fell into the pool in front of the TV camera. She struggled for a long time before being rescued, becoming a drowned dog in front of the national TV audience.

　Originally, this was just an ordinary accident that couldn't be any smaller. But those who hated Kennedy insisted on making a big fuss about it, and displayed rich imagination - from the minister's wife's fall into the water, they thought of the temptation of wet body, thought of the wine pool and the debauchery, thought of the debauchery party, and then began to criticize him indignantly.

　In the press and on the radio, they denounced the Attorney General, using the tone of Puritan saints. He said his private swimming pool, dug at home, was a decadent and degenerate act, a violation of the Protestant ethic itself, and that allowing his wife to enter the water with her clothes on was a heresy that violated God's teachings. As for the group's mischief around the pool, it was a depravity worthy of Babylon, the city of sin... This left the Attorney General speechless.

　There's no way around it. Americans have always had flexible moral standards. They usually hold others to the standards of saints, and if they see someone touching a child's head, they'll denounce them as a pedophile. Then they hold themselves to the standards of demons, even if they create a Lolita Island or torture and kill children to extract their renin, they have no shame.

　In addition to public opinion attacks, preparation for the use of force is even more essential - according to a report by FBI Director Mr. Hoover, the sales of civilian weapons in the United States this year have soared by at least two times compared to last year. From blacks to whites, everyone is stockpiling guns and ammunition, and no one knows when someone will take the lead in a killing spree.

　Of course, if that were the case, the chaos in the United States would only be the Kennedy brothers' trouble and would have nothing to do with Firi.

　The problem was that with the turbulent political landscape and frequent conflicts in the United States, Kennedy's Irish base was also divided. Some of them sided with the White House and sang the praises of white supremacists. For example, Jimmy Hoffa, the famous leader of the Transportation Workers' Union, who had strongly supported Nixon's campaign, now sided with the Republicans and fiercely attacked racial equality policies. And with the midterm elections approaching that year, Fieri's eldest brother, Bernard King, rushed back to California to oppose the Irish political leaders who supported the KKK. If Fieri had returned with Monroe at this time, he might have been dragged along to help campaign with his family.

　Well, it wasn't difficult to convince Monroe to help, as she was an admirer and supporter of the Kennedy brothers.

　But the problem is that Firi once served as the supreme commander of the Cuban War (a master at taking the blame), and his "old subordinates", the Cuban veterans of the 2506th Brigade, a considerable number of whom had darker skin, were also regarded as people of color in the southern United States and were persecuted and suppressed.

　It just so happens that these people have extensive experience in killing people with guns, have seen the world in Cuba, some have been in Soviet prisoner-of-war camps, and some have been exposed to the radiation of hydrogen bomb explosions. They think that no one in the world is more capable than themselves, and naturally they are unwilling to bow to racists.

　As a result, some of them participated in Martin Luther King Jr.'s black rally, engaging in bloody battles with KKK members. Some organized groups to participate in zero-dollar shopping and became the core members of large-scale robbery gangs. In October, a former mercenary captain from the 2506th Brigade, along with several of his men, massacred a police station, killing over 3 officers in one fell swoop. He is now on the run—and this captain once served as a staff officer to Fieri.

　Dr. Kissinger said that if Fieri returned to Japan to participate in political activities at this time, he would probably be questioned on this issue and would be caught in a dilemma. It would be better for him to stay in Japan patiently until the midterm elections are over. By then, the heat on these issues in China should have cooled.

　Furthermore, Dr. Kissinger felt that his extensive research on international strategy would be of little use in a U.S. election campaign. Furthermore, rumors of the KKK's recent rampage in the country had made him, a Jew, somewhat concerned about his safety and fear of being attacked.

　——You have to know that the KKK, like the Nazi Party, is essentially an anti-Semitic organization, and burning black people was just a convenient act.

　Well, since General LeMay is not coming to Japan, they can't leave, so they might as well just sit back and watch the fire from the other side of the river.

　In this way, everyone had a peaceful vacation in Mount Hakone for a while. Under the nourishment of love, they had daily enema (spa) beauty treatments like Marilyn Monroe, and their faces became more and more radiant. Even the surgical scars on their lower abdomen disappeared without a trace. Even though Mr. DiMaggio ate oysters and turtle hot pot every day to nourish his kidneys, he still gradually became haggard and thinner. At this time, the results of the US midterm elections this year were finally settled.

　President Kennedy's experience in governing during that year was so terrifying that it still haunts American citizens. As a result, the Democratic Party suffered a crushing defeat in the election, and the number of red states supporting the Republican Party increased to 34. President Kennedy's governance in the next two years will inevitably be even more difficult.

　At the same time, the Sino-Indian War, which the Indians had long planned but were unprepared for, ended in late November with the PLA's proactive ceasefire and withdrawal after being repeatedly slapped in the face by the Chinese to the point of being in a trance.

　We have to retreat! It's almost December! If we don't retreat now, the Himalayas will be completely blocked by snow, and we won't be able to leave even if we want to!

　Although the PLA soldiers of this era do not lack the courage of "one man destroys a country" like the Tang Dynasty envoy Wang Xuance, the Republic of India at this time is not the same as that time.

　The ancient Indian Harsha Empire, which was already on the verge of collapse, still had a strong counterattack capability.