American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Now, the United States has discovered that the Germans are not honest at all, and are actually "a bad dog that will soon bite its master back", so it has decided to give them a good beating - and the Federal Republic of Germany can only lie down and take the beating, whining and begging its American master to cut less meat.

　Therefore, after easily defeating the German dragoons, the next step is to go back and dismantle France’s colonial sphere of influence in Africa!

　After eating Germany, eat France, after eating France, eat Germany, and occasionally nibble on the UK. The United States hasn't felt so good for a long time.

　What’s even more interesting is that although these targets seem to be more powerful, they actually don’t even have the courage to resist. They only dare to symbolically wave their claws in the air, which is completely painless.

　——It is indeed refreshing to lose all your moral integrity. It is much more pleasant to beat up European allies than to fight with Vietnamese monkeys.

　"After abandoning its Southeast Asia strategy, will it break the tacit agreement with its European allies and take action against French-speaking Africa?"

　Wolfe glanced at the globe, stroking his chin thoughtfully. "This strategy of bullying the weak and fearing the strong—no, avoiding the strong and attacking the weak—sounds familiar. Uh, like when you urged President Kennedy to postpone the invasion of Cuba and attack the Dominican Republic instead?"

　"That's about right. We fought Vietnam to defend the free camp and suffered so much. Now we must learn from that lesson and not send our troops on another expedition. Strategic retrenchment isn't about being peace-loving, but about first taking on high-value targets that are easily accessible nearby."

　Fili complained like this, and pointed to the side, "Haig

　The colonel will soon return to the Pentagon. With his contributions to disinformation and cognitive warfare during this period, he will be promoted to Army Major General and participate in the upcoming West Africa offensive."

　——Colonel Alexander Haig, the current deputy director of the Strategic Deception Bureau, who was typing a report on a typewriter nearby, raised his head when he heard this, nodded coldly to Ferry and Wolfe, indicating that this was indeed the case, and then continued to bury his head in writing the report.

　His desk is filled with countless photos, data charts, documents and books. Behind the metal bookcase next to it hangs a map of Africa, which is densely covered with various symbols and arrows, and small flags of various colors with magnetic bases.

　At first glance, I thought it was some combat intelligence room.

　But considering that the current job of the Strategic Deception Bureau is to write stories and settings, Wolfe didn't pay much attention to it. He thought that Colonel Alexander Haig wanted to make up a black time traveler and an adventure story in a fantasy African rainforest...

　Unexpectedly, Colonel Haig is serious and will soon return to the Pentagon to plan the "special military operation against France"?

　Author's words: PS: The Sudanese Army issued a battle report, announcing a great victory and successfully relieved its own General Staff Building. The rebels and government troops fought around this building for a year and a half.

　How to say it, it is quite similar to the style of young Assad sitting in the Presidential Palace in Damascus, calmly deploying troops and resisting the rebel vanguard 300 meters away.

　Alas, during this period, the civil war in Sudan was almost going crazy. Sixty thousand people died in the capital alone, but almost no one reported it.

　Chapter 585: Colonel Haig's African Strategy

　From the mid-19th century to the end of the Cold War, most of Africa was regarded by France as its "backyard" and "sphere of influence."

　Before the outbreak of World War II, nearly half of Africa's land became French colonies; even at the end of World War II, the total area of ​​France's colonies in Africa was still about 1039 million square kilometers, accounting for 37% of Africa's total area, and the population under its jurisdiction accounted for 24.5% of Africa's total population at that time.

　Among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, France is a unique country that has maintained millions of square kilometers of colonies in Africa until the 21st century. Of course, on the surface, these colonies have become more than a dozen independent countries since the 1960s.

　But in reality, the so-called independence of these African countries was largely achieved with the tacit approval of Paris, by a group of pro-French local elites. Their political systems were inherited from France, their official language was French, and their currencies continued to be the Central African and West African francs, issued by French-dominated colonial banks. French troops were stationed at key military locations, and their valuable mineral resources were sold cheaply to the French (meaning less than 10% of the international market price). Their meager foreign trade revenues were deposited in French banks, and any use required French approval.

　Moreover, the presidents of these African countries are all "Mangosteen people" who returned from studying in France and came to power by licking the masters in Paris.

　Their armies were also built by France, similar to the army of the puppet state of Manchukuo under the Empire of Japan.

　——The currency, national system, and president were all sent by France. The government must use French, and even foreign trade income must be kept in France... Even when France itself stopped using the franc and switched to the euro, the French sphere of influence in Africa continued to use the Central African franc and the West African franc!

　If this is not a colony, then what is?

　Does it count as colonization if Paris appoints a white governor to parachute in, but supporting black compradors doesn't count as colonization?

　Neo-colonialism is also colonialism!

　Thanks to such vast African colonies, which served as its own blood bag, dumping market, and source of cheap resources, France was able to maintain a decent and leisurely life in a developed country in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, despite its civil and military leisure and frequent strikes.

　It was not until the administration of the "gerontophile, pretty boy" Macron that France's colonial sphere of influence in Africa began to gradually collapse and disintegrate with France's increasing weakness and the Russian "Wagner" troops' expedition to Africa... Then, the lives of the French people soon became worse and worse.

　As for the timeline where Firi is now, it has just entered the 1970s. Paris's control over its sphere of influence in Africa is still very firm, and its economic penetration cannot be described as "pervasive". Instead, it has been completely controlled by France from the beginning.

　However, the French army's "unworthy morality" (unworthy of its position in terms of martial ethics) has long been exposed. It can only ravage the weak in the African region - only in black Africa south of the Sahara Desert. In Algeria north of the Sahara Desert, the French were beaten by Berber nomads and the government collapsed.

　Half a century later, the French, who were increasingly lacking in martial ethics, could not even defeat the Russian "Wagner" mercenaries who had just arrived and were unfamiliar with the place. As a result, they were defeated by the awakened black uncle. From Mali to Niger, from Burkina Faso to Guinea, the French staged embarrassing retreats in Africa again and again - generally speaking, they were not much more decent than the US military's Saigon Iron Fist and Kabul Flyer.

　Of course, it was less than thirty years after the end of World War II, and the French presence in Africa hadn't yet reached the 21st-century levels of despair. While they couldn't defeat the Vietnamese and were being outmatched by the Algerians in North Africa, they still had no problem bullying African blacks and beating up various chiefs.

　There is another legend

　Bob Denard, the legendary "King of French Mercenaries" and "Early Punk Edgewalker," is now stirring up trouble across Black Africa with dozens of his men. He has traveled across Asia and Africa for 30 years and launched more than 20 coups, making him a truly hardcore ruthless ruthless person.

　But if they meet the American fourth-rate Ma Run who has just returned from the purgatory of the Vietnam War, the French's tiger skin is completely not enough.

　—We, the American soldiers, were dragged down to thinness by the fat Asian monkeys in Vietnam, and even to death. But in Africa, beating up a French scoundrel like you is easy, isn't it? Don't think we don't know your true colors. We American soldiers grew up listening to all kinds of insulting jokes about France!

　You French have always won battles only under the leadership of women, dwarfs, and foreigners. You were so defeated by the Germans in less than two months, yet you refused to surrender and even dared to shoot us? This time, I'm going to blast you all into dust!

　In addition to the frontal pressure of the U.S. Marine Corps and the military deterrence of the aircraft carrier battle group, the national liberation movement in the French-speaking colonies of Africa must also rely on the indigenous people themselves to take the lead and attract the main firepower of the French - the American soldiers cannot be left to take care of everything from start to finish!

　Therefore, in recent times, the CIA has been active in the French-speaking areas of Africa, recruiting defectors and causing trouble for the French colonial forces.

　Currently, the "saint" President of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Boigny, has been "sending secret signals" to the White House through the CIA. The opposition parties in Gabon, Cameroon and Benin have also "abandoned France and joined the United States" and are recruiting troops to prepare to join in the event.

　There is no way. The French in Africa are no longer concerned with extortion and extortion, but rather with all kinds of inhumanity and ingenuity. They want it all - just as the Soviets tormented their own little brothers in Eastern Europe, the French will torment their black uncles at least three or four times as much.

　In comparison, even the notorious United Fruit Company in Latin America appears benevolent in the eyes of African black uncles.

　As for Liberia, the United States' staunchest brother in Africa, which was established by American slaves who were released during the Civil War and returned to Africa, the country was overjoyed at the U.S. imperial army's advance into Africa. It was willing to bring its own dry food and follow the American master's aircraft carrier battle group to fight its neighbors.

　The CIA was very happy about the enthusiastic scenes of "people carrying food and drink to welcome the royal army" in various parts of Africa, and planned to send nuclear bombs to these black volunteers who had defected one by one, encouraging them to turn the guerrilla warfare against the French colonists and their own comprador government into a nuclear war - after all, the Soviet Union was also sending atomic bombs all over the world, and even the madman Maciej in Equatorial Guinea was said to have obtained a nuclear bomb.

　In this case, how can the black uncle who has already defected to the Stars and Stripes and has been stamped and certified as a member of the liberal camp be without a nuclear bomb?

　It would be better to give them an atomic bomb to ward off evil spirits at home, so that they can feel more at ease when they rebel.

　Even if the rebellion fails, you can set off a big firework and plant a mushroom cloud that reaches the sky as a monument, so that you can die more dignifiedly.

　Of course, when Americans are doing their best, they always overdo it, turning their efforts into a threat by nurturing an enemy. This has become a common practice.

　For example, the support for Castro in Cuba and the jihadists in Afghanistan and Iraq were originally nurtured by the United States.

　This time's African strategy, or the "Special Military Operation in French-speaking Africa", is also likely to result in the emergence of several red countries.

　But the CIA isn't responsible for this—not to mention the fact that it fostered threats overseas and supported various anti-American organizations. The entire drug epidemic in the United States was originally caused by the CIA. But from beginning to end, has the CIA ever been punished for this? No!

　After all, the CIA is just a bunch of workers, and being able to complete the mission is good enough. As for the sequelae and side effects, isn't that the fault of the decision-makers?

　If the White House fails to consider all the details and rashly gives instructions to the CIA without thinking, then it will only end up shooting itself in the foot and can only blame itself for the consequences.

　At the same time, because the United States has always separated the military and politics and has civilians in charge of the military, the officers who actually formulate combat plans have no political thinking and do not consider the consequences after the war. They just focus on how to defeat the enemy in front of them.

　For example, he has already scheduled a return to Washington soon to participate in the formulation of the Africa strategy.

　After drafting a West African strategy, Colonel Alexander Haig asked Phiri, who had twice served as commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, to review it and offer his advice: "My initial plan is to accept the invitation of Ivorian President Boigny and deploy a division to the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, to guard against and intimidate the small number of French troops stationed there, and to ensure that President Boigny would not be overthrown by the French army and pro-French forces.

　Another division was stationed in Liberia as a reserve. At the same time, the Navy's Atlantic Fleet was deployed in full force into the Gulf of Guinea to deter the French fleet.

　Then, at the invitation of the opposition in Senegal and Gabon, our army will split into two groups to help the pro-American forces in Senegal and Gabon launch a military coup to overthrow the pro-French regimes in the two countries. The Atlantic Fleet will blockade the sea routes to prevent French reinforcements from entering the battlefield.

　When the political situation in Senegal and Gabon changes and the tricolor flags in Dakar and Libreville fall, the French-speaking part of Africa will come to an end.

　Although the colonial scope in Africa was large, the coastline under its control was not long, and there were only a handful of good ports with large throughput.

　As long as we capture Dakar in Senegal and Libreville in Gabon, the rest of the French African military bases will be blocked inland by us, their supply lines severed. They can only roar and struggle on the spot, but they will no longer have the strength to fight, and will eventually starve to death and rot away. "

　Alexander Haig pointed at a map of Africa with a small wooden stick and said to Firi, "During the Pacific War, our army used island hopping to bypass the Japanese's heavily defended islands, forcing them to starve to death on deserted islands. In Africa, we don't need to eliminate every French base. We only need to control the ports and cut off their logistics to force the French to withdraw. I call this the 'land island hopping tactic'..."

　Author's words: PS: A very interesting successful case of Chinese cultural communication.

　The Miao people are divided into three major branches. The image of Miao women with hair covered in silver jewelry is a common practice among the Miao people in western Hunan, the easternmost region. Further west, in Yunnan and Guangxi, as well as those who have migrated south to Laos and Vietnam, women typically wrap their heads in black cloth and rarely wear silver jewelry.

　Of course, after becoming wealthy through reform and opening up, the two Miao ethnic groups in the west also learned to make silverware and silver jewelry.

　A group of Laotian Hmong followed Wang Bao to the United States after the Vietnam War. Naturally, they kept the custom of wearing dark cloth hats or headscarves and lost contact with the Xiangxi Hmong. But now, their girls have abandoned tradition when wearing national costumes and have started wearing silver jewelry like the Xiangxi Hmong.

　On the one hand, the silver jewelry culture of the Miao people in western Hunan was introduced to the United States through Chinese film and television. On the other hand, black cloth is not as beautiful as a silver crown.

　Chapter 586: Europeans should learn to coexist with nuclear explosions

　Just like the US military built bases all over the world after World War II, deploying military bases is also an important means for France to control Africa.

　After World War II, France established four war zones in North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa and the South Indian Ocean, built dozens of military bases, and signed military cooperation agreements with 27 African countries, bringing nearly 40% of Africa under its military influence.

　With N'Djamena, the capital of Chad (formerly known as Fort Lamy before 1973), as its center, France's military bases in Africa are arranged in a "cross" configuration. The horizontal axis of this "cross" runs from Dakar, the capital of Senegal, to Fort Lamy, the capital of Chad, and Djibouti City, the capital of Djibouti; the vertical axis runs from Algiers, the capital of Algeria, to N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, and Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo.

　In addition, Algiers, the capital of Algeria, is an important core hub connecting the French-speaking African region and mainland France.

　Generally speaking, this "French Cross" base group extends from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Gulf of Guinea in the south, from the Red Sea in the east to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, encompassing the Sahara Desert and the West African rainforests. It is like two strong chains, holding most of Africa firmly in the hands of France.

　In their heyday, these bases enabled the French army to deploy troops to any location in Africa within 24 hours of a crisis.

　However, by 1971, more than half of the French army's "African Cross" base group had collapsed. Algeria, the northernmost country, had achieved complete independence at the cost of destroying 10% of its population, severing the connection between the French African colonies and mainland France.

　Meanwhile, in the easternmost province of Djibouti, following the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, Soviet troops were stationed there (in this dimension). Their base was located right next to the French base. With the Soviets closely watching their every move, and with nearby Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Somalia all showing a hostile attitude towards the French, the 1,500 French troops in Djibouti were left to fend for themselves, effectively rendered useless.

　Next, the southernmost Congo (Brazzaville) broke out a red revolution at the end of the 1960s, changed its name to the People's Republic of the Congo, raised the red flag, and completely broke away from French colonial rule.

　The French garrison in Brazzaville was naturally expelled by these black-skinned Bolsheviks.

　——The reason why it is written as "Congo (Brazzaville)" is because there is another country called "Congo (Kinshasa)" next to it. Its capital, Kinshasa, is separated from Brazzaville by the Congo River: not only do the two countries have the same name, but the two capitals are across the river from each other, which is also a strange sight in modern times.

　Because the red flag with the hammer and sickle was raised in Brazzaville, the reactionary French army naturally could not stay there and had to move to Libreville, the capital of Gabon.

　In this way, one and a half of the four major fulcrums of France's "African Cross" military base group have been demolished and one has been abandoned. The overall layout has also changed from a "big cross" to a curved hook. One end of the hook is in Dakar, the capital of Senegal - the venue of the Dakar Rally; the other end is Libreville, the capital of Gabon, where the space elevator was built in "The Wandering Earth 2".

　These two ports were the two major channels for France to import troops and supplies from its homeland and to import military virtues and "imperialist punishment" into the heart of Africa.

　Then, in the center of the African continent, on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, in the "Sahel Grassland", the capital of Chad, N'Djamena, known as the "Heart of Death" - now still called Fort Lamy, is the French army's garrison center in inland Africa.

　The city of Fort Lamy itself developed around a fort built by the French expeditionary force that conquered Chad in 1900.

　This place is located in the center of Africa, and people from all walks of life come and go.

　Passing through this place, the French army guarding this place is equivalent to occupying the crossroads.

　Therefore, after independence, the Chadian government not only retained French troops in the capital, Fort Lamy, but also had 95% of government expenses covered by France. Full authority over military, domestic, and foreign affairs was transferred to France, and even French officials had the final say on what to plant in the fields. Is this considered independence? Yes, it is!

　But the problem is that this pro-French comprador government of Chad has been in a shaky state and on the verge of bankruptcy since its establishment.

　On the one hand, the founding black president Tombalbaye lacked martial virtue and was beaten by the Arabs in the desert. Under the offensive of the rebel "Chad Liberation Front", he lost 85% of the country's land at one point and could only cling to the French father and cry for help; on the other hand, Tombalbaye was nepotism and tried his best to promote those relatives who were so useless that they could not even read. The French sarcastically called him "our Ngo Dinh Diem."

　Even more outrageous is that Tombalbaye is also carrying out religious reforms in Chad. However, he believes in neither Christianity nor Islam, but rather devoutly adheres to the primitive totemic religion of his tribe. He is also forcing all Muslims and Christians in Chad to convert to their original totem!

　Such an outrageous and heaven-defying religious policy is simply reversing history all the way back to the Stone Age!

　It is conceivable that with such a perverse government and a president so full of amazing wisdom, the people will inevitably live in misery and war will break out everywhere.

　As a result, while the Americans were fighting the Vietnam War, France was constantly assisting Tombalbaye in suppressing rebellions in Chad, endlessly suppressing the Chadian Liberation Front, a group primarily of Arabs in the north. But every time the French soldiers finally managed to suppress the rebellion, President Tombalbaye's extraordinary wisdom and heavy taxes would spawn more rebels across Chad, forcing the French army to fight endlessly, carrying their own food and exhausting themselves.

　For example, right now, the famous French Foreign Legion is deployed on the battlefield in Chad to clean up the mess for Tombalbaye, who is addicted to being a weakling.

　Now that the United States is about to attack France, Colonel Haig believes that the northern battlefield should be opened up for the French, and more weapons and ammunition, even atomic bombs, should be supplied to the Chadian rebels through Gaddafi in Libya, so that these Arabs can fight the French Foreign Legion more vigorously.

　What? Is Gaddafi now pro-Soviet? Is his vengeance for confiscating US and British oil assets in Libya still fresh in people's minds?

　What is this? Politics is not about rehashing the past, but about looking forward.

　Besides, the reason why Gaddafi was pro-Soviet was, on the one hand, that he admired Nasser of Egypt, and on the other hand, that he opposed Israel's occupation of Jerusalem.

　However, with the end of the Fourth Arab-Israeli War and Israel's complete defeat, there was no longer any need for the Arabs to remain close to the Soviet Union. At the same time, Nasser of Egypt was also dead. Under these circumstances, Gaddafi's attitude should have changed.

　-

　"Well, our army will enter Liberia, stabilize Côte d'Ivoire, send troops to Gabon and Senegal, and deter the Ahidjo government in Cameroon from taking any irrational actions under the instigation of French advisors. At the same time, we will support the Chadian Liberation Front and launch a fierce attack on the Tombalbaye government in Chad. We will also keep the most capable French Foreign Legion in the Sahara Desert, leaving it no time to pay attention to the tropical rainforests of the Gulf of Guinea.

　Once we have completed the blockade of the coastline and trapped the French inland, will the French have no choice but to surrender? "

　After listening to Colonel Haig's explanation, Ferry looked at the arrows on the map and nodded secretly.

　In fact, just like the "Blue Mountain 719" operation formulated by Colonel Haig in another timeline to cut off the Ho Chi Minh Trail for the Vietnam War, this African strategy against France was also straightforward and not very brilliant, and lacked subsequent political solutions.

　However, war is not a strategic game after all. In actual combat, the more complex and sophisticated the plan, the more likely it is to make mistakes.

　On the contrary, the simpler and more crude the plan is, the greater the possibility that it will be successfully implemented.

　Of course, being able to execute a plan is one thing, but winning the battle is another. But if even the battle plan remains only on paper and cannot be implemented, then if you still want to win the battle, you can only hope for the luck of winning the lottery.

　Colonel Haig's plan was not actually that complicated or sophisticated. It was basically the US military's heavy attack to defeat the opponent's cleverness with force.

　The bet is that the French don’t dare to go to war with the United States in Africa, and even if a full-scale war breaks out, the French will definitely not win!

　Because, after World War II, the French Gallic chickens, especially the Gallic chickens that lost two bloody battles in Vietnam and Algeria, were really in decline.

　France appears to have built numerous bases in Black Africa, but its actual garrison consists of only 50,000 troops, with no more than 20,000 combat personnel. The remaining 30,000 or so are completely incompetent "office soldiers," yet its operational area spans millions of square kilometers!

　This level of military deficiency can no longer be described as sprinkling pepper on a surface, it can only be described as a symbolic flag-raising demonstration.

　Of course, in addition to the French army, these pro-French African states also had their own armies, which, even after deducting the unpaid soldiers, probably totaled around 200,000 to 300,000 men. However, given the generally poor military combat capabilities of the comprador government armies in 20th-century Africa, which had not undergone revolutionary ideological reform, their practice of shooting with their eyes closed was often shoddy.

　…Well, let’s put it this way, even if Ngo Dinh Diem brought his South Vietnamese army to fight in Black Africa, they could instantly transform from a weakling into a powerful army! They could beat the black uncle to a pulp!

　Furthermore, thanks to the bribery and public relations of CIA agents, opposition groups in these African countries are scrambling to join the US imperialist army, and many ruling classes are also colluding with the US behind France's back. Forget about asking these black uncles to turn against the French and stab them in the back, at least they can remain neutral during the US-France confrontation, or even tolerate the French not contributing their efforts. It shouldn't be a problem—after all, France isn't strong enough.

　Then, the Vietnamese monkeys could rely on ideals and nationalism to mobilize the masses to join the revolutionary war and fight the US military to the death. But what can the French and their comprador puppets mobilize in Africa? The African blacks should be eager for their swift demise!

　A foreign army that is not rooted in the land and a reactionary government that has no support from the local people are both easy to deal with.