Chapter 678 Professionalized Army

Throughout July this year, all kinds of news happening every day in the world are still dazzling.

Unlike ordinary people who care about industries related to their lives and work, or news such as entertainment and leisure, military politics, the political axes of various countries are still in the Middle East.

Some people say that the Middle East is like the Balkans before World War I. Although this statement is a little exaggerated, there are always some traces to follow.

Iraq in the Middle East staged a war blockbuster for the global audience in July. The United States is good at shooting all kinds of war films to praise the 'merits' of the American political axe, but this time the actual combat record in Iraq regarded the Americans as 'enem'.

Anti-cold guns, cold cannons, digging tunnels, laying mines...

Gerrilla warfare, sports warfare, ambush warfare, sneak attack warfare...

A gunshot, explosions, and frightening and desperate scenes occurred on 440,000 square kilometers of land in Iraq.

Saddam's guards, patriotic anti-American guerrillas, terrorists, foreign forces and dragons and snakes who rode the fire to rob and fish in troubled waters all emerged from the corner and carried out attacks against American soldiers and NATO troops in Iraq.

In just one month, Iraq is like purgatory on earth. According to the statistics of some institutions, the attack on NATO forces in Iraq in July reached one-third of last year. This is only a month's 'achievement', causing more than 3,000 civilian casualties, and more than 400 meters of NATO soldiers died on the battlefield far away from the country.

The sudden outbreak of attacks in Iraq has made many countries with troops stationed in Iraq tremble. Especially this time, the attacks against NATO troops are obviously more organized than ever before. Most of the attacks have been completely planned and organized, from intelligence to weapons and ammunition, from attack to retreat routes, almost like a sophisticated instrument.

Although the NATO army still has nearly 200,000 troops in Iraq, the war is not the time of World War I and World War II. Hundreds of millions of people fighting together, and the number of deaths is tens of thousands. Now the death of a few people is a great event, and it is easy to make the whole world know it. These national political axes, which are known as "bright cooking", are also difficult to bear the anger and opposition of the people.

A wave of anti-war demonstrations was spontaneously held in many cities in Europe and the United States. A civilized country, a group of civilized citizens, will never accept the title of 'aggressor'.

This is not to protect the country. If it is an anti-aggression war, even if countless people die, the people will understand and support it. But this is a war of aggression. Even if it is a war of aggression, it is nothing, but since it wants to invade other countries and gain benefits, it cannot cause heavy casualties. Anyone can't be indifferent when they see their relatives and friends die in a war that seems to have nothing to do with them.

With the withdrawal of troops from Iraq in Bulgaria and Ukraine at the beginning of this year, the number of coalition forces in Iraq has been reduced from 39 countries at the beginning to 25, and some coalition members in Iraq have plans to withdraw. However, some countries have said that they want to participate in the coalition forces in Iraq in order to show their existence or for some reason, such as the Asian country South Korea.

And the tide of lively attacks in July scared many countries with troops stationed in Iraq, and at the same time accelerated the plan to withdraw troops from Iraq. After defeating the Saddam regime, the benefits that should be obtained by all countries have been obtained, and what should be expressed has also been expressed. But for some interests, it is not cost-effective to become a venge with a country, especially if this country still belongs to that kind of 'radical country'.

Fighting with a regime and fighting with a country are two completely different concepts. Saddam's regime is unpopular in Iraq and has no popular support. It is 'justice' to participate in the campaign against it, but it is the opposite of tens of millions of Iraqi people, and even the United States will have a headache.

The small calculations of some members of the coalition forces in Iraq were soon revealed from some channels. At this time, the U.S. political axe naturally did not want any allies to pile up, and the U.S. political axe would bear the pressure, so a new round of NATO high-level meeting on the strangulation of Saddam's extremely organized backbone was held.

On the other hand, the alliance between the Iraqi National Liberation Front and Iraq's anti-American organizations was overjoyed by this reaction, because they saw that the July counterattack had achieved results.

Under the call of Saddam and the promotion of all forces in the open and secretly, a new round of encirclement and anti-encirclement is accumulating strength and waiting for the outbreak.

Although Li Mo is concerned about the construction of the army every day, he is still very concerned about the movement in the Middle East. Every day, there is not only news from the intelligence department, but also some information shared by two allies in the Middle East: Iran and Syria.

Behind the scenes of the big stage of Iraq, several countries secretly participated. Although they did not work together, they knew that the other party also stirred in this pool of water and acted tacitly and cooperated with each other to a limited extent.

"Boss, this is the first list of black hole special forces. Please see if there is any problem. If there is no problem, I will take them to strengthen training." Luo Xiang handed a list to Li Mo and said.

There are 237 names in this List of Black Hole Special Forces Members. These people will conduct special training for half a year, eliminating 137 people and leaving only 100 qualified soldiers.

Li Mo turned it over casually, and he still had some impressions of some names on the list. After all, those who can be selected by Luo Xiang are the kind of powerful people who are famous in the army. These people are the focus of the intelligence department, and Li Mo is naturally very clear.

"A Xiang, when you went to pick people, those troops didn't embarrass you, did they?" Li Mo asked Luo Xiang to sit down first and asked with a smile.

Luo Xiang's face was a little bitter when he heard the words, "Boss, why didn't you stop me? These people are the top of various troops and are the targets of training. Many of them have even become the next batch of cadets in the military academy. As long as they graduate from the military academy, they are low-level officers. Those army chiefs are very precious. If I didn't have your order in my hand, I'm afraid I would have been tied up in the army and couldn't come back!"

Although there is some joke in the tone, it can also be seen that when picking people, the army leaders must not give Luo Xiang a good look. Although Luo Xiang is the commander of the special forces and the cronies of Li Mo's cronies, he may be the head of the army. Who is not the boss's cronies? Why do I have to be transferred by you when I find some tops here? Don't do it! I won't do it even if I kill it.

At the beginning, when several troops heard Luo Xiang's intention, they all shook their heads and gently proposed to change some people. When Luo Xiang disagreed, the chief officers of these troops changed their methods to make friends. Good wine and good food greetings, shoulder-to-shoulder and back, so that you are embarrassed not to change people, right? Who knew that Luo Xiang also identified the people on the list. Now it was the turn of the chief of the army to be unhappy, but they did not dare to be tough, so they had to excuse that the soldiers on the list were injured or carried out confidential tasks. In short, hide if you can't afford it, hide the soldiers and find excuses to try to hide.

The chief of the previous teams was caught off guard by Luo Xiang because he was not prepared, so he could only look at the people and take them away. But the news was soon spread by various channels. The chief of staff behind the army thought about it. Luo Xiang was not willing to quarrel with these people, but he could not delay the boss's order. He immediately invited the chief of staff of staff of Hussein. With the pressure of the superior officer, these chiefs of the army had to let them go.

"Are they so obedient?" Li Mo was still surprised.

"Ha ha, how can they be so obedient? At first, they didn't even give the face of Chief of Staff of Hussein. In short, they were scoundrels. Later, it was the Chief of Staff who revealed some plans for the reorganization of the troops, so that the chiefs of these troops could be honest.

Because the content of the Army Rectification Plan involves the disarmament of infantry brigades. These officers of the army, who has no friends in the army? There are few people who are pleasing to the eye or have something to do with it. This time, it gave the superiors the face, who will also consider the feelings of their subordinates when they are disarmed. Give some face on some less important issues.

Li Mo nodded. These things are all small things. As long as he has no intention of rebellion and does not affect his control of the army, he is too lazy to pay attention to these minor problems.

"That's the list. But Xiang, when you train them, you can contact the falcon. His side may be a good place to train soldiers.

Luo Xiang was stunned at first, and then reacted and said with regret, "Yes, why didn't I think of this? Blood Eagle Mercenaries often fight. We can train for a period of time and send these people to train in actual combat, which is much better than training at home. Boss, I heard that Falcon has done a good job in Chad. Now they don't need funding here?

Li Mo nodded with a smile and said, "He helped a tribe win the battle over there, got a silver mine, sold it to a foreign company, and made a lot of money."

"Boss, I think this profession is very good. Can you send some soldiers there? In the last Soken War, most of the soldiers did not fight any battles, and they could not experience the training of war. If batches are scattered and sent to Xueying's mercenaries, your professional soldier plan will be completed in a year or two.

Now all countries in the world have begun to put forward the concept of a professional army, and many countries have begun to build a professional army. The most important thing about the professional army is the professional soldiers. Generals are regarded as professions, not conscripts who serve for two or three years and then go home. Generally speaking, the service period of professional soldiers is at least six years, and some technical arms can even last for more than ten years, 20 or 30 years.

Recruit excellent soldiers through various modern means, and then through more than ten years of military training and training, the combat effectiveness of these professional soldiers is very strong, because the soldiers have engraved the concept of general into the bone marrow, and they have treated soldiers as a profession. You don't have to think about anything else, just hone and improve your military skills all the time.

Professional soldiers are trained and trained through long-term orderly training, but in this peaceful era, although the professional army is proficient in various military skills, it has few opportunities to participate in actual combat. War is the only way to test whether a soldier is qualified.

The strength of the US team lies not in the advanced weapons and tactical ideas, nor in the improvement of logistics, but because they are one of the few armies in the world that have experienced actual combat.

(to be continued)