Chapter 1204: Chapter 588: Sometimes Luck Is Also a Kind of Cheat (2)

For example… cough cough, let’s not mention it.

Seeing the Defense Minister leave, the rest of the people also slowly dispersed, leaving only Deputy Defense Minister Calvin Waller and the Assistant Minister Admiral Charles Horner, who had remained silent beside him. He was also a fierce general, having served as the Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC), the first Theatre Air Defense Commander, planning and commanding the “Desert Storm” air campaign, integrating the air forces of multiple countries, destroying the Iraqi air defense system, and establishing air supremacy. He was promoted to Air Force Admiral after the war!

He is even two years older than Norman Schwarzkopf.

“I’m planning to resign.”

Calvin Waller looked at him in astonishment, “Charles… you… why so suddenly?”

Assistant Minister Admiral Charles Horner certainly couldn’t say, I see this puppet regime is about to collapse, I better get out early…

The nuclear weapon password is eight zeros…

Simpler than my bank card password, with such a regime and such leadership, it’s only a matter of time before they kick the bucket. Anyway, I’ve made enough money, better to take the wife and kids to Europe early to avoid being purged when the time comes.

But of course, he couldn’t say that directly. He shook his head and patted his body, “The doctor says there’s a lesion in my lungs and I need to rest, the position of Assistant Minister is too tiring.”

As he spoke, he slowly got up, patted Calvin Waller’s shoulder, gave him a meaningful look, and then left. He walks so briskly it hardly looks like he’s sick.

Calvin Waller shook his head and sighed, the sound echoing in the more than 200-square-meter conference room.

He is a smart man, and he can sense the instability of the puppet regime.

But he couldn’t retreat, he was deeply tied to it.

Hopefully, God…

listens to prayers.

“Amen.”

…

The sudden defection of the 3rd Infantry Regiment had extraordinary impact.

The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and dozens of other major media outlets across the United States published, and the New York Times, known for its boldness, did not lag behind this time, saying directly, “The sudden correction by the 3rd Infantry Regiment signifies the Pentagon’s complete loss of control over grassroots units, and maybe it won’t be long before we can return to the original United States!”

It is said that Norman Schwarzkopf, upon seeing this article, cursed several times, even contemplating sending the military to raid, but in the end, he swallowed his anger because its backing family was the Ochs-Sulzberger family.

A real estate magnate and a media magnate!

A Jew.

There was nothing that could be done.

He could only channel his energies into “military inspection,” hoping to numb himself with busyness.

“Failed…”

Victor put down the newspaper and shook his head, “It was almost an American version of the underdog.”

He actually did… too…

Mexico’s current Attorney General Harry was an old hand from the “Plateau Prison” with Victor and was the one who launched the “rainy night coup” in Mexico City and killed President Carlos Salinas, helping Victor to buy a lot of time and was also one of the culprits in the subsequent collapse of the government.

But as they say, the victor is king, the loser is an outlaw!

In the newly edited books in Mexico, this action is also called “Justice,” with Carlos Salinas being an evil drug cartel member.

The power of discourse is in the hands of the successful.

Casare laughed heartily, “Boss, don’t you know what those idiots at the Pentagon did, they hanged all the surviving officers of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, their bodies weren’t allowed to be reclaimed by their families, all taken away for medical research, which actually means to sell them, and the regiment commander Alvaro Perez was even humiliated, his body sent as punishment to various command headquarters for exhibition. Our people within the U.S. Military said it caused quite a lot of criticism, a lot of lower-ranking officers sympathized with him, and besides this, the Pentagon also decided to dispatch ‘Military Inspectors’ to the regiment level to supervise the army’s actions.”

“Besides, any unit action must be reported to two higher-level units, meaning the regiment level needs to report to the division or corps, and the division needs to report to the Pentagon.”

????

Utterly absurd!

“Norman Schwarzkopf at the Pentagon no longer trusts the units below,” Casare shook his head, “At this rate, the U.S. Military is not far from the collapse of its command system.”

This is very serious!

In the early Soviet-German War, the Father required division-level units to report every counterattack detail to the General Staff, resulting in the Southwest Front Army missing three breakout windows in the Kyiv campaign.

Modern U.S. Military research shows that when the corps-level command directly intervenes in battalion-level tactical operations, battlefield response time decreases by 72%.

During the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II, the Japanese Army established a ‘Triple Reporting System’: frontline units had to report simultaneously to the regiment, division, and army headquarters, causing commanders to spend five hours a day handling paperwork, while the U.S. Marine 1st Division’s decision-making cycle at the same time only took 17 minutes.

The U.S. Military, of course, also made mistakes. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Seventh Fleet, mistrusting the Army’s intelligence system, established its own ‘shadow reconnaissance network,’ which resulted in a 42% error rate in critical coordinates during the 1968 Khe Sanh campaign, and a 300% increase in friendly fire incidents from naval artillery.

Ocam’s Command Paradox: When trust is lacking, the command system continuously adds control nodes (N), but operational efficiency (E) follows a decay curve of E=1/(logN)^2, meaning every additional layer of approval requires tripling the resources to maintain the previous combat strength.

It’s evident they’re self-destructing.

But one can understand Norman Schwarzkopf’s position; after all… today it’s the 3rd Infantry Regiment, what if tomorrow it’s a division, an artillery unit? Then what!