Chapter 619 (1/2)

Until many years later, the civil wars in African countries gradually subsided, and the uninterrupted small-scale conflicts never stopped.

Even the war in the Middle East will continue to attract the attention of the international community. Only in Africa, continuous urban riots, frequent village massacres, the displacement of tens of thousands of people, as well as natural and man-made disasters such as plague, drought, hunger and so on, cause millions of abnormal deaths every year However, it has always received little attention from the international community.

It seems that everyone is deliberately forgetting.

I really regard the continent with more than one billion people as a primitive jungle and let it live and die on its own.

Is there really no one trying to end this?

Of course not.

Because of the previous plan, Simon has recently collected a lot of information about Africa. For example, Angola, which is in civil war at this time, has 7000 UN peacekeepers.

However, in the past few years when the international situation has changed rapidly since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the peacekeeping forces stationed in Angola have burned hundreds of millions of US dollars in military expenditure and suffered heavy casualties. However, they have never been able to change the civil war situation in this country. The two opposing armies in Angola are very resistant to the interference of these foreign forces, so they have been in vain for a long time The Chinese peacekeeping forces have begun to withdraw one after another.

This is not the case in other African countries.

It can be said that considering political, economic, military, cultural and other factors, the situation in Africa is indeed too complicated to imagine, and no one can change it at all.

The main reason is actually the last sentence of the old man just now: we are all civilized people, and we should follow the rules.

Even if the equipment is excellent, the combat effectiveness is not bad. However, the peacekeeping forces in Africa are often bound by all kinds of constraints and can not be as unscrupulous as the local warlords. This is also the main reason for the failure of peacekeeping operations.

Otherwise, take Angola.

In Angola, where the civil war is going on, the total strength of the government forces and the opposition forces is less than 200000. As for the combat capacity, most of the African forces are only equipped with individual weapons eliminated by the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war. In front of the modern western forces, there is a gap between cold weapons and hot weapons.

During the Gulf War, the Iraqi troops, which were known as millions of soldiers, were a group of local chickens and lackeys in front of the powerful US forces. The African Army, not to mention the U.S. Army, even compared with the Iraqi forces of Saddam Hussein at this stage, can only be regarded as a group of local chickens and dogs, which shows the gap.

Therefore, Simon initially planned to organize a modern elite mercenary corps of 10000 people, which could easily occupy a large part of Africa without being bound by rules.

The problem now is that since we are in a ”civilized world”, it is impossible to use these means openly.

However, Simon didn't intend to give up. When the old man finished, he thought about it for a moment and quickly said, ”ray, maybe I can go to Africa to do business, a very serious business.”

Simon has not continued to explain, Raymond Johnston has understood the subtext of his words, and Simon has not given up the idea of building a violent machine belonging to the westero system.

When you think about it, it's really necessary.

The size of the westero system is now even beyond the scope of the chaebol, almost equivalent to a national economy.

In this case, if we want to ensure the sustainable development of this economy, it can not only have strong economic strength, but also have considerable political and military influence. Otherwise, no matter how big the ”economy” is, it will be vulnerable to the powerful state machine.

Even if we don't think about the long term, if we buy those things from Eastern Europe in the future, it will be troublesome if we can't find someone to implement them.

It is certainly not appropriate to organize mercenaries to fight for territory in Africa. If there is a proper excuse, many things can be smoothly promoted.

Doing business is obviously the most appropriate excuse.

In order to ensure that the business in the war-torn areas can be maintained smoothly, it is natural for the westero system to train some private arms to maintain the safety of employees, factories or mines while doing business.

The larger the scale of Africa's business, the more private arms it needs.

If the industries of the westero system are blooming everywhere in Africa, and each industry only supports a dozen private soldiers, it will be a powerful military force that can easily change the situation in some regions if necessary.

More importantly, after breaking up the whole into parts, it will not attract much attention and rebound.

To sort this out quickly, Raymond Johnston was somewhat sorry.

If only it could be the Johnston system.

In this way, maybe in the future human history, they will have a strong influence on their families.

It seems that the identity of this boy should be publicized as soon as possible in private.

Making up his mind, Raymond Johnston went back to Simon's thought and said, ”it's a good idea to cultivate a private army in the name of doing business. It's more reliable than simply recruiting mercenaries, because mercenaries will not be loyal without good reason and firm belief. Without loyalty, no matter how powerful the army is, it is difficult for us to use it in times of crisis. Now we recruit private arms in the name of family business. From the very beginning, we can instill in these soldiers the people they need to be loyal to, so that this army can have a sense of belonging to the westero system. With the help of this, we can get an army that has no idea of family and is completely loyal to ourselves in the future. ”Simon nodded subconsciously, admiring.

It's really the old man. He just had a rather vague idea. He has grasped the essence of the matter.

If we recruit mercenaries from Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa according to Simon's original plan, and the funds are sufficient, these people can easily form a strong fighting force, and it is not difficult to carve out a territory in Africa to cultivate the puppet regime of the westero system.

However, because of the lack of belief and sense of belonging, more people just want to make money, so these mercenaries can not be loyal to the westero system.

In this state, it is not possible for the army to carry out dangerous actions to safeguard the interests of the Westeros family when it is needed, even if it wants a little smoother command. Some mercenary leaders stiffen their wings after taking Simon's large amount of financial aid, and may even break away from doing it alone, so that Simon can't steal chicken.

To make matters worse, it is not impossible to raise these mercenaries to counter the westero system.

Now, another way is to recruit in the name of maintaining the business of the westero system in Africa, and then train them completely according to the national model of training soldiers. From the beginning, the soldiers are taught what they need to be loyal to. The result is totally different.

If combined with powerful brainwashing measures, Simon can go even further and obtain a group of family dead men who are completely loyal to the westero system.

The loyalty of the traditional national army mainly comes from the sense of responsibility and belonging to the dependent country.