In Washington, the White House.

Roosevelt urgently summoned Secretary of State Hull, Army Chief of Staff Marshall, Navy Chief of Staff Stark, and Army and Navy General Staff Lech to discuss countermeasures.

"Everyone, I don't need to say more about how sinister the situation is now."

"Although the surrender remarks of some British media do not represent the attitude of the British government, we may also pay enough attention to it."

"Once the military pressure faced by the British government exceeds the final critical point, anything is possible, and no accident will happen."

"There is also the battlefield on the Eastern Front of Europe."

"The Soviet Union's situation is already extremely sinister."

"Due to weather reasons, although the Soviet army temporarily stabilized the situation."

"But when the weather warms next year, when the German army launches another round of offensive, it is probably a big question whether the Soviet army can withstand it."

"Everyone, it's not me that's alarmist."

"In the current situation, it is really possible that the world anti-*** alliance will be defeated in all directions!"

"So, today we are summoning everyone to come for just one thing, how the United States will deal with the current severe situation!"

A brief opening remark instantly made the temperature in the small conference room drop. Although the fireplace was burning in the small conference room, several chiefs of staff still felt the bone-broken chill.

Washington in December was already chilling.

After Roosevelt finished speaking, the small conference room fell into a long silence.

After waiting for a few minutes, no one was willing to speak, so Roosevelt could only name: "Hull?"

Hull sighed and said, "Hegel's dialectics tells us that we must learn to grasp the main contradictions of things."

"Although the current world situation is extremely serious, there must be a major crisis among all the crises."

"So, as long as we find this main danger and find a way to solve it, the crises on various other battlefields will be solved."

Roosevelt nodded and said, "So what is this major crisis?"

Hull said: "It will definitely not be the battlefield in Australia, because the battlefield in Australia is no longer worse than it is now."

Army Chief of Staff Marshall went on to say: "It cannot be a battlefield in Southeast Asia, because the Chinese Expeditionary Force has won the Battle of Myanmar, which is even the only highlight on the world's anti-*** battlefield."

Chief of Staff of the Army and Navy Lehi said: "I'm afraid it won't be the battlefield on the Eastern Front of Europe. Although the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of Europe is in a difficult situation, at least until we understand that there will be no great danger."

Hull nodded and continued, "Then there are only two directions left, the African battlefield and the Pacific battlefield!"

Roosevelt said: "Then let's talk about the Pacific battlefield first. How should the U.S. Navy do to reverse the adverse situation?"

Navy Chief of Staff Stark said: "His Excellency President, I think our navy should abandon the current tactics of adding fuel to the oil, and should decisively give up the control of the Pacific sea."

"Because the situation is already very obvious."

"Japan has a huge navy with rich combat experience!"

"They have more than 20 aircraft carriers and hundreds of warships!"

"Although our United States has strong shipbuilding capabilities, it can modify and produce more than 50 aircraft carriers within one year, but since we are now pursuing the tactic of continuous investment, each aircraft carrier was immediately put into the Pacific battlefield as soon as it was produced, and it was soon wiped out by the Japanese Navy."

"If this continues, it will be difficult for us to leverage the advantages of a strong manufacturing industry."

"Instead, it will only consume valuable human and material resources in vain."

Roosevelt said: "So your opinion is to give up the Pacific first and accumulate strength?"

"Yes." Stark said, "When you accumulate enough strength to fight the Japanese navy, you will launch the Pacific Battle to regain the sea control of the Pacific!"

Roosevelt said: "But have you ever thought about it?"

"If we completely give up the sea control, the Japanese Navy may appear on the west coast of the United States and launch an attack on coastal ports such as Los Angeles and San Francisco?"

"In this way, industrial production in the United States will be seriously disrupted."

"I don't think it's a big problem," Stark said, "because the heavy industry in the United States has always been on the east coast, and it's not easy for the Japanese Navy to raid the west coast of the United States."

“Because there are hundreds of airports on the west coast of the United States.”

“We also installed hundreds of radar stations on the West Coast.”

"The Japanese Navy's bomber fleet will be discovered as soon as it appears a few hundred kilometers away."

"Then the fighter jets from various airports on our west coast can take off quickly and intercept them."

"Improve it, if you really fight on the West Coast of the United States, the Japanese Navy's combat losses will far exceed the losses of personnel and materials suffered on the West Coast of the United States."

"You mean, you're actually attracting the Japanese Navy to the West Coast and then flooding them with large fleets of land-based air force aircraft, is that right?"

"Yes, Your Excellency the President." Stark said.

"Well, it makes sense." Roosevelt turned to ask the others, "What do you think?"

Hull and two other chiefs of staff shrugged, saying they had no objection to this.

"Okay, that's the matter." Roosevelt said, "it's up to the Navy."

After a pause, Roosevelt said again: "So now, let's discuss how to deal with the African battlefield?"

Chief of Staff of the Army and Navy Lehi said: "If it is the African battlefield, it is meaningless to continue to increase troops to the Alamaic region. I think the second battlefield should be opened on the Western Front of Europe."

Hull shrugged and said, "But Britain firmly disagrees with opening up a second battlefield in Europe."

"Whatever they think," Lexi said snorting, "From now on, the war should be dominated by America, not by their British Empire."

Roosevelt waved his hand and said, "No, you still need to take into account the feelings of the British at this time."

At this time, Army Chief of Staff Marshall suddenly said: "The problem on the African battlefield is actually not that the Allied forces are insufficient, nor that the Allied forces are not as good as the German and Italian coalition forces, but that it is entirely because the Allied forces' combat experience and fighting will be inferior to the German and Italian coalition forces, or to be precise, it is obviously not as good as the German army!"

Roosevelt said: "So, what do you want to say?"

Marshall said: "His Excellency President, what I want to say is that it is useless to send more reinforcements to Africa. Instead, an elite force with rich combat experience and tenacious fighting will, such as the Chinese Expeditionary Force!"

"Send Chinese Expeditionary Force to Africa?" Roosevelt frowned, "Will Zhong Yi agree?"
Chapter completed!