Two-sided combat is the ultimate test

In the 007 series of movies, the protagonist is often a two-sided battle, on the one hand, fighting with the enemy with green-faced fangs and scheming, on the other hand, the suspicious superior, the passive colleague often constrains.

The commander of 007, Ms. M, even had a tracking device injected into his body, something the enemy dreamed of but did not do.

However, 007 is still lucky, and the equipment provided by colleagues has always been very sophisticated and advanced.

At critical moments, the leader will still make up his mind to stand with him.

However, other departments may not be so cooperative.

In British espionage works, the intelligence services have a common opponent: the Treasury, and the two sides do not trust each other and often prevaricate.

In Casino Royale, 007 has been following a female assistant sent by the Ministry of Finance to prevent him from losing all his money.

John Le Carré, author of "The Cook, the Tailor, the Soldier, the Spy", was from MI6, and in his spy novels there were no handsome men and women, no fierce gun battles, and the Treasury Department's performance was reasonable, approving the intelligence service's request for "sixty thousand pounds for the purchase of a house, ten thousand pounds for the purchase of furniture and decoration", but asked his own lawyer to deal with the purchase of the house, several negotiations, and finally the six refused on the grounds of confidentiality.

In the film series Mission Impossible, Atango's organization often faces pressure from Congress to disagree with the appropriations and threaten to cancel the department. Therefore, every time they perform a mission, they not only have no foreign aid, but also have to complete it quietly, and the difficulty is invisibly raised by another level.

In real wars, there are often contradictions between combat units and logistics support departments. In ancient times, the traffic conditions were harsh and the long-distance raids, and the problems of grain and grass were highly likely to occur.

Look at zeng guofan's diaries and family letters during his command of the Xiang army and the Taiping army, and you will find his transformation from a scholar to a leading commander. Zeng Guofan was very meticulous in calculating and raising military food and salaries.

Once, his younger brother Zeng Guoquan was besieged by Li Xiucheng in Yuhuatai, but Zeng Guofan was not in a hurry. Because after calculation, he knew that the Taiping Army would soon withdraw. Zeng Guofan deduced from the number of Li Xiucheng's troops to consume sixty tons of rice per day, but the grain road was already controlled by the Xiang army and could not be transported at all. Zeng Guofan wrote to his brother to analyze the situation, and the other party "counted hundreds of thousands of people, and had to eat rice and thousands of stones every day, if there was no big boat to carry, how could it last?" I have been a soldier in Hui for two years, and I know the difficulty of transporting rice by land, that is, transporting it to the area of Guli Village in Jinling City, within tens of miles, transporting 30,000 stones a month, and the manager is also extremely difficult. The brother is stable, and in the future, Yu will only do more silver rice medicine to receive help, and the brother can rest assured that there is no shortage. ”

But no matter how good at calculation, it can't stand the colleagues from not giving strength or even intercepting military salaries.

Zeng Guofan wrote a famous recital , "Li Chen is still willing to make a final fold when it is difficult to do things", he said that leading soldiers to fight must receive strong local support, "As for the matter of raising wages, such as ding, cao fold, persuasion, and extraction, why not go through the hands of the prefecture and county?" But local officials always prevaricated, and Zeng Guofan was often so angry that he "couldn't sleep."

In the book The Battle of Constantinople, it details the internal struggles between the main war faction and the main peace faction within the ministers before the Sultan launched the war.

If the war is won, the main faction will have to die, and if the war is lost, the main war faction will also be responsible, and even the ruler Sultan may encounter a coup d'état.

Such a war is really a matter of national fortune and self-fortune, and the Sultan must be on the battlefield and do his best to hold his ground.

Author: T Jiao | Editor: ADa

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