War Military: From 1978

Chapter 286 Graduation Thesis!

February has arrived.

The Lunar New Year is just around the corner.

Internationally, the Soviet Union is already in dire straits.

Many countries have condemned their act of invasion.

At the same time, my country was also carrying out large-scale troop movements along its borders.

Many domestic troops that had not previously participated in the war have now been deployed to the border to confront the Vietnamese troops stationed in the mountains.

They even began to redeploy troops at various passes that were the same as those used by the Vietnamese.

It has to be said that this move by our country is indeed making the Vietnamese high command a little nervous.

The godfather was held up.

The Chinese people, whom they looked down upon, suddenly made this gesture.

What do they want to do?
Another great war?
They finally made it through the rainy season and used a lot of manpower and resources to rebuild the transportation network in northern Vietnam.

But what do we do now?
They are really not ready for war!

The initial resentment at defeat had been tempered by the experience gained in the preceding months.

They have now realized their shortcomings.

They need to build up their strength and train their troops.

At the same time, they need to rely on their godfather's help to strengthen themselves.

These things all take time.

But now.
Are we going to temporarily demolish the transportation network that we've worked so hard to rebuild?
This is definitely impossible.

Their propaganda was that they had won the war.

No victorious nation is afraid of its enemy.

So they had no choice but to grit their teeth and try to contact their godfather every day.

We need supplies, we need aid, and we also need our "godfather" to continue putting pressure on China from the north!
Chu An and his group at the military academy also learned about this welcome news.

Unfortunately, they are not on the front lines now and cannot see the ugly faces of the Vietnamese soldiers with their own eyes.

But soon, Chu An and the others lost interest in paying attention to these things.

With the New Year approaching, it's a pity that these cadre trainees can't go home.

Although they are attending a military academy, their studies are only for one year, so it's impossible for them to have a winter break.

Moreover, not only is there no winter break now, but on the first day after the Lunar New Year, they received a new notice.

Preparing my graduation thesis.

Students will choose their own topic, such as military development or tactical and strategic research, and write a graduation thesis.

This is advance notice, and the deadline is before graduation next year.

Moreover, this thesis is only required by their command department.

Other non-command-related majors do not require this.

They will take an exam, and if they pass, they can graduate.

In an instant, everyone forgot about the Lunar New Year, the international situation, and even the situation on the front lines.

The team leader said that if the thesis doesn't pass, we won't receive a graduation certificate!
I don't know if this is true or not, or if there will be any make-up exams or anything like that.

But no matter what, no one dared to gamble.

If someone actually came to a military academy for a year, only to return and not even receive a graduation certificate, then that would be a huge joke.

The old troops will all lose face.

So the pressure is immense.

Even the large infantry school has already begun preparing for the Lunar New Year.

The team also distributed couplets and some items to decorate the dormitories.

But no one was really interested in doing it.

Even when Chu An returned from outside, he saw that the couplets in several dormitories were pasted crookedly.

Logically speaking, this is simply unimaginable.

Keep in mind that this is a military academy.

A group of veterans, including officers, might not be perfect in terms of housekeeping, but at least they shouldn't put up couplets crookedly!
But the distracted crowd had no time to think about that.

Whenever they have free time, everyone is thinking about their thesis topics. Some people even think about them during class, and after class they will discuss them in groups of three or five.

Chu An was no exception to the custom.

paper!

He was also considering what he should write.

Compared to others, he actually has many more choices.

Although he wasn't a soldier in his previous life, thanks to the explosive growth of the internet age, access to all kinds of information is extremely easy, so he has some understanding of the development of the military.

If Chu An were to use the future development of the military as a blueprint, he could write a great deal.

But after careful consideration, Chu An realized that he had oversimplified things.

Because what he knows is actually completely irrelevant to the present era.

To put it bluntly, our army cannot even be said to have completely replaced mules and horses.

Before the war, many Class B units really didn't even have many mules or horses!

Many grassroots units rely primarily on their own two legs for daily operations.

Now that we've fought a war, our situation is much better.

Many grassroots military units are now equipped with several bicycles for official use.

But that’s about it.

Mechanization?
Bicycles were only acquired by capturing them from the Vietnamese, so how could we talk about mechanization under those circumstances?

Information technology?
That's even more absurd. These days, hardly anyone in China knows what the internet is.

As for unmanned mechanization, given our current industrial base, the night vision binoculars captured by Chuan before the war are still nowhere to be found, let alone anything else that could be created out of thin air.

It can only be said that the backwardness of the times was beyond Chu An's understanding in his previous life.

Anything from the future that Chu An brings out will be nothing more than a pipe dream.

It's like thirty or forty years from now, your graduation thesis will be about equipment and things for interstellar warfare.

When you're out of touch with the times, even if you know it's the future, it's just metaphysics and a dream in the present.

So Chu An was actually also troubled.

But in the end, Chu An decided on his research topic.

"On the Necessity of Establishing Special Mission Forces in the Context of Modern Warfare!"

Special forces were not yet established in the military at that time, but they were an indispensable branch of the military in the future.

He was a reconnaissance soldier, so this topic is very relevant to him.

Moreover, special forces are indeed an inevitable product of the times, and a force that our army will definitely form in the next few years.

Currently, our army does not have special forces.

In the future, people will also regard the reconnaissance soldiers of this era as special forces.

That's not entirely wrong.

Because today's reconnaissance soldiers are performing the functions of special forces.

But today's reconnaissance soldiers are out of touch with the times.

Currently, most reconnaissance soldiers in various units are conscripts.

The level of professionalism among the personnel is low, the training intensity is insufficient, and the training has not been systematic, lacking professional special operations capabilities.

In addition, the current equipment level and command and coordination capabilities of reconnaissance troops are also insufficient to cope with the complex and ever-changing battlefield environment.

To put it bluntly, if Chu An hadn't given them intensive training, the reconnaissance soldiers of Regiment C would have been completely incapable of guiding artillery fire.

However, for modern warfare, long-range artillery is an important combat force.

Intelligence and information are indispensable for artillery.

However, many artillery observers and even artillery reconnaissance soldiers lack strong individual combat capabilities.

Inside the dormitory, Chu An sat at his desk.

He twirled a pen in his hand, his eyes slightly unfocused, and some key points and ideas were already written down in the notebook in front of him.

But not enough.

He wanted to list more reasons why special forces were necessary.

"Class monitor, have you come up with any ideas for your paper?"

At another table in the dormitory, Wang Xiaoliu was scratching his head.

Seeing Chu An frequently putting pen to paper, he couldn't help but ask a question.

"Hmm, a little, but it's not perfect. Don't bother me!"

Chu An wasn't in the mood to chat with him right now.

There was no one else in the dormitory, or rather, none of the students in the entire class, who had been reconnaissance soldiers, so talking to them about these things was pointless.

"He truly deserves to be called the class monitor!"

Wang Xiaoliu scratched his head in pain, but he didn't bother him any further, nor did he come over to check on him.

The thesis definitely needs to be kept confidential at this stage.

If everyone knows about it, it will be difficult to deal with others who have no clue and simply copy it.

(End of this chapter)