However, the Alliance must possess this capability for mobilization.
Currently under a Level Two Mobilization Order, it should not significantly impact residents' lives; corresponding welfare and allowances will not be cut. The consur goods market and the food industry market will be affected to so extent, but not severely, with a lesser variety available.
Yet, moving to the next tier with a Level One Mobilization Order, maintaining an unaffected state would beco challenging.
At that point, there would likely be a significant drafting of troops; a warti economy would be initiated, cutting welfare and allowances; and civilian factories would be further converted into military ones.
With a Total Mobilization Order, it would be as if the entire Alliance was deploying all its strength in response to war. All population, all production and living, would revolve around the war.
Most able-bodied n and even a considerable number of won would be conscripted into the military; the remaining populace, from the elderly to the youngest, would be engaged in war-related work, as producing even one more bullet was beneficial; all non-war-related consumption would be minimized...
Since the establishnt of the Alliance, such a level of total mobilization has never been initiated. But Osenia was confident that the system she had built, in line with Governor General's overall expectations, was capable of reaching that degree and unleashing imnse warti potential.
This was her pride and joy, but she would prefer it to never be necessary. She was well aware that if the Alliance mobilized to that extent, the damage to economic developnt would be trendous.
Anxiously returning to Revival City, she went to report to Mr. Gu. Arriving at the conference room door, she was right on schedule.
The Alliance values practical matters, without fussing over the superfluous. Even when eting with Mr. Gu, there's no need for an appointnt during slow tis; during busy periods, etings are schedule to avoid long waits and there's no need to arrive early.
Osenia arrived on the dot, only to learn that Mr. Gu was with Generals Yan Fangxu and Tadeusz. Their appointnt was before hers, and by rights, they should have finished by now, but perhaps due to so unexpected issues, or so topics not thoroughly discussed, they had been delayed.
She waited outside patiently, only to hear a voice echo in her mind:
"Co in, listen along and share your thoughts."
That was the voice of Mr. Gu.
Osenia quickly gathered her wits and proceeded forward.
The guards outside did not stop her, apparently also having been inford.
Once inside, two n were engaged in a debate about sothing; Mr. Gu sat at the head of the table, not participating in the discussion, but listening intently.
Osenia didn't rush to speak either. She casually found a seat and listened attentively.
After a while, she roughly understood what was going on.
The Alliance's overall mobilization was in preparation for war, and naturally, it was the military's job to fight.
At present, the Rage Bear Legion, soon to receive an official designation from the Star Realm Army, had been deployed. A fourteen-thousand-strong force moved from its original base in the Central Province, traversing five hundred kiloters west to the Western Desert.
Joining them was the Central Group Army.
Of course, this Central Group Army was no longer the sa one that fought in the three provinces in the east. The original Central Group Army was divided into three sections: one part established the Heijian Star Group Army to maintain the colonies; another was integrated into the Rage Bear Legion.
Only the First Brigade remained, augnted by the newly established 46th to 50th Divisions, forming the new Central Group Army.
Recently, the newly ford 39th and 40th Reserve Divisions of the forr Eastern Group Army, along with the 21st to 25th Reserve Divisions from the Green Valley Group Army, were also incorporated into it.
As a result, the current Central Group Army also consisted of thirteen divisions, totalling a hundred thousand troops.
Combining these two corps equaled two hundred and fifty thousand troops.
This represented the Alliance's main maneuverable force, available without initiating further mobilization and without affecting the defense of each region itself.
anwhile, the "new recruit camps" across the Alliance had recruited around a hundred thousand people in total. They were in training and would supplent the frontline troops in accordance with the progress and needs of the war, ensuring that the two western armies would always have ample personnel.
These new recruits were the result of the mobilization order, which Osenia was aware of. Although conscription wasn't under her jurisdiction and belonged to Tadeusz's military administration's Draft Office, it still required close cooperation with local governnts.
Under the second-level mobilization order, the number of reserve forces would continue to increase. It was estimated that the military personnel pool could reach 5% of the total population, which ant about 1.25 million people.
Aside from the more than four hundred thousand already in service and the hundred thousand in new recruit camps, there was still recruitnt space for approximately seven hundred thousand more.
If that wasn't enough, it might be necessary to issue a first-level mobilization order, which would raise the total number of people mobilized to 10%.
And if that was still insufficient, reaching the point of an Alliance-wide mobilization order, the ceiling could go up to 20% of the population, but that would be quite exaggerated.
The strategic goal of the 250,000-strong legion gathering in the west during the first phase was the West Desert Region. It wasn't about occupying the entire vast Western Desert, for that was too large; scattering two hundred thousand people across it would be like sprinkling water on a desert, aningless.
The main objective was still to control the "oasis" in the eastern part of the West Desert Region that already had more contact with the Alliance and, especially, to secure control of the main thoroughfare that ran across the Western Desert straight to the western continent.
This main thoroughfare was likely a remnant from the pre-war era, originally a solidly paved road. However, due to environntal changes, warfare, and the collapse of the unified governnt, this thoroughfare was in particularly poor condition without maintenance. It was barely passable thanks to the self-maintenance efforts of itinerant traders and the oases along the way.
Most crucially, there was nowhere else to go if not through here.
All sorts of heavy equipnt and vehicles, although possessing excellent off-road capabilities, crossing ten thousand kiloters of wilderness to embark on an expedition to the west, would still be too much. This barely usable highway not only needed to be occupied but also required engineer troops to further repair and maintain it.
At the mont, the troops were not far from the Western Desert.
The point of contention between Yan Fangxu, the Major General Commander, and Tadeusz, the military governor, was how to deal with the many oasis powers in the Western Desert.
There was no unified governnt in the Western Desert; each oasis and the plantation factories beneath them were like independent city-states, with their own political systems and ard forces.
Coming from a military perspective, Yan Fangxu did not wish to conquer through sheer force alone as this would heavily burden his troops, making it difficult to complete the task of pushing the front to the central region of the Western Desert and establishing the main defense line within a month and a half. His troops would spend a lot of ti and effort suppressing resisting forces.
He would rather see diplomatic asures employed as long as the oases on the eastern side caused no trouble.
Tadeusz, on the other hand, was concerned about the uncertainties regarding the plantation factories beneath those oases. A lengthy supply line with too many third-party forces possessing their own military might along the way was extrely dangerous.
Both had valid points.
Of course, their disagreent wasn't particularly fierce, as no one was a fool; both understood that the other's concerns were justified, and they were constantly discussing possible solutions.
They discussed a range of topics, from the intensity of diplomatic asures to how to deal with local ard forces, which strategic points along the way definitely needed to be secured for safety, which could be left for later, and how to arrange troop defenses and suppression...
Osenia listened and noted many things.
She also ca to understand why Mr. Gu had wanted her to listen in.
The Alliance Foreign Affairs Departnt was a relatively independent institution outside of the governnt, and it had not been given much attention—there hadn't been much need for diplomacy until now.
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Conversely, the Alliance Comrce Departnt under Osenia had more capacity to play a role in this area.
She slowly joined the discussion, mainly contributing to discourse about the political attitudes of the oases and their relationship with the Alliance, as well as potential starting points for engagent.
During the discussion, a plan gradually took shape.
Throughout the process, Gu Hang seldom spoke, only making decisive judgents when matters were left unresolved.
This was precisely the situation that Gu Hang desired.
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