227: Chapter 227 Exploring the Potential of Various Countries' Armament Arsenals

General Gadi had been somewhat pleased earlier, as he had the USA use satellites to provide interference, which lowered the hit rate of the Anti-Judea Coalition's anti-aircraft missiles and significantly reduced the losses of the Israel Air Force.

However, not long after, many of the USA's satellites were destroyed, and even the navigation services for the Israel military were interrupted, which in turn affected the use of their own fighter jets, UAVs, missiles, and other equipment.

General Gadi did not believe that the Anti-Judea Coalition possessed the capability to shoot down the USA's satellites; he suspected that other countries had launched anti-satellite missiles, but the reality was that it had already significantly impacted Israel.

As the intensity of the Anti-Judea Coalition's offensive increased, the severity of the battlefield conflict escalated sharply. Israel's military, which had mostly been engaged in security operations, simply lacked the capability to hold their positions against the forces of Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, and others within the Anti-Judea Coalition.

The more positions lost, the smaller Israel's territory became. Israel's territory was already small to begin with; if the Anti-Judea Coalition continued to gradually compress their defensive space, they would ultimately face total annihilation.

Seeing this situation, General Gadi had no choice but to call up an additional 300,000 reservists, effectively mobilizing all available reserve personnel.

Although it was possible to continue drafting more personnel, doing so would easily cause Israel to collapse completely.

Of course, Israel could also call on Jews around the world to return home to fight, but the number of people who would actually return to fight would not be very high. It was merely propaganda and posturing; the feasibility was extremely low.

General Gadi even dipped into the military budget to hire mercenaries, though this also required time to recruit. Since the cost of mercenaries was not low, it meant that Israel needed to spend even more of its military budget.

Currently, a batch of mercenaries was trickling in from the Ukraine battlefield to Israel, but their numbers could only cover a portion of the battlefield losses and could not meet the demand for soldiers across Israel's major battlefields.

In order to allow Israel to fight the Anti-Judea Coalition for a longer period, General Gadi proposed to the United States Department of Defense that the USA send troops to participate directly, drawing forces from the nearby Central Theater Command and the European Theater Command.

However, the USA was not yet prepared for full-scale participation; it only dispatched a small number of troops to serve as mercenaries for Israel, assuming some logistical tasks in Israel's rear. As for sending more troops, the United States Department of Defense did not make an immediate decision.

After all, the USA directly joining the battlefield alongside Israel would have significant repercussions. This would lead to a backlash from countries in the Persian Gulf region, prompting them to take various countermeasures against the USA, and could even directly affect the USA's long-term strategic layout in the Persian Gulf region.

However, if the USA did not commit more troops to Israel, the Jewish capital would not let the United States Department of Defense off the hook. If this led to a reduction in the military budget, the Department of Defense would find it equally painful.

Therefore, the United States Department of Defense could only secretly dispatch some troops, having them remove their USA military uniforms and disguise themselves as Israel's military, to participate in various tasks in Israel's rear.

General Gadi was dissatisfied with this and could only lobby the Jewish capital to urge the USA to commit more energy to the Israel battlefield as soon as possible. Otherwise, if Israel were destroyed, the Jewish capital would be blamed by all Jews, which would ultimately affect them as well.

With a large number of its satellites destroyed and the Starlink project experiencing a prolonged interruption, the United States Department of Defense had to spend a significant amount of manpower and funds to rebuild its network in an attempt to restore the USA's global reconnaissance network. This also resulted in the USA having much less energy to focus on the Israel battlefield.

The Anti-Judea Coalition seized this opportunity to deploy more Mechanized Infantry Brigades and Drone Battalions, launching a full-scale offensive against Israel. The four frontline headquarters locked onto Israel's defensive cities and carried out intensive shelling, plowing through Israel's border cities time and time again.

The result of this was a sharp increase in the ammunition consumption of the Anti-Judea Coalition; the millions of artillery shells and hundreds of thousands of anti-aircraft missiles originally purchased were gradually running low. The replenishment of ammunition was imminent.

The Joint Command of the Anti-Judea Coalition, on one hand, applied to the Persian Gulf Regional Cooperation Organization to prepare more oil and natural gas in order to purchase more weapons and ammunition, and on the other hand, contacted military liaisons from various countries in the Persian Gulf region to tap into their arsenals and draw from the ammunition of various countries for replenishment.

Major General Zaha also received the order, and he had no objections to the Anti-Judea Coalition's need to draw ammunition from Syria to replenish the various frontline headquarters.

Now that Northern Syria had basically pacified the various Opposition Armed Forces, and other regions were gradually clearing out the various forces supported by the USA, the results were growing increasingly significant, and the campaign was basically drawing to a close.

The large quantity of weapons and ammunition previously purchased by Syria had not been completely exhausted, so a portion could still be drawn out.

However, Syria would not provide these weapons and ammunition for free; at the very least, beyond the quotas shared by each country, they would recover a portion of the funds for the weapons and ammunition that exceeded the allocated amount.

General Faraj and Major General Zaha communicated with high-ranking officials of the Syrian government, feeling that the oil and natural gas previously leased from Iran and Russia was too much and that the leased quantities needed to be reduced.

Regarding the oil and natural gas from Iran and Russia that had not yet been paid for, the leases would be completely cancelled; this meant they would only need to lease 50 million barrels of oil and 15 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Iran for the first year, and 600 million barrels of oil and 150 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia for the first year.

The 150 million barrels of oil and 35 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Iran that had not yet been paid for, and the 200 million barrels of oil and 50 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia that had not yet been paid for, would no longer be leased through negotiations. The negotiation work would be handled by Major General Zaha.

A portion of the various weapons and ammunition equipped by Syria could also be drawn out and sold to the Anti-Judea Coalition at 90% of the original price. After some inventory taking, a list of items to be drawn was drafted.

The list included: 2,000 missiles for the Tianlei Type I Anti-Aircraft Missile; 1,500 missiles for the Tianlei Type II Anti-Aircraft Missile; 800 missiles for the Tianlei Type III Anti-Aircraft Missile; and 50 missiles for the Tianlei Type IV Anti-Aircraft Missile.

2,000 air-to-ground missiles and 8,000 bombs for the Tianlong Series UAV; and 3,000 missiles for the Tianjian Series Anti-Tank Missile.

200 Fierce Rhino Type II Tanks, 200 Fierce Rhino Type III Tanks, and 20,000 rounds of various types of artillery shells; 600 Fierce Tiger Type II Armored Vehicles, 600 Fierce Tiger Type III Armored Vehicles, and 40,000 rounds of various types of artillery shells; 200 Fierce Lion Type II Artillery, 200 Fierce Lion Type III Artillery, and 20,000 rounds of various types of artillery shells; and 30 million rounds of machine gun ammunition for the armored vehicles.