Over the last few months President Nebuchadnezzar had gotten very little sleep. The reasons for this was due to the highly volatile situation with the Egyptians. Egypt was the only country that shared a border with the nation of Babylon. They both shared a continent with Babylon in the north and Egypt in the south. Babylon was twice the size of Egypt. Over the past few years tensions had been at the breaking point many times, and had resulted in a war between the two countries, a war Egypt lost and saw many of her cities near the Babylonian border raised to the ground, although Egypt had already by this time rebuilt many of these cities.
Both countries were 2 of the 4 nations of the world that had or were able to build ICBMs. Thus people all over the world were very troubled by the recent tension between the two countries, but no one was more troubled then the President of Babylon. The President had called a meeting of his top advisors and cabinet to discuss the current situation with Egypt and how best to advert war, and if the war did break out between the two countries what would be the best course of action.
The President began to speak, “ As you all know the reason why I have called this meeting. Once again current relations with Egypt have gotten to the point the war is almost sure to occur. We all know that if such a war broke out that it most likely would result in the deaths of millions if not billions of people. So our main goal of this meeting is to come up with ways to prevent such a war from occurring, but that does not mean I do not want us to prepare for such war, which will be the second goal of this meeting, to come up with the best way to conduct such a war against Egypt. Now I would like to hear what you all have to say.”
The Foreign Minister was the first to respond, “One option that we can try is to negotiate a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Egypt, but the recent actions and statement made by the Queen of Egypt Cleopatra the 41st indicate that she does not want to stop her nations current build up of nuclear weapons. In fact I have received reports form our diplomats in France that they have sold the technology to make ICBMs to France in exchange for a Mutual Protection Pact with France and a large sum of gold. Anther option we have is to stop producing nuclear arms and maybe even cut our current number of ICBMs and to reduce the size of our standing army and to pull back most of the troops we have stationed near the Egyptian border. This might make Egypt more willing to meet so that we could work out some sort of arms reduction treaty and I believe would result in the cooling of the tensions we have with them.”
The Minister of Defense spoke up right after the Foreign Minister was finished speaking, “We cannot make any cuts in the military!!!!!!! The only reason why the Egyptians have not attacked us yet is because we the largest, strongest, and most advance army in the world. They also know if they dear to attack us using ICBMs that we can wipe them and their allies right off the face of the earth! The only thing that Egypt respects is force. If anything we must continue the current build up of nuclear weapons, the reason for this is that Egypt has been trying to develop a missile defense system similar to our own, and it is only a matter of time before they have such a system in place. The only way we will be able to use our ICBMs to deter Egypt form attacking us is if we have so many that if we launch them at Egypt it will over whelm the missile defense system, and will be able to hit many of their cities. Test on our own missile defense system indicate that even a nation with 8 ICBMs has a good chance at hitting one of our most populous cities, so such a plan would work butwe would need many more ICBMs then the current numbers we have. Thus I propose that we continue our production ICBMs maybe even increase there production. I would also like to see the size of our conventional forces be increased as well. The area were the increase would need to take place is in the Air force. We need to double our current number of stealth bombers and to replace our regular bomber with stealth bombers as well, this would call for the formation of an additional 70 stealth bomber wings being formed, which would be on top of the current number of 45 stealth bomber wings already in service.”
Both countries were 2 of the 4 nations of the world that had or were able to build ICBMs. Thus people all over the world were very troubled by the recent tension between the two countries, but no one was more troubled then the President of Babylon. The President had called a meeting of his top advisors and cabinet to discuss the current situation with Egypt and how best to advert war, and if the war did break out between the two countries what would be the best course of action.
The President began to speak, “ As you all know the reason why I have called this meeting. Once again current relations with Egypt have gotten to the point the war is almost sure to occur. We all know that if such a war broke out that it most likely would result in the deaths of millions if not billions of people. So our main goal of this meeting is to come up with ways to prevent such a war from occurring, but that does not mean I do not want us to prepare for such war, which will be the second goal of this meeting, to come up with the best way to conduct such a war against Egypt. Now I would like to hear what you all have to say.”
The Foreign Minister was the first to respond, “One option that we can try is to negotiate a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Egypt, but the recent actions and statement made by the Queen of Egypt Cleopatra the 41st indicate that she does not want to stop her nations current build up of nuclear weapons. In fact I have received reports form our diplomats in France that they have sold the technology to make ICBMs to France in exchange for a Mutual Protection Pact with France and a large sum of gold. Anther option we have is to stop producing nuclear arms and maybe even cut our current number of ICBMs and to reduce the size of our standing army and to pull back most of the troops we have stationed near the Egyptian border. This might make Egypt more willing to meet so that we could work out some sort of arms reduction treaty and I believe would result in the cooling of the tensions we have with them.”
The Minister of Defense spoke up right after the Foreign Minister was finished speaking, “We cannot make any cuts in the military!!!!!!! The only reason why the Egyptians have not attacked us yet is because we the largest, strongest, and most advance army in the world. They also know if they dear to attack us using ICBMs that we can wipe them and their allies right off the face of the earth! The only thing that Egypt respects is force. If anything we must continue the current build up of nuclear weapons, the reason for this is that Egypt has been trying to develop a missile defense system similar to our own, and it is only a matter of time before they have such a system in place. The only way we will be able to use our ICBMs to deter Egypt form attacking us is if we have so many that if we launch them at Egypt it will over whelm the missile defense system, and will be able to hit many of their cities. Test on our own missile defense system indicate that even a nation with 8 ICBMs has a good chance at hitting one of our most populous cities, so such a plan would work butwe would need many more ICBMs then the current numbers we have. Thus I propose that we continue our production ICBMs maybe even increase there production. I would also like to see the size of our conventional forces be increased as well. The area were the increase would need to take place is in the Air force. We need to double our current number of stealth bombers and to replace our regular bomber with stealth bombers as well, this would call for the formation of an additional 70 stealth bomber wings being formed, which would be on top of the current number of 45 stealth bomber wings already in service.”
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