Chapter 221: shirking responsibility
The modern concentration camp model was born in the process of Spain suppressing colonial rebellion. Although the United States did not take the first place in this field due to the advent of the American Century, it firmly occupied the second place. It soon innovated from the experience of the Spanish Empire and left its future opponents, Germany and the Soviet Union, far behind. In this field, the world hegemon, the British Empire, which was about to enter the Boer War, barely grabbed the third place.
Although what Sheffield said was not very appropriate, the same thing still applies: no one understood concentration camps better than him.
After hearing Sheffield's words, Rivera and Polavixia nodded. Concentration camps were the means used by Spain to suppress riots. They agreed and said, "I didn't expect Mr. William to have research on this kind of thing."
"Private prisons are an important industry for the United Company, with stable profits." Sheffield pondered for a moment and said, "In fact, concentration camps and this thing only need a few characteristics to disintegrate the will of the rebels and prepare for the final victory. It serves as a deterrent. Death is inevitable, but the question is how? In fact, there is no need to torture the prisoners, or to do so directly. There are many roundabout ways."
The Third Reich is a bit too hateful. How can you clean the floor if you can't even clean it? Why is there a "bathhouse" written on the door of the gas chamber? In this case, we can refer to another model, which is the Rhine Camp, which did not exist for long after the war.
After World War II, the famous German Allied Commander-in-Chief Eisenhower ordered the establishment of an open-air camp to house prisoners of war on the spot, thus the famous "Rhine Camp" in the history of world wars was born. From the sentry post of the "Rhine Camp", the dense crowd of prisoners of war was vast.
"General Santos, this matter is left to you. The military will order enough barbed wire from the mainland. As for the raw materials, they can be sourced locally in the Philippines. The raw materials and Filipinos in the Philippines are part of the entire Philippines." Sheffield said something very difficult to understand, but the meaning was clear. Such a bastard thing is not suitable for the hope of mankind. The beacon of capitalism, the United States, still cares about its reputation, and it is best for someone like Santos to do it.
Filipinos kill Filipinos, and Filipinos guard Filipinos. This must be done to shirk responsibility. Sheffield also hopes that his joint company can exist for a long time, so he cannot do it directly.
"Mr. William, leave this matter to me!" The puppet army general was so straightforward. Santos agreed immediately to be the main force to guard the Philippine rebel prisoners of war.
"They are not prisoners of war, but enemies who have laid down their arms." Sheffield was possessed by Eisenhower and simply copied the name that the latter had racked his brains to come up with to use against his own people.
Now Santos still doesn't know what the consequences of the conditions he agreed to are, but Sheffield thinks there is no problem. Since the act of betrayal has already been done, the luxury of conscience no longer exists.
The combat mode of the various units of the American Expeditionary Force had already demonstrated its characteristics in the late 19th century. Compared with the professional armies of many countries, American soldiers may be unprofessional, have poor military discipline, and their professional qualities are just so-so, but they are absolutely not stingy when it comes to firepower.
The United States' powerful industry may produce products of poor quality, and the accuracy of its artillery and rifles is not as good as that of European countries. But if you fire one shot and I fire two, the quality difference is not so bad that the shells cannot explode. In this case, the so-called accuracy and precision are not so important. Explosion is an art, and explosion is the end.
Although there is still a big gap between this and the cruise missile bombing of camels in the future, the Philippine rebels believe that the situation they are facing is something they have never seen in their lives. They originally thought that at most they would face the Spanish colonial army, but they never expected that there are strong and weak imperialists.
The United States of America was far more powerful than the Spanish Empire. The Philippine commander who faced the American Expeditionary Force directly felt the same sense of embarrassment that the Spanish fleet had felt a few months earlier when it faced the American naval fleet. Naval traditions, tactical qualities, and national expectations were all useless. The cannons were bigger than yours, and the shells were more than yours. It was that direct.
The fact that the Philippine rebels have not collapsed yet is the result of their passion for defending their country and their hatred for the American invaders! Now, they have run out of food and ammunition! The result of their stubbornness is that after blood and flesh flew everywhere, they still had to give up their positions in the eastern suburbs of Manila.
By nightfall, all the positions of the Philippine rebels in the eastern suburbs of Manila had fallen into the hands of the American Expeditionary Forces, mixed with flesh and blood. The threat posed by the Philippine Provisional Government to Manila had been completely lifted.
Switching from offense to defense seems to be the best solution! But the current situation does not allow General Makabros to make a choice! Fighting on will only lead to death. It seems that his soldiers do not have as many artillery shells as the enemy.
On the first day of the attack, the Philippine rebels delivered more than 2,000 bodies, which made the American Expeditionary Force famous! Even if you use your equipment advantage to bully others, you have to have talent. If others don't have what I have, I am better than them. This is what should happen.
General Macabros paid the price for his decision to fight back. For the cause of Philippine national liberation, he was right to fight back, but he chose the wrong opponent. Now he has to retreat with those who advocate a friendly solution with the American Expeditionary Force. Oh no, in the journey of strategic transition, I believe they will fight back one day, and the Filipino people are still eagerly looking forward to their liberation of their motherland.
As the sound of gunfire gradually moved away from Manila, the naval and land forces in the military command were celebrating. Now they had finally taught the stupid Filipinos a lesson. However, they did not know that in Sheffield's eyes, they were also part of the stupid donkeys and were no different from the Filipinos.
"In fact, the reason why the Spanish have been unable to deal with the Filipinos is that they themselves are not strong enough. I believe the federal government has also realized this. Reinforcements are coming by sea. I am a businessman and do not want to comment on this move. However, in the process of Spain suppressing the riots, I found that the Spanish had a method that played a great role in curbing the riots. This is also the suggestion of the two governors Rivera and Polavixia."
Sheffield certainly couldn't say that he had come up with this cruel method. The United Company would still have to do business in the future, and it couldn't really be like the East India Company that ruined its reputation. Besides, it was originally invented by the Spanish, and he just improved it. Moreover, the American Expeditionary Force had already adopted it, and he was also maintaining the general trend of history. What's wrong with that?
If there was no profit margin in this matter, Sheffield would not have risked getting involved. Everything was for profit. After the United Company sold the guns, did it not consider whether the guns would flow into the civilian population and cause many bloody incidents? Of course not. It was people who killed people, but people were just holding guns. Guns were just a tool. What's wrong with it?
Besides, happy America, gunfights every day! This is the tradition of the United States!
Sure enough, when they heard that there was a move that could be used to deal with the Philippine rebels, many generals expressed their interest and asked what the method was. Sheffield coughed softly and said, "First of all, ban guns!"
After slapping the United States in the face, Sheffield got to the point. "The existence of guns among the people is very dangerous to the soldiers of the expeditionary army, so a strict ban on guns must be implemented among the people of the Philippines. Of course, this is just one of the steps. The Spanish model of isolation and centralized management has proven to be very effective in Cuba and the Philippines, but it is too cruel. However, after some modifications, I think it can still be adopted."
"For captured prisoners of war or uncooperative rebels, we first deprive them of food and water for two to four days after they are taken to the detention center. This has the objective effect that the prisoners, who are struggling with hunger and thirst, can only maintain their physical strength by reducing all activities. They have neither the physical strength to escape nor the physical strength to cause trouble."
"If these prisoners of war are not dead, we will start distributing food according to half of the food needed by a normal person, including biscuits, coffee and bread, all foods that require water, but drinking water must still be strictly controlled, so that a person will be in a state of dehydration for a long time, and such a person will not pose a threat."
"The entire detention center does not need any buildings to provide shade or shelter from the rain. All management is done outdoors, and only the soldiers on duty can live in the houses. This is to save costs. The entire detention center can be surrounded by barbed wire, and canals are dug in advance around it to isolate it, so that the prisoners can get drinking water in the open air. Let the natural conditions of the Philippines decide whether these rebels can survive, and all this has nothing to do with our United States."
George Dewey, Merritt, MacArthur and other generals were listening to the contractors of this war talking in front of them. With the weather conditions in the Philippines, they should not feel cold, but now, many generals felt their backs a little wet.
"Why don't we let the United Company take charge of this?" General Merritt swallowed his saliva and said with an expression that he attached great importance to the strength of the United Company. "The United Company has the strength to do this."
"As a private enterprise, I reject this suggestion. United Company needs to consider its reputation and future development." Sheffield declined with a military look that showed he didn't want to be modest. "It's better for the military to handle this. This is part of the war."
(End of this chapter)
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