Delta Blue by Lovejoy William H

Author:Lovejoy, William H [Lovejoy, William H]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Published: 2015-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

Ten

The Hochkommandieren was composed of the commanders-in-chief of the army, the navy, and the air force. Along with innumerable advisors, staffers, and flunkies. The overflowing headquarters building and three annexes were located in Bonn, close to the civilian government to which the High Command reported.

The three men who headed Germany’s military establishment took themselves and their charter very seriously, and they took the civilian government somewhat less seriously. Chancellors and legislators, they reasoned, could not possibly understand the fine nuances of strategy, tactics, overt and covert operation, and proud tradition.

Gen. Felix Eisenach understood the subtle distinctions that existed between the civilian and the military leaderships. The civilians wanted a strong, world-respected posture for Germany without paying too much for it, and they set that policy for the High Command, leaving the strategy for achieving it to men who had fought as youngsters in, and been soundly defeated by, World War II.

With the sting of memory still aching in their minds and with the annual debate and underfunding of military appropriations by liberal thinkers in the Bundestag, the marshals, generals, and admirals had been pressured to look elsewhere for funding to meet their charter.

They found the necessary support in a loose confederation of bankers, entrepreneurs, and financial manipulators of like mind. The confederation operated under the VORMUND PROJEKT. Where the shortsighted tinkers and tailors who made up the Bundestag failed to provide, the GUARDIAN PROJECT supplemented. The bankers, naturally, sought more than military and national stature. They were looking for long-range profits and were already beginning to see them in increased employment, an expanding industry, and a growing economy. The revenues from the sale of new energy flowing from the Greenland Sea was already meeting the debt obligations of capital investment and would show a sliver of profit in this fiscal year.

Both the visible government in Bonn and the invisible underwriters of the GUARDIAN PROJECT were willing listeners to reports of advancement. Setbacks, extended timetables, and minor failures were not received as well.

Thus, when Eisenach left the High Command headquarters, after listening to the two marshals and single admiral, he understood his instructions. There would be no advertising of the losses on the Arctic Ice the night before. Such a revelation would generate spirited and vivid debate in the federal parliament, and quite possibly, investigations into the Bremerhaven Petroleum Corporation, the makeup of its board of directors, and the role the military played in economic development.

More undesirable, from the High Command’s point of view, was a public discussion of the tremendous amount of energy production and energy reserves that had been developed over the past three years. Wars were won or lost, based upon the availability of energy. Ships stayed in port and aircraft on the ground when there were no fuels available. Armies, with their insatiable need for ammunition, stores, and support services, became immobile when the fuel tanks of trucks, jeeps, and tanks went dry. Any airing of the rationales for the High Command’s objective of hoarding energy supplies and sources was to be avoided at all costs.

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