Exodus: Empires at War: Book 17: The Rebirth by Doug Dandridge

Author:Doug Dandridge [Dandridge, Doug]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Catbrother Publishing
Published: 2020-01-26T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. Charles Evans Hughes

AUGUST 15TH, 1004.

Sean looked over the figures from his front and scowled. He was still getting a favorable exchange rate with the Cacas, but that only mattered if they were looking at things the same as he was. By all indications they were proceeding from a different set of assumptions. His forces were still winning the fights, but they were losing the overall war.

It really didn't look that way, since he was still advancing into their territory on a wide front. Slowly though, ever so slowly, and there was still a lot of space in front of them. It was reminding him more and more of the Eastern Front in the Second Global War. The Cacas still had more ships, though many of those were obsolete by this year's standards. He thought his industrial capacity had surpassed theirs, and he didn't have to worry about insurgents to his far rear. Just behind the front was another thing altogether.

It was a war of attrition, plain and simple, and the Cacas were willing to spend as many lives as necessary to make him think again about continuing his invasion of their Empire. He was reminded of Verdun in the First Global War more than anything.

That battle had been set up by the German Army, after catching the French off guard and taking the fortress complex at Verdun. They had reinforced the forts with everything they had, and lured the French into a battle of attrition. Over a million men had died on each side in that battle. The German idea had been to kill so many of the enemy that the French would give up. Unfortunately, the French were just as willing to spend lives, and the battle had ended in a draw. In the long run the German strategy would have worked, since the French had fewer lives to throw into the cauldron than the Germans. Having the British helped, but with Russia out of the war things were looking bad, until the United States jumped in.

I only wished we had a United States waiting in the wings, thought the Emperor.

Worse of all, the Cacas were trying to target the ships of the allies to the exclusion of his own, trying to make their involvement painful enough that they would quit. So far the other empires were sticking it out, but the rumblings of their people were growing. He had tried to keep them out of the line of fire, but frankly he needed their ships involved in actions, otherwise what use were they?

That the enemy was targeting Elysium and Crakista was obvious. They had passed up ambushes of his ships that would have hurt the fleet grievously, just to wait until some follow up alliance ships had appeared. The only way he could think to combat the enemy strategy was to integrate their formations more closely into his own. Instead of an Elysium battle group

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