Social: work on trying to restore order to France by appealing to the people of Francis common decency about how all they are doing is killing their fellow countrymen and proving that they are no better that what they think of the government they seek to replace as a result of the tragedy that killed civilians are they not doing the same in their action.
Design: work on designing a ship to work as a mobile air craft hanger and launch station make sure to make it have a strong anti aircraft system for its defense and try to make it so it can host at least four aircraft squadrons optimally but it can have less as this is a proof of concept design.
Research 1: Research into ballistic theory and how we can apply this Research to our rocket systems that we have designed and to our rifles to see what improvements we can make.
Research 2: try to attempt to figure out how to crack the atom like the Japanese have as we now know it can be done and won't ignite the atmosphere or something we cannot let the Japanese be the only ones to have this or they will be able to threaten all free people of the world.
Production: produce one battleship and 2 infantry units and 1 tank unit to truly give our task force some true fighting power on land and sea.
Military: support whumbly in his efforts to help the French government restore order to their country and protect the innocent people being caught up in this.
Covert:
have the intelligence agencies all work together on this find evidence of German duplicity in this french situation intercept orders to sabotage us pass them on but record them, spread disinformation, find the skeletons in the axis closet discover what we can that can prove German involvement.
Capturing their sub intact means that we got an example of their enigma machine, right?
Design: We have an expeditionary doctrine. Train 2 Victory Boys battalions in it just in case we need to deliver some democracy to side that requires it, and upgrade everyone's armaments and equipment while's we're at it.
Research:
- The current naval squadrons we have are good, but they can be better and much more diverse. See if a new type of vessel that travels underwater, instead of just above it, can be made. Incorporating VK-technology in it's construction, of course.
- Ship reactors sound like an interesting research topic. Have it done and see what we can make of it.
Covert: Something isn't adding up to the AWP easily surrendering their things for search. More so when such things emerge clean. Have the FBI run a quick background check on the AWP leaders and anyone of note they have employed, see where they've been and what they've been up to recently.
Social:
Even with its reluctance towards adventurism the United States' enormous resources and booming economy can serve as the world's Arsenal of Democracy. With our existing trade relationships it is in pursuit of US economic, ideological, and formal diplomatic interests to help Britain and France through their troubles. We will organize a three-way mutual defense and prosperity pact to stand together in this ever more dangerous world.
With Britain and France working to open their economies to investment by US businesses and, at least in France, the wildly successful social programs which have catapulted us out of our economic malaise and social woes we will flood them with the desperately needed resources and expertise to reproduce our recent wonders and win the hearts of their citizens. With prosperity and trade comes peace and harmony, both within and without. In a few years the leaders of these countries can hope to be laughing off socialist influence and critique just as easily as we so publicly did during the Olympic games.
Formal basing rights throughout the empires for these new investments will be ample payment for our generous donations, as well as ensure that the United States has skin in the game if our new allies are attacked.
Research:
Gyrotron. In the real world the invention of the cavity magnetron permitted the Allies a large radar advantage over the more fine-tuned but larger and less efficient klystrons of the Axis. We can do better. More a conceptual breakthrough than a technical one the Gyrotron combines the advantages of the klystron and the cavity magnetron in one high-power package and is well within reach of a team who knows it is possible and the basic theory behind it. Pursue the key to small, precise, extremely powerful radar systems.
Research:
The Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing program. Rule 1 of government purchasing: "Why have one when you can have two for twice the price?" The US is swimming in resources, but aching for the industry and manpower to use them properly. Fortunately, the new communications networks and computing technologies present the opportunity to augment the effectiveness of its growing capital. Our program will exploit the classified technologies to promote the adoption of unclassified end-user numerical control technologies in computer integrated manufacturing programs.
Due to the versatility the new systems permit, multiple factories can be retooled in record times to allow larger numbers of more generalist workers managing numerical and programmable logic controlled lathes, looms, saws, drills, welders, stamps, presses, rollers, and machines and tools of all stripes to be given a production order and turn out two products in the time of one.
Effect: "Industry" resource doubled. Production orders can be "doubled-down" to produce twice the products for twice the price.
Design:
Magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters.
Inspired by the incredibly dense power sources available from VK technology and starting from earlier work on practical railguns, we have developed an electromagnetic propulsion system. Instead of a solid projectile, a ferrofluid sweats from coaxial VK-steel grids, where it simultaneously serves as ablative coolant, electrode, contact surface, and projectile. Due to the higher efficiency coaxial and helical designs possible and the electromagnetically manipulable propellant itself serving as all of the high-current and high-temperature elements an extremely compact, high-power engine can be built which hurls toroidal pulses of fantastically hot plasma at extreme velocities.
By using this as the driver for a valveless puslejet the extremely high velocity plasma can augment its momentum and therefore thrust with ambient atmosphere through combustion-assisted entrainment in a manner which automatically calibrates to the operating regime. By using the waste heat of the VK-reactor and engine itself to pre-heat the fuel cruising efficiencies in excess of 80% can be achieved. Since the engine uses an electric arc to heat the propellant into a plasma extremely dense, inert fuels can be used to increase capacity and safety.
While the propellant consumption is usually trivial due to the majority of the engine power coming from the VK reactor the fuel flow can be dramatically increased to boost the combustion contribution for short periods as a form of very inefficient but extremely effective afterburner which rivals rockets in total thrust-to-weight metrics. The result is a powerful, compact, robust, entirely solid-state jet engine.
Production + Military:
Cooperative operations with the Soviets and their proxies in China. Provide them with (unclassified) resources and materiel, as well as special operations troops to operate more classified technologies and feed recovered intel back to them. We want to recover as much intel, salvage, and as many prisoners as possible while making both the Draka and the Japanese bleed.
Covert:
Infiltrate the Axis. Our first priority is whatever it takes to crack their encryption.
Well, when the going gets tough, America gets going. Let's thank the Germans for poking America in the eye, shall we?
Social: Drawing on the efforts made to drum up support for intervention in France, begin to use this to spur the development of light and heavy industry for the production of weaponry and other war materials. Use the fear that if it happened in France it could happen here as well, and provide motivation to businessmen in the form of the profits that they can get. Our boys are going to need weapons and equipment to defend our freedom, and if it takes lucrative government contracts to get that then so be it.
Research: With the help of our various scientists such as the recruited Professor Goddard, begin research into liquid fueled rockets. Focus less on payload at the moment, and more on improving the rocket itself. Range, speed, that sort of thing.
Design: Begin work on a new Medium tank, using the technologies that we have gained thus far. We need something with a bit more kick to it, and while our light tanks are nice we want something that can ideally slug it out with other tanks and isn't based on an OTL prototype that never saw combat.
Military: Using the forces that we have so conveniently moved as a deterrent in the previous turns, deploy military forces to France's colonial holdings, subduing any rebels that might be present and acting in support of the Fourth Republic in Paris. Act fast and with a firm hand, making it clear that any foreign incursions into this territory will not be tolerated.
Obviously the Army and Navy will spearhead this effort, rather than our own private forces
Covert: Have our covert operations begin actions in conjunction with the British and French to counter foreign influence in France. This should take the form of providing intelligence on enemy troops movements, leaders, that sort of thing to aid military operations, as well as organizing sympathizers and beginning a campaign of guerrilla warfare in favor of the Fourth Republic that takes the form of sabotage, assassinations, whatever we need to do to win. Taken into context, if there is no active conflict going on then we should support parties favorable to us in anticipation of the election, and counter others covert actions in France
Hey @Gideon020 does this Brazilian Empress have a name? Given she took power over the country I can't imagine it'd take more than looking at a newspaper to find out what that is.