The news of the naval victory quickly reached the homeland and became Australasia's biggest news of the day.
Arthur finally breathed a sigh of relief, and he looked forward to the war's subsequent developments even more.
According to the Staff Department's plan, after destroying the Combined Fleet, Australasia had no large-scale battle plans in the immediate future.
Why?
Because there was only one plan for the next stage of the war: find the most suitable opportunity, then drop atomic bombs on the major cities of the Island Nation.
Since they were uncertain about the Island Nation Government's attitude toward resistance, the number of atomic bombs to be dropped was also undecided.
If the Island Nation Government knew how to read the situation, Australasia might drop only one round of atomic bombs before considering how to control the Island Nation economically.
But if the Island Nation Government refused to cooperate, the Staff Department also had plans to annihilate the country.
In any case, atomic bombs were not particularly expensive for Australasia to produce. Moreover, by this point, Australasia's stockpile had already reached the astonishing number of more than fifty bombs, and it was still growing at the frantic rate of twenty bombs a year.
Judging by those stockpiles and that production speed, dropping dozens of atomic bombs on the Island Nation's territory was entirely feasible.
Just as Arthur had hoped, the Staff Department held a supreme meeting and formally approved the plan for using atomic bombs.
At present, the Australasia Army's primary mission was to lure as many Island Nation Army troops as possible into the Island Nation's major cities, making it easier for the air force to strike them all at once.
To lure in more Island Nation Army troops, they had to disguise their actions in the major cities