"Our attack was repulsed. The other side used artillery, and we're now at a disadvantage. The president hopes we can demonstrate more of our strength in front of those military observers..."
Blackstone Security helping Sanchez seize territory should have been Blackstone Security's own private affair. However, because it involved too many geopolitical factors, and because the Federation needed the training, this task, which should have been handled by Lin Qi himself, had instead become something the Department of Defense was carrying out on his behalf.
They had even dispatched a senior field officer from a dedicated combat command to take charge at the front. From beginning to end, they had never asked Lin Qi whether this was acceptable.
Of course it wasn't.
Lin Qi knew far more about war than they did. He had known from the very beginning that Blackstone Security would suffer setbacks—and not just once or twice. There would be many.
Arrogance and self-importance were fatal to anyone at any time, especially when they exposed their own weaknesses. Those weaknesses could cost them their lives.
The Federation people looked down on the Maliro People, and they looked down even more on the warlords of Maliro. From the beginning, they had never truly treated this military operation as a war or taken it seriously.
Although they claimed, "We're already taking this very seriously," they weren't. In fact, they acted almost as if they were on vacation.
Lin Qi didn't interfere. After all, the ones dying were the army and navy's elite troops. They had to be hurt badly—hurt to the bone—before they would be willing to set aside their arrogance and take this matter seriously.
People always said Gefra people were arrogant. In reality, the Federation people were arrogant too. They simply didn't think so themselves, just like