Having a private military outsourcing company handle armed conflicts between nations sounded... well, how should I put it? It sounded like a joke.
But no one genuinely thought the joke was funny. The core strength in Lin Qi's hands wasn't the elite, battle-hardened employees of Blackstone Security. It was his planes and his cluster bombs.
Those were the things truly capable of inflicting the greatest casualties on an army. Especially now, when there still wasn't any truly effective air-defense equipment, bombers became even more important.
Everyone had seen Blackstone Security's performance in the north. Though they had indeed suffered many setbacks at first, those had been problems encountered by a command structure centered around the military.
Once the Blackstone System commanders arrived, everything became steady.
Besides, Lin Qi himself had said that he wasn't trying to display the Peng Joe Army. He was creating the conditions and buying time for the Federation to regroup. So... this wasn't a joke.
If more than ten thousand people risked their lives to pin down the enemy and hold them at the front for a week, that would be enough time for hundreds of thousands of Federal troops to reach Nagaril.
On top of that, the Military Industrial Group wanted to continue cooperating with Blackstone Security, and some new equipment needed testing. There seemed to be no reason to refuse.
A senior official from the Department of Defense licked his lips. "Mr. Lin Qi, your proposal is good, but..." He shook his head. "The price you're asking is too high."
The President followed up, "Yes. Six hundred million. I do think that's a little too much."
That sum was actually nothing to the navy.
They had impressive achievements to their name, and all kinds of funding had received the green light.
But the army