If we were to speak only of this war, what was the Navy's greatest advantage?
Aside from numbers, it was still numbers!
Those numbers included warships, high-level combat power, and the number of Navy soldiers.
The number of Navy soldiers in particular was nearly enough to crush the Sky Pirate Crew.
No matter how the Navy counted it, the Sky Pirate Crew only had around twenty thousand troops. Moreover, because they had been recruited too recently, the vast majority were untrained lackeys, utterly incapable of comparing to the Navy's long-trained elite soldiers.
And on top of that...
At that thought, Sengoku glanced at the Television Dial placed nearby.
Although this war had uncontrollably been broadcast live to the world by the Sky Pirate Crew, putting the Navy at a disadvantage from the outset and forcing them passively onto the battlefield the Sky Pirate Crew had prepared, the Navy Fleet Admiral had to find every possible way to turn unfavorable conditions into favorable ones.
Before arranging this operation, the Navy and Cipher Pol had analyzed every aspect of Fire Dragon Ye Mu's intelligence.
They had then reached a conclusion that was highly advantageous to the Navy.
Fire Dragon Ye Mu had an obvious character weakness that differed from other pirates.
Neither Fire Dragon Ye Mu nor the Sky Pirate Crew were indiscriminate killers, especially when it came to ordinary people.
Whether it was the gentlemen's agreement between Fire Dragon Ye Mu and Kuzan in Loguetown or the events at the Sabaody Archipelago, both proved that conclusion.
Though from the standpoint of justice, this was not a weakness but rather a strength, and the Navy's plan to use it to influence the course of this war was somewhat despicable, war had no distinction between despicable and honorable.
Furthermore, since Fire Dragon Ye