Newland's capital, Huacheng, the Grey Palace of the President Mansion.
After exiting the central conference room, Colonel Stark finally let out a long sigh. Once the secretary responsible for reception left, he swiftly lit a cigarette.
Actually, he didn't have a smoking habit.
It's just that, in the past three-plus hours, he gave a detailed briefing on the warfare strategies against the Liangxia Empire to more than a dozen senior military and political officials, including the president, and repeatedly answered questions that were often clueless and naive.
From start to finish, he didn't even take a sip of water!
The key was that few of those listening understood the brutality of war, or even modern warfare for that matter.
There's nothing strange about that.
The Newland Republic hadn't been tested by war for almost 30 years.
