Much of what the US government does is "feel good nonsense". Take the whole TSA for example. It's all security theater. But keeping the public thinking its actively helping a national effort or being protected is important. Because a panicked public is a dangerously unpredictable thing. That...
Saddam Hussein was a US ally as late as the mid 1980's. The US still supported Iraq unofficially until Bush 1 changed his mind in late 1989. The Iraqis invade Kuwait in August of 1990. 11 months of being an enemy isn't that long. Plenty of butterflies to explain a different US response.
Really? Who's buying all that Russian, Venezuelan and Iranian oil? I bet a lot of the people are on Washington's side.
Why can't Saddam become Washington's guy just as easily as the Emir Sheikh Jaber al Ahmand al-Sabah? Franco was Hitler's guy until April 1945 when that job sort of suddenly...
Is anything discredited when its dismissed by a wing of a totalitarian government? Asked the CCP if China did something bad in the past is like asking Putin's Russia if Lend-Lease was useful. 99.9% of the time you're getting party line propaganda not real analysis.
And yet Roman used large water wheel powered mills. If slavery was the reason they didn't develop steam engines shouldn't the same thing apply to water power?
Outside of ASB intervention there is no way Walker could retain control long enough to remake the areas he controlled into anything. He was just a flash in the pan.
At the time of this OP the US had a whole system of domestics QF guns under-development.
M1902/1905 3 inch gun, range 8500 yards
M1908/M1915 3.8 inch howitzer, range 6338 yards
M1908 4.7 inch howitzer, range 7000 yards
M1908 6 inch howitzer, range 9000 yards
M1908 4.7 inch gun, range 9,000...
With a better managed draw drown they would have the ships and men available anyway, so why not bring its property back. The OP is to better prepare the US military, that doesn't mean helping western Europe. They can make do with what their own leaders can do.
It not a question of having...
You don't really need mines. You just need land to store coal on, and an anchorage to load it from. Although, taking the island isn't the same and holding it. Especially since the Navy like Gitmo and a base at the time.
So following the OP I assume complete control of the military as the Secretary of the Army and Navy on August 16, 1945 until September 1947 when I assume complete control of the new Department of Defense.
1. Starting in August 1945. I better manage the draw down overall. The points system is...