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authors notes: Not included are some Regular Army Infantry Divisions that are more or less combat ready but at home (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th...

Overseas deployment and planned deployments of US Army Forces December 7, 1941 American Expeditionary Force Mideast (Lieutenant General...

Gott still has a corps command, while Montgomery was in effect a pet of Alan Brooke, who gets to choose his commander. Monty had...

I would argue that the most useful thing that coastal defense forts do in the late 19th through mid 20th Century is keep minesweepers at...

author had to drive to Wichita KS, see grandchildren and children, prepare for a virtual job interview and avoid contagion... but on...

yes indeed, and Congress being supportive on things (like for example the seacoast forts in the late 18th and early 19th Century) is but...

The good guys do have to have their learning curve after all.. and in 1941 all of the Allies, British included, are still learning

I stole those batteries for Wake, Midway, Johnston and Palmyra Atolls in Keynes Cruisers

Authors notes: I am trying as best as possible not to include 20/20 hindsight, and have the participants react to the pressures of the...

note that the P35 and P36 are adequate fighters but the real problem is that the airbasing infrastructure in the Philippines cannot...

and then there is General Drum... who also fumbled in Louisiana and Stinson actually thought he was offering Drum a favor too no B17s...

authors note: as much as I wanted to, I cannot find a good reason to send Alan Brooke to India, and with him Montgomery. However there...

Churchill juggles his generals Winston Churchill in June 1941 sees the pressure of the British Empire fighting Germany alone ease...