Recent content by Grue

The problem with limited nuclear exchange scenarios is there wouldn't be any certainty with the ICBMs nor with the other potential avenues of attack. Once the missiles are flying it becomes a 'use it or lose it' proposition. Nobody is going to think 'yah they're only sending a few nukes and...

<double checks AU history to see what weirdness they applied there>. 1970 with an unspecified date? It's periphery to the show but that's some handwavium there. Without something equivalent to OTL he likely wouldn't even decide to run given the fact they'd massacre him with challenges in the...

You're right I have my timeline all mixed up when it comes to this show. :oops: Still don't like Kennedy's chances in '72 given other events and the fact Nixon will have a lot of runway to move the ball forward on the moon while making it a major national security issue that a Democratic...

It wasn't just that (and South Vietnam collapsing even more improbable than a miraculous Soviet First moonshot given the POD). Just was not going to be a good year for the incumbent party. Granted Vietnam collapsing with that many US troops on the ground would have made it even worse for them...

I remember that now.:oops: Just don't think at the time it was possible for any D to have a good election (given other events).

Hell, I had to shut off my brain just to make the Soviet economics and the a good portion of the politics of the show to work. Handwaving the tech aspects is pro forma at this point;-). Especially considering Reagan shifted from containment strategy to strangle the Soviets economically. They...

Yeah, that's pretty egregiously stupid and plays into the problem of breaking SOD by people reacting in ways that just seem utterly implausible. The only worse offenders I can think of is the language patois of the trash people in the Walking Dead. Granted lots of stupidity in that series (of...

No you aren't the only one. I've only managed to plow the first three Emberverse (though I have scanned through a few latter titles to see how the trainwreck was going), so I don't have a comprehensive view on things. His writing is passable... I've read/enjoyed stuff from worse writers who...

Well the 1st division gets it's start from the infantry regiments transferred over from chasing Pancho in Mexico to France (they were some of the few 'ready' troops the US had). I'd have to look around to figure out how the US operated on the small scale but I suspect it was a combination of...

IIRC the Japanese submarine tactics were awful though. Unlike the Germans in the Atlantic (or the US in the pacific) they attached their submarines to fleets rather than independent command. Building more dreadnaughts (er capital ships) was limited by a series of naval treaties (Washington...

Hmm... well in the inter-war years the US Army hemorrhaged much of it's world war I experienced company grade officers anyway(who would be general officers for WW2). The US Army was ridiculously small for a country of it's size, but the USN was first rate for the era. Institutionally, the...