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  1. Malaya What If

    Defeatist: an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat. One can be both realist and defeatist at the same time. Don't get me wrong, OTL Hart was one of the more competent commanders in a theatre that was filled with incompetents, and when he was made ABDAFLOAT commander he...
  2. Malaya What If

    Was Hart already this defeatist before Pearl Harbour? I always thought it was the destruction of the US fleet there, the quick Japanese advance in the Philippines and his mode of retreat that caused that.
  3. What if the Japanese overthrew the Vichy French administration in Indochina shortly after occupying it?

    Was an earlier PH-attack technically possible in September? Basically for this to happen though, you need to get the Greater-Asian faction to gain the upper hand. Not sure yet what political machinations need to happen in Tokyo for that situation to exist though.
  4. What if the Japanese overthrew the Vichy French administration in Indochina shortly after occupying it?

    If Japan does this it puts itself very clearly outside the international order at a much earlier point in time. OTL the Japanese didn't declare war on the Netherlands until the end of December '41, this because they had the hope that they could 'Indochina' the DEI. If Japan decapitates...
  5. Onderzeeboot Nekt Navalisme - Or: The Dutch Submarine Service during World War 2

    The next instalment will be about the KM in WWI. After that we will begin dissecting the evolution of the Dutch submarine tactics!
  6. Onderzeeboot Nekt Navalisme - Or: The Dutch Submarine Service during World War 2

    Ah good one! I'm not sure about the chin though. Thanks! At times I'm wondering if it's not too in-depth but it might be the best for such a niche-subject.
  7. Onderzeeboot Nekt Navalisme - Or: The Dutch Submarine Service during World War 2
    Threadmarks: Chapter 6: The Fleetlaw of 1914

    VI. The Fleetlaw of 1914 ‘We can do anything we want, and if the Dutch people would only start with saying that, we can look at the future with confidence.’ Hendrikus Colijn, 1912. The gamut of polemic articles in the Marineblad[1] attest to the lack of harmony, about what course the KM should...
  8. Onderzeeboot Nekt Navalisme - Or: The Dutch Submarine Service during World War 2

    Thanks! At some point I discovered that I couldn't make the story work with Colijn being in Kota Rahdja but I also couldn't let all the interesting information about Hotel l'Europe go to waste. Which is when I thought of 'historical fiction' as a solution. It felt a little bit clunky writing it...
  9. Onderzeeboot Nekt Navalisme - Or: The Dutch Submarine Service during World War 2

    Thanks for the compliment fellow-cheesehead! (And for the heads up on the bookmarking of course) Yeah, I'm not really happy about the title as I know that the capitalizing of words is a bit of a anglicisism. When I set up the thread I had spend a lot of time on the first post and was anxious to...
  10. Onderzeeboot Nekt Navalisme - Or: The Dutch Submarine Service during World War 2
    Threadmarks: Chapter 5: Another Man, Another Mission

    V. Another Man, Another Mission I am a Calvinist, through upbringing and conviction[…] It has never been a characteristic of the man of the Calvinistic confession to seek his strength in sitting still or lamentingly sighing. – Hendrikus Colijn Sabang, May 1904 ‘Parrrrdon kapitein[1].’...
  11. Why didn't the Netherlands consider the US as a possible supplier of battleships?

    Thanks for the response naraic (and the others of course). Did these kind of political-economic sanctions also happen with industrialized European countries? Wouldn't choosing between the UK and Germany also mean siding politically with that country? It certainly gave that country an advantage...
  12. Why didn't the Netherlands consider the US as a possible supplier of battleships?

    While doing research for my TL (shameless plug), I noticed that when the Netherlands was planning to order battleships on the eve of the First World War, they considered British and German yards, but there is no mention of American yards. Again in 1940, when there was a plan for battlecruisers...
  13. Onderzeeboot Nekt Navalisme - Or: The Dutch Submarine Service during World War 2
    Threadmarks: Chapter 4: Decade of the Four Ministries

    IV. Decade of the Four Ministries In the last quarter of the 19th century, the Dutch government, acknowledging that its defence of their premier colony, the East Indies, was lacking a coherent policy, formed two commission to rectify this situation. These two commissions were composed of...
  14. WI: The Seventh Crusade takes Egypt

    They are not Catholics though, and that is paramount.
  15. WI: The Seventh Crusade takes Egypt

    Really interesting! Would love to contribute but my knowledge of this period is very basic :)
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