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Didn't stop them from collaborating with Germany on major military projects like Project Willem/Wilhelm and Project Habsburg, which gave them the excellent de Ruyter-class carriers and Fokker Komeet respectivly. Of course by that point they had all but given up on trying to match the Royal Navy...

Then it is good that the EU has five million men in reserves and tens of millions of adults ready to recruit.

Yes, but Norway is not Afghanistan or Chechnya. I would be surprised to learn that the People who live in a country full of forests and mountains have no experience in mountain warfare. As has been pointed out earlier, Norway still uses conscription and therefor has a ready pool of recruits...

Actually, I am quite certain that a Russian invasion of Norway wouldn't be very smart. Norway is not only a NATO member that still has the the draft, it is also a very mountaines country that has a lot of narrow roads. And since most of the population lives in the south the Russians would have...

For Africa at least it seems that a major reason they don't really give it their all is because they know they are gonna lose anyway, so why bother? (The 1978 cup, where Argentina reached the finale only to get toyed With by the Dutch, futher reinforced this mentality.) So instead of focusing...

Obama got his prize for the sole reason that he wasn't George Bush.

Because the pay off was worth it. In one Swift move they not only increased their own wealth by ensuring that everybody traveled to their ports and bought from them, they also ensured that their enemies lost wealth and military strenght. And you might mean Amsterdam instead of Antwerpen.

I read it in the Total War Rome 2 encyclopia (i like to read the background information) about the supply reform tech.

From what i have read, the Romans actually encouraged their soldiers to eat like pigs in the days before setting out on a campaign. There was however a paractical reason behind it: Food is easier to carry as body fat and after a few days of being on the march carrying all their Equipment the men...

I would be willing to Write a TL like that. Unfortantly my knowledge of Roman history is kind of lacking in some areas. But i can certaintly try.

Is it possible, that following some defeat that severly drains Rome of men, the Romans are willing to allow woman to serve as soldiers?

There was also the invention of the Stock market, which meant that everybody who spent money in a companie earned money when the company made money, motivating to spend more money on buying Stocks. Thus everybody from the lowest seamster to the highest Merchant earned money on the trading. As...

The problem With that suggestion is that contrary to popular belief, the People of the fifteenth Century were well aware that the Earth was round and had a good estimation of its size. The reason everybody thought Columbus was going to fail was because he used the wrong map and thought the Earth...