Recent content by Ramp-Rat

As an old fart myself I will take your request into consideration. RR.

So the Chiefs of Staff in London have been able to overcome the intense objections of the Foreign Office, and persuade Winston to give Gort permission to carry out his plans. Phillips is right, if it all goes wrong and Gort has managed to get Britain into a war with Japan, without the Americans...

Was the British various intelligence agencies successful during the intra war period and WWII, to which I believe the answer is Yes/No. Yes the British along with her Commonwealth allies ran a very successful intelligence campaign against the Axis powers. However they completely failed against...

The resent regime change in the French Levant has served to achieve a number of British objectives, and tremendously increase the pressure on Weygand. The regime change in the Levent has removed any threat to British interests in Palestine, and put the Turkish on notice that they need to...

I doubt that Benito would have provided a recording, or that there were the facilities on the Island to broadcast such without using radio, and thus broadcasting his message to the whole world. It should be noted that much as in Germany, those who could listened to the BBC World Service to try...

Why other than his own personal arrogance didn’t MacArthur authorise reconnaissance flights over the Japanese positions in French Indochina and Formosa during 1941. Mac was under strict instructions not to give the Japanese a reason to start a war with the United States, and thus overflying...

Thank-you good sir for the compliment, I do not have a better handle on this than you do, but unlike some others I am prepared to look at the Japanese side of the argument, and how they given their cultural views might see the situation. No Japanese officer who had presided over a defeat such as...

Have the Japanese noticed the various changes that have taken place in the British and Dutch Far East colonies, of course they have, they have an extensive intelligence system in place. However they have a number of problems, the first of which is their interpretation of what these changes mean...

Should Weygand decide to switch sides, as apposed to the British carrying out a successful invasion of FNA, will make little difference to the Germans. Either way they are going to occupy the remainder of France, in a swift and prepared assault, in conjunction with their Italian allies. This...

And so the first major crack in the Vichy governance in the Mediterranean has occurred, and without the British or Free French military having to invade or a shot being fired. This will only serve to further increase the pressure on Weygand to make the jump himself, and switch sides coming out...

Once the armour on armoured vehicles had become immune to the rounds from anti-tank rifles, there was a desperate such by all the principal nations for a man portable effective anti-tank weapon. Unfortunately all the principal arms manufacturers were already involved in building and refining...

The British weren’t so much frozen out of the Manhattan Project, there were numerous British/Commonwealth scientists/engineers involved in the project, including a substantial number of Canadians working in Canada. What basically happened was the Americans refused to allow these men to...

Admiral Phillips was both personally brave and a competent Naval Commander, however he had IOTL a major problem. Not only was he commanding a totally inadequate force, lacking as it did an accompanying aircraft carrier , to provide much needed organic air support. It didn’t have the requisite...

There is a part of me that feels sorry for Admiral Hart, a man who has been placed in an unwindable situation, and is also watching a man he once admired, a personal close friend. Degenerate into a bombastic fool, who is week by week becoming more and more detached from reality, and the...

So what should have been a meeting between two gentlemen concerning their respective naval deployments, and Layton saying good-bye to his opposite number, and giving him a heads up regarding his replacement. Has been high jacked by MacArthur, who has once more raised the idea of the British...