The naval build-up has an interesting side effect.
There´s practically no german civil service. I actually couldn´t say at the moment if the civil servants performing Reich (federal) functions weren´t just on loan from the member states.
There wasn´t de jure a german army.
There´s a rising...
I´d say many aspects came together: A weak industry to support the war effort, with disputes between staffs, the Court, whomever;
at least for the 1914 offensive I´ve read half of the Russian divisions didn´t get the new cypher books on time, so they radioed in clear.
No, I actually don´t think so.
We are talking about the GG of 66 here:
All the articles introducing a narrow definition of "defense" like Art. 87a GG, 115a GG weren´t in the GG until 1968.
So we have only Art. 26 GG "Prohibition of Wars of aggression" - but here, an allied government asks...
hm. What about an advisory mission of the Bundesgrenzschutz? (Federal border police)
a paramilitary security force with light tanks could see a role there.
I think the basic pattern needs a less successful Axis in the first part of the war:
the patterns of strategic thinking cultivated until the thirties were very effectively broken in 1940 with the fall of France.
And if Japan is less successful in the Far East, we might see something very...
of course. My idea Austria tries an aggressive economical policy towards the southern german states.
btw and partly unrelated, I think there´s a part in "Wealth of Nations" where Smith speculates about the benefits of one country controlling the Danube from mouth to spring.
Bill, I don´t want to be misunderstood: the battles in the Pacific were hard-
but different from Europe. Sorry if it came over differently.
Coral Sea and Midway were battles between carrier task forces (I discount the B-17s from Midway) and Okinawa as a quasi- part of the Japanese homeland...
Yes, but at the same time, is it worth the effort in 1944? You have long range escorts & strategic bombers who can cover all the areas you could reach with your naval task force, and can´t rule out a german submarine getting lucky. Maybe an attack on Norway, but it´s a secondary theatre at best.