Recent content by Wombat

Please, please, PLEASE telll me its satire! :eek:

With better economic management (both pre- and post-colonial) I think Gabon would be the most likely sub-saharan African country to attain a first world standard of living - as it is it has probably the highest per capita income in black africa. This could be achieved as although Gabon is not a...

Won't argue at all, but he wasn't the great liberator so many people say he was - he was a man of his times who reacted to the events he faced - he didn't guide those events!

Despite the propaganda, Lincoln put om pants one leg at a time, same as everyone else. Don't get me wrong, I think Lincoln was one of the great presidents of all time. but that was becase of his fault, not despite them! Lincoln would have put a lot of resources toward black resettlement in...

It's not so much a french australia, But a French WA. In about 1803? the French had a voyage of exploration that followed the western australian coastlinwe. I've often wondered what night have happened if this voyage had of found the Margaret river area. Could the french have started a colony...

Deoends how you define combat aircraft. as an example, I remember reading an article in PDR back in the 80s where the author proposed kevlar armoured ultra-lights, carrying machine guns and 70mm rocket launchers. From the point of view of MAYBE launching an unexpected attack, these could do...

Re : colonies - how would to countries that are concentrating on maintaining a balance of power, particular as decentralised as the CSA and USA (assuming the CSA wins the civil war) going to find the resources to establish colonies as far away as the Phillipines and Liberia? They would be too...

Bill, according to the Federation of american scientists ( www.fas.org ) Pakistan has between 24-48 and India 30-35, tho' may be able to buildup to 90, depending on your source. A limited nuclear exchange doesn't mean one, it means too many :(

shitload of Turtledove a few by stirling ( Hate to admit both of those) Fatherland Resurrection Day Paratime Lord kalvan of otherwhen Ash - a secret history Red storm rising (does that count?) the thirld world war (Sir John Hackett) Operation sealion CRichard Cox) Timeliner trilogy...

Dunno about Germany, but this is the reaction to Japan TRAINING in Australia http://smh.com.au/news/National/Japanese-troops-could-train-in-Australias/2004/12/11/1102625559681.html . On this basis how could they send troops on a peacekeeping misison? after all, our reaction would probably be...

Actually, an interesting POD could be Cuba trying to use its forces to subordinate Angola - you'd have a three way war then. Another one sould be Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) seeking union with RSA rather than independence, or even the RSA seeking forcible union of the two.

If we don't have a Coca-cola Santa the colours of Xmas would be a lot different.

G'day Melvin. Have you ever read Vortex by Larry Bond? This book is based on a very similar premise - a Hot war between RSA and the cuban troops in southern africa- Regards wombat

Unfortunately, if I follow Freud my interest is in myself - enough people have called me a dickhead!

It has nothing to do with whats "cool" or not. Rather the authors' interest in Blimps is in direct proportion to their resemblance of same