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Because US submariners were facing a very different enemy under different conditions than their German counterparts were. The Japanese could never muster a fraction of the ASW resources that the allies could. Likewise, long range submarines were an absolute must in the Pacific. So, the US...

In the end, I think the ability of the Soviets to truly help was limited. The Soviets could assist by providing the names of local SS collaborators and say, providing the names of German officers linked to anti partisan reprisals. Of the Germans, the names of leading anti partisan officers...

I think that after the trials and executions of the Nurenburg big wigs, low, mid level and even pretty senior Nazis just read the tea leaves of waning Allied enthusiasm and bet that they would not be judged at all. And.... the vast majority bet correctly. Sure, at most, and in all...

And train Malaysian troops for use in Malaysia. Building a tradition of larger scale Malaysian military service in, and identification with, the British Empire would probably require an earlier starting point. Perhaps WWI, but probably even earlier than that?

Though Hitler in any role was going to get outed and exported back to the allies fast, Argentina is heavily salted with people of completely, or near complete Spanish, Italian, German, Croat and in far smaller numbers, Welsh descent. Thus, the country's ethnic make up would have been fairly...

No, I was just editing the post.

Perhaps..... Shining Path Maoists in Peru become a serious threat to the stability of the country. Even worse, Shining Path franchises start to appear in Ecuador and Chile. Sure, the franchises are mostly street gang based kidnap / extortion rings- but they can grow rapidly. Then..... Faced...

Is the glass half empty, or nearly full? The US could still dominate most of the Pacific in regards to square miles. The fact that most of those miles are empty ocean would not need to be examined too closely. Thus, on paper, the goal of a US pacific was has already been met. The US...

Because Americans have short memories regarding grievances and grudges (nothing proves that more than the post war occupation of Japan). They also know that many in the US public are loathe to use American lives to defend French, Dutch and British colonial holdings. Sure, some US hawks...

Though I think 100K militia could be raised, Mongolian terrain is not militia friendly. There are very few, if any natural choke points, built up areas, forests or mountains where militia can leverage partial training with easily defensible terrain. As a result, unless the militia can also...

In WWII, Germany was a complete dictatorship fighting another complete dictatorship for national survival. As the nominal threat of a direct invasion faded, UK national survival was not at stake. As a result, the political leadership of both Germany and the USSR could ignore casualties rates...

I am thinking a true Agentinian victory is "A Bridge to Far" for realism. In the end the numbers dont hadd up: In short, the best the Argentinians could hope for is a draw: South Georgia: Argentinians prepare a very nasty surprise on South Georgia in the form of a reinforced airborne...

I cant remember what exactly led to Taiho's destruction- but I do remember that it had something to do with a torpedo hit and a poorly conceived damage control decision that led to gasoline fumes permeating the entire ship. As to whether systems capable of injecting carbon dioxide into the...

As a side note, empty fuel lines were not always that empty as there was a big potential for flammable fumes leaking from shattered lines etc. US carriers had systems that drained the fuel lines, but also injected flame and fume suppressing carbon dioxide into them. The IJN never adopted the...

I give up. But.... I will guess the Vatican? Once elected, the Pope is both spiritual head of the Catholic church and absolute monarch of the civil Vatican State (though I think he governs the civil Vatican state via an intermediary Bishop). As a side note, I think at some periods, the...

There are Monarchies and then there are monarchies. Monarchies in the Nicholas II style of an absolute, or near absolute monarchy were finished in Europe by 1917. Monarchs running tilted systems where the power resided in the monarchy and say, largely hereditary upper house with an elected...

Though I see your clear point, Hebrew has bucked that trend. Sure, Hebrew had some advantages such as being chosen to provide a unifying language for a group that spoke many different native languages. But.... at the end of the day, Hebrew as thrived in the face of global English competition...

They might have been slated to move from semi independent satellite to semi independent satellite. Poland was still essentially a self governing, autonomous province in 1914. As a result, they maintained their own parliament, their own official language, script and church. They were also...

Yes, that is the crux: Nazis acted like Nazis when they needed to be "Notzis". Maybe have Nazis racial obsessions take the form of an internal political struggle between "Patriots" (all, of course, suitably far right) and nation / culture destroying "Communalists" (currently known as...

One solution is to re-define "enemy" in conjunction with a kinder, gentler and far less "sub human" occupation policies of Belarus and Ukraine. British India or French north Africa would make good examples to follow- the occupation clearly serves the interest of the colonial powers, but is...