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Regarding the Brandenburgers (forgive me for not isolating the quote but I am writing from a mobile device), maybe have them conduct long range reconnaissance in the North African theater. Or send them after the Brit front airfields. Now where have we seen that before? Hmmmmm...^^ The somewhat...

You seem to assume (mind the connotations ;) ) that the plan would have stayed the same if the clusterfuck of a planning phase had been straightened out and the number of moving parts reduced to a minimum. The KISS principle was spindled, folded, mutilated and boinked up the butt in order to...

A proper planning process with less departmental infighting between Army, Navy and Air Force. Choose a mission commander who has special operations experience and not some mild-mannered AF general who has been flying desks for years. For reference, read the account of the operation in Richard...

Next step, Russia nuking Grozny, clandestinely on behalf of Frothy who is then blackmailed by Vlad. Yeah.

The G38 family is the HK416 family in German nomenclature. It has no problems with overheating that go beyond what any AR has after a certain point. Even the G36's "problems" are trumped up and to an infuriating degree manufactured by the German MoD. Actually, the MoD's lawsuit against HK was...

Could the Germans take a leaf out of the Brit OTL book and send a kind of LRDG (long range desert group) to North Africa? At this time, the Brandenburgers were regiment strength. The Brandenburgers had a sub-unit earmarked for the Arab-speaking parts of the world, the 2nd battalion. Or does the...

I hope we have seen somebody in Mr Powell who will be instrumental in hamstringing Frothy. Maybe Frothy tries to discredit Powell, too? That could be...interesting.

Corruption in Albania? I am shocked. Shocked, I say! In other news, Pope actually Catholic :D

What? Quite the contrary. Anyway, Bisky's thinking is either highly naive or highly cynical. I tend towards the latter. Let's hope that the German governments manage to seize the assets of the DDR so the PDS can wither away.

We are talking about an ATL here where the Axis has an entirely different approach to the application of and defence against air power. What worked against them in OTL may fall flat on its face ITTL.

If Malta is taken out there is much less of an airborne threat. Station a squadron or two of fighters in or around the relevant harbours and there will be even less of one.

Yeah, absolutely. A Los Angeles attack sub with Sea Lance or an Orion with an NDB would be more realistic.

Uh, he got his own command out of it? :-P

Small nit: There are next to no depth charges any more in the arsenal of the USN. The standard ASW weapon is the Mk 46 lightweight torpedo. The only depth charges available are the nukes.

Soviet boomers weren't nearly as silent as their American or Brit counterparts. If the new government gives the USA even a marginal position, there will be swarms of MPAs and all available ASW assets heading there and swarming the area. The USN was extremely good at finding and shadowing REDFLT...

Okay. A grimdark crapsack world is all well and good. But by now there must be some murmurings of the illegal and unconstitutional behind-the-scenes wheelings and dealings by Frothy and his co-nutjobs. No whistleblowers? No rumors? Nothing? This is at least an order of magnitude worse than...

Margot Honecker has deserved an end like Benny The Moose. Lynched by a mob and hung by her feet. Then cremate the corpse and pour the ashes down the loo.

With all the good news you have been giving the ATL world and us lately, I keep waiting for you to snatch the rug out from under us... ;)

The trailer tank is seriously wacky. And I did not know that Sweden and West Germany collaborated on the Marder 105mm concept. Thanks for the link.

This is awesome. If the USA cut their support for Israel, expect Germany to step in. With the confederation, you removed the biggest pet peeve of the West German lefties with Israel and thus a big factor of leftist anti-Zionism/anti-Semitism in West Germany. Peaceful coexistence is the way to...