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I'm not inclined to the idea that North Korea would be less aggressive than as they are now, Japan is just right there next to the Korean Peninsula, and the Tsushima Island is only 30 miles away from Busan. Entire the legitimacy of the North Korean regime developed out from Kim's anti-Japanese...

I must point out that a good part of this reconstruction cost was funded by American investments. Also the 60 million pounds sterling loan during the Russo-Japanese war expired in 1925 and was paid with the American loans.

Just to be precise, Yamamoto belonged to neither side by the point of Washington Conference, he was minor figure at this point. The major proponent for the naval treaty at this time was Navy Minister Kato Tomosaburo, the man who designed and pushed for the 8-8 fleet programme by himself. The...

From old thread.

Washington Conference was... more than just a naval conference. The two important treaties of Four-Power treaty and Nine-Power treaty were signed in Washington to guarantee an international collective security over China. And the Navy just broke it, leaving Japan in isolation without anyone to...

I had no idea he was that horrible. Now I can see what was his motive behind calling the WW2 an "unnecessary war"... Pity, because I found his book to be interesting.

The dilemma for the Wehrmacht here would be "Why build a worse version of Panther?" Reminds me of the phantom 26t 'Heavy' Leopard light tank design, fit a 75mm gun turret and and now it's a good medium tank, but then again why build it when they just could build Panthers more...

Just a reminder that VK 30.01 (H) design could only house 7,5cm L/24 gun aka short 75mm. There was an attempt to fit the long 75mm gun into the turret but turned out to be not feasible. If they goes with the design, expect a total disaster.

Were there any German shipyards capable of building such an idiotic, I mean monstrous, warship?

The fact that Japan at the time practiced pedophilic homosexuality and allowed male prostitutes does not necessarily means it wasn't 'homophobic'.

Trump runs as Democrat. (runs away)

This is not the first time Maoistic deliberately leading the discussion off the road with ridiculous agenda and was even kicked for that once before, but ok, I respect your patience.

Can we just stop feeding the troll.

Obvious troll is a troll so let's just get back to the original point. In the previous thread I asserted that they would not go after the Spaniards and attack the Philippines and I still believe so. A punitive expedition, unlikely but I can see that, but fully conquer the archipelago? Emperor...

What's with all these recent trends of projecting India on other Asian nation-states? First China and now Japan? I guess the next victim of this distortion would be Korea?

Planning for a war in the 1940s is one thing, designing and building tanks is another. Again, I want to point out again that the standardized chassis design wasn't just contemplated, the Panzer III E chassis was actually designed to replace and unite the Panzer III and the Panzer IV chassis, and...

As I have pointed out before, Wehrmacht was aware of the benefits of tank chassis standardization. They just wanted to pull it with the new, cutting-edge design of Panzer III and not with the old design of Panzer IV, its original configuration (Begleitwagen) even featured multi-turrets, one main...

The same report from 1936 stated that "the same schedule that applies to the 3,7cm Geschuetz-Panzerkampfwagen also applies to the 7,5cm Geschuetz-Panzerkampfwagen but delayed by about six months." but with no explicit 1940 procurement target.

In early 1934 the Neubaufahrzeug was still in development, but when the prototype model was manufactured and tested the failure of the design was quickly recognized. That was what kicked off the development of the Panzer IV.

E was the first Panzer III model to adapt the torsion bar suspension, a brand-new technology back then. The Wehrmacht was obsessed with the torsion bar but German tank developers and producers had limited experiences with it, naturally leading to general unreliability issues. The reliability...