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It was the spur-of-the-moment decision. Seemingly German front is crumbling, the Heer is on a headlong rush to get back to Germany and one bold action might get the war over by Christmas.

There is also an issue of how does this bomber wing fare in BoB. My money is that it gets wrecked. And maybe puts the German on a track to develop a long range fighter, seeing as the bombers themselves were woefully inadequate to achieve anything of note without adequate fighter cover.

I got the same impression from reading McPhersons' Battle Cry of Freedom. However, to be honest most generals on both sides were relatively mediocre tacticians. And the command and control was not easy those days.

Even better if they could be captured while loaded on the trains...

You need to somehow retard (if not stop altogether) all scientific and economic development of the entire world. Without ASB, not going to happen. Someone, somewhere will have bright ideas and see to it that those are done, making their country more powerful than others and leading to mass copying.

June - August it would most likely be most profitable for the Germans to try to interdict railway lines on the East-West axis. If they succeed, not only would they stop reinforcements of the Red Army and cut them off from supplies, but slow down the evacuation of the factories to Siberia.

SS-18s Mod 5 retained their 20 MT warhead until 2009. Their only use was to dig out heavily fortified stuff, such as Cheyenne Mountain. B-83 can also be dialed to 1.2 MT yield.

That is how they saw it. Only more brutal version of it.

And would be utterly pointless. You either need all three bridges, or none at all. The operation was planned on wildly optimistic assumptions that the Wehrmacht was crumbling, panicked mass of troops running away in disorder. It was hoped that the para drops would harry them on their way and...

By all Kamis of the ocean, what an abomination Kaga was...

I do not think Nimitz would actually accept the battle on those terms. Midway was expandable, just as Wake Island was. And by November 1942, Essex class ships start coming. By March '43 parity is restored. Meanwhile, the Japanese still do not have logistics to pull off a successful invasion of...

Building this creates a carrier that has too small an air wing to actually function as a carrier and a cruiser that has a carrier deck that compromises its function as a cruiser. Basically, if it is a carrier, then the guns are superfluous. If it is a cruiser, then flying deck is...

Their war plan was not put on a strategically sound footing. It involved a lot of wishful thinking, blatant ignoring of inconvenient realities and more self confidence than actual power. The Japanese had no other end game except for 'if we strike them hard enough, then it will be too...

I can see the attempt of a Communist takeover. I.e. the elections and stuff happen as they did OTL. Nazis are much lesser presence or non-existent. DNVP and the Communists get close to an equal number of votes and Hindenburg appoints Hugenburg chancellor. General strike follows and the Communist...

All of US fleet? ALL of it, not just the Pacific Fleet? This is ASB for two reasons (at least). One - The entire US fleet will not be present at Pearl Harbor. US had other places they needed the fleet to be too, not just in the Pacific. Two, the Japanese would be unable to damage the fleet that...

Berlin, OKH, May 16th The meeting held in the OKH was attended by Keitel, Jodl, Halder, Brauchitsch, General Thomas, General Warlimont, von Paulus, as well as operational commanders of the former Army Groups A, B and C, von Leeb, von Bock and von Rundstedt. The Luftwaffe was represented by...

Or even more... Way more. The economy of virtually the entire world, that is some 90% of it, was for the better part of 6 years entirely dedicated to wartime production. Almost everything produced was meant for war, one way or the other. Basically, the factories spent this time turning perfectly...

They would manage information and hide from the general public and even the emperor that anything untoward has happened. For example, see the handling of the Battle of Midway.

Only it is not Churchill who gets to decide, but Roosevelt and Stalin. Besides, Churchill himself was all for occupying Germany and displacing Prussian military caste with a real democracy. He would not settle for anything less. Trial of war criminals was not about to be left to the Germans, the...

A Bridge too Far is really an apt name for this operation. And the funny thing is people blame Montgomery for being conservative and overly cautious and one time he does a bold operation he is also criticized for it. The operation could have worked. That it didn't have just been poor luck...