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DK Brown in his "Nelson to Vanguard" pp 178-186 (ISBN 1-55750-492-x) has some very interesting comparisons about the cost of US and British warships. And it is not just cost in money, which can be quite difficult to compare across currencies, but not at least in man-hours. It was quite a...

I'm sure there are many valid points about the inefficiency of the nazi bureaucracy and its odd, evil and/or bizarre decisions, but - I also have to ask - compared to what? Compared to the ideas about ideal government as done in political science? You certainly would have a lot of "failed". But...

If it comes to a confrontation the Reichswehr IMHO will have overwhelming odds. Not just because they are so much better trained, led and equipped, but also because they can be quickly expanded. The whole point about the Reichswehr was that each soldier had the potential of an NCO, each NCO of...

I really don't know what to answer of the two options but first of all I find it interesting that we usually have ridiculed the Chinese for their historical isolationism. It has often been claimed that exactly this isolationism, instead of opening up and learning to do things our way, was the...

If you don't have anything to say you don't need paper to write it on...

No matter what the French motives might have been we still need some Prussian and after the execution of the King allying with France was absolutely omerta. And what should Prussia hope for? Even if the revolutionary French Armies caused the old powers a lot of trouble the French were not...

Even if a simple PoD I think "no lend lease" will be very significant already in 1942. The Red Army was very weak in most of 1942 as most of the men and materiel available in June 1941 were lost and the factories dismantled in the areas now under German control were still far away from full...

Restrictions put on you from outside can be a great boost to creativity and spirit, but self inflicted restrictions - that's the real killer! Which is also why you always need a certain number of rebels in your organisation :-)

Kursk is a German victory (or at least they don't take as many losses) and the following winter offensive from the Red Army really doesn't achieve much. Stalin is even more demanding about a second front ASAP, but the Wallies stick to the plan and land in France in June 1944. Stalin is pissed...

If it part of this ATL that French Indo China does not fall it will be extremely difficult for Japan. The Japanese clearly felt USA as the one having cornered them, but what they wanted (oil and other resources) was in European colonial possession. Technically PH can be performed as in OTL...

Is on the way - at least you can get a very tasty beer in Germany - Radeberger - which claims it was the favourite beer of King Friedrich III of Saxony and has his coat of arms on their label :) Anyway, I guess it would be possible for each of the Länder in a German Union to have its own head...

http://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5808 Found this link on RN radars. Appears to confirm that surface gunnery radar was in its early infancy by 1941, but that radar assisted gunnery was a real thing in the RN and would make a difference.

From a quick search it appears like at least one of the Argentinian Dreadnoughts was in bad shape by WWII, but anyway a single R-class at the scene create an Argentinian "bad hair day". But most interesting is what radar the RN ships has. The type 273 was introduced in 1941 and was the set with...

All the old powers faced that by end of WWI, and communists globally were convinced that the end/beginning was near. By 1914 A-H was a rapidly industrialising "nation", growth rate only superseded by Russia. That will of course continue after the war but will also mean that communists IMHO are...

A one on one engagement of course is quite academic, but still of considerable interest in an analysis of capabilities. Anyway, the British war capacity is many times that of Japan. In OTL the UK alone (excl. Empire) by 1941 outproduced the entire axis in all important aspects, and of the axis...