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Something I've wondered -- probably due to playing Civ III too much, in which this sort of stuff happens quite often -- why can't two nuclear countries fight a war using only conventional forces because of MAD? Ex: China knows that if they launch a nuke at LA, the US will do the same to...

While I, and probably a good number of people on this board, also in their twenties, don't remember all that much about the intricacies of politics in the 80's, the same people (or at least the same types of people) were saying then that Germany and Japan would become economic powerhouses and...

One thing I hate about this scenario is how the Vikings always end up colonizing the Med. I'm not extremely well versed in medieval history, but that didn't happen, did it?

It's in the expansion, Civ III: Conquests, usually abbreviated as C3C. They've got, IIRC, nine professionally designed scenarios.

My first instinct would be that if the USSR decided to devote its spending to domestic development, that the Cold War would still be over, just because the USSR's military wouldn't be able to match that of the US if they didn't keep up spending on it.

Jennifer Campbell was the little girl, not yet born; she was afflicted with cerebral paulsy. Edwards to Jury: "She speaks to you through me, and I didn't plan to talk about this, but right now I feel her. I feel her presence; she's inside me and she's talking to you." This is a direct...

Nope. It was the recently retired Senator from North Carolina, former Democratic Vice-presidential nominee, John Edwards. What he said was something similar to "I can feel her here now. She wants to tell you that . . ." or something like that, and then went on to slam the doctors.

Edwards, specifically, claimed during a trial to be, for all practical purposes, channeling (like a medium or psychic would) the spirit of a little girl (an infant, IIRC) who died (I forget the specific circumstances of her death), and to be speaking to the jury for her. He also drove up the...

Just finished wathcing "We Were Soldiers" a few minutes ago; the film is based upon the book of a similar title, written by the commanding officer at the battle, then-Lt. Col. Hal Moore, and a reporter who saw the combat first hand, Joe Galloway. One of the deleted scenes from the film (not...

Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you on this. What I meant by wars being won with soft power is that you have to convince the populace of the enemy that you are the "good guy." The Allies didn't do that in WWI, and they ended up having to fight another war a couple decades later...

What would have happened to the states of the Mid-South -- Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Virginia, which didn't secede until after the call for troops?

No. I don't agree with you. No matter how many troops we had had in Vietnam, we would have lost anyway. Battles are won by numbers. Wars are won with soft power these days. In the Vietnam War, we didn't have enough of it.

It would really depend on who was on the security council. I'm not sure about the inner-workings of the LN, except that it was horribly ineffective, but if there had been a Security Council established in the post-WWI world, who would have been on it? I would think the UK, France, Italy...

The US lost the Vietnam War not because there weren't enough troops. From a purely military approach, it would be said that the US won the war. We won every single battle, IIRC, so greater troop numbers wouldn't have saved South Vietnam. As Ward pointed out, the Tet Offensive was a disaster for...

Terre Haute would be known only for Clabber Girl Baking Powder. Man, this town sucks!

Funny. I thought we were talking about what the post-World War II world would have been like had there been no Yalta Agreement, and whether or not communism is superior to capitalism. If you're making an analogy, I'm sorry, but I'm not seeing it. To answer your question, though, the US...

THE WAR ENDED 52 YEARS AGO. Or at least an armistice was called then, as it technically hasn't ended yet. The fact that they have not yet been able to recover from it shows not the devastation of the war, but the devastation that communism inevitably brings. There is no way in the world that a...

So a unified Communist Korea would be richer because it would have gotten less subsidies from the US? :confused: And East Germany is a good comparison to North Korea even though, North Korea was destroyed, and the treatment of East Germany was relatively light? :confused: Makes no sense...

BTW, a better analogy than Germany to NK is SK, which, if you'll remember was also involved in a devastating war at about the same time as NK. They seem to have bounced back from it fairly well.

An easy one for France at least: Henry IV decides Paris isn't worth a mass. England could stay Catholic a number of ways: Katherine of Aragon is fertile. Bloody Mary stays in power or Phillip II's armada defeats Drake's. Or James II stays in; no Glorious Revolution. Germany: Luther burned...