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Frankly I'm not sure they could dislodge Iraq from Kuwait. The RSAF was competent enough to seriously degrade any Iraqi attempt to invade Saudi, and I'm sure that a combined Gulf/Saudi/Egyptian/Syrian(??) force could stop the Iraqis inside the Saudi border, but anything past that.... I hate...

I'm also loving, and I mean LOVING the fact that The Smiths have been referenced twice so far.

Well, I gagged while reading that. Amazing writing.

Think more like George Washington + Luke Skywalker + Jesus. Anyways, I don't think it would change THAT much- it depends on the specifics of his role at Gallipoli. He was in command of one of the local reserve regiments which IIRC, made it pretty certain that the allies never made it off the...

The thing is, I maintain that with a combination of airlift and uninterdicted merchant sealift, the Soviets could support juuuuuuust a big enough force to make it a "close-run thing" against the SADF. In many ways the SADF is in about as tough a logistical situation as the Soviets would be; one...

Pretty interesting because both packers and steelers ITTL are really plausible team names ;) Probably run by their respective unions, come to think of it.

Rickshaw is right; a VDV division operating in Angola would be a totally unprecedented overseas deployment of Soviet troops. I don't think their air transport fleet was up to the task of actually combat dropping all of them in at once, as the OTL airlift to Angola was a pretty serious...

I totally agree. Really, an independent motor-rifle regiment with an attached air assault battalion would be a more plausible and sensible choice if "conventional" land forces are to be deployed. Probably from one of the higher-readiness military districts (Caucasian? Moscow?) so as not to...

Actually a really interesting question, because the obstinate reasons for banning the zoot suit OTL ("uses too much cloth needed for war effort") was nothing but a fig leaf for anti-Mexican sentiment in Los Angeles. Now, given the course this TL takes, I think it's not possible to avoid the OTL...