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But if Rommel's parents immigrated to America would that mean that he joins the Army? What about the Marines or the Navy?

I agree, South Vietnam did fall once US economic aid was withdrawn. Some good books on the subject are: Special Forces by Tom Clancy Inside the Green Berets, The First Thirty Years by Charles M. Simpson III. Green Berets at War by Stanley Shelton. Both Simpson and Shelton served in...

I said that was the point of US Intervention, I didn't say that it worked. Although by 1975 North Vietnam was desperate, worn down and ready to negotiate South Vietnam did have the Insurgency in hand by 1975 and since most of the VC and their sympathizers had been killed when they tipped their...

A Black Confederate Sheriff?

The point of American Intervention was always 'Vietnamization', the point wasn't to defeat North Vietnam the point was to train, fund and equip the South Vietnamese Military to the point where they could handle the NVA and the the VC. Which the US Military accomplished.

With a POD of 1940 how is it possible to have the vast majority of American men using Anabolic Steroids? And what are the effects on History?

There was actually a proposal for replacing the rear Turret with either an enormous amount of Missile tubes or putting in a Platform for Choppers and VTOL Aircraft.

Indeed, you could man a carrier for the same amount of crewmen. IIRC there was a study done on the Armor that concluded that they (Iowas) could take up to 6 Mk48 before she had started having problems and installing sonar with ASROC would definitely help. No ship's invulnerable but they could...

IIRC there was even a plan to convert the North Carolinas and SoDaks into Missile Ships shortly before they were scrapped.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make it possible for Erwin Rommel to serve as an Officer in the US Military. Bonus points if he serves during WWII.

Whoops :o thanks for catching that. There, fixed it.

From The Duke, Chapter Eight: Reconstructing Wayne's Military Career is difficult, not least because while Wayne was open about many things, his service, especially in combat was something he rarely talked about. In a 1969 Interview he stated that: "My service isn't something I brag about...

Sands of Iwo Jima :)

Private Wayne shortly before being deployed to Guadacanal, 1942. An exhausted Corporal Wayne photographed shortly after Japanese forces withdrew from the Island.

Thank you! :)

I never said the days of heavy cavalry weren't drawing to an end, however during most of the 1500s they were still the dominant arm and in Poland noble heavy cavalry continued on with great success.

Heavy Cavalry made up about 50% of the entire French Army at the time and every other country was trying to get their hands on as many men-at-arms as possible and Heavy Cavalry at the time were better protected than they had ever been and they decided the day. At Marignano the French Artillery...

From an interview with Time Magazine, June 1963: "You have to understand that I had a very difficult decision to make." Here Wayne pauses and smiles, making him look years younger. "I think in a way it's a weighty decision for anyone to make." "I was a little old for that sort of...

Actually they were very much for reform, at least under Khosrau, who introduced heavy infantry, engineers and siege engines to the Sassanian Army. As for the Cavalry, not nessecarily, the golden age of the noble heavy cavalryman was during the 1500s and he coexisted alongside guns for centuries.

IIRC while the romans did win their legions did get cut up pretty good the first couple of times they took the pikes on and the troops that were supposed to support the Hellenistic Pikes had declined in quality. Whereas in the Middle Ages and the Ren when pikes got big they had halberdiers...