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The general theory in continuity of goverment plans seems to be that deputy secretaries could fill the role in the event that no secretaries are left, and assume the presidency, or in a worst case scenario, individuals lower down the chain of succession of each department. The precise legality...

That was the direction the French were pushing. In the late 40s as the US began raising the idea of German re-armament, they instead floated the alternative idea of integrating German companies (possibly battalions at most) into the divisions of western Europe, in order to prevent the existence...

The French occupation of the Ruhr wasn't exactly a smashing financial success.

The most advanced engine domestically built is a late variant of the Bristol Jupiter - it is presumed that some of licensing or import agreement will have to be made for a new engine. As for budget, that will have to handled on a case by case basis. Our intelligence network is quite limited...

The date - March, 1935. The location - the Kingdom of Lusatia, a power of middling size in central Europe. You are the director of the National Aeronautics Workshop, and have recently been given your greatest challenge. Born from the rubble of empires in the Great War, the newfound independence...

A hung jury would simply result in an a second trial.

Are we talking about a hung jury, with a few or even a lone hold-out, or a return of "not guilty"?

It was Washington Vanderlip (no relation to the banking magnate). He was negotiating with Lenin in the early 20s for the following concession, under a long term lease:

Heavy oil is still pretty useful for a lot industrial purposes, as well as heating, electrical generation, and fueling ships.

No. They imported about half of their food supply at the start of the war. In crash program, they managed to improve that number, but even in '45, around 30% of food was imported. They also imported virtually all coal. That's one of the reasons the Germans were so easily able to arm-twist the...

The Allies don't have anything like the tanker fleet necessary to make up the difference. There were already shortages (most notably of fast tankers, but even slower ones were prized commodities) , and compared to the tonnage of oil domestically produced, Lend Lease won't be able to plug the...

The problem is that the National Redoubt was very much a work in progress in 1941 - it wasn't considered to be even remotely prepared until 1943, with much of the construction work still ongoing, key weapons (AA guns in particular) largely missing, and a grossly inadequate amount of supplies...

There's a problem though - in 1936, the Tydings–McDuffie Act has already been passed, and the Philippines are scheduled for complete independence in ten years. If you approach Congress for funds, they'll ask why the hell should they pay to build fortifications in what's about to become foreign...

They were also using surplus Colt-Vickers guns.

A much greater problem when it came to equipment (thus ignoring the gross training issues which existed) was the dire shortage of artillery and machine guns. Rifles are rifles, and even in the context of the fighting in the Philippines in 1941-42, the difference between an M1 and an M1917 isn't...

But it was a reserve oriented force only to be mobilized in a time of crisis, like that of many of other small nations in the era. The peacetime military, even by 1946 when its expansion was envisioned as being done, wasn't expected to exceed 20,000. That was the plan historically, only the...

But that's the critical problem - the Black Hand had demonstrated that they were both willing and able to topple governments - just ask Alexander I. The civilian government doesn't have effective control over the military, and cannot be trusted to reign them in.

I imagine that the residents of many places getting sold are just a mite ticked that not only is this being done unilaterally, they aren't even being given the choice to go independent (or in some cases, find some another protecting power or nation to join with) - they're getting sold off like a...

To be blunt, top leadership doesn't matter - because even if you get the most radical of Radical Republicans into the presidency, they will be extremely limited in what they can do - public sentiments just don't exist for many of the wild plans some posters have outlined in this thread. The...

More important than anything else - mobilize the Philippine Commonwealth Army alongside the National Guard in September of 1940. Historically, this was contemplated, but it was decided that this would be too provocative towards Japan - never-mind that the Two Ocean Navy Act was exponentially...