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If mathematical algorithms had been promoted as a research topic in the Victorian and first half of the 20th century. Problems like the Travelling Salesman, that could be explored in the context of decision making theory. While neural nets and other forms of genetic algorithm may need to wait...

"A decision on the proposal that an all-out effort be undertaken for the development of the "Super" cannot in our opinion be separated from consideration of broad national policy. A weapon like the "Super" is only an advantage when its energy release is from 100-1000 times greater than that of...

It should be recognised that the German eastern front during the great war was fairly mobile, therefore it cannot be simply argued that technology or tactics were the reasons for the stalemate and attritional warfare of the western front during the great war. Indeed many commanders began the...

This thread: Decisively, dark. (not sure I've ever read 189 pages of something so somber)

I am surprised at the level of non-success from the US player, it may be dice, but it also might be that he is not committing all in favour of being able to contest at every point and looking for an attack of opportunity. Either way, the initiative is now in the Japanese camp. I...

It would unlikely change the long term prospects of the notion. After all the notion of armoured cars, and armoured vehicles had been on the minds of several inventors around 1900 and before WWI. The first world war, essentially just catalysed armament companies to develop test models that...

Well, if the battlewagons have put to sea, then the harbour flak/AA will be weakened. The question here is if the carriers will risk aircraft losses on a port strike, but then be weakened against a counter-airstrike and thus have to leave cripples that will be 'cleaned up' by the SAG group...

You can, indeed intelligence is just one of those things that doesn't match well with pen and dice, because at it's heart was something more of a creative situation to real life problems, rather than a comparison/reduction of RL scenarios. I think the best way I've seen it done was in a WW1...

Because we don't have a full inventory of what each player has available, it is still a little early to call who has the better advantage in the air. While the US is it deep water, it is plain and clear from the interrogation and other details voiced that the US player has retained air assets...

There would be many regional areas that would escape devastation. My home country in the Channel Islands would likely be one such location far too small to warrant a direct attack, yet far away enough from locations in Brest, Cherbourg and St. Malo to really be effected by fallout and the large...

One of the key rules in the book of war, is not to do what the enemy might suspect you to do. If I may lend some advice from RTT and TTS games I have played vs players, this advice is golden. From the US perspective, they have a fall back position, that means that the prime US objective is...

Occupying and annexing China was never part of any of Imperial Japans goals or wishes. China was important to Japan in the same sense that India was important to the British Empire. What Japanese industrialists saw in China was a massive consumer market for Japanese produced goods and a vast...

Every single time this kind of thread comes up we have to remember that from Feb 1936, the Japanese Government was simply not in control of the Japanese Armed forces, and their was what we might call a 'millitary junta' in control over Japans Foreign policy. This gives massive room for 'wiggle'...

Apart from 1940LaSalle most of you are talking out your arses I'm afraid to say; The US and European powers not wanting to include Asian equality into post Great War sentiments had nothing to do with Japan joining the Axis. Japan joined the axis because of the Anti-Comintern Pact...

Historically Alaska was sold by the Russians to America in 1867. Thus any POD is 35 years before the Russo-Japanese war, and almost 70 years before WWII. Thus the butterflies make this an almost ASB proposition regarding WWII. For Imperial Russia to have not sold Alaska it would have had to...

Almsot totally ASB. Firstly Russia and Japan have bad blood going back to before the first world war. There is practically no way that you are ever going to get the Japanese and Russians on the same side in all early 20thC timelines. Second you would have to drastically change Hitlers mindset...

We cannot say shat she would have done, you could only ask her and see what her response would have been. As for myself, excluding any special knowledge, there is no way that you would be able to accept such an ultimatum. Yet on the other hand, it cannot be ignored. This would be a situation...

The Great War in our timeline was an opertunity for Imperial Japan to expand on its annexation of Korea and begin to make in roads into bringing China firmly into the Japanese 'empire'. The only thing that hurt Imperial Japan, was that post war treaties would return much that was taken to other...

While the answer from the Generals would stay the same, that doesn't change what the Etentent might put into there treaty. There was an excellent set of maps done with the plausible outcomes to the Great War. I don't recall a 'Greater Austria' as one of the plausible opitions. But I think...

The white elephant in the room is what about those nations that didn't get hit, or those regions that were hardly effected. For instance, my home country would not have likely had a warhead targeted on it, even if St. Malo and Cherbourg would more than likely have gone down in a blaze of...