Search results

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow#Soviet_counteroffensive Arguably no drawback in the forces facing Japanese directly, but you have to look at the reserves as well. Less fresh Soviet forces available, the counteroffensive would stall or outright fail, giving the Germans better...

Umm no. Hitler was a total amateur in the art of war, most of his success was to due sheer luck. There's been enough written on how his tickling with the war conduct actually crippled the German effort. Stalin on the other hand interfered less and less with the Stavka's agenda, making it...

Let's look at the "Germany gets Bohemia" - You will have to somehow butterfly Bismarck and the Crown prince - maybe a wound sustained in the Prussian - Austrian war could do that. The King, and the Generals do push through, conquer Bohemia and on to Vienna. Then we'll have to look further to...

[B] this seems as highly ASB'sh POD: as in Arms of the Mexican Infantry 1835-1836

Aside of the use of technology, the first Blitzkrieg was perhaps performed by Attila the Hun. and Mongols... In new, industrial age times, the Prussian-Austrian war of 1866 should be perhaps accounted for as the first bliztzkrieg, although the success of it relied on the inability of the...

Use of atomic bomb will bring an ATTEMPt to overthrow Hitler from within, same as Valkyre operation in July '44. The problem is succeeding and getting over with it. Even if so, the key is to secure Goebbels and Himmler. Goebels for his loyality to Hitler and Himmler for his command of SS forces...

Problem with this scenario is Hitler himself. His personality was set against Bolshevik threat and the cause he was in war with UK and France was that he needed to get Poland as starting base to operate against USSR. You would first need scenario to keep UK and France out of war after invasion...

What happens next? Well, Manhattan project is given the highest priority possible. Anything it needs its given, so perhaps first FatBoy could be in autumn '44 ready. Germany and Soviets don't have much to do except to start their own (or in Germany case, get things more organized), however not...

@ William, The basic issue of breaking code in ww2 was to aquire the enigma coding engine to get hand on the actual mechanism of the machine. This was done in early time of war. What was done in bletchley park was that they used known mechanism of engina machine, and applied that to any...

How much You know about Atomic Bomb Research & dev.? More than it was by Us in Los Alamos? I will give You some rough estimates. Manhattan project included: Direct or non-direct (security, logistic, techynicas etc.) work of at least 250 000 well educated people. It required building of a...

On the other hand, don't forget that pretty much earlier civil war would be fought with little telegraph, railway etc usage. So you would see generaly smaller "armies" (perhaps in size of 10-20 thousand max), more living off the land and moving on feet rather than by train to the war theaters...

AV: true. On the other hand, man should undertake some research when he wishes to talk about a specialized theme. ME in computers, I have technical univeristy, work in technical support, and still get nasty surprises when seeing into things i don't actually master.

CalBear: problem with the history education at primary school and on the secondary level is (at least here where I live) that most of the education is focused on memorizing facts, it's like: Germany was bad, and they kicked French and Anglos, until US came there and kick all assess. Little about...

Except of what AV and me stated about Japan ABILITY to move forces north, remeber again: no separate peace with Western Allies for Germany, no separate peace with USA for Japan. I will again state two things: 1) a DESIRE to move troops is not enough, and Japan didn't have ABILITY to move troops...

or perhaps cut on the mushroom topping :-) shouldn't this be in ASB eventhough?

Chris, Soviets HAD the ships, personell etc. all is matter of the before mentioned things transfer to Pacific theater. There's Trans-Siberian Railway ending in Vladivostok, the homeport of Red Pacific Fleet. Japanese have no means of gathering info when and where soviets land until the landings...

yes, and the Japanese problem with kamikazde wasn't lack of pilots, it was lack of aircraft to fly them :)

Ok, not going to again state fact on forces that AV and CB presented. Don't You think that German people have also fiercely resisted the Red Army? Don't You see that numbers that Germany put up in the East are more than Japan could dream of? Yet Germans were beaten. The problem is following...

I will give you an example. WW1: earlier intervention of US will cause large casualties. WW1 is today accepted basically positive thanks to relative low losses USA suffered (compared to other nations involved from start). butterflying US early ww1 intervention -> losses about 1 or 2 milion...