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  1. WI: North Korea wins the Korean War

    The U.S. managed to crack the Atlantic Wall, take Leyte, Iwo and Okinawa (the latter three outside of useful land based fighter-bomber protection). In 1950 USAF jet fighters and Fighter-Bombers can reach the Yalu from bases located in the Home Islands.) and medium bombers can operate with...
  2. WI: North Korea wins the Korean War

    Doesn't really matter. Truman was going to react. He actually had no choice but to react. The UN made it a much "easier" sell, since it was an "all for one, one for all" scenario, but the reality always was that it was a Coalition of the Willing (tm) or the WW II WAllies At Peak strength the...
  3. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-anglo-american-nazi-war.140356/ :P
  4. "Our Struggle": What If Hitler Had Been a Communist?

    Was the text wall quote really necessary?
  5. US Marine base in the Rep of Ireland

    The easiest way is to have the Soviets routinely violate the Republic's airspace and territorial waters, and vaguely threaten Dublin when they complain. That gives a lot of urgency to concluding some sort of defense deal with the U.S. (NATO is the logical solution, but logic isn't always the...
  6. Agree or disagree with this piece: Five ways Japan could have won World War II

    Funny thing is that they did. There was a considerable desire to be able to claim that they were in the Mandates legally, right up until the Tokyo told the League to screw off.
  7. Agree or disagree with this piece: Five ways Japan could have won World War II

    I would disagree. The RN would not have been able to do it as quickly, and certainly not while also engaged with the Reich. Once that conflict was resolved the RN would have been fully capable in moving across the Pacific and clawing back Burma, Malaya, Singapore, and helping the Dutch to regain...
  8. Agree or disagree with this piece: Five ways Japan could have won World War II

    The one big issue with fortification is that, in theory, the Mandates could not be fortified. Doing so before the League was fully down the drain would have removed the legality of Japanese occupation. The interest extends beyond SEA, although the Philippines were clearly the largest potential...
  9. Agree or disagree with this piece: Five ways Japan could have won World War II

    Actually you are dead wrong regarding the word target. Target has been used as a verb since the 1830s. It can also be used as an adjective http://www.dictionary.com/browse/target https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/target http://learnersdictionary.com/definition/target
  10. Luftwaffe Zeros?

    Only if the Graf Zeppelin actually reaches commission.
  11. What if Islam was as old as Christianity?

    Please don't troll.
  12. Agree or disagree with this piece: Five ways Japan could have won World War II

    Nope. Better tactics (particularly the willingness to ignore oft stated policy in face of dynamic combat conditions), vastly better damage control, more robust designs, and Japanese hubris. Luck had nothing to do with it. Regarding the OP question: The author is right in everything in the...
  13. Map Thread XIV

    I received a PM saying this as well. I am starting to wonder if it is a generational thing. My Japanese-American friends when I was in school would go apeshit if someone used the term, as did the older Japanese-American men when I was first out of school and entered the "real world". Many of...
  14. Luftwaffe Zeros?

    There is a huge gap between the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain. It is the same gap one find in the Continuation War and on the Eastern front. The gap is ~12,000 feet. The air engagements in France were generally at medium/low level, as was the case for most of the Finnish campaign...
  15. Nuclear weapons in the southern hemisphere

    The article I read didn't have any quotes touching on this. I can see the logic in it, but the declassified files (which are only a small number of the total on the subject) have no indication one way or the other.
  16. Map Thread XIV

    re: Bullet #17 Japs? Did you just port in from 1943? Don't do that.
  17. Nuclear weapons in the southern hemisphere

    Not 100%. They recently declassified some files that touch on the issue (I read an article that someone, probably Doctor What, linked on my Facebook feed. There were some deviations from standard parameters that make the certainty under 100%, but the U.S. Intel community all considered it to be...
  18. Preview of the War We Do Not Want

    One way trip. Big bomb in hold of cargo ship. Push button. As an aside, the Soviets simply lacked the inventory (the U.S. didn't realize this at the time) to conduct the sort of nuclear attacks postulated here. In 1952 their total inventory was 50 weapons, in 1953 it was 120 (comparable U.S...
  19. WI: 13-17 year-olds demand the right to work

    Can they vote? If so, people listen. If not, call in the truant officers.
  20. WI no desegregation?

    Wait... You can not possibly mean what this sounds like. Can you? Going to give you a chance to climb out of the grave here. You have until this time tomorrow (12:00 PST on 12/18/16) to expand on this.
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