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  1. Reds fanfic

    If y'all want to be Banned, all you need to do is ask. No need to proclaim yourself ready to die for your (dis)beliefs. Right now all you have managed is to demonstrate a rather remarkable lack of understanding on a wide variety of subjects. If you want to be Banned drop me a PM.
  2. AHC: Islamic Ireland

    You are hardly in a position to complain about the alcohol being discussed when you did so prior to the poster you are complaining about. Worry about your own petard.
  3. Crowdsourcing Map Idea

    I strongly recommend y'all both go walk the dog, have a cuppa (probably decaf), pet the cat, and clam down before you cross a line that has serious consequences.
  4. PC/WI: BAC (EE) Lightnings get chosen instead of F-104 Starfighters?

    Maybe. The problem is that no example was ever even constructed, due to economic issues (which, of course leads to a whole different issue). None of the aircraft being discussed can hold a candle to the F4 as far as multi-role.
  5. PC/WI: BAC (EE) Lightnings get chosen instead of F-104 Starfighters?

    Does everyone need a one note specialist (albeit superb at that one task)? If so, then buy the Lightning. Best pure point interceptor ever made. Just need to buy another aircraft like the F-104 or F11F or Mirage III for all your other combat needs. Of course you could also just buy the Phantom...
  6. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    One of the biggest problems with the preservation of knowledge is that most great libraries and universities are co-located with population targets. They are going to be lost. There are possibly, even probably, some bunkers where micro-film and/or computer media are stored that would be...
  7. What if the Japanese had brought an invasion force to take Hawaii after Pearl Harbor?

    Merged two virtually identical threads from same OP. Note to OP: Please DO NOT do this again.
  8. What if the Japanese had brought an invasion force to take Hawaii after Pearl Harbor?

    1. They lacked the long range lift. Literally couldn't do it. Prior to 1944 no country on Earth could have done it. If one reviews the Japanese invasions assoccated with the lunge South it is strikeing that none of the attacks occurred outside the range of land based air power, and Rabaul was...
  9. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    Probably. And the very best way to destroy Pretoria and Cape Town and Johannesburg would be?
  10. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    There have been several, even a few full out novels, that came out between the mid 60s and when the Wall fell.
  11. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    The South Africans, in 1983, were more than capable of defeating any of their neighbors in a stand-up fight. Moscow knew that (the Cubans didn't get to Angola on Air France), and Moscow also almost certainly knew that South Africa had crossed into the Nuclear Club. That, combined with the...
  12. What would a modern symmetrical war look like?

    The only one of these that could truly be considered "peer-peer" is Iran-Iraq. It was a terrific example of military formations caught in two different generations of weapons, with senior officers not really prepared to fight with either (the very best of Iran's senior command structure was...
  13. A better prepared Japan.

    With the Depression it would be exceptionally difficult. Even before the Crash protectionism was a very real thing, with tariffs used to defend domestic producers, international aggression, and as a matter of public policy. The "economic miracles" that are Japan and the Asian Tigers of today...
  14. What would a modern symmetrical war look like?

    Fixed the quote issue. It was missing the closing "]"
  15. A better prepared Japan.

    Entire libraries could be written on the subject of IJA/IJN sibling rivalry.
  16. A better prepared Japan.

    I guess we are having a differing interpretation of this bullet. I don't see it as any sort of planning to engage either the UK or U.S. beyond anticipation of potential embargoes, sybolic or otherwise.
  17. What would a modern symmetrical war look like?

    It could be argued that the era of the Levee en masse is over, primarily because the nature of warfare at the top level is so different. However, as I noted above, both Iran and Iraq used HUGE conscript armies in their 1980s war, Russia continues to have a universal draft, as do a number of...
  18. What would a modern symmetrical war look like?

    I would actually question the "peer" level of India and Pakistan. This is, in the macro sense, one of the problems with this scenario. There are few "peer" states with the money and motivation to engage in a one-on-one fight (e.g. any war in Korea, is not going to be a straight up DPRK-ROK...
  19. What would a modern symmetrical war look like?

    This is an interesting perspective. While there are elements of the analysis that I would disagree with, the overall idea is intriguing. One reason is that, without nuclear weapons on the table, none of the potential "top tier" peer pairing have sufficient stocks of equipment to fight an...
  20. A better prepared Japan.

    Item D seems to be the only one that addresses the issue and it pretty much reinforces my statement.
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