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  1. AHC: White Boers form a nation after 1994

    You know the most important thing to do when you find yourself in a hole? Stop digging. Either produce irrefutable documentation on this issue or cease and desist.
  2. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    The Soviets did know how great their advantage was, as did NATO. Moscow also knew that NATO was committed to tactical use of WMD almost from the start of hostilities if necessary to prevent defeat. The reliance on WMD was, as much as any other factor, the driving force in Reagan's push to rearm...
  3. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    In a convention engagement in 1983? Probably the Soviets. NATO forces were still reequipping with modern ground systems (e.g. M-1 replacing the M-60) and the smart weapon revolution was just beginning to reshape the tactical battlefield. The Soviets had a raft of their own problems, especially...
  4. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    There is a legend that there are sections of Interstate are designated as emergency landing strips. This was been somewhat debunked, although if there is such a plan, denying it would also be PART of the plan, so... The reality is that there would be very little need for secondary landing...
  5. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    This is somewhat optimistic. By 1983 the U.S./Canadian interceptor force was a shadow of what it had been a generation earlier, and almost all Nike/Ajax sited had been deactivated. Soviet Tu-95 with stand-off weapons could launch from as much as 1,300 miles (Kh-55 aka AS-15). The Tu-22M is also...
  6. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    If you look at the map that was provided earlier, one thing that stands out is that several of the strikes are aimed at major dams (at least two on the West Coast, Shasta and Hoover). Neither of the California sites have any useful military targets within a hundred+ miles, but they are vital for...
  7. Canadian tanks, troops, guns and planes to Malaya, Oct 1941

    After allowing 1,300 troops armed with rolling block rifles (capable of firing 12 rounds per minute), supported by two 7 pdr field gun to be killed (roughly 70% losses) by attacking INFANTRY with short spears (not even projectile weapons, but primarily Iklwa with a few old muzzle loaders that...
  8. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    That isn't the goal in a full exchange. The goal is to destroy the enemy. Period. Dot. Nuclear war isn't really war at all. It is mass murder with the goal of killing more than you lose, with the goal over overturning the other side's entire system. It is, at its most basic level, insanity...
  9. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    Interesting. Keep in mind that this is in a 2,000 warhead scenario (according to the map legend). The Soviets, in 1983, had 36,000 deliverable nuclear warheads, along with an unknown number with various bio-weapons (including toxins and plant blights). Sort of puts things into perspective.
  10. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    A city of 100K or more will house industry, political, and/or military resources. As I noted it is possible, not certain. No one, outside of a very select group, is aware of the full targeting list of either power (it is doubtful that anyone knows the combined list). The Soviets were known to...
  11. Canadian tanks, troops, guns and planes to Malaya, Oct 1941

    Ever? Since the start of the UK in 1707, I would either go with either John Burgoyne (of Saratoga infamy when he couldn't handle Horatio Gates, one of the bottom tier of American Generals) or Thomas Gage (although his failing was as much political as military). You manage to lose a good chunk...
  12. Canadian tanks, troops, guns and planes to Malaya, Oct 1941

    Logical choice would be Archibald Wavell, Harold Alexander or William Slim (roughly in that order). With the additional forces as outlined, and even a moderately skilled commander, the Commonwealth would be able to hold Singapore and southern Malaya until they ran out of supplies and...
  13. Recovery time from 1983 World War Three

    In 1983? To Status Quo Antebellum? Somewhere between 500 years and never. The Soviets had 36,000 DELIVERABLE nuclear weapons, the U.S. had 23,500. Both sides have jacketed weapons available (actually all that is necessary is to install/attack a pre-made jacket to a regular weapon). The Soviets...
  14. Canadian tanks, troops, guns and planes to Malaya, Oct 1941

    As long as Percival is in command Malaya is doomed. Arthur Percival was possibly the most obviously incompetent senior officer the British allowed a combat command in WW II.
  15. D-Day Fails but US atom bomb wins WWII in Europe

    The Bomb would NOT have defeated the Reich, not by itself. Two weapons did not, by themselves, cause the Japanese to capitulate. The Japanese capitulation was caused by the combination of two nuclear attacks AND the entry of the USSR into the war an action that was the uppercut after the first...
  16. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    No, except perhaps to their pride. No firing squads. Hanged by the neck like common criminals, followed by unmarked graves.
  17. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Usually they were captured after being concussed or wounded enough to be disabled. No one in the SS senior leadership had much doubt of what was going to happen if the Reich lost. If anything they expected worse than actually happened ATL. Many seriously believed that the WAllied would simply...
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    A few SS officers who could be linked to the war crimes committed after the WAllies landed in Europe, whoever who could be tracked down from the slaughter in General Government (the Holocaust was more or less indistinguishable from the close to two decade long murder spree cross what had once...
  19. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Atrocities were handled by ATL version of Nuremberg. Not anywhere near as well known, mainly since all the "big names" were seriously dead. Reparations were extremely rare ATL.
  20. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The various fascist movements that had spread with the advance of the Waffen SS were handled rather roughly. The WAllies had little to no patience for resistance, with the response being uniformly disproportionate to any armed engagements. There was, of course, considerable unrest, this was...
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