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  1. American FAL?

    The M-14 wasn't really the right weapon for Vietnam. Been hell on wheels if the Red Army had ever tried the Fulda Gap (which, THANK GOD, never happened). Once they got the bugs out the M-16 was good jungle carbine.
  2. Fate of Imperial Japan

    Naval losses could be severe. The Japanese had 12,000+ aircraft for use as kamikazes, and they had a decent plan to use them to draw off U.S. fighter cover so the relatively low number of remaining experienced air crew could make conventional attacks. At a guess, at least 60 ships sunk, 20-25...
  3. American FAL?

    If the 7.62 NATO round was going to be used, the M-14 was an excellent weapon. Weight is close to identical (FAL 50.0 is 8.9 pounds, M-14 is 9.2), the M-14 takes back seat to no 7.62mm battle rifle on Earth in long range accuracy (my cousin, who has a decade on me, used the M-14 over iron...
  4. Fate of Imperial Japan

    They are, but that is INCLUSIVE (IJA/IJN, Civilians, "volunteer militia", U.S. and Allied forces). The ringer in the U.S. KIA figures is just how effective the Kamikazes would be, and for how long could the effectiveness of the attacks be maintained. The Japanese had a good plan, attacking just...
  5. Fate of Imperial Japan

    The Russians are going to get at least as much in this scenario as IOTL, maybe more. Akihito would have become Emperor, although at 10 years of age there would be a Regent/Regents. Where it gets bad is that, after Nagasaki and the Soviet Declaration of War, there is no Emperor in place to...
  6. AHC: Have as many presidents possible from one state

    And Nixon, despite being Californian through and through was actually elected as a Republican from New York, so that takes NY up to 8. That puts 20 out of 44 (and New York will add a 9th come November since both Clinton and Trump are running as New Yorkers, so 21 out of 45) or 45-46% are from...
  7. If Jackson Had Survived?

    Stuart? The man who even Lee admitted blinded him at the most critical moment of the entire war. The man who utterly and completely failed in his primary task as a cavalry officer? Stuart was a much less skilled, 19th Century version of MacArthur. Never met a headline he didn't like, no matter...
  8. How famous would be a Warrior who alone killed a hundred soldiers?

    If he was Gurkha he'd barely be noticed.
  9. Was there a point to the IJA's atrocities/brutality in WW2?

    Not what I meant. Not even close. There are physical differences between the groups, just as there are noticeable differences between West Africans and East Africans or Spaniards and Finns. You may not see them, but Asians do, in fact they are as noticeable, in many cases, as the difference...
  10. Was there a point to the IJA's atrocities/brutality in WW2?

    To your eyes there may be no difference. To Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Burmese, etc. eyes there are noteworthy difference. Having grown up and worked with individuals from a number of different nationalities, even I can figure out the differences much of the time. They are difficult to describe...
  11. Remember, Remember the 6th of November?

    Please do NOT use this Board to advertise your work beyond supplying a link in your sig.
  12. Did the Japanese government think they could winn WWII?

    As is too often the case, this perspective takes advantage of hindsight, it is also incorrect factually. In late 1941 no one knew that the battleship was done as the final arbiter of naval warfare. Churchill didn't send Repulse and Prince of Wales out simply to be slaughtered, with the certain...
  13. AHC: Make the post WW2 world as nightmarishly horrible as possible WITHOUT nuclear war and/or WW3

    Uh... Nope. To quote Ian from his ASB sticky: This sort of WI is sort of the AH version of torture porn. Please do not repeat.
  14. If Jackson Had Survived?

    ALL of which are completely under the control of the General commanding. Its called logistics. Great Generals remember it. Lee lost more men than Grant did across all theaters. Grant took gambles, most of them worked. Lee took fewer, most of those failed, and failed against opposing Generals...
  15. Did the Japanese government think they could winn WWII?

    There is also the fact that the Japanese, rightly or wrongly, thought they had no choice but to go to war, and the sooner the better. The math was never on Japan's side and they did realize that. They wait until 1943, maybe even mid 1942, and they might as well wait forever. The U.S. building...
  16. Was there a point to the IJA's atrocities/brutality in WW2?

    They started with more transportation to the Soviet Far East (which was pretty much death by neglect), to increasing amounts of "extermination through labor", especially for the Poles, who were marked for 85% liquidation. Fun people, the Nazis.
  17. Was there a point to the IJA's atrocities/brutality in WW2?

    Well, all the Generalplan Ost versions (there are at least six known) included some, generally increasingly murderous, version of "wipe the Slavs from the Earth". Since there has never a finalized plan that had all the needed chops found, just how close it would have come to the best known...
  18. Was there a point to the IJA's atrocities/brutality in WW2?

    Re: the OP question- The Japanese brutality, like that of the Reich, was based on racism, or, more properly, a belief in Japanese racial superiority and a perversion of historic military traditions. Unlike the Reich, where the brutality and war crimes were carefully directed and somewhat...
  19. Was there a point to the IJA's atrocities/brutality in WW2?

    I would strongly challenge this. The Japanese made no move to eliminate the population of Manchuria, repress them, yes, eliminate no. Unlike the Reich the Japanese were looking to gain raw materials, inexpensive labor, and perhaps most importantly, a captive market for its goods. The long term...
  20. Did the Japanese government think they could winn WWII?

    Know? Yes. Consider the ramifications if the war lasted into 1943? Not really.
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