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  1. A 'smarter' NATO cartridge strategy 1950-1980?

    That does seem to make sense, but wouldn't that just reveal that the various NATO members had fairly different ideas about low level doctrine? Changing round and rifle is one thing, particularly if you need to change it anyway, but changing doctrine and how you build up your army is quite...
  2. Westerner internment in Japan ww2 & china

    Spielberg's film 'Empire of the Sun' covers this in some detail It was based on the book and actual experiences of the author JG Ballard who was separated from his parents as a boy when the fighting started (IIRC in Shanghai) and was interned
  3. 'Sanity options' for the Italian army, 1935-42

    was thinking of something along the lines of the Finnish "elephant gun" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahti_L-39 that could have other uses, but yes prior to the point of suicide squads! but I guess no major power would go to war without tanks and rely only on armored cars and/or half tracks?
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    A Hippie in the House of Mouse (Jim Henson at Disney, 1980)

    ...spats, arguments, makeups, breakups, teamwork, and a Grog in a Pear Tree…err…at the back of a seedy bar." - Yup ITTL me would be watching this if/when it came to UK TV. It got the Battlestar reboot treatment? Like that would happen to Trek! *cough Dis cough* Great chapter @Geekhis Khan
  5. WI: The Soviet Union survived as a rump state in Central Asia?

    If I remember correctly, referendums showed that the entirety of Central Asia was overwhelmingly in support of keeping the Union together. It would probably be dominated by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and the other three remain as junior members. Even if a more Turkic identity/aesthetic becomes...
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