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  1. Germany vs The Soviet union - One on one

    Elements were already going IOTL while the war was in progress. In this scenario they may be delayed since there are no Axis allies to cover part of the manpower requirements. Logistics would be difficult, but would be eased in that Soviet tribute could cross into now Reich occupied territory on...
  2. What would be needed to repel a US bombing campaign?

    Easy. There was no actual support deep public support for the mission. There was no actual U.S. national interest (beyond, you know, feeding starving people). The starving people who the U.S. was supposed to be helping very much appeared to be less concerned, based on media reporting at the...
  3. Germany vs The Soviet union - One on one

    This continues to ignore the 2 million Axis allied troops who were IOTL on the Eastern Front, comprising close to 40% of the total Axis forces IOTL. Just replacing them, inside the identical parameters of OTL (as you provided) would require more than 5 million Heer troops be deployed (3.25M...
  4. What would be needed to repel a US bombing campaign?

    No. They don't stop the bombing. They increase it, both in bomb load and in target list. Push hard enough and the U.S. decided to kick in the door. in the early 1990s there were exactly four countries that wouldn't wind up with American boots holding war crime trials in whatever was left of is...
  5. Germany vs The Soviet union - One on one

    Still at war. The USSR in AANW was defeated. Actually it wasn't defeated, it was destroyed. Specifically it was destroyed after the death of Stalin, which itself followed the fall of Stalingrad. Unless you pull Stalin out of the picture it simply doesn't happen. No one else in the Soviet camp...
  6. Germany vs The Soviet union - One on one

    Please reread my entire post. My question remains the same. Can the Heer maintain control of over a million square miles in the East with the available troops (this is close to DOUBLE the territory that the Reich held at its maximum)? Not just with front line forces, which in themselves would...
  7. How are SLBMs aimed?

    Not at discretion. Weapons can have pre-selected targeting that can be changed. Currently that is done via the launch codes and satellite messaging. Since the SLBM does not have 12,000 KM range the patrol area also limits the potential target set (e.g. a boat patrolling the North Pacific can't...
  8. Germany vs The Soviet union - One on one

    There is always the question of what "alone" means. Are the UK and U.S. totally out of the game? If they are not, what are they doing? Not just as far as actual direct assistance to the USSR, but regarding the Japanese. If the U.S. is deeply engaged in destroying the Japanese Empire the answer...
  9. WI: Maximally Effective Pearl Harbor attack?

    Unlike OTL practice, carriers did not fly off all their aircraft before entering port. The majority of the aircraft would have been in the hangers, helpless. The landing evolution wasn't worth the effort in peacetime. The pilots, at least most of them, along with many of the crew would either be...
  10. Germany vs The Soviet union - One on one

    I'm throwing a Yellow Card on this entire thread. Next person who comes anywhere close to current politics, up to and including where/how any of the current peoples living in the Middle East came to be there will be kicked, if not worse. This is actually a very worthwhile subject that concerns...
  11. WI: Maximally Effective Pearl Harbor attack?

    They succeeded beyond their greatest hopes. It would have been better if the carriers had been in port, but the Kido Butai orders expected 8 capital ships, 4 BB & 4 CV (the U.S. only had 3 CV assigned to the Pacific Fleet, this indicates just how weak the IJN's Intel actually was) and specified...
  12. AHC: Britain forces Argentina to give up its claims

    How big are the butterflies? The UK could compel Argentina to sign a treaty to this effect. All it would take is someone like Stalin to be in charge and use nuclear blackmail writ large.
  13. How realistic would it be that Gore invades Iraq if he had won?

    Not a chance. Iraq 2003 was 100% Bush/Cheney. Afghanistan? In a red hot second.
  14. Why the nazis hated Communists ?

    Oops, wrong. Play the Ball, not the man. Insults are unacceptable.
  15. How much longer can the Great War be?

    There is also the "Spanish Flu".
  16. What are but two votes? - An alternate Civil War

    You copy an entire section out of the Wiki, including the bloody LINKS and don't even bother to give a credit? WTF? NEVER do this again
  17. US doesn't join the Korean War, how long does the South last?

    A month, if they are lucky. IOTL the ROK Army went from pre-war 95,000 (June 24, 1950) to 22,000 four days later.
  18. How well prepared were the Japanese for Operation Downfall?

    How many members of the Red Army or of the Soviet partisans were only fought because of Stalin and the NKVD? Doesn't really matter how happy they were doing it. Just have to do it.
  19. How well prepared were the Japanese for Operation Downfall?

    As is often the case, particularly for something like Olympic, the information is correct, but it is still wrong. This was deployment in early August, not November. The Japanese more or less knew when and where (it was more or less a math and planning equation, didn't need a lot of intel...
  20. WI: Eric Shinseki as Secretary of Defense under Bush the Younger?

    Bush was going to go to war with Iraq. Period. Dot. That was one of his goals from the day he entered the White House. Stand in the way of that and you get trampled.
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