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  1. Not Our Hour

    The package had been deployed from 37,000 feet. It was well known that no-one could be deployed from an aircraft at that altitude and at 500 knots. Everyone knew this to be an inescapable fact. Any attempt to do it would be instantly lethal. Elements of the American IC made sure that everyone...
  2. Not Our Hour

    '...music playing..." "Copy. "Package released"
  3. Not Our Hour

    NSA Intercept. "Mission competed." "About time." Voiceprint identity and cell phone tracker confirmed. Subject is at grid ref 7645x456. Copy.
  4. Best fleet of WWII

    I would agree, except on December 7, 1941 Wasp was carrying 81 front line aircraft (35 F4F, 37 SB2U, 2 TBD, & 1 SJN-3). The mix noted by Lundstrom was different, possibly because the SBD lacked the folding wing feature that the SB2U included, meaning that the newer aircraft required more hanger...
  5. AHC - BEST INDIAN SCENARIO

    You HAVE to stop this low/no content posting. This is NOT what the Board is for. It is a discussion Board, not a place where you simply get other to think for you. Thread locked.
  6. AHC/WI: European Empires invade the US in early 20th century

    I'd suggest you both discuss the subject matter and not snipe at each other.
  7. My plan for a successful Sealion

    The U.S. would have done whatever it could, short of actual war, including sending support into the DEI and Singapore and likely using warships to "evacuate" Americans from the region. It is very likely that there would be a Neutrality Zone declared around the Philippines (It was readily...
  8. My plan for a successful Sealion

    Need to be a little careful using Suvorov as a source. He tends to have a bag of axes to grind about the USSR (understandably, but it impacts his CV).
  9. My plan for a successful Sealion

    No. They had absolutely no choice but to honor the threat. None. No successful military commander in the last five millennium would have left a known hostile force unfettered across its line of communication when planning a major operation. The United States was already in the midst of a truly...
  10. Not Our Hour

    November 15, 1997 CNN "Following last week's dramatic testimony of Dr. Sidney Schaefer, Special Prosecutor Ritter has ended his investigation. In what is a nearly unprecedented step, Ritter stated before the House Committee that there was no evidence of any criminal activity, no evidence that...
  11. My plan for a successful Sealion

    The U.S. had roughly 42% of the war-making economic potential of the entire Planet, followed by Germany at 14.4%, the USSR at 14% and UK at 10.2%. The figures fall off the table after that, with France at 4.2%, Japan 3.2% and Italy 2.3% according to Kennedy. The remain ~10% was scattered, much...
  12. My plan for a successful Sealion

    Since it will be unwieldy to try to continue a point by point... With no battle of the Atlantic the British will be able to produce more of everything, ships, aircraft, armor, the works. None of that material is going to wind up on the ocean floor. None of the finished products from Canada will...
  13. My plan for a successful Sealion

    I would agree with the sub/air blockade IF the KM was up to it. It wasn't. There is also the reality that even trying it is going to provide too many opportunities to draw in the Americans (the Atlantic is OUR ocean was a thing even in the 1930s). Those troops are indeed many of the "old...
  14. My plan for a successful Sealion

    1. How does a loss of just under 200,000 troops at Dunkirk (of the 338K evacuated ~140k were Belgian/French/Polish) cripple the UK six years later? Just natural increase will provide enough replacements. In 1920 alone there were ~1,100,000 live births in the UK, using the general ratio of 52:48...
  15. How plausible is it that Imperial Japan decides to fight the USSR after Barbarossa begins

    Well, here is the source I'm going by. Might be wrong, but it is usually fairly solid. http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/K/w/Kwantung_Army.htm Now if you are counting the entire IJA deployment into China that might come up with the higher figure. That would, however, require the IJA to abandon the...
  16. How plausible is it that Imperial Japan decides to fight the USSR after Barbarossa begins

    More like utter failure. The Heer wasn't able to take either of the "Grads". They took Sevastopol after a six month siege, and Sevastopol was Boy Scout camp compared to Vladivostok (just as one example Sevastopol had three gun batteries, Vladivostok had close to 90. The defenders at Vladivostok...
  17. How plausible is it that Imperial Japan decides to fight the USSR after Barbarossa begins

    Sorry, but you did flatly state thatCongress would not allow U.S. merchant ships into a War Zone (post 109). This being said, it is also exactly the sort of debate I do not want to engage in.
  18. How plausible is it that Imperial Japan decides to fight the USSR after Barbarossa begins

    I recommend you review your series of posts with me. I bring up an issue. You say it isn't possible. I then demonstrate that it is both possible and, in some cases, actually occurred IOTL. You then abandon the position and come up with a different one. By doing so you create an endless series of...
  19. How plausible is it that Imperial Japan decides to fight the USSR after Barbarossa begins

    Have to say that constantly moving the goalposts in a discussion makes it difficult to continue. That being the case... I won't.
  20. How plausible is it that Imperial Japan decides to fight the USSR after Barbarossa begins

    IOTL on October 7, 1941 the U.S. Congress repealed section IV of the Neutrality Act (1939 update). Section IV was the section that forbade U.S. ships from entering declared belligerent ports or combat zones. Clearly Congress would provide the POTUS that authority. The British ports were, in...
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