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  1. Was the UK a Better Global Hegemon?

    Political Chat Subject. Can Not be moved due to poll. Locked.
  2. What if the attack on Pearl Harbor was an utter disaster?

    I have to disagree regarding subs vs. Task Forces. At Philippine Sea the IJN lost three carriers, two of those were to submarine attack. At Leyte subs collected three cruisers (2 CA, 1 CL) plus one CA damaged (Takao, which never returned to sea after limping into Singapore). It is true that...
  3. How would other presidents handle Hurricane Katrina?

    The only thing thing that everyone on the list except Cheney would have done was land the friggin' plane and choppered into the area for a quick meet & greet. While doing that it diverts the helo from rescue operations, the SAR leadership and the local officials from working the problem and...
  4. WI: Massacre on The ISS?

    This is the THIRD thread where you seem to be fixated on multiple deaths and seem to be unhappy when obstacles are presented to the slaughter. Cut it out. Now.
  5. NATO without Britain & France - Does it still exist?

    There is a difference between leaving NATO and repudiating the U.S. If it is the latter then NATO is finished. No way to stage or supply and there is no strategic depth.
  6. Could Nazi tech have helped Japan?

    There was nothing that the Japanese could have received, short of ASB intervention, that would have changed the outcome of the war. Japan was going to lose. End of story. The real question is what could have extended the war, increased Allied casualties, and potentially have motivated the...
  7. Postponing Industrialization

    What the.... You have been here almost literally from Day One of the New Board (Member #33 to be exact) and post in a TEN YEAR DEAD thead? Don't do that!
  8. Strategic thought game: Defend Korea

    Asymmetrical warfare only works if the enemy lets it work. The Heer was too busy feeding troops into the Eastern Front meatgrinder to deal with the Partisans in Yugoslavia and the "Partisans" in the USSR were simply Red Army units with limited supply. Even then all those groups managed was to...
  9. Could Nazi tech have helped Japan?

    Torpedoes. All three versions: Type 91 Air dropped, Type 95 submarine and the Type 95 (Long Lance) surface ship Each was superior to anything the KM fielded at the start of the war. Insanely fast (something that can not be overstated as a value for an unguided weapon), extremely reliable (Early...
  10. Could Nazi tech have helped Japan?

    ...and this nicely wraps up everything wrong in Imperial Japan's military.
  11. The Soviet Navy versus the [decimated] Imperial Japanese Navy

    Against an actually functional modern navy the RN & USN had wiped out the IJN. What was left wasn't a threat to any force with a fully functional fleet carrier and up to date escorts. The issue is that the Soviets didn't have a modern fleet, they barely had a WW I squadron with a few modern...
  12. The Soviet Navy versus the [decimated] Imperial Japanese Navy

    The Soviet fleet was virtually non-existent. They had two Gangut class BB (1st Gen dreadnought, 26K tons, range under 5,000 km) that were effectively coastal defense ships and the Lend Lease Royal Sovereign along with a few cruisers and destroyers, almost all of them in the Baltic or Black...
  13. AHC: Japanese holdout in Pacific Island that becomes militarist Axis regime in exile

    There wasn't anywhere in the world that the Japanese military leadership could run that the Americans wouldn't chase them.
  14. Could Nazi tech have helped Japan?

    Japanese troops were very good at following orders and were as technically proficient as any infantry troops in the world. I would have to disagree about the superiority of the MG 42 to the Type 92. the Type 92 was probably one of the worst medium/heavy MG in the war. It used a 30 round...
  15. Could Nazi tech have helped Japan?

    Far & away the best weapon the Reich could have sent was the MG42. Second would be the FG42. As bad as Peleliu, Iwo Jima & Okinawa were, they would have been much worse facing them than the various marks of the Nambu design and the Type 92.
  16. Realism of a Permanently Divided Germany?

    The West had collectively been supporting the removal of the Wall virtually from the day it was erected. JFK made one of his most famous speeches there, Reagan called on Gorby to "take down this wall", etc. Thatcher was alone on this one. To change that would require some sort of duel self...
  17. Could Nazi tech have helped Japan?

    Well, they had it. Specifically the had the Me-163, or at least the basic plans for it (the actual working models were sunk en-route back to Japan) called the J8M/Ki-200. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_J8M
  18. What would it take to force a 1943 invasion of France?

    Eliminating Torch is really difficult. The U.S. didn't have the manpower to send to England at that point, but the political environment more or less demanded that American troops engage somewhere. Landing in France at some point in 1943, by itself, would require the U.S. becomes completely...
  19. Strategic thought game: Defend Korea

    Can't be done. Zero possibility event. The Koreans lack the industrial strength to outproduce either opponent (which BTW, is REALLY saying something), lack the money to buy weapons, and are so badly outnumbered that they can't put troops into the field in anything close to the number...
  20. The NAZI brass takes off after D-Day

    He wouldn't. Not a chance in Hell.
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