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  1. What if instead of attacking the US in December 1941 Japan attacked the Soviet Union?

    There is also the matter of the Sorge Ring. Sorge had deeply penetrated the Japanese military. He knew, and therefore Stalin KNEW that the Japanese were not going to attack the USSR. Stalin didn't listen to him about Barbarossa, he learned from that error. If the Japanese had decided to have...
  2. What if instead of attacking the US in December 1941 Japan attacked the Soviet Union?

    The known reserves are 3,000 miles away, across some of the most desolate territory on Earth. The want to get that oil the easy* way is to conquer all of China. *Easy being a relative term in this case There is oil in Siberia, but no one on Earth knew it at the time, and no one would have the...
  3. What if Pakistan nuked India in 1999?

    While the data itself is more than slightly biased in presentation, and makes some projections that are questionable, it is also not germane to the scenario at hand. By the time of the report you linked the number of potential warheads increased from 50-60 total to 240 and the likely number...
  4. Failure On The Somme

    Copy Paste isn't writing. It is, at best, lazy, at worst theft. This comes much close to theft than lazy. You are not even willing to change the information into your own words, you are just lifting Wiki and pasting it with the occasional edit. It took multiple statements from other members...
  5. What if Pakistan nuked India in 1999?

    As I said, insufficient throw weight. In 1999 neither side had more that 25-30 weapons (there are a couple sources that go higher for India, but the overall number never exceeds 50). Simply not enough, especially when you consider that a significant number of the weapons will never reach target...
  6. WI: US doesn't intervene in Iraqs invasion of Kuwait?

    Not sure if Israel would see it that way. The U.S. didn't really have a serious deal with the Kuwaitis, certainly nothing like the connection with Israel (or even Egypt for that matter).
  7. Could the Cuban missile crisis have resulted in a conventional war?

    It could. Question is if there was the ability to keep it from getting out of control. The issue extends way past Cuba. if the U.S. goes in there, the Soviets have the same sort of scenario with Turkey and something of an excuse. The Soviets move on Turkey and you have Article 5 in an eyeblink...
  8. WI: US doesn't intervene in Iraqs invasion of Kuwait?

    Saddam eventually takes control of the entire Peninsula unless the U.S., at some point, decides to act. He almost certainly acquires serious nuclear capacity to go with his CBW capabilities and decides to either have a go at the Israelis and/or Iran II. In short MASSIVE regional war, probably...
  9. America, Boxer Rebellion, and Taiwan

    Congress almost certainly would reject the Treaty out of hand. If they didn't, there would almost certainly be no time limit on the lease(s). The U.S. would obtain land in perpetuity (the Canal Zone and Guantanamo Bay are well known examples) in return for specific payment in gold coins or...
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Reich's economy was built on sand and Silly String. The people in charge of the economy were, as it fairly common in dictatorships, bloody thieves (Goring was actually renowned for his art theft, even before things turned all sideways), as were the various leaders in General Government...
  11. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    It was going to be even larger. The Breitspurbahn was supposed to be three meters or around double the Soviet "Wide Gauge.", although the original plan was for 4 meters (or almost 13 FEET). Easy enough to increase the rail bed width when you have 70+ MILLION people you need to work to death...
  12. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    In this T/L you eventually get a major exchange, probably close to what would have happened in 1962 if the Cuban Crisis had gone hot. There was very little chance that the Reich would have accepted the same sort of collapse that the USSR underwent. The subject peoples of the Reich were a lot...
  13. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Nazis were in a on-going rebuild of the East to fit their warped vision. Any rail lines that they didn't rebuild to suit their needs are completely abandoned and were, by the time the War resumed, rapidly headed back to natures following a dozen Russian winters/thaws.
  14. Tactics of a Ango-French War with the US in the late 1880's

    Only the fact that no on reported this little jewel for three days makes this an Official Warning and not a kick. DO NOT repeat this sort of BS.
  15. Best navalized military aircraft

    I wonder if they really count as navalized? They lack the CATOBAR capability, don't even have an arresting hook. Clever aircraft nonetheless. Loud as hell too. Makes an F-18 sound like a mouse wearing sneakers.
  16. question about German ship Grille

    They were also 451 feet long and made 118,000 SHP (war emergency power) with 3,900 tons displacement (the Deutschland class "pocket battleships", all 14,000 tons of them, made 52,000 SHP).
  17. AHC/WI/PC: German Enigma Code uses Gothic Language

    Can you imagine him and Alan Turing in the same room? They would need MPs with batons.:D
  18. AHC/WI/PC: German Enigma Code uses Gothic Language

    Unless you are going to make this ASB it is pretty much worthless. Since no one but scholars understand it, it has minimal value. What made Navajo, along with several other Native American languages, so useful was that it was a living language, with speakers who could walk right into the...
  19. Embargo Eternal: 1973 Oil Crisis Never Ended

    In that case the economies of the Middle East crater until they start pumping again. Saudi Arabia goes either broke or has a new leader who understands the term fungible commodity.
  20. Question when is a Union between the U.S. and the UK most possible?

    Please don't SPAM the Forums with a bunch of one line, no/low input questions. Thanks.
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