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  1. AHC-Worst Possible End to Jim Crow

    You need at least one, probably two Southern Governors and State Guard commanders who are willing to have another go. 1957 with Florida and Arkansas are likely bet. Arkansas Guard won't move, 101st tries to make them, somebody screws up, and there ya' go. Civil War 2.0. At least the start of...
  2. No Kiev 1941 - Early Operation Typhoon

    Moscow was a trap, even if the Heer didn't realize it, worse than Stalingrad. Once taken, it would HAVE to be held, at any or all costs. The Soviets were more than willing to destroy the city to prevent the Nazis from having it whole and useful. So the Heer winds up in a ruined city with minimal...
  3. Most Satisfying End to a Dictatorship (Post-1900)

    Chat subject. Can't move to Chat due to Poll. Locked.
  4. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    There are a few different places that you can choose to take Stalin out. As you note, having him die before the war, another is just after the attack when he retreated to his dacha and had, for all appearances, a nervous breakdown and fully expected for the Politburo to have him shot (instead...
  5. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The casual way they went about the elimination of entire peoples was possibly the worst part. The decision to kill most of the Slavs on Earth wasn't even done in anger, or with any particular emotion, or hot blooded manner. The PLANNED deaths, mainly by "extermination through labor" for just...
  6. Why do the British always ally with the South?

    You have an unfortunately long history of being a troll in this passive/aggressive "bless your heart" mode. That stops today. Have no doubt on this. The chances cupboard is bare. Kicked for a week.
  7. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    They had the plans, they lacked both the materials and the focus to achieve it. The WAllies (aka A4, United Nations, etc.) never eased up on the blockade. The Reich was lacking so many materials, from rare earths to rubber, that they were limited in how far they could push the tech. Hitler also...
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The depth of the utter disregard for any semblance of civilized conduct for the Occupied regions and negligible value placed on human life, even on German lives. We all grow up hearing some version of Nazis = Bad. If you are something of a history buff you start to see the Holocaust as part...
  9. Had Stalin died in 1946 who would be the best to lead the USSR?

    Churchill. He was looking for work at that time. Just sayin'. :D There really was not "good" candidate. Beria was pretty much a given, thanks to his control of the NKVD. The other two member of the troika (Molotov and Malenkov) were also possible. Stalin had done an excellent job of...
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Nope, the Nazis are masters of camouflage.
  11. Potential of a Japanese Vegetarian?

    They could. The problem is that, much like Plague, with is what they did send, anthrax is endemic in the Western U.S. (deer die of it on an not uncommon basis, outbreaks in cattle herds are rare, but that is because they are vaccinated and have been since the early 1900s). The amount needed...
  12. Potential of a Japanese Vegetarian?

    It very much depends on when the Japanese decide to commit. Vegetarian was meant to be a "last great act of defiance" and/or retaliation for violating the Conventions on Chemical Weapons. If the Japanese use that same criteria, usage doesn't start until after Saipan (the Japanese REALLY wanted...
  13. What would have happened to the High Seas Fleet if it had not been scuttled in 1919?

    The interesting part would be how the additional tonnage was treated by the WNT. There IS still going to a massive building race without the WNT, since everyone will have gotten some goodies the situation is really unchanged. If the WNT is changed to allow most of that older tonnage to...
  14. Where does the WWII Wehrmacht Rank?

    Talk about not learning from the past. This is the same sort of management by wish that doomed the Kaiser's forces in WW I. They KNEW they didn't have the troops or the lift to achieve the movement required under the Schlieffen Plan, but convinced themselves they could pull it off anyway...
  15. Where does the WWII Wehrmacht Rank?

    The advantages of a defender are not to be underestimated. I will bring up the IJA again. It took two full Marine Divisions, an Army Division a gun line that included 7 fast BB that dropped 2,400 16" shells, 8 old BB with 14" & 16", along with eleven cruisers and 27 destroyers, and seven...
  16. Israel uses nukes in '73--does it HAVE to lead to a US-Soviet nuclear exchange?

    Already flat out stated I do not have the cites you are requesting. When I was reading journals or essays in the early 90s I wasn't getting ready to write a book or a dissertation, and I most assuredly never even imagined I would be discussing them, or anything else for that matter, on an...
  17. Was Teddy Roosevelt a Fascist?

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  18. Israel uses nukes in '73--does it HAVE to lead to a US-Soviet nuclear exchange?

    To date I believe that the preponderance of opinion still favors his version.
  19. Where does the WWII Wehrmacht Rank?

    I do give them credit. Poland was successful, France was a remarkable tactical success. There defensive stand during the long retreats were, at time, remarkably well done with admirable use of terrain as force multipliers. This being said, I was responding to That is flat out wrong. The...
  20. Where does the WWII Wehrmacht Rank?

    Not it didn't. The Luftwaffe got stuffed over England and lost the Battle of Britain, that was followed by utter failure to achieve what Fighter Command succeeded in doing, defending the airspace over its home territory. The Kreigsmarine FAILED to close the Atlantic, lost every significant...
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