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

    I didn't say Soviet Union anywhere in the last response. Escalation doesn't have to start with a "tactical" weapon in the Fulda Gap. The use of a weapon is all that it takes. There were political realities that overtake common sense. The Soviets controlled their "allies" through fear. The...
  2. Where does the WWII Wehrmacht Rank?

    Doesn't quite work the way you imply. The Wehrmacht was quite powerful for the era. The Saudi military today would roll them up in a week, probably less. Hell, Da'esh would probably kick their ass. What is world beating in 1942 is warlord in 2015. So if you are ranking, just on...
  3. WI: No Atomic Bomb, Invasion of Kyushu Fails

    He understood that. He was just goofing with me.
  4. WI: War in Iraq Without Ground Invasion and Occupation

    Can't be done. Air power simply isn't capable of that level of success, at least not if the attacker pays anything above lip service to the Laws of Land Warfare. The days were you could, legally and morally, firebomb Tokyo or Coventry or Dresden are gone. Today's Geneva Conventions...
  5. Israel uses nukes in '73--does it HAVE to lead to a US-Soviet nuclear exchange?

    This is pretty much in line with everything I read. I can't cite the sources, so the statement is clearly less than airtight, but the scenarios always escalated up to at the minimum major exchange, generally to full exchange in the classic "use 'em or lose 'em" event. Just a comment on the...
  6. WI Afghanistan war becomes Vietnam 2.0

    Wasn't even close. Afghanistan was actually fairly well done. Iraq was the Charlie Foxtrot. Total U.S. combat losses over 14 years are under 2,500 or around 180 a year. The U.S. was losing that every WEEK in Vietnam for most of the late 1960s into early 1971. Wounded are around 22K or under...
  7. WI: Operation Vegetarian is executed and succeeds?

    I wouldn't bet on that. Anthrax is actually very, very hard to kill. It can spore up for a long time waiting for the correct conditions. Treatment is possible, but the Reich can't do it, all they have are 1st Generation Sulfa drugs and they are ineffective. Anthrax infected animals that are...
  8. WI: No Atomic Bomb, Invasion of Kyushu Fails

    Hard to be 100% certain, but at least two months, assuming the same sort of damage but expanded. You then have to look at weather, You need to have decent flying weather for CAS and air defenses, neither of which are likely in January or February. You also have the shorter days Can't go...
  9. WI: No Atomic Bomb, Invasion of Kyushu Fails

    It would have actually happened. No need to wonder. A typhoon knocked the stuffings out of the assembly area October 9, 1945. Typhoon Louise hit Okinawa with 90 mph winds and raisied 30 foot seas in Buckner Bay. Even in the much reduced conditions without the invasion fleet the storm grounded...
  10. WI: No Atomic Bomb, Invasion of Kyushu Fails

    One little typo and I'm a toolbag. Such is life. :p
  11. WI: No Atomic Bomb, Invasion of Kyushu Fails

    Uh... They had been burning big chunks of Tokyo since March. Operation Meetinghouse March 9/10 1945, firebombing destroyed 15.4 SQUARE MILES of the City and killed, at minimum, 100,000 people. It remains, to this day the deadliest bombing attack in history. After Meetinghouse the B-29s made...
  12. WI: No Atomic Bomb, Invasion of Kyushu Fails

    From 70 years ahead that is easy to say. The politics of the situation are different at the time, and not just the civilian politics, although those were not to be underestimated. The GOP was looking for a way to get back at least one chamber of Congress, and set up its Candidate in 1948 for...
  13. WI: Operation Vegetarian is executed and succeeds?

    "Germany" would be the monster under the bed. The Bogeyman. Hell on Earth.
  14. WI: Operation Vegetarian is executed and succeeds?

    BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS. Compared to the British "Go to Hell " plan the nuclear strikes on Japan were a fairly pleasant dinner date. German, and yes, most of the Central European Plain, would be a Superfund Site, literally not fit for Man nor beast. The Anthrax would never be gotten rid of (well...
  15. Idea: Russia and America never join WWII

    Zero probability without numerous other POD. The UK was never going to fall to the Reich. Flat not going to happen. Even at its most effective the U-boat campaign wasn't sufficiently successful to win, unless the U.S. not only stay out of the war, but goes to strict neutrality, something that...
  16. WI: Operation Vegetarian is executed and succeeds?

    Churchill is remembered right next to Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot as a mass murderer one step below the Prince of Evil on Earth Hitler.
  17. WI: No Atomic Bomb, Invasion of Kyushu Fails

    Uh... Think you meant 2 MILLION Americans killed. There were no civilians to speak of on Iwo. Saipan was a rather unusual situation, with a fairly low civilian population compared to troop numbers. Okinawa actually had very little resistance from the civilians except those who were in actual...
  18. WI: No Atomic Bomb, Invasion of Kyushu Fails

    The difficulty the Red Army would have had with Hokkaido was it lacked sufficient resources to do anything BUT a blunt force Dieppe style assault. There was no way to flank the enemy, they lacked the lift to manage an over the beach assault, so it was going to be "take the port, just get it...
  19. United States as a Constitutional Monarchy

    You REALLY need to stop digging up graves.
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