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  1. Modern Military vs WWII military

    I never ran across the Ba-349 before. It has vaulted past the Horten Brother flying wings as my favorite stupidest Luftwaffe idea ever. The fact that they actually built some, and sent a human being up in one, defies belief. I may has been made! :D
  2. Modern Military vs WWII military

    No ground troops at all? Probably not. Destroy, dismember, and largely depopulate? Sure. Bombers can't hold ground.
  3. WI: Seahawks win Super Bowl XLIX

    Congratulations. You have redefined too soon. Locked.
  4. Modern Military vs WWII military

    This is simply changing the entire game. Clearly asymmetrical warfare does not require the same level of tech, although it is surprisingly useful. To look at the list: The VC were effectively destroyed during Tet (granted this was as much because of Hanoi's cynical use of them). AQ is a...
  5. Which legislative upper house would you, with adequate POD, liquidate?

    Should be in Chat. Can't be in Chat because of the poll. Locked.
  6. wi: the bismarck had encountered the uss texas in the denmark straits?

    Bismarck was actually unusually vulnerable to plunging fire. Her designers misread a couple of the lessons of Jutland and didn't extend her belt far enough below the waterline. While this might not have been a major issue against Texas due to the max elevation of her guns, it as a direct reason...
  7. wi: the bismarck had encountered the uss texas in the denmark straits?

    Actually Texas is considerably older (commissioned 1914) than the Hood, (commissioned 1920, laid down two years after Texas was commissioned) but she was designed from the keel as a battleship. Her armor scheme was heavier pretty much across the board than the Hood, which was an improved BC...
  8. Modern Military vs WWII military

    That was why I mentioned the Geneva Accords and simple humanity. You would have large number of personnel rendered hors de combat through either traumatic injury or gross combat related psychosis. The most difficult issue for the Modern Force (and I use the U.S. both because of familiarity...
  9. Modern Military vs WWII military

    Actually a couple of remarkably bad examples. Da'ish has been stopped cold in a high profile offensive by roughly a single fighter wing (two squadron from a single U.S. carrier, a light French Rafale Squadron, and flights of aircraft from the RAF, Canadian, Australian, and Arab states) The...
  10. Modern Military vs WWII military

    This one too? http://kesler12-jamesrocket.blogspot.com/2012/05/modern-army-vs-ww2-army.html Please keep in mind I know where your registered from.
  11. AHC: Have MacArthur size power successfully

    1. Not much. He as the Theater commander. the AAF head worked for him. The quick in & out visits by the engineers weren't sufficient to figure out the region was more or less a bog. The Navy didn't really care. Their job was delivery with the hope that the IJN would come out so it could be wiped...
  12. AHC: World War II Stalemate

    No but you did call of Japan to be Great Power. Only way that happens is that they manage to survive. Since they can't come out a Great Power without defeating China (which was simply beyond their capability with the technology of the era), fighting the UK to a standstill and somehow avoid...
  13. AHC: World War II Stalemate

    Short of an asteroid impact, Yellowstone Megavolcanic eruption, or actual Alien invasion this isn't possible. Japan was dead on arrival. Tokyo lost the war at 07:56 Hawaiian time on 12/7/41. After that everything else was details.
  14. AHC: Have MacArthur size power successfully

    There is actually an entire thread dedicated to the reasons that MacArthur was an utter bastard. :) However, the short list: Attacking the Bonus Army Disobeying direct orders from the POTUS and attacking the Bonus Army a second time. Manifest failure in leadership in the Philippines...
  15. Modern Military vs WWII military

    Not just Infantry and armor formations. Fighters would be getting knocked out of the sky by simple air turbulence (a aircraft moving at MACH 2 creates a bow wave of air that makes a thunder storm supercell look like an air conditioner). An AMRAAM or V-77 warhead would be capable of knocking out...
  16. Modern Military vs WWII military

    The author of this original article is a Luddite. To use an example that i haven't seen mentioned by others: Artillery. The reason that modern forces mainly concentrate of 155mm is that they can. smaller calibers were used because the WW II 155mm was seriously lacking in mobility. That has...
  17. WI/AHC: No battle of Iwo Jima

    The availability of Iwo, just as a divert strip, saved more lives than it cost. The first B-29 landed before the island was even fully secured. 2,200 B-29s landed on Iwo in five months. While many of these were for relatively minor reasons, if 1/3 of the landing saved aircraft that would mean...
  18. Father William J. Clinton, SJ?

    Don't forget poverty and the personal oath of obedience to the Pope (Himmler actually stole it for the SS). Jesuits own nothing but their personal papers and a few articles of clothing. In fact the sign of a "mature":D Jesuit is when changing assignments (something that happens every 4-5...
  19. Father William J. Clinton, SJ?

    You have no idea of what it takes to become a Jesuit. A majority of the individuals who believe they have a calling to the vocation drop out. Its the Catholic Church's equivalent of BUDS with philosophy classes (LOTS of them) thrown in.
  20. AHC: Have MacArthur size power successfully

    Having him possessed would be the critical first step. There may not be a bigger MacArthur hater on the Board than me, but for all his ego and bombast, and less than stellar judgement, he was very much a member of the Long Gray Line. He was effectively a 19th Century man, ho believed in...
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