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  1. Could the US mobilized to WWII levels after 1945?

    To a degree that is true. The issue today is the exact opposite. Under current entry standards only around 29% of Americans in the 18-24 age group can pass the physical. Even with the undoubtedly lowered standards of a WW II scale war, it wouldn't surprise me to see 40% of draftees fail. This...
  2. Could the US mobilized to WWII levels after 1945?

    The number I used are based on the CPI. Specifically I use this site: http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/
  3. Could the US mobilized to WWII levels after 1945?

    It depends on how you figure the relative value. For projects the for ever 100 1943 dollars the 2014 figure ranges from $1090 using historic opportunity cost to $8,260 for economic cost. I generally use the lowest figure whenever I do these sort of comparisons, I also don't count refit costs. I...
  4. AHC: Entire Family Presidents

    By 2050, that may look like the Beatles circa 1965 or Elvis circa 1957. Both of them were thought to be outrageously over the top at the time.
  5. AHC: Entire Family Presidents

    Unfortunately Bill and Hill only had one child. Otherwise it would be a gimmie.
  6. Could the US mobilized to WWII levels after 1945?

    Troops? Probably, although the rather poor physical fitness and mindset of the current population would make it... interesting to see many of them go through Boot. Weapons are an interesting question. Current U.S. industry would struggle to produce the masses of ships, but the reality of...
  7. Muslims deported from europe

    It wouldn't. Anyone born on American soil is, by definition (14th Amendment) a U.S. citizen. Not all countries have the "Jus Soli" rule. Western Hemisphere is is almost universal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
  8. Challenge: NATO Alfa Class Submarine Equivalent

    Because the deep diving depth allowed it to complete its one way mission more successfully. The Mark 37 torpedo, which was the submarine weapon in service, as questionable at that depth, although launching a torpedo from below 2,000 feet would also use up an enormous amount of hi-pressure air...
  9. Muslims deported from europe

    I'm only 2nd Generation American. Push me into the Czech Republic (where my Dad's family is from) and I am totally screwed. Never been there, can't speak the language, and don't even know where any relatives may be. This would be a hell of a good way to start an Honest-to-God Jihad.
  10. Challenge: NATO Alfa Class Submarine Equivalent

    The Project 705 boats were in many ways classic Soviet designs. Pure suicide on a stick. Very fast, heavily armed and LOUD, like put a glass up to the pressure hull and you can here one 10 miles away loud. You had to get within 6-8,000 yards to use the VA-111, had to drop speed to around 10...
  11. Muslims deported from europe

    Deport them to where? Countries that they fled as refugees? Countries that don't WANT them back? Quite literally can't be done except at the point of a naked bayonet.
  12. What if North Korea invaded Japan?

    That is a recent, very substantial upgrade to the DPRK's amphibious capabilities.
  13. What if North Korea invaded Japan?

    Frankly it would be impossible. The U.S. ensured that the JSDF was equipped to face a straight up SOVIET incursion. In addition to JSDF formations the U.S. had substantial assets in the Home Islands, in the ROK and on Okinawa. Heavy air assets were located on Guam and at Clark Field in the PI.
  14. Was the Wehrmacht's Operation Blue a viable idea?

    You mean besides not expecting the entire country to fold up after one big kick? The Reich didn't HAVE a plan. They had a political belief. Once the initial attack in the summer of 1941 failed everything else was made up on the fly. Rather than follow what the General Staff knew to be the...
  15. How effective would the Nazi population growth measures have been?

    You are presuming a lot, starting with time between births. You can easily have one child a year, starting at 16 or 17 and continuing into mid-late 30's or even later. What you need to get a brood the size that would earn the Diamond Cross is literally the "barefoot and pregnant" model or...
  16. WI: Britain sits out WW1?

    I would strongly recommend that folks in this thread stop personalizing the debate and get back to facts and away from "you statements".
  17. How effective would the Nazi population growth measures have been?

    A significant difference between the Soviet and Nazi system is that the Soviet Union never even pretended to provide a decent life for its citizens. It was a country that was based on successive failures with one Five Year Plan after another going down the tubes. Stalin was feared, even...
  18. WI: Ottoman Version of Holocaust Against ALL Non-Turks

    You may not be supporting genocide, but you are sure pushing to find a way to get one going. You are kicked for a week while I try to figure out exactly what, if anything, further needs to be done.
  19. How effective would the Nazi population growth measures have been?

    One thing that is very much missed here is that, unlike any normal society, we are talking about the Reich. Moreover we are talking about a victorious Reich. This is a Nation that literally encouraged unmarried women to turn themselves out for SS men (required by law to father at least four...
  20. WI: Ottoman Version of Holocaust Against ALL Non-Turks

    Oh, please do expand on this.
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