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  1. Temporary Survival of Roman Rule

    Closed at OP request.
  2. WI: B-70 Valkyrie Enters Service

    Okay. Two big piles of money, although the Soviets would have at least some aircraft that could serve a dual use (as the MiG-25/MiG-31 eventually did)
  3. AHC: SR 71 forever.

    Not a problem really. Keep the tax rates at what they were in Reagan's Presidency. The Blackbird was a budget victim.
  4. WI: B-70 Valkyrie Enters Service

    Well, that's a big pile of money flushed down the drain. MACH-3 penetration bombers were a dead end. Only useful for one role, and its a role that you pray they will never fulfill.
  5. Why is sealion such a sensitive issue on this forum?

    Probably want to take it down a notch or two.
  6. AHC: Ace Combat

    That is sort of my point. Air can't win wars. It can lose them, by failing to protect the ground and naval components, but it can't win a war except in the most extreme of conditions. There are enough air forces out there where you could see aces on both sides As an example besides the ones I...
  7. If Japan didnt surrender after Nagasaki.

    The chances of an Invasion were reducing almost daily. About the only person still in favor was MacArthur, and the more the Americans looked the less hopeful they became. Japan starves and is burned to the ground. For every month the war continues ~100,000 civilians in Japanese occupied...
  8. What's the maximum plausible lifespan of the North German Confederation from 1867 on?

    While both of you have been less than ideal in this thread, you just went a Bridge too Far. DO NOT insult. Use that little "report post" button. Thank you.
  9. Paul Wellstone lives

    Well, that's that. Two separate conspiracy theory laden posts, including a special thread for one of them in two days. Miscellaneous other crazy stuff. Guess I shouldn't have reversed that initial Ban. Live & learn. We divorce you.
  10. WI: A modern USA State declares it has seceded from the USA

    The historian Shelby Foote probably said it best. The Civil War changed the United States from an "are to an "is" Before the the Civil War references to the U.S. were phrases as "The United States of America are XXX" After the war it changed to "The United States of America is XXX". It...
  11. WI: A modern USA State declares it has seceded from the USA

    All the Feds would be doing is exactly what they do everywhere else. Enforcing Federal Law. Protecting Federal Buildings. Arresting tax evaders, bank robbers, mail thieves, drug dealers, moonshiners, etc. If the state wants to continue to pay its taxes, follow Federal Laws, respect Federal...
  12. Rome loses the first punic war.

    Well, we know it is Alexander the GREAT, and all, still... Five posts, all touting Alexander, mainly in threads that have nothing to do with him, mainly promoting some half assed web site. That seems to be trolling straight out of the box. Thanks for stopping by. We divorce you.
  13. WI: A modern USA State declares it has seceded from the USA

    In all likelihood it simply gets ignored until the State decides to start shooting Federal officers. Unless they are willing to do that it is literally pointless to make the declaration. The Feds don't shoot first, they wait until some fools become cop killers. That is the part that the small...
  14. Result of a Japanese victory at Kokoda?

    Same results as Guadalcanal. Heavy losses suffered to reinforce damaged, if not broken, IJA formations. Frontal attacks against heavily armed, highly motivated troops (with many of the defenders from the same unit that stopped Rommel cold at Tobruk) in decent prepared positions with adequate...
  15. 9/11 occurs 30 yrs earlier

    Did you actually just say that the Weathermen were a Nixon plot?
  16. Aztecs in Space

    Since this will require a set of POD as large as any ever attempted, all of them prior to 1900, thread moved to Pre-1900.
  17. The literate Führer

    There have been a number of reports on this thread. Tragically (for me) this has meant I have had to read through it. I will agree that it is, at best, spectacularly unlikely, but it is NOT ASB. I do not see any actionable level of Reich adoration either, at least not at this point. Reich...
  18. Centurion tank as the principle British tank on D-Day!

    Biggest problem is, well, biggest. The Centurion was 11 feet 1 in wide (M-26 Pershing was 11'-6"). Wouldn't fit down the ramp of LST and at 51 tons was 40% heavier than the max load of the 1944 LCM as well as being at least 13 inches wider than the LCM cargo hold. Wait a year to redesign...
  19. Hope, Change, and Nutmeg - A US political timeline

    Please don't come into a thread, a long running one at that, throw a one liner insult and leave. Remarkably impolite and it doesn't add anything to the discussion, positive or negative.
  20. AHC: Ace Combat

    Decisive will never happen simply due to air superiority, especially air-to-air. Now air supremacy, with the side holding it having LOTS of heavy bombers (say 300 B-1B/Tu-160/newly developed aircraft with 50,000+ pound bomb loads) and little concern over international criticism, that could be...
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