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  1. WI: Hitler captured Stalingrad

    I did include Tukhachevsky in error.:o The number of competent, if not exceptional, commanders, including virtually everyone who served in a senior position in Spain, that Stalin/Beria killed after the start of Barbarossa is nevertheless stunning. There is a fairly common belief that Stalin...
  2. AHC WI: No Major Tea Party

    Stop. NOW. Do NOT argue politics in ANY Forum except Chat. This is NOT a multiple warning infraction, if you follow my meaning
  3. AHC WI: No Major Tea Party

    Stop. NOW. Do NOT argue politics in ANY Forum except Chat. This is NOT a multiple warning infraction, if you follow my meaning
  4. DBWI: John Campbell takes over Astounding

    Magazine would have failed slightly later than was the actual case. How can you call it well regarded when it folded after six issues? I had to Google it to even figure out what you were talking about.
  5. WI: Hitler captured Stalingrad

    Stalin WAS still purging his army in 1942, never really stopped. He had many of his most experienced and skilled general officers, including Heroes of the Soviet Union executed even as the Heer was driving on Moscow. Marshall Mikhail Tukhachevsky twice Hero of the SU, Col. Gen Grigori Shtern...
  6. Israel conscripts American Jews

    Nothing like DOUBLING your population (Israel has 6.1 million Jews out of its 8.9m citizens, the U.S. is home to 8.6M Jews) while ensuring that all those new citizens will be sure to show the love to the idiot child politicians who pulled this sort of stunt (and you can take to the bank that...
  7. WI: Hitler captured Stalingrad

    It largely depends on the timing. The 6th reached outer Stalingrad in the last week of August. If Paulus managed to take the Crossings by the end of September it would have been a disaster for the Soviets on a number of levels. The later in the year that the city falls the less it becomes a...
  8. Map of the Fortnight: Main thread

    ...and this makes the slightest sense in this thread how exactly? Don't threadcrap.
  9. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Actually the A4 countries are very much democracies. The U.S. may be a more vibrant democracy in ATL 2000 than IOTL in that it has four major political parties, and some actual differences among them. The Parliamentary countries are very much the same sort of set-up as IOTL, except for some...
  10. AHC: Communist Ottomans

    Please expand on this theory. I insist.
  11. Japan wins at Coral Sea, Midway, and the Eastern Solomons

    That's correct. The 2 phase search is something is used, primarily by Fushida, to indicate that things would have been different had Fushida been given the proper attention. His overall account of the battle almost defines self serving.
  12. Rumsfeldia: Fear and Loathing in the Decade of Tears

    Okay. Three posts TODAY are probably worth an action. Instead I'll make this a blanket notice: Cease and desist. If another report brings me back in here, there won't be warnings issued. Chill folks.
  13. What If Tsar Bomba Were Tested at Full Yield?

    Actually it was more like dick waving. The Soviets did that with a lot of projects in the "see, we are better because ours is bigger" mindset. The weapons was far too large to use on any reasonable ICBM (27,000kg/60,000lb, roughly the weight of the Apollo service/command modules), so it would...
  14. Who was more significant: George W. Bush or Sarah Palin

    Political Chat subject. Polls are not permitted in Chat. Locked.
  15. WI: Cheney runs for GOP nomination in 2008, wins, and picks Rumsfeld as VP

    Political theads go to Chat. Polls not allowed in Chat. Locked.
  16. List of nuclear targets and their casualties?

    Targeting, not just the lists, but the priorities, as as secret as things get. One key is what the strategic goal is, maximizing losses to population or destroying the enemy's ability to fight. The days of massive over-kill are gone, at the peak of the MAD era both sides had a combined total...
  17. AHC: Make Battleship a highly rated billion dollar blockbuster.

    Easy. Keep the name. Dump the rest . Get Steven Spielberg or Christopher Nolan to direct. Arron Sorkin or Nolan to write the screenplay. Get actual qualified A-list actors to play ALL the roles. Spend big bucks. Magic Time.
  18. WI: Japan attacks the Soviet Union after Pearl Harbor

    The Kwantung Army gets obliterated since the Soviets had spy deep inside the German Embassy. The IJA fails to take Burma, is delayed by months in taking Java, and lacks the reserves to make the effort at Port Morsby. Overall it knocks a few months off the war.
  19. Germany won't declare war after Pearl Harbor

    No DoW by Germany is actually a terrific break for the U.S. It gives the Navy about three month to get its act together before the Reich does declare war. What would happen is that the USN would start aggressive patrol of the Atlantic, prosecuting to kill, any submarine contact. Why? Any sub...
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