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  1. Weirdest plausible military ranks

    Most corporals are pretty rotten leaders, at least when you elevate them to head of government and commander of the armed forces.
  2. Longest WWII, allies still win

    Realistically tanks were not a serious factor in most of the Pacific Theater, for either side. The IJA actually had a 57mm high velocity AT gun that was fairly effective, but that really wasn't a huge issue either way (although the U.S. did lose the opportunity to turn a couple of positions on...
  3. United Arab union

    Keep in mind that this IS NOT Chat. Play nice.
  4. Longest WWII, allies still win

    To the OP - In the Pacific is is almost impossible to see Japan making it past 1946, and this requires the Americans to not use the Bomb and the Soviets not to engage the Japanese on the Mainland. The longest scenario requires the U.S. deciding that a couple hundred thousand U.S./Allied...
  5. Longest WWII, allies still win

    Nothing that really deserves the term, at least compared to the ETO. There were few in the CBI, the IJA had ~60 tanks at Imphal, lost all of them during the actions or during the withdrawal and in the Philippines during the Liberation, losses were mainly one sided. The Japanese medium...
  6. Weirdest plausible military ranks

    Pretty much anything related to the SS. As an example SS-Obersturmbannführer = SS-Senior Storm Command Leader In the Heer that is a Oberstleutnant In the U.S./UK/Commonwealth its a Lieutenant Colonel (which is identical to the Heer designation) and SS-Unterscharführer =...
  7. Meighen wins York South 1942

    It would have been so easy to make your valid point yet you chose the lowest road. Every time someone is a twit on AH.com a baby rabbit cries. Don't make baby rabbits cry again.
  8. Can Britain ever co-exist with a powerful Germany?

    Great advice. Try following it.
  9. Could a smart Hitler take the world?

    Hitler DID follow his principals. He WANTED to eradicate the "Jew". He WANTED to obliterate the Poles. He wanted to wipe all traces of Slavic culture off the face of the planet (to the point that he was going to completely raze every "Slavic" center, including Warsaw, Moscow & Saint...
  10. Could a smart Hitler take the world?

    Sigh? Really? Even if one accepts the concept that the Poles were not a flat out victim of aggression (which it in and of itself ludicrous), Hitler fully intended to go to war against France (and by any sane extension the UK) and the USSR. The only reason he could possibly have had to...
  11. Most important military or naval victory by country?

    Yorktown awaits more CG to be commissioned since that is where the "battles" are commemorated. Oregon will be used for either a 774 class SSN or one of the new SSBN-X missile boat.
  12. If the Holocaust hadn't happened?

    Closing this.
  13. Super F-111

    1. Less costly than building new airframes. 2. It would be obsolescent. Unlike the B-1B (which is itself getting a bit dodgy in high intensity environments), which has low observabilty designed in, the 'Vark didn't. The truth is that in a stealth world anything that isn't stealth is a baby...
  14. If the Holocaust hadn't happened?

    You are right that the Holocaust didn't happen the way most history books state. It was almost infinitely worse, so bad that most authors simply can't bring themselves to put it on the page. We divorce you. To Coventry with you.
  15. Most important military or naval victory by country?

    The list of American victories needs to have a a couple more additions. Most important addition would be the Battle of Chapultepec. resulting in the U.S. victory in the Mexican American War. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is the source document for 10 U.S. states. Battle of Manila Bay...
  16. Most important military or naval victory by country?

    If we have moved away from 20th Century battle to ship names Angincourt, Poitiers, Crecy, Quebec, and Waterloo have to be strong contenders.
  17. AHC: Human sacrifice part of all elections.

    Did you actually think you could get away with this sort of frivolous ASB crap if you moved it to a different Forum? Bad news, all the reports go to the same place. Clearly a warning and a kick haven't been sufficient. Here is kick # 2. Call it a yellow card or strike two, depending on...
  18. WI the Panzer VIII Maus saw Combat

    Close but not quite. :) Ideal weapon would be the Tiny Tim 11.75" rocket. Warhead was a 500lb SAP bomb. It was designed as, depend on source, a stand-off anti-shipping weapon or a bunker buster. It could be launched from SB2C, F4U, F6F and the naval version of the B-25. It would have been a...
  19. Most important military or naval victory by country?

    Egypt - The Crossing October 1973. Utterly Brilliant. Led to the Israeli/Egypt Peace Treaty. Israel - Yom Kippur War October 1973. Taught the Israelis that they were not omnipotent. Operation Valiant demonstrated they were still the dominant military power in the region. Led to the...
  20. 2000 ton smallcraft under WNT, WI

    Absolutely. (as a BTW the Treaty is actually the 1st follow on to the original WNT, the London 1930 Treaty, the original WNT didn't discuss anththing except "capital" ships) 2,000 tons is actually fairly large. A Fletcher class DD (376 feet with engines to push her to 36 knots, came in at...
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