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  1. America: My Third TL

    Oh really? Do tell? You mean like this: Or perhaps this... Maybe this: All of these are direct quotes from the Texas Declaration of Secession http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_texsec.asp There is plenty more of the same. They mention other grievances, but even those are...
  2. Serbia: The Sardinia of the Balkans?

    I completely understand that you have justified antipathy toward some of the participants in the Yugoslavian Civil War. This Forum, however, is not the place to express them. It is not for Political Chat. That is what Chat if for (even their you need to follow Board policies).
  3. Merchant Raider Aircraft Carrier

    The Exocet is too small to sink a lot of things. :D A supertanker would not be an "easy" kill, but she would be far easier than any large purpose built warship. Civilian ships are designed to deal with the normal hazards of the seas, they are not designed to handle battle damage, which is an...
  4. If Hitler did not declare war on the US

    It would have been a fairly short time until the Reich would have declared in any case. The War with Japan would allow the USN to effectively shoot on sight any unidentified target, especially submarines as they would be presumed to be hostile (never can tell, who would have thought the...
  5. Merchant Raider Aircraft Carrier

    Be okay for a VTOL, not for a CATOBAR. Tankers are way too slow, you need a minimum of 25 knots of wind over the deck to conduct flight operations, The difficulty would come from the added top weight, not just for the deck itself, but for plane handling equipment, elevators, and a hanger deck...
  6. Earliest possible Pacific War? Japan & the US

    Japan would need to walk away from the London Treaty meeting in 1930. That might give them the time. The issue then would be money. Japan was devastated by the Great Depression, and then by the trade barriers that resulted. The wild card, of course, is what, if anything the U.S chose to do...
  7. AHC\WI: Allied victory in the Battle of Singapore

    The Island surrenders by June. They would be surround by Japanese conquests, unable to get supplies and have to feed a substantial civilian population.
  8. WI reverse 9/11?

    The U.S. might not turn any surviving co-conspirators over if the attack was planned on American soil. For that matter there may not be any surviving co-conspirators, loony tunes like this in the U.S. tend to go out in what they think of as a blaze of glory, but the rest of us see as suicide by...
  9. Alternative Allied Tank Busters

    Contrary to most beliefs, the 37mm gun in the Airacobra and Kingcobra was a very poor choice for anti tank work since it was low velocity (2,000 fps at the muzzle) weapon with poor penetration. Anti-tank 37mm ran around 2,500-3,000 fps at the muzzle. The Il-2 23mm produced ~2,950 at the muzzle...
  10. WI reverse 9/11?

    The reaction would be extraordinary. Likely unprecedented. There hasn't been real "religious" war in the modern era. There is no other single point that has so great a place in the world's great religions. Christianity has numerous places depending on denomination. The global population of...
  11. Blood & Gold: A History of the Argead Empire

    NEVER do this again. You intentionally Necro'd a long dead thread that has not just one, but TWO reboots, both of which are also deader than Julius Caesar. Thread locked
  12. Instead of 9\11\2001, attack on 2002 Winter Olympics?

    Of course that list covers most of AQ's enemies list (excepting the House of Saud and few other "traitors" in the Gulf states). Butterflies would abound if the Stadium was actually caught by surprise considering the Who's Who that were in attendance.
  13. The Most Senseless Campaigns/Battles of World War II

    Excepting the entire Japanese decision to go to war with the U.S. and/or China (a big exception, but discussed to death in another current thread) Peleliu was, in the Pacific, unquestionably the worst offender. The sole reason it went on was that the planning was so far advanced. If that doesn't...
  14. Earliest possible Pacific War? Japan & the US

    I'm sort of surprised that no one has mentioned the fact that prior to 1939/1940 the IJN was profoundly inferior to the USN both in numbers and qualitatively. This was a specific result of the Washington Treaty, which the Japanese did not withdraw from until 1936. IJN battleships were faster...
  15. Largest possible limited nuclear war?

    U.S./USSR in the early 50s. Number of weapons and limitations on delivery, especially on the Soviet side, would keep the escalation to a minimum. Limited nuclear war is nearly an oxymoron. Escalation is a virtual certainty once a fairly low number of weapons are exchanged.
  16. What if AIDS became a worldwide pandemic by 1935

    Almost literally impossible. Travel was too restricted, the "sexual revolution" and blood transfusion (especially the sort related to hemophilia) was vastly different, IV drug use was relatively rare, and probably most critically, the virus itself hadn't mutated. This is demonstrable by the fact...
  17. Eisenhower dies in '44/'45: who becomes Supreme Allied Commander in Europe?

    Huh? Where would either one of them get the troops? The U.S. was (as we have discussed) close to the bottom of the manpower barrel as was. If the Soviets don't declare war on the Japanese it is 50/50 that the U.S./Allies have to invade Japan. Once that bloodbath was done, and the U.S. had...
  18. WI: Western Allies refuse to give up Berlin

    Berlin wasn't worth the price. Soviet losses were ~70,000 KIA, x4 WIA/MIA. That was for the dubious honor of putting the Soviet flag on the Reichstag and then handing 2/3 of the city over to Allied control. Stalin wanted Berlin, not just for the prestige, but because he was terrified, right...
  19. Eisenhower dies in '44/'45: who becomes Supreme Allied Commander in Europe?

    Patton would have been an utter disaster. Great Division commander. Terrific Corps Commander. Good Army Commander (as long as his staff was able to keep up with the logistical needs, which didn't always happen). As a Theater commander he would have been overwhelmed. As SACEUR he would have had...
  20. Eisenhower dies in '44/'45: who becomes Supreme Allied Commander in Europe?

    Probably Marshall. God knows he wanted the post.
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