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  1. What if Presidents could run for more than two terms?

    Gore was, simply put, an idiot. Politically he could not have done a dumber thing than not letting the best campaigner alive work for his election. Reagan would have flattened anyone who ran against him in '88. In '92 he may have been too far gone mentally to make it through the debates...
  2. What if Presidents could run for more than two terms?

    Reagan would have been POTUS until he couldn't form a coherent sentence during the debate. Clinton would STILL be in office. Couldn't easily find to more different men. Nevertheless they both knew how to communicate with the American people in a way that made them unbeatable.
  3. Gallipoli comes off

    But... ...wasn't that the soft underbelly of Europe?:confused::confused::confused: :p
  4. Gallipoli comes off

    Not going to happen. Landing site was an utter disaster. It could be argued that the Entente had become so fixated on the Strait that it forgot the actual mission, namely to knock the Turks out of the war on the cheap. Instead of landing on the tip of a peninsula that contained nothing but...
  5. Nazi Germany has nukes in July 1941

    Realistically? The average Landser , followed by the MG 42 & 88mm DP Potentially? Panther tank. Maybe the Me-262 if they could have somehow solved the Jumo 004 engine reliability & manufacturing issues by the end of 1942 (since they never did, this closes in on ASB).
  6. When Nothing is Left: A WWII Timeline

    The was really no way to create an A-A line, not the way you seem to be referring to it. It is 1,345 miles between Arkhangelsk and Astrakhan, if you follow a straight line, which you can't (that four times the length of the Western Front in WW I). On the north there is a good defensive line to...
  7. Cultural Ramifications of a Destroyed Statue of Liberty

    Only in egregious cases. Congratulations.
  8. AHC: worst possible nation

    Stalin was never going to be followed by his son, much less by his grandson.
  9. German WWII Battleship construction questions

    Quad turrets are vastly more complicated (the KGV quad had 3,000 moving parts), close to double the weight (on the KGV class the twin mount came in at 900.5 mt, the quad at 1,557 m, and are far wider than a twin. This, in turn, requires much more robust gears, hydraulic pistons, bearing race and...
  10. Cruiser armament without the Washington Treaty

    Thing about battle cruisers is that they cost as much as a battleships, if not slightly more. Prior to the advent of nuclear powered aircraft carriers battleships were the most expensive items in a military budget (Iowa and her sisters came in a $100M each in 1943 dollars or ~$1B in today's...
  11. Cruiser armament without the Washington Treaty

    8" is a logical stop point for a cruiser. It allows for a good size main battery, enough power to at least give a 1916 BB some trouble, if not being instantly fatal (see the damage that San Francisco dealt to the Kirishima as an example) some weight/space to put in a secondary/quick firing...
  12. Technical study: German defense in the pacific

    Not quite sure that sailing into a port, evacuating from one friendly port to another, or landing unopposed qualifies as an amphibious doctrine. Of course, for that matter the Japanese never developed a cohesive amphibious doctrine, their landing plans being very much an ad hoc event
  13. Technical study: German defense in the pacific

    On Luzon, the Heer may have been more successful than the IJA during the 1944-45 invasion, although I doubt any Landser would keep fighting in the jungle for 3 decades after the war ended. It is hard to estimate exactly how successful the Heer would have been in Homma's place since it totally...
  14. AHC: worst possible nation

    Victorious 3rd Reich in a walk. If it hadn't actually existed, even in only partially successful form, people would call it ASB. A Stalinst USSR that had not be interfered with by the Great Patriotic War would have been pretty nasty, although not quite up to DPRK levels simply because you don't...
  15. German War (1974-80)

    A bit over the top, don't you think? Don't like the time line savage it to your heart's content as long as its at least minimally constructive. Don't insult the author.
  16. Technical study: German defense in the pacific

    Additional differences also exist. Defensive position at Tarawa and later were being shelled with heavy cruiser and battleship guns, the defenses on Iwo were pounded for 10 days (which is 10 days longer than any landing site received in the ETO) before the actual pre-invasion bombardment. At Iwo...
  17. Technical study: German defense in the pacific

    There are some difference that the KM would have made, but far less than you might think. The Germans had virtually no experience with any sort of long range convoy system. Even the convoys used in the Med were more AAA than ASW. The Germans also had no serious ASW doctrine (not really their...
  18. Technical study: German defense in the pacific

    Problem is that the Banzai Charge ran deep into Japanese military thought. It, rather importantly, had also worked on the Asian mainland. Japan's officer corps believed that elan could continue to carry the day. You can't just subtract all of that, and keep the rest of Japanese training...
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