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  1. AHC: Solve the Arab-Israeli conflict

    Everyone: Keep in mind that this IS NOT Chat.
  2. AHC: Solve the Arab-Israeli conflict

    With 1993 as a it is literally insolvable without divine intervention. No Israeli government would survive the attempt to hand over two blocks of Jerusalem. Last real chance was in '67. Jordan minds its own knitting and you have a divided city. The IDF was under strict orders not to enter the...
  3. Japanese Semi-Automatic Rifle?

    It is actually far lower in a bolt action than in a semi-auto, even more so in the slightly later developed 203 round burst designs. A trained shooter can fire an aimed round down range in a well designed semi auto (like the M-1) every 1.5 to 2 seconds, a bolt action of equal training will...
  4. Japanese Semi-Automatic Rifle?

    Because the 6.5x50mm didn't produce enough striking power. It came in at ~1,900 ft lb out of the muzzle. The .30-06 develops ~2,650 with a military FMJ and an effective range greater than the ability of any rifleman to utilize, with the .303 British coming in at ~2,500, the 7.7x58mm Arisaka was...
  5. Japanese Semi-Automatic Rifle?

    There is the potential for theater deployment, although this means retooling of factories and resultant loss of production of the primary infantry rifle, the Type 99, which itself had been adopted as a replacement for the Type 38 (which was found to be inadequate due to its under powered 6.5mm...
  6. Japanese Semi-Automatic Rifle?

    Actually it is an interesting question. It might have to do with theater. In the 1920s the Marines were the primary force deployed to Central America with engagements against irregular forces in close combat conditions. In the Pacific during WW II they were faced with some of the same...
  7. Japanese Semi-Automatic Rifle?

    You have to look at institutional mindset as well as tech. The U.S. was sort of surprising in that it was the first major power to provide a good semi-auto to every infantryman (the U.S. Army being a very conservative, not mention... thrifty, organization and more often a late adopter)...
  8. A BETTER ALLIED AIRCRAFT CARRIER PERFORMANCE IN WW2

    Just a note - You are falling into one of the classic traps of AH timelines. Massive changes in 1942, virtually no changes in 1944 despite the changes in the T/L. As an example, what are the odds that Taiho is still in the exact right spot, at the exact right time to be sunk as the result of a...
  9. Atomic Bombs used against purely military targets in 1945?

    The U.S. hit TWO Japanese cities with Nuclear weapons AND the Soviet Union declared war on them and launched a massive attack on the strongest military ground formation the IJA possessed, punching through the Kwantung Army like a piece of rice paper, all in a three day period. With all of that...
  10. Atomic Bombs used against purely military targets in 1945?

    I'm not sure Truk was reasonable nuclear target in 1943, much less 1945. You want to talk about collateral damage, there were better than 20,000 Chuuk civilian residents on the island. It is actually fairly difficult to find ANY purely military target (meaning nothing but troops) that...
  11. When did Spain become more backward than northwest Europe:

    When did you decide that this week was the perfect time for your first kick? Actually could have done this with the Russia thread, but this one is even worse. You've been here almost from Day 1. You know better than this. See ya' in 7.
  12. Atomic Bombs used against purely military targets in 1945?

    Define military target. The headquarters and staging area for the defense of Kyushu (2nd General Army HQ, 59th Division, 22nd Division and the 224th Division (one of the very few "Mobile" e.g. motorized formations in the IJA), a major communication hub and THE major munitions depot for the...
  13. A BETTER ALLIED AIRCRAFT CARRIER PERFORMANCE IN WW2

    There would have, quite literally, have been no impact on the end of the war in either theater. The WAllies would have had fewer casualties, with different individuals being killed (which always creates butterflies down the road since dead men are no alive, something that has incalculable impact...
  14. A BETTER ALLIED AIRCRAFT CARRIER PERFORMANCE IN WW2

    More importantly, those torpedoes were the redesigned Mod 5 or later versions of the Mark 13. The weapons available in October of 1942 were still the far less reliable and fragile Mod 1. It is unlikely that even the raid sent to kill the Yamato IOTL would have had 1/3 as many good hits.
  15. Patriots and Tyrants: The Second American Revolution

    This is NOT AH. It is a political screed. A rather obvious and unrealistic screed at that. We don't do political screed in the main forums. Thread locked.
  16. Easiest Fascist USA?

    DO NOT politicize threads in the main forums.
  17. Technical Study: Japanese Defense of Normandy

    He didn't in a very different set of circumstances, as I noted, after the Atlantic Wall was breached with almost casual disregard. Iwo, and Okinawa were aberrations to the dominant IJA/IJN reaction to an invasion. They were, in fact, the only two times they occurred during the war. The IJA...
  18. Army Group B stops outside Stalingrad

    If the Heer had managed to take the city the results are almost impossible to calculate. Someone, probably several someones, head would have rolled for it. Stalin, as much as Hitler, had made the city into a quest. Again, like Hitler, Stalin tended to dismiss senior officers who displeased...
  19. WI Hitler Hadnt Been Racist

    Then he wouldn't be Hitler.
  20. Technical Study: Japanese Defense of Normandy

    More importantly it would only include whoever hadn't been slaughtered during the mandatory Banzai Charge into the teeth of several divisions of Allied troops ashore and the massive Operation Neptune gunline. Using the results of that sort of reaction on Saipan that would be well under a third...
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