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  1. Grant stops booth

    ...and in the rarest of rare actions a thread is moved FROM ASB to the regular forums. I now know how Venkman & Spengler felt!
  2. Civil rights movement- more successful in North

    Back to the grave zombie! With Salt and Blood I bind thee to the earth to rise no more!
  3. Civil rights movement- more successful in North

    This may well be the record EIGHT YEARS, NINE MONTHS, TWENTY DAYS, with better than half of the previous replies by now Banned members, and an OP who hasn't been active here in 42 months, and you dig it out of the grave for a one line question. Really (even if it was one of my personal T/L...
  4. America defending its own Pacific dependencies & territories - possible before 1945?

    If you go back to 1931, the U.S. can create a defensive structure that Japan would be hard pressed to defeat. There are however, some serious issues: Congress wanted to shake loose of the Philippines. Last thing that wanted was to spend serious money there. Guam would have been EXPENSIVE to...
  5. McNamara's Coup: Nov. 1963

    Are you familiar with the relationship that McNamara had with the Chiefs? There is a better chance that they would decide that HE was attempting a coup then LBJ.
  6. Plausability Check: Japanese Bombing of America

    Back to the grave zombie! With Salt and Blood I bind thee to the earth to rise no more!
  7. Meta-TLs. (DBWI TLs)

    Back to the grave zombie! With Salt and Blood I bind thee to the earth to rise no more!
  8. Earlier War of Spanish Succession?

    Back to the grave zombie! With Salt and Blood I bind thee to the earth to rise no more!
  9. Earlier War of Spanish Succession?

    SIX years? For a one line response? Really? No, REALLY? Dont do that!
  10. Japan wins WW2, behavior and future of Co-Prosperity Sphere?

    Straight up, with OTL conditions the Dutch would have problems, simply due to logistics if for no other reason. The Dutch navy was in no shape to go head to head with the IJN, and it is hard to see how it ever could have been, the cost to construct a counterforce to the Kido Butai alone would...
  11. Japan wins WW2, behavior and future of Co-Prosperity Sphere?

    The difficulty with this is that, well, its impossible. The Japanese were never going to defeat the Chinese. Forget about the fact that the U.S. was going to steamroll them, or that the British would have wound up defeating them in the medium term, once the Reich was defeated, even without...
  12. Shining Path Victory in Peru--What Happens Next?

    Six months, a year at the outside, more likely 60-90 days. Shining Path was neck deep in the drug trade, mainly collecting taxes from small growers, although the did eventually start providing muscle for the Cartels. No way the U.S., even with Clinton as President, allows a real narco-state...
  13. A blacker NHL?

    More Blacks in Canada would be a great start. In 1950 the TOTAL Black population of Canada was 18,000 out of 13.7 million or 0.13%. As late as 1971 the population was pegged at 35,000 out of 21.9 million (0.16%). Even today (well, 2006) only 2.5% of Canada's population self identifies as...
  14. MBL stays segregated

    About two months. Larry Doby came up with the Indians 5th of July of '47. After that the St. Louis Browns (today's Baltimore Orioles) brought Hank Thompson up on July 17th. The Dodgers had three black players by the end of 1948. Next year the Giants had two, making them the 4th team to...
  15. Should US have declared war on Iran during the hostage crisis?

    Read the quoted post. Stating that you need a six year old to explain something to you was just the last straw. Review his posts in other threads as well. BTW: Calling someone a douche is out of line as well. Just a heads up.
  16. Another Sealion Thread

    In other words you have none of the proof you demand from others. QED
  17. Another Sealion Thread

    Not the way things work. If you are the one wishing to disprove an accepted doctrinal point it is incumbent upon you to provide actual, honest-to-God proof that the accepted wisdom is incorrect. In other words, put up or shut up.
  18. Another Sealion Thread

    Sealion has been reviewed, gamed, and written about in so many places, from this site to various military staff colleges to works by professional historians that it is almost silly. Thanks to this, more than almost any modern "what-if" it has been throughly debunked. There is no way, no...
  19. WI: Nuking Korea

    It would have been a disaster. Not because the U.S. really had to worry about the Soviets responding in kind, at least at the time, but because it would have made Nuclear weapons, well, weapons. Nuclear weapons are not, IOTL, really weapons in the conventional sense of the word. They are the...
  20. Another Sealion Thread

    I just skimmed most of this, but the Channel is, for the most part, better than 40 miles wide. even at the closest point the Channel is better than 20 MILES wide, water's edge to waters edge. Add in enough ground and you wind up somewhat further back, call it 40,000 yards. The Dora gun...
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