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  1. D-day is planned well

    There are a couple of different issues with USMC units in the ETO. The first is a practical one, Marine units were extremely "light" with quite limited transport and armor, even a fairly low artillery load out (at Saipan the Army wound up attaching four 155mm Battalions (two designated as...
  2. D-day is planned well

    Please stop. NOW. You are edging into actual trolling now and I HATE having to take Mod action when I have participated in a thread. Not that I won't do it if necessary, but it is still unfortunate.
  3. D-day is planned well

    Hey, it worked in Viet Na- Oh, yea. Never mind.
  4. Allied WW2 Improvements

    The easiest thing for the Allies to do, especially the Americans, is to simply get their butts in gear a year earlier. In the case of the U.S. a year of serious effort gives them at least one extra carrier; two, maybe even three South Dakota Class BB (IOTL South Dakota was commissioned March...
  5. Allied WW2 Improvements

    The Czechs could have held the Heer off for MONTHS in 1938, if not far longer. They had what was probably the best tank in the world at the time in the T-38 (a vehicle that the Heer used in huge numbers in both Poland and in France at the Pz-38t), an exceptionally well developed fortification...
  6. Warsaw Pact invasion routes?

    In the very short term there would be no reason. If you accept a war that lasts more than 10 days a lightning strike that takes Norway is hugely helpful to the Soviets. The addition of Norwegian airfields allows the Red Banner Fleet sub force a more or less uncontested trip all the way to the...
  7. Warsaw Pact invasion routes?

    The Soviet invasion routes were, as has been noted, likely to have been across the Northern German Plain and through the Fulda Gap. The reality, of course, is that while the Soviets has a "no 1st use" policy, NATO had the exact opposite. It was more or less an article of faith that the only...
  8. D-day is planned well

    Your entire idea springs from a false assumption, namely that the Overlord operation was both poorly planned and the losses excessive. Neither is the case. The logistical effort that was Overlord was beyond brilliant, Operation Neptune was very solid as well, although hindsight always exposes...
  9. East Asian discovery of the New World

    Being a jackass is lousy way to start the year. Now you only have 362 days to make up for it.
  10. Present Day 3-Way Nuclear War

    Nuclear winter was always a fairy tale. Now a "Nuclear Autumn", where you have a very weak summer or two of some level is possible, depending on the totality of the exchange, but it wouldn't wipe out the human race. The casualties would be horrific, but species elimination would require...
  11. Present Day 3-Way Nuclear War

    Depends on the weapon. Normal weapons, you are correct. Cobalt and Gold salted 25mT weapons, well, now we are talking a different game.
  12. Present Day 3-Way Nuclear War

    The number of weapons is less difficult to estimate than you might think. This is especially true when you start looking at launch platforms (It really doesn't matter if a country has 10,000 warheads, if it is limited to WW I Biplanes it has an effective weapon system of zero). There is always...
  13. WI no 22 amendment?

    Reagan would have been President as long as he could form a full sentence. The guy was simply unbeatable. I never voted for him, but I have to respect his political savvy. He was able to simply shed any sort of negative event (hence his nickname of the Teflon President) Assuming the Reagan Era...
  14. Argument: Japan Wins World War 2 - I need your help!

    Even the Mods will. Only way to rebury the corpse once it is reanimated is by pouring concrete in the grave. Oh yea... Locked.
  15. Did japan have a choice?

    I am closing this thing down. Nothing good is going to come out of it at this point.
  16. Did japan have a choice?

    You need to dial WAY back. You made your point.
  17. Did japan have a choice?

    WHAT THE HELL... That one went off the reservation, way off. Racism is ill thought of hereabouts. You are kicked for a week. When you come back, you need to reign in that racism. This isn't a Ban solely because it appears you are a non-native English speaker, as such it is conceivable that...
  18. Did japan have a choice?

    Yep. The day France fell, Congress couldn't wait to start throwing money at the Navy and AAF. Scared the piss out of them.
  19. Did japan have a choice?

    Short answer: Yes Longer answer: Japan was perhaps even more of an aggressor state than the Reich (which is quite the achievement). Besides the multiple totally optional wars against China, Toyko grabbed French Indochina the second the French were unable to defend it, planned, in detail, a war...
  20. AHC: Make Ireland a heavily militarized country

    Stop being a jerk. If you can't be constructive, be absent.
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