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  1. What if Israel turn Samson option in Yom Kippor war

    Thread closed before someone gets tetanus.
  2. What if Israel turn Samson option in Yom Kippor war

    Did you lose your mind over the weekend? Take a week off and go look for it. When you come back, give sanity a shot. Kicked for a week.
  3. Retrospective US Electoral College Vote: 1796

    WTF? Insults are one thing, this, however is WAY over the top. Here's a Red Card. Go take a week and reconsider wishing murder on someone over something that happened MORE THAN 200 YEARS AGO.
  4. AHC: Japan Defeats USA in a War

    How about a trade war? I would say that the Japanese cleaned the U.S.' clock in the mid-late 70s, when the U.S. auto industry was almost obliterated (all that kept the Big Three in business was full sized Pick-up trucks, and that was as much due to tariffs as anything else), the U.S. consumer...
  5. Aluminum for armor?

    Hmmm... First time I've had someone complain about warning someone instead of kicking them. Interesting. Have to tell you, if I Ban everyone who drops a couple F-Bombs, the herd 'round here is going to be damned thin.
  6. What If: Franco-German reconciliation in 1871?

    If you don't have anything worth posting, don't post crap in hopes of picking a fight.
  7. Aluminum for armor?

    Don't be an ass.
  8. Aluminum for armor?

    Okay, that is a bit over the top. Take a deep breath, calm down, and STOP INSULTING PEOPLE!
  9. The 5 GURPS Reichs plausibility check

    Is there an actually defensible reason you are scattering these threads from pillar to post? Right now it look a lot like spamming.
  10. How would the RN fare in a pre-WWI conflict against the USN and Kriegsmarine?

    As always a lot of the answer depends on where the fighting tales place and exactly when. The RN was way stronger in the opening years of the century before Dreadnaught made everything else on the water (including the RN) obsolete.
  11. Battleships still a viable option?

    Well, the last time the U.S. was anywhere close to kicking in the door the fleet was operating well within BB gun range.
  12. Battleships still a viable option?

    Warspite was laid down in 1909, commissioned in 1913. She was three generations older than the South Dakota & Iowa Class ships. You may as well say that since a Wz 35 in 7.92mm was capable of defeating the armor of a Pz II during the invasion of Poland in 1939 that the Challenger 2 is a waste...
  13. Battleships still a viable option?

    Nothing will be a de facto battleship until some way (railguns?) is invented to allow one ship to put 1,000 one ton shells onto any target within 20 miles of the coastline in a hour and do so with no chance of the enemy intercepting the round. As I pointed out recently, battleships are a good...
  14. Alied reporitng names

    Might have something to do with the fact that the Japanese had a remarkably silly, remarkably complex naming system The Zero was a straight translation of the the Japanese "Type 0" carrier fighter. But to expect that everyone could keep straight the: Army Type 2 fighter Ki-44 (Tojo) from the...
  15. why was jfk assassinated?

    Wel, ignore it. I know it is sort of like an impending train wreck, but give it a go. :D
  16. Top 12 Decisive Battles, Post-1900:

    To a degree this is true, but it depends on the definition of long term. Most countries will run out of fuel in under 90 days without imports, most have around that much in the way of grain and other food stuffs, although both could be stretched for probaly double or triple that period with...
  17. Top 12 Decisive Battles, Post-1900:

    The Crossing was one of the great tactical operations of the last half of the 20th Century.
  18. Top 12 Decisive Battles, Post-1900:

    As much as I respect Keegan, in this respect he is wrong. While land power is critical, in the era of huge nation states and global commerce involving crucial resources control of the seas is simply irreplacable. Oil moves by tanker. Ore moves by cargo ships. FOOD moves by shipping (take a...
  19. Top 12 Decisive Battles, Post-1900:

    Ironically, I would agree but in the absolute mirror image. It brought the U.S. into the war. This 100% assured the defeat of the Reich thanks to both American troops in the West and absolute river of critical supplies to the USSR. It also took expansionist Japan, a country that had gone from...
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