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  1. Could German WWII Logistics have been improved?

    The slave labor assistance to the war effort was clearly huge. The Nazis were very effective in that area, when you intentionally working people to death you can get a lot out of them. I never said the Nazis lost the war due to the Camps. What I implied, and will now state categorically, is...
  2. Could German WWII Logistics have been improved?

    Absolutely. A great start would have been following the same practice that the other major powers followed, find a good design and stay with it. The mind numbing number of vehicles, aircraft and other systems the Reich was producing AT THE SAME time is stunning. This created a parts nightmare...
  3. WI: The Nazis don't alienate oppressed Soviets?

    You are correct in that the Japanese High Command teemed with idiots. There difficulty, nevertheless is that you have to plan for what your opponent MAY do. The Japanese had been preparing to fight the USN for more than a generation, the U.S. fleet represented a true threat to the Japnese line...
  4. WI Nazis in Africa and Middle East before Russia

    In 1940 the world's dominant oil producer was the United States. Not the Gulf, not the DEI, the USA. American wells produced 63% of ALL oil produced in 1940. The British liked getting oil out of the Middle East due to a somewhat lower price, but they were far from helpless without it. The Reich...
  5. This world post WWI?

    Three large anchovies pizzas and a sixer right before bedtime?
  6. WI: The Nazis don't alienate oppressed Soviets?

    The problem here, as is generally the case with these sorts of scenarios, is that to achieve the change you have to completely disassemble the Nazi core beliefs. If you do that, there IS no Barbarossa, probably no aggression by Germany at all. You can't take out the hatred of the "Slav" without...
  7. WI: Ancient Israel Kingdom kept united

    Thread closed at OP request.
  8. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thank you to everyone who voted for this T/L in the Turtledove's. A little more love in the Superlatives poll would be nice. :D
  9. DBWI: American troops fought in the Vietnam War

    You are missing the point with the Archon. If you get five or six T-94 or Type 03 to line up in column or a row, the railgun can zap all six at once. Huge timesaver! :p
  10. DBWI: American troops fought in the Vietnam War

    The PLA wound up empty in the end, but I wouldn't call razing Hanoi to the ground and destroying the Vietnamese (actually Soviet) naval base at Da Nang nothing but a bloody nose. The PLA wound up with almost the same number of casualties as the Vietnamese regulars, but the PLA was 10 times the...
  11. DBWI: American troops fought in the Vietnam War

    The Chinese did get bogged down, but that was because they tried to impose a government. With all the centuries of dislike between the Vietnamese and the Chinese, you would have thought that they would have known better. The PLA smashed the Viets, mainly because the Vietnamese only had, what...
  12. DBWI: American troops fought in the Vietnam War

    That's true, but the reports envisioned using a few troops to prop up the South and few instructors. That would have been really dumb. No, if we had gone in it would have been two or three divisions, 60-70,000 men and plenty of bombers. Can't possibly see the NVA hanging for two months in...
  13. WI: Japan was "neutral" in ww2

    It winds up losing against the Chinese, although the war ends up looking a lot more like Vietnam or Afghanistan than anything from OTL. The Empire attacked a country with six times its population and serveral major powers that had interests in keeping China upright. Just the U.S. steel...
  14. DBWI: American troops fought in the Vietnam War

    Why would LBJ do that? Kennedy was smart enough to bail out of the situation right before he was assassinated. Besides the whole thing with the Soviets (can you imagine the look on the faces in the Pentagon when we diverted troops from Europe), the extra money would have kept Johnson from...
  15. WI: Allied Final Solution in the Pacific?

    Oops, missed this little jewel.
  16. WI: Allied Final Solution in the Pacific?

    You base this feeling on what? That the Japanese and Australians fought each other in a no hold's barred manner when in combat? Or the utter absence of any organized atrocities attributed to Australian, American, British, Canadian, and New Zealand troops against civilian populations ANYWHERE...
  17. Bush and Gore tie in Florida

    It been 11 years, get past it. BTW: Conspiracy theories are frowned upon hereabouts. CalBear in Mod Mode.
  18. Help me write the Washington Naval Treaty

    But... They were battle cruisers!
  19. I.J.N Question

    The Japanese actually believe that the U.S. would go to war if they attacked the UK possessions. They had a remarkable lack of understanding of the American political system, despite having years of diplomatic relations with the U.S. The Japanese government assumed that the U.S. government was...
  20. Single Seat Fairey Battle Fighter

    As far as getting turned around they weren't all that far off. Fighter pilots in all the carrier fleets tended to get lost much easier than multi-seat aircraft. This was only partly due to the fact that ACM is innately disorienting. The thing is, both the IJN and USN accepted this as...
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