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  1. Simplest POD to let South win Civil War?

    Congress ignores Lincoln and refuses to fund the war. Lincoln decides that the Constiution doesn't allow him to use force to hold the Union together.
  2. Alternate Royal Navy 1960's Fighters

    The needs of a ground based air force and a navy air force are quite different and aircraft designed for the one will, in general, not work for the other. When they do, it is almost always the case of the naval aircraft being adaptable to air force use and not the other way round. Carrier...
  3. Anglo-American War of 1871

    Well the really interesting thing is that all the U.S. has to do is sit at home and play true neutral and the Entente is is in serious trouble. Most of the last two years of the Entente's war was funded by U.S. loans and American factories produced $1.6 BILLION worth of arms and ammunition...
  4. Anglo-American War of 1871

    The P-1864 is the Snider-Enfield. It was a conversion of the Pattern 1853 converted to the breech loader .577 Snider cartridge. The Chassepot's issue that made it less than it could have been was the continued use of the paper cartridge. Paper was a problem due to extreme fouling in the breech...
  5. Alternate Royal Navy 1960's Fighters

    The F8 only lacks ground attack until you change it to the A-7. :D There were plenty of aircraft that could have kept the UK in the carrier business. My understanding is that Parliment didn't want to be in a carrier business (hence the "through deck cruiser").
  6. Japan limits itself to China

    The Irony is that the Japanese occuppied Indochina to get resources so the U.S. cut them off from several times the resources that SEA could ever provide.
  7. Anglo-American War of 1871

    Well, the Springfield 1866 & 1868 in 50/70 may not been in "general issue", but the Springflied Armory produced over 50,000 of each weapon as well as 5,000 of the admittedly deficient Model 1865. That is in addtion to the 200,000+ Spencers, 14,000 Henry's (which were bought by the individual...
  8. Anglo-American War of 1871

    A war in 1871 is a rather interesting proposal from a number of angles. The situation is far from cut and dried and much more layered than RN pawns the USN or Canada is overrun. Some things that need to be considered: Great Britain WILL control the Atlantic Canada is, almost completely, in...
  9. Anglo-American War of 1871

    The United States won the Revolution thanks to the French Navy which choose just the right moment to (and AFAIK for the only time) take control of the approaches to the Eastern Seaboard. This prevented the RN from saving Cornwallis. It is likely that, in the end, that the Colonies would have...
  10. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Actually I am sort of fascinated with the discussion. One of the things that gives me satisfaction as a writer is seeing where people go with something I mentioned (in this case, almost in passing). Of course, it also reminds me that need to be very consistant, even in the smaller details.
  11. Could the Ardennes Offensive succeed?

    That tends to happen hereabouts. Be glad it made it to page three before it morphed.
  12. Could the Ardennes Offensive succeed?

    There is always a chance. The Yellowstone supervolcano might have erupted. A 9.5 Earthquake could have destroyed the entire West Coast of the U.S. A kilometer wide meteor could have hit the North Atlantic sending a tsunami that devastates the Eastern Seaboard of North Americ, Western Europe and...
  13. Could the Ardennes Offensive succeed?

    Short answer: No Longer Answer: Hell NO! The Ardennes Offensive was going to work until the weather gave the Allies one day of partly cloudy skies. Period. All the Heer would have achieved of it had actually gotten out of the forest and onto the open ground in Belgium and Holland is more...
  14. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    Thanks for the kind words. Welcome as an active poster as well.
  15. Did Mussolini cost Hitler the war?

    The German effort into North Africa was a gift to the Allies that just kept giving. Beyond the serious diversion of resources from the far less well endowed Reich and the eventual loss fo several hundred thousand troops, there was the critical "on the job training' that the African campaign gave...
  16. Did Mussolini cost Hitler the war?

    Hitler cost Hitler the war. Helping Italy didn't help matters, but their were sufficient other dumb moves (ya' let's strap on the USSR, UK, AND U.S. at the same time) that the Reich was screwed. The interesting part of the quote is that Hitler didn't even mention the REALLY stupid thing done...
  17. Upgrade Canada's 1960s military: effects

    Actually the Phantom's biggest advantage is that it is a true multi-role aircraft. The early generation Eagle and Tomcat were pure air-to-air, great at that job, but unless you have the budget space to buy an equal number of attack birds not really a good fit. The F-4 was a dead solid front...
  18. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    They actually were effective. The bombs broke through and did a lot of damage, but the structures are designed to be fortresses so there are lots of reinforced walls within the structure. The best way to defeat them is a combination of heavy bombing and, if you are going to enter them, small...
  19. War Plan Red, the US invasion of Canada

    This is what General Staff do, plan for just about every possible need. I would be utterly stunned if, somewhere in the Pentagon, there isn't a contingency plan for intervening/invading just about every major country on Earth which is updated at least twice a year. I wouldn't be a bit...
  20. So what would have it taken for it to be possible for the Axis to win militarywise?

    The Axis can't defeat the Allied states IF they remain what they were IOTL, a bunch of incompentent murdering thugs with delusions of racial superiority. All the things that have to be done to have half a chance of victory can't happen. Hitler has to avoid getting into a multi-front war...
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