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  1. Tojo's Alaskan Alternative

    The Alaskan oil deposits are remarkably difficult to get at, even today. Japan lacked the specialized equipment needed to do even remotely difficult drilling (with the the only real source of supply for such equipment being the U.S. and to a lesser degree the UK). The oil in the DEI and Borneo...
  2. What if Japan had joined Barbarossa?

    There seems to be a bit of confusion. The Soviet FAR EAST Front was entirely separate from the organizations in Central Asia that were tapped to provide reinforcement to the West against the Heer. The Far East Front remained at full strength, including its full complement of KV-1 & T-34 tanks...
  3. What if Japan had joined Barbarossa?

    The U.S. build-up was a reaction to the Fall of France. If there was no European War, the build-up would have been slower, but the build-up in the Pacific would have still been underway. The U.S. was Isolationist in general, but not stupid. Japan was seen as a threat, had been considered a...
  4. What if Japan had joined Barbarossa?

    Back in the 1940s the terms used for pretty much every group that wasn't "you" were pretty ugly. Those used for the Japanese were no exception. Being a bit more... seasoned than many on the Board (just sounds better than OLD :p) I was able to hear how my older family members, several of whom...
  5. What if Japan had joined Barbarossa?

    If Japan hadn't gone after China the entire sad string of events that ended on board the Missouri would never have happened. No attack into China would mean a very different Japan had developed, one that was not aggressive and actively expansionist. BTW: The final Oil Embargo was result of...
  6. Fixed Wing Export Carriers...which one would work best?

    No, what it bought was a merchant ship with a jump deck and some elevators in place of the internal cranes of a merchie. God preserve anyone on board that vessel if it gets hit by even one ASM. The best carriers for sale would be the ones that were sold, the long hull Essex ships. They were...
  7. What if Japan had joined Barbarossa?

    Thanks for insight. Well that makes a little sense, not much, but at least there is a rhyme involved. A lot of slang comes off rhyme, so...
  8. What if Japan had joined Barbarossa?

    Truth be told, I have never even encountered a single one of those terms before. I have seen "Poms" and assumed it to be a insulting manner of referring to the English (sort of how the Australians sometimes call Americans "Septics", never have quite gotten that one). Since I have no clue about...
  9. What if Japan had joined Barbarossa?

    Cutting back the navy of an ISLAND nation? An Aggressive Island Nation with colonial ambitions at that? One that will shortly be engaging in war with a major naval power 5,000+ miles from the Home Islands? Somehow this seems to be counter intuitive. You strip the force you must absolutely have...
  10. What if Japan had joined Barbarossa?

    Because one is a racist slur that is never uttered by a member of the ethnic group to those outside of the ethnic group is remakably offensive and indicitive of remarkably insular world view and the other is used by the National group (not ethnic BTW) in general conversation, including...
  11. What if Japan had joined Barbarossa?

    Tell you what, try this & tell me how it comes out: Wlak up to a group of Englishmen and say "You Brits have a nice country here" A group of Israelis and say "You Jews have a nice country here" A group of Japanese and say "You Japs have a nice country here" A group of Black...
  12. What if Japan had joined Barbarossa?

    Will you PLEASE stop using "Japs" (and all similar racist slurs) unless you are quoting a historic figure, or writing dialogue in a historic T/L.
  13. Could the US have decided Pacific first

    NOT dead. Resting.:D
  14. What if Japan had joined Barbarossa?

    If Japan attacked the USSR in June of 1940 1) Warned by Sorge spy ring, Soviet forces are waiting for Japanese attack. Kwantung Army suffers series of utterly crushing defeats at hands of Far East Front. 2) Japanese Army runs its strategic oil reserve dry in December of 1940. Despite...
  15. The Sword Unsheathed WMD's in WW2: A TL

    Chemical weapons weren't used for the simple reason that they have a very poor Return on Investment. (Note that this is true when technological equals engage, chemicals can be quite useful against forces unable to respond, be they Ethiopians in the 1930s or Kurds in the 1990s. This was decidedly...
  16. Military Gear that should have seen service

    This not really a good argument, given the stunning number of possoms and, well, sheep in Matyland.
  17. Military Gear that should have seen service

    Oh come on. You guys such at arguments. Y'all couldn't even figure out which side you were on during the Civil War/War of Northern Aggression.
  18. US Navy Warship Loses In The Third Battle of The Atlantic (4/87-5/87)

    Larry Bond created Harpoon. Actually he initially created a combat sim for the Naval War College that morphed into Harpoon. One of the main characters in Red Storm Rising (the Reserve Naval Intel officer Robert Toland) is partly based on Bond's USN career.
  19. Could the US have decided Pacific first

    It would have been Pacific 1st if Hitler had had the common sense of a salmon. Instead it was: "Gee, I'm at war with two major powers, both of whom can outproduce me in every significant category. Delightful, isn't it? Why, this is so much fun, I will now declare war on yet another major...
  20. What would the Pacific War be like without the European one?

    Lava Bathing insane... I like it! I also agree with the statement. No way the war happens if things are as outlined by the OP.
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