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  1. German Carrier Fleet 1939-45

    You would expend a dozen destroyers, four cruisers, two oilers (the destroyers will have to fuel at least every 3-4 days), at least one stores ship, and a carrier, with a total crew of better than 8,000 men to hunt merchant ships that can be sunk by a U-boat with a crew of 56 men? (The POD does...
  2. Modified WW2 aircraft

    The ONLY reason Singapore fell was the Brewster Buffalo!!!!!!!! It was EVOL!!!!!! :D:D:D:D
  3. German Carrier Fleet 1939-45

    Very true. The GZ had room for, MAX 50 aircraft (10 Me-109, 20 Ju-87, and 20 Fi-167), (U.S. CVE carried between 34 & 50 aircraft). Five of them would have 50 fighters. Once you take out CAP requirements that means a five carrier group would be aboe to send 20 fighters as eacorts for their...
  4. Red Storm Rising: the Aftermath

    When the cease fire deal is being struck and the question of the Nuremberg Trials comes up the Soviet General says "you can have them after we are done trying them for crimes against the People. It will be a very boring trial." The Red Army and the remaining civilan members of the Coup seemed...
  5. Hitler loses it and starts Sea Lion

    Actually, anything but. It was expected to be more costly and to take longer but the German military was confident that it would prevail. Marine Mammal, on the contrary, appalled the Heer and Kriegsmarine command structure, along with the Luftwaffe's below Goring. It was as poorly thought out...
  6. US War on Colonialism - 1929

    Before the U.S. hit the gas it was below such stalwarts as Greece and Portugal. The American military was a massive potential, with a lot of men who had been into the Guard but were not active. The Army was more or less a cadre force. This was the American military tradition, the citizen soldier...
  7. US War on Colonialism - 1929

    In 1929? What does the U.S go to war WITH? In 1929 the ENTIRE U.S. army was 122,000 enlisted and 12,000 Officers. That force was spread across half the Planet with nearly 10,000 men in the Philippines alone. The USN was in decent shape since it was the key to keeping the world at bay.. The...
  8. Battle of Midway

    Japan COULDN'T make a second attack on Pearl Harbor. By the time of Midway, the U.S. had over 150 modern fighters on the Oahu, as well as roughly 36 heavy bombers, a couple squadrons of medium bombers, a couple squadrons of Navy SBD squadrons working up, and tons of AAA, all of which was manned...
  9. Alternatives to WWII Pacific theatre

    Japan couldn't afford to ignore the U.S. or count on American disinterest. Wake and Guam represented serious (or potentially serious) threats to the Japanese bases in the Mandates while the Bases in the Phillippines, especially on Luzon, were positioned perfectly to interdict Japanese...
  10. Battle of Midway

    I haven't read this book, but I am generally leery of any effort to find a moral similarity between the Western Allies and the Axis during WW II. For further reading on Midway, I would suggest Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully. The book is brilliantly researched and...
  11. Battle of Midway

    Decades? Try Centuries.:eek: I especially liked Fire in the Sky. A wider view of the Theater than found in Lundstrom's excellent, but tightly focused, works.
  12. Battle of Midway

    Welcome to the Board! If you search this subject, I believe you will find a number of threads where this subject is discussed at length. Put simply, the Japanese could have sunk every ship the U.S. sent to Midway, taken the Island (the two do not necessarily go together), and built a base...
  13. ISOT an American High school from today to 1959

    Bricks would be shat.
  14. 1991: The Iraqi Air Force stays

    The Stark was operating effectively alone, and perhaps more significantly, was in a circumstance that an Iraqi aircraft would have been, at worst, considered to be from a benevolent neutral, if not an informal ally, given the Stark's mission. The Chandler was also operating on detached duty as...
  15. Senator Benjamin Netanyahu (R-MA)

    A REPUBLICAN Senator from Massachusetts? A Conservative REPUBLICAN Senator from Massachusetts? In the 1980s? What parallel universe would this take place in? Short of Quantum Mechanics, I don't think so.
  16. Worse-case senario for 2003 Iraq war

    Okay. I admit I missed this one. Definite worst case. :D
  17. Worse-case senario for 2003 Iraq war

    The UN had quite clearly established that the Iraqi program had been crippled. The research might be continuing, and their was (or so it was proclaimed) a possibility of stockpiled weapons. Unfortunately, Iraq utterly lacked delivery systems. One of the bits of Intel the UN inspectors gleaned...
  18. 1991: The Iraqi Air Force stays

    Points regarding potential air strikes 1. The Patriot (MM-104) is a SAM system. That was lost in the whole SCUD thing, but PAC-2 was fully capable of killing an aircraft @ ~100 miles 98 times out of 100, with second missile hit probability on the same target driving the success number close to...
  19. Who saw "Amerika"?

    The "media", who you seem to despise (BTW: Media includes both Rush AND Fox), would sell you the rope to hang them and lease you the tree. They don't have DVD's of Amerika readily available because it was crap. It wasn't even good right wing propaganda, hell, it wasn't bad propaganda. It was...
  20. 1991: The Iraqi Air Force stays

    With a bit of luck a couple Eagle or Tomcat drivers wind up aces. An extra hundred or so Iraqis end up dead as well.
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