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  1. Different Pearl Harbor

    1. Japanese don't show up (they DID have an Intel source in Hawaii) 2. Japanese show up, float plane confirms the bird has flown and the Kido Butai aborts and sails home 3. Japanese are idiots, First wave shows up anyway breaks off when there is no game. 4. First wave doesn't tell second wave...
  2. Bombing of north Vietnam's dams.

    Short (but correct) answer: NO. Please READ the excerpts from the actual Convention documents. If the system is being used to support military operations it becomes a legitimate military target.
  3. Bombing of north Vietnam's dams.

    Neither were the Soviets. Vietnam, much like Afghanastan a decade later, was an opprotunity to cause the enemy great harm at minimal cost. It was a wonderful opprotunity to observe the enemy in action, his command & control, pick up some gear for intel, even interview some prisoners. It wasn't a...
  4. WI: Patton's fuel wasn't cut off?

    It is a VERY BAD THING to base belief in real history on a movie, which is a piece of entertainment and a drama to boot. The Allies, especially Third Army, out ran their supply lines. When you are using more fuel to deliver the fuel than is getting to the armor units you have a problem. They...
  5. Britain Attacks Germany Over Czechoslovakia

    If the British and French hadn't GIVEN Czechoslovakia to Hitler he would never have tried for it. The Czechs had enough combat power to give the 1938 Germany pause (look at the number of Pz-35(t) & Pz-38(t) tanks the Germans used in Poland and France. ALL from Czech factories) and they simply...
  6. Weird idea, American sub spots Japanese fleet steaming towards Pearl Harbour.

    It depends on when the sighting occurs. If it is too soon, the sighting will flush the game, Pearl will empty, and the Kido Butai will simply turn around and go home. If it's more than 12 hours but less than 18 that is a worst case for the U.S., the BBs will sortie without escorts and be...
  7. Japan invades Hawaii

    Thanks. Saved me from posting the link AGAIN.
  8. DBWI: What if Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton?

    They would have a butt ugly kid?:confused:
  9. Can any theortically invade USA?

    The Soviet military in 1989 was pitiful. It had been pushed out of Afghanistan, was getting manhandled in Chechnya, and was rotten to the core due to corruption. Aircraft, ship and vehicle availability was very poor due to lack of PM and parts. The various Pact militaries were more likely to go...
  10. MacArthur dies in 1942

    Happy dance!! You may have shortened the war by four months.
  11. Can any theortically invade USA?

    The thing about the USN is that is just keeps coming. 12 CBG, 70+ SSN, including then two most advanced classes ever built, the best AIR FORCE on Earth after the USAF, etc. The 2002 War Game was a blessing, it exposed weaknesses in the USN brown water doctrine (resulting in, among other...
  12. The Superguns: The Montana Class Gets Built

    They should have been built INSTEAD of the Alaskas. Actually they should have built out the other two Iowas instead of either one, but I digress. The problem with the Montanas was that they simply took took much steel out of the pipeline when it was needed for landing ships/boats.
  13. Can any theortically invade USA?

    Depends on the date. The British did it quite nicely in 1814. If you mean since 1900 it is a zero probability event under the conditions you outline. Do it today? Might as well kill yourself before you leave, save the fuel. You can land, you could not hold. Cross from Mexico, sure; followed...
  14. US Victory in Vietnam

    Under this victory condition? Not a chance. There are lots of ways to change the political outcome (the military outcome, prior to 1975 was always in the U.S. favor) but not simply maintaining the status quo antebellum.
  15. Seven Days to the Rhine: Conventional WWIII

    Ivan had the largest submarine fleet in the world. The U.S. spent billions of dollars on a seabed sensor net (SOSUS) that covered the choke points between Greenland, Iceland, and the UK (the famed G-I-UK Gaps) that was designed to detect and localize Soviet boats trying to get into the North...
  16. Seven Days to the Rhine: Conventional WWIII

    Hackett also wrote a second book WW III: The untold Story that expanded the original work. THe only difficulty with Hackett's work is that he was in some ways too close to the issue to write a good "story". The technical issues are excellent. I doubt you will find many people with more...
  17. Seven Days to the Rhine: Conventional WWIII

    You best re-read the book, your recollection is off. France is noted as living up to its obligations to the letter. The Foch is sunk while part of a NATO carrier force moving to retake Iceland. IOTL France UNDERSTOOD what it meant to be occuppied by a bloodthirsty dictatorship and had decided...
  18. Nazi Occupation of European Russia

    Killing 65 million people is easy, Stalin created the modern template in the Ukraine in 1932. Go into a area large enough for you to control with troops in a perimeter, take out all the food, destroying structures and poisoning wells as you gather up the food. Do not let the people living...
  19. D-Day Beaches Switched

    There was a dog?:eek::eek::eek: Damn! And I always thought there was minimal opposition.
  20. USA fights only Japan

    The USSR generally had a massive advantage in numbers. That was because they never threw anything away (the legend is that when the Wall fell, there were still hundreds of factory fresh T-34's available, "just in case") and only about a 1/3 of it worked at any given time. The West decided to...
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