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  1. Japan gets bloodied in WW1

    Ever been to Saipan? How about Okinawa (2,271 sq km) where, even today, the Corps holds armored exercises? Even on Iwo, which was more or less a pit, some decent armor would have doubled, if not trebeled losses in some initial assault units. If the bombing, or off-shore gunfire support, was as...
  2. Different Laws of War

    Nothing would be different because of: 14. Military necessity, as understood by modern civilized nations, consists in the necessity of those measures which are indispensable for securing the ends of the war, and which are lawful according to the modern law and usages of war. (emphasis added)...
  3. Successful Ardennes Offensive

    The December 1944 Offensive, if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's wildest dreams, would have changed nothing except the amount of German territory occuppied by the USSR. The offensive DID however, wipe out the carefully hoarded reserves of the Heer. Again, the primary impact is simply the...
  4. No IJN carriers

    No carriers = no chance. The Bomber option is, frankly, impossible. Nothing the Japanese had in their bomber inventory had the range. They could have staged some sort of attack, albeit on a very small scale with H6K Mavis flying boats, but even here the logistics would have been a nightmare...
  5. Firebombing in Europe

    Okay. My point is that there was more than enough blood on EVERYONE'S hands. In the ETO, if the USAAF had believed that mass burning would have worked in the goal of ending the war, the 8th would have done it. War often creates heros, angels & innocents tend to be in short supply.
  6. Firebombing in Europe

    WTF?:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: The USAAF burned down more real estate than the RAF ever dreamed about. Not that either of them did anything out of line with the way war is fought since 1914. Stacked up corpses were being hauled away on lorries. Everywhere there was...
  7. Names for a British-American Reunification Nation

    Us & those guys who talk funny. Think about it. Works for everyone.:D
  8. Linebacker III

    This would be an utter walkover. Ameri-wank to the core. The MiG-21 was obsolecent by the mid-70's, the YaK-28P was obsolete, and the SU-15, while still in it's prime, is a pure interceptor (something that the U.S. stopped producing with the F-106). The best aircraft, by far, is the Flagon...
  9. What if Japan did not comply to the US Demands in 1853 and Matthew Perry had attacked

    The potential is here for it to turn out REALLY bad for the Japanese. If the Dutch, French, British and other European powers get involved in a "wog-bashing" expedition as well as the U.S. Japan goes the way of China, except without enough strategic depth to keep most of the country foreigner...
  10. Safe Words for Sea "Mammal"

    The marine mammal that can not be named or you know who
  11. No smallpox

    Measles was almost as big of an accidental killer as smallpox (although small pox was easier to spread INTENTIONALLY, via infected blankets, etc.). It was probably a measles epidemic that destroyed the population just before the Plymouth Rock landing. There's so many Old World diseases that it...
  12. Sir Nigel Gresley doesn't die in office in 1941.

    The guy who replaced him doesn't get the job?
  13. WW2: Russia surrenders; Japanese seize Vladivostok

    Surrenders to WHO? The Nazi's? Not very likely. Not with the Corporal running the Army.
  14. Stalin dies; Roosevelt survives.

    DECLARE war maybe. Wage it, probably not. I'm not at all sure that a USSR in the midst of either a power struggle or, hopefully, a military coup to dislodge the Party, would have the ability to manage the rather impressive feat of transferring a couple of Armies, with all associated...
  15. Cloverfield

    Yea, realism is pretty much a non-factor when writing a screenplay involving a 600' tall monster that can take direct hits from 2000 lb bombs with no injury.
  16. WI: A Douhetian WWII

    The nerve agents available in the early war years were not the horror that we associate with VX. It is arguable (something that I have done with previous poison gas threads here) that Mustard & Lewisite were both far more effective from the military perspective, both for persistance of effect...
  17. Stalin dies; Roosevelt survives.

    My mistake.:o I will stand on the no noteworthy impact on the end of the War in Europe statement.
  18. Cloverfield

    The movie still pulled in $12.7 million, bringing the total take to $64+ million. Since it cost roughly $30M to make and Advertiseing cost are WAY below normal, it is already $20M or so into the Black (although, given the way that Hollywood plays with the books, it will never show a "net"...
  19. Stalin dies; Roosevelt survives.

    Stalin dies on 12 April of '45? The Soviets still finish off Berlin (they were already in the City on 4/12). Post war Europe may be different with the struggle between Beria and Molotov distracting the Party & NKVD. You may even see a military coup, provided the NKVD is sufficiently distracted...
  20. A Nuclear Yom Kippur War

    Had the October War gone nuclear it would almost certainly led to a U.S./Soviet exchange. Of all the proxy wars of the Cold War it turns out that 1973 WAS the closest call. Both the U.S. and, especially, the Soviets misjudged how far the other was ready to go in supporting their Client. The...
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