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  1. British make peace after loss at Dunkirk

    The U-boats managed, for a few months in late 1942 & early '43, to put the situation into some question, but the crisis never came close to the still ultimate example of a submarine-centric blockade that overtook Japan in the last year of the Pacific War. In Japan's case starvation actually...
  2. British make peace after loss at Dunkirk

    On the other hand, this statement is asinine. No reasonable person outside of Germany wanted Hitler to WIN in 1940. NOBODY with half a gram of sense living today would want Hitler to have won.
  3. British make peace after loss at Dunkirk

    This is probably the best question you have asked here (although it applies far better to WW I then WW II).
  4. British make peace after loss at Dunkirk

    Which, by the way, is considerable. Certainly far more than Elizabeth's carried at the time (since she had just turned 15 the month before). While Bill was wrong on some of the details regarding names, his basic premise is sound. In 1940 England had not been successfully invaded (save some...
  5. Japan gets bloodied in WW1

    Egypt? No! Now Singapore... Make it 600,000 and we can talk!:D
  6. Japan gets bloodied in WW1

    I agree to a point, especially on the training cadre, but if you look at what Haig (now there's a butcher) was planning clear into 1918 or the conditions that finally pushed the French infantry to mutinty (actually it was more like go on strike) in 1917, it is clear that the supposed German...
  7. Japan gets bloodied in WW1

    No they weren't, but a decent tank would have given the Marines a much more difficult tactical problem on Saipan, Guam, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and in the border wars with the USSR. So would a decent artillery train. The Japanese tried to emulate the UK, but simply couldn't. Their resource base and...
  8. Japan gets bloodied in WW1

    That would have been remarkably difficult. Japan only had so much production capacity, so much available steel, and also had centuries of tradition to overcome. Every tank or SP or prime mover/towed artillery combination took steel that could go into warships & the IJN had been, virtually from...
  9. Japan gets bloodied in WW1

    The IJA lost every stand-up or set piece battle in the war, be it against the Indian Army, the Americans or the Red Army. Their success was solely against surprised colonial troops or mixtures of colonial/local forces. In the Philippines, despite overwhelming logistial superiority, air...
  10. The Soft Underbelly

    Your points are all valid, but there are a couple more. Italy is a horrible place to fight if you are on the offensive & the further North you go, the worse it gets. The Wermacht was a superb defensive force (when Hitler allowed it) especially from prepared positions such as the Gustav line...
  11. Japan gets bloodied in WW1

    This is actually one of the better questions regarding IJA tactics in the Pacific War. When one looks at IJA doctrine it is striking at how little it had changed from the Japanese/Russian War in 1904. The Japanese never really understood that elan and proper discipline was trumped by combined...
  12. Could the Axis win the war from 1942 onwards?

    I suppose you can call it a success, assuming you ignore the fact that it is directly responsible for at least 11,500,000 deaths (actual deaths are probably 2X that figure) by starvation and that it created a circumstance that made the largest grain producing region in Europe a net importer of...
  13. Could the Axis win the war from 1942 onwards?

    The main problem here is that the excesses involving the German occupation went WAY beyond the normal "occupation" issues. Normal occupation issues are some looting (mainly by REMFs), some abuse of the civilain population, particularly the random rape, and excessive force against resistance...
  14. British make peace after loss at Dunkirk

    Well, what does the ASB want to have happen? Clearly that is what we are discussing here, an ASB world where reality and fact bear no impact on the situation.
  15. British make peace after loss at Dunkirk

    The RN originally hoped to get 45,000 men out of the pocket. Every troop above that figure was a victory. Why would this have been in the slightest attractive to the UK? It is a rare thing when a WORLD-WIDE Empire finds accepting defeat attractive. The UK had barely begun to push manpower in...
  16. British make peace after loss at Dunkirk

    Here I was all set to reply to yet another incarnation of this WI and you have already gone and explained in real world terms why it would never have happened.:mad: :D:D:D:D:p:p:p:p
  17. The Soft Underbelly

    Soft underbelly? Not exactly. To quote:
  18. The Axis Powers Invade the Med instead of the USSR in 1941

    Gee, I take it all back, based on this withering display of logic and vast display of knowledge.
  19. Could the Axis win the war from 1942 onwards?

    Well, let's see - The Italian fleet & airforce would (and was) be crushed by the RN, especially by 1942, when the U.S. was able to put elements of the Atlantic Fleet on patrols that freed up increasing amounts of the RN. I would point out that the U.S. was able to operate TWO carrier task...
  20. Could the Axis win the war from 1942 onwards?

    Germany - Military coup. Kill the Nazi leadership. Might be able to hold onto a rump Germany under German control. Italy - As above, then turn on the Germans (somewhat like OTL, but sooner) Japan - Surrender immediately, turn over Military dictatorship to West for trial. That is as close...
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