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  1. Baltic Invasion??

    The Admiral who took this scheme into the CNO would leave as an able-bodied seaman (or under arrest). There is NO CHANCE that you would take carriers into the Baltic, the Straits are so restrictive that it would be suicide. Battlegroups, even the WW II versions, needs space to operate. Worse...
  2. WI weapons used when practical.

    I think most people would want to see the money go elsewhere IF it wasn't needed where it is currently spent. Doesn't do much good to be working away on your Mars ship and making neat little piles out of the money saved by eliminating the military if some less noble, but willing and eager...
  3. Baltic Invasion??

    Air superiority was NOT achieved in 1943, and what would be needed was air supremacy, which was the condition under which Normandy took place. In 1943 the American bomber formations were still getting cut to shreds by the Luftwaffe. The Mustang had barely begun to reach the Eighth AAF in the...
  4. The Use of American Servicemembers' Protection Act

    The point about crippling the UN (and pretty much every other international body) is to illustrate that there are myraid ways that the U.S. can bring extraordinary pressure onto an international body or nation-state without loading a single rifle. As far as the Congress goes, they knew...
  5. Avoiding Lost Decades: A Modern History (1979-2019)

    Well the mention of the Queen Victoria seems to indicate that the money for the new full deck carriers was found (unless there's a HMS Queen Victoria that I missed), so maybe they scrapped together the bucks for a new set of boats too. :) Even eleven years into the future, the Vanguard & her...
  6. The Use of American Servicemembers' Protection Act

    Probably nothing since the chances of the ICC overstepping its bounds by that degree are close to nil. After that things all depend on circumstances and current resident of the White House. The minimum is a good deal of stiff diplomatic verbiage, followed the threat of a significant loss of...
  7. And Hell Followed with Him

    A disease of this lethality (95%+) will have a couple of long ranging impacts. 1) Total collapse of the base culture including religion, basic manufacturing, even agriculture is more or less gone. You are more or less back to hunter gather levels & starting pretty much from scratch. 2) Given...
  8. Avoiding Lost Decades: A Modern History (1979-2019)

    I assume this state of affairs only survives is until the British nuke the PRC into the Stone Age after the loss of their fleet? You don't get wars between nuclear powers that turn out well. This is especially true if the power that has the preponerance of deliverable weapons is suddenly...
  9. AH challenge: Russo-American War

    Problem with the Russian colonies is that, unlike the English or Spanish colonies, the Russian colonies were based almost exclusively on trapping (even more so than the French colonies in North America). The Russians had NO need for land, or for resources except the fur (and this was only...
  10. An Alternate History of the FT-17

    If they had been mothballed for that long they would be lucky to have 10 start. For reasons I have never understood, mice LOVED to eat the insulation from wiring of the period.
  11. What if Japan went after the USSR on Dec. 7 1941?

    The Far East Front in December of 1941 had not be altered in any sunstansive form from the start of the War. Stalin was still unsure of Japan's intentions (for that matter he wasn't sure of U.S. intentions, paranoia is like that). Even when the forces began to be moved from the East they came...
  12. US-Danish War of 1855

    Not quite correct. The U.S. had the following side wheel steam frigates: the USS Mississippi, USS Missouri, USS Powhatan, USS Sun Jancinto, USS Saranac & USS Susquehanna. As you note, in 1855/56 the U.S. launched six screw/steam frigates. These were followed by the USS Roanoke (1857)...
  13. US-Danish War of 1855

    The U.S. in 1855 was launching the Merrimack class (yep, that Merrimack). They were generally accepted as being, at minimum, equal to the strongest steam frigates on the seas (actually, most sources indicate that they were the "best' steam frigates at the time, but these are also mostly U.S...
  14. Rommel obeys Hitler's orders

    The Germans waste fewer resources in a sideshow and get tossed out of Africa earlier. Question is how long it would be until Hitler changed his orders to offensive. Based on his history, Hitler didn't really believe in sitting around when you could get at the enemy.
  15. What if 9/11 happened in 2003 or 2004?

    To the original POD... The opposite happens of what occurred IOTL. Bush gets tossed out of office in November 04 since it was well into his watch & there is no opprotunity to lay it at the feet of the prior Administration.
  16. What if 9/11 happened in 2003 or 2004?

    Not quite correct. bin Laden & co had been on the radar for years, all the way back to the early '90's, Clinton even tried for his crew once with cruise missiles. Unfortunately we were unsuccessful and the White House wasn't willing to sanction a direct assassination against the man himself.
  17. Cluster Bombs in WWII

    Obviously a CBU with ICM bomblets would be devestating, given that it is to modern armor, but the fact is that it would very much be guilding the lily. The various Jagerbombers, be they P-38s, P-47s, Typhoons, Tempests or the Soviet IL-2 (not technically called a Jager, but...) could open up...
  18. December, 1941: German army destroyed at gates to Moscow

    It could be argued that the best thing that could happen to the Heer is a major defeat on the Moscow Front. That might force them to withdraw to a better defensive position, perhaps even convince Hitler to rething his broad front strategy (although given Hitler's underlying insanity, it might...
  19. Halifax Doesn't Deal

    The acceptance of the Nuremberg Laws and being folded into the Reich economy would only happen in an outright surrender. That is vanishingly unlikely.
  20. Ameriwank: Continental Navy

    Valley Forge springs to mind. Part of the problem was that Congress had very little (bordering on none) power to compel the states to provide funding. Congress quite literally couldn't afford to pay anyone in the Continental Army, often for years at a time. This would have gone triple for a...
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