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  1. Mexico attacks the CSA

    What? Are they not getting enough broken teeth in their diet?
  2. Vaders

    Wow. Well, there goes my top theory.
  3. Chechzlovzkia triggers WW2

    Thanks for the link & OOB The link data seems to contradict with numerous other sources that indicate that the Bf-109C did not begin production until March of 1938 (production run of 58 aircraft), with the D model (the model listed) entering production some months later, in August, but the...
  4. Chechzlovzkia triggers WW2

    What Luftwaffe? Oh, the under 100 modern monoplane fighters? The ones needed to defend the Western frontier from the French and British? Or the 20 or so Ju-87As, the ones that could only carry their rated bombload if the left the tailgunner behind? The Do-10? The Hs-123? In early 1938 there...
  5. April 1945 The Red Army rolls into Western Europe

    Ever made? What about the Type-99, T-72, T-80, M-60A3, M1, M1A1, Leopard II, Challenger 1 & 2, & Merkava?
  6. April 1945 The Red Army rolls into Western Europe

    I doubt that any of the civilian population among the combatants in the ETO WANTED to get into another war in April of 1945. Interesting list of Soviet aircraft. However, how many of them were in squadron service in April of 1945? Let's have a look: MiG-3 - Yes. 1940 design, long since...
  7. Chechzlovzkia triggers WW2

    In 1938 a regiment; a division at most, could have held the invasion routes into Czechoslovakia against the Wehrmacht. The Czech Army of the period, while small by WW II standards, was well equipped, trained, and had a serious leavening of combat veterans (who had given the Revolution era Red...
  8. Hitler does not support Mussolini in North Africa

    I love the guy who speculated that Montgomery would have been left in Africa to twist in the wind. There's a true happy making result.
  9. Vaders

    It's "Knicks".:D As for the rest, sounds like light bedtime reading; assuming one is in Hell.
  10. Britney Spears dies of alcoholic intoxication

    A 51-50 is California police short hand for an involuntary 72 hour (maximum) physiological/medical inpatient admission and evaluation
  11. Hitler does not support Mussolini in North Africa

    Without belaboring the point too far, if you look at total KIA & POW, just from units deployed prior to November '42, the figures are stunning (the fighting at, and around Tobruk, especially Operation Crusader, produced very significant losses to Wermacht formations, other actions, while less...
  12. Britney Spears dies of alcoholic intoxication

    Shouldn't this be in future history (and maybe not too far into the future)? They have her on a 51-50 hold right now.
  13. Chechzlovzkia triggers WW2

    Without pushing too hard on the TL, the Wermacht lacked to combat power to break through the Czech defenses in the Sudetenland (mountain passes mostly, defended by troops fighting on home ground from prepared positions with better armor). That was why the Sudetenland deal was so critical to the...
  14. Hitler does not support Mussolini in North Africa

    German losses at 2nd El Alamein alone exceed 9,000 (KIA, POW), losses at 1st El Alamein & Gazala were very similar (and 1st El Alamein & Galaza happened BEFORE Stalingrad even began, while 2nd El Alamein happened when the Wermacht still had the offensive momentum). Had Germany never started the...
  15. MX & ABM.

    The original 1972 treaty allowed for two, the 1974 codicil (effective 1976) changed it to one (mostly because neither side much cared about a second site). http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/treaties/abm/abmprot1.html As you note, the American system was deactivated in 1976 at roughly the...
  16. The Atomic Bombs are not available for use against Japan

    A signnificant percentage of the Japanese civilian population starves to death by the spring of 1946, while the cities of Hiroshima & Nagasaki (along with the other cities on the "saved" list) are utterly destroyed by fire bombings. The transferred crews of the Mighty 8th begin to conduct...
  17. Hitler does not support Mussolini in North Africa

    While its very true that the AfrikaKorps was never an armor heavy formation (IIRC it never exceed 200 tanks in operation at one time) it is hard to say that the African Campaign didn't have a serious sapping effect on the Wermacht & Luftwaffe exactly when it could least afford to spend troops on...
  18. MX & ABM.

    Anywhere from 0-10. The ABM system was more than a bit questionable and the U.S. lacked the reloads to actually take advantage of the theory.
  19. Japan attacks the USSR in 1941.

    This is pure ASB territory. You have to get the Japanese to leave China alone, starting all the way back in 1931. This in itself completely alters the basic thinking of the Japanese military AND political system to the point of impossibility. The Japanese obsession with China extended well...
  20. POWs found in Vietnam or escape from Vietnam after 1973

    I don't know about the tourist bit, but I do know that the North DID hold French prisoners well into the 60s and that retaining prisoners after the end of hostilities is far from uncommon. The final few pitiful survivors from Stalingrad didn't get released until 1955 (IIRC even the British held...
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