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  1. Assault Guns vs. Tanks

    Assault guns are good in a static defense, okay in a mobile defense between prepared positions, and coffins in dynamic warfare. Since they are not as strong as a truly well prepared bunker in the static role, and are only slightly more useful in the mobile defense role than a regular tank...
  2. Yamamoto Survives

    He gets to die on the deck of a carrier or battleship as it sinks instead of in the jungle. Killing him was as much about "gotcha, ya' bastard" as any strategic advantage.
  3. Want to invade America?

    Without repeating what has already been posted regarding the sheer size and heavily armed nature of the U.S., combined with the basic anger towards any authority that is endemic (something that the Europeans posting on this thread are greatly underestimating)... Regarding the U.S. invasion...
  4. What if Iraq army had better tanks and better trained Army

    :confused::confused: The Challenger II and M1A1 are specifically designed to defeat the T-72's gun, even with DU penetrators, the EXPORT version of the T-72 (you are aware that the T-72 Ivan used to export during the recent unpleasntness, was a half assed knock off of the gear that equipped...
  5. The mist

    And right there, ladies & gentlemen, is why we have multiplexes.
  6. Want to invade America?

    The thing is that, in a very real sense, there wouldn't BE anybody in charge, at least not nationally and not overall. An invader would very much have jumped on the tiger's back, unable advance or retreat without being mauled. The British withdrawl from Concord is a decent example of the...
  7. Want to invade America?

    Even then you would have to supply the forces IN Canada or Mexico. Not a simple task.
  8. Want to invade America?

    Come across the Pacific or Atlantic and invade a Continental Landmass? Hmmm... No chance in hell. 1900 - 1913 - No doctrine, insufficient troops available, insufficent logistical lift, no idea of supplies needed. No reasonable point of conflict with Germany or Russia, U.S./UK relations are...
  9. Contact between Europe and North America gradual

    From the Native American perspective there is no difference, save, perhaps, where the pandemics start. Tte Native American population around Mass Bay were wiped out, probably by measles, immediately prior to the Puritan landing at Plymouth. No Spaniard transmitted that disease, it was from a...
  10. Challenge: The Anglo-Irish War

    Angsty?:confused: Is that British for hugely pissed off and totally over the top for no good reason?
  11. President Ted Kennedy

    Satan? Charlie Manson? He'd have to find someone so horrible that no one would dare to kill him (there are just too many wackos who would see killing the third Kennedy as a mark of honor).
  12. President Ted Kennedy

    When I read the heading of this thread I had one of those "almost puke" moments. Luckily I hadn't eaten for a while.
  13. Challenge: The Anglo-Irish War

    What would you call this, the Weekend War? The disparity of forces between the UK & Eire is so profound in the post WW II era that a conventional war would be over in a few days. This is not meant to denigrate the Óglaigh na hÉireann, it is simply a fact. Eire has chosen, as is it's national...
  14. South Korea takes revenge for USSR shooting down Flight 007

    Has Seoul gone utterly mad? Just a quick reality check: 1.1 MILLION DPRK troops waiting to cross the DMZ Capital City within artillery range of DPRK forces almost as soon as the cross the DMZ Soviet Union at full Cold War Strength. U.S. troops available 37,000 Entire area within...
  15. DBWI: Zimmerman

    I think the biggest difference would be the changes in the Western Hemisphere. I mean, would the United States stretch all the way to the Strait of Magellen (outside of the part of the Yucatan that is supposedly "Mexico") if Zimmerman had kept his eyes on Europe? Without the 2nd Mexican War...
  16. Alternate Fulda Gaps?

    Absolutely correct. If it had been an actual "Gap" it would have been terrific. The U.S. would have been able to defend it with a third of the forces dedicated & with a much better chance of success. Instead you had a nice, fairly open, plain without a lot of strong positions to anchor defensive...
  17. What if the coalition withdraws the troops from Iraq in 2003?

    My guess is we see a far even worse Shi'a/Sunni conflict, with the Kurds declaring an independent state, probably dragging Turkey into a full on invasion to prevent the rise of Kurdistan. I doubt that any nation-wide government would have formed in Iraq, even on paper. Likely a straight up civil...
  18. Ho229 : A great WWII fighter? or the greatest WWII fighter

    Flying wings are impractical without computer controlled "fly by wire". It is possible to keep one in the air, but they are more or less unrecoverable from a spin or serious roll event (they have a nasty habit to go into "falling leaf" spins, where you are divergent in all three axes). This...
  19. WI:Stalin sends all Germans to Siberia and Far East

    I thought so too. When you look at his other posts that doesn't quite track true. Hungan would have been baying at the moon by this point in the thread.
  20. WI:Stalin sends all Germans to Siberia and Far East

    Define next. Before or after the utter collapse of the Soviet transport system? Look at the logistics of this sort of move, it destroys the Soviet economy, not that there was all that much economy left. It also starves most of European Russia. Or after the mass revolt in the Eastern Zone...
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