Search results

  1. What if Bonus Army aftermath escalated?

    Not to mention that the entire country, as a whole, was a shithole.
  2. What if Bonus Army aftermath escalated?

    FDR absolutely helped the perception of the public, but even without his entering the equasion, thing were going to gradually turn around. As you noted, the war was the thing that really destroyed the lingering effect of the Depression. If the U.S. had gone radical, as unlikely as that event...
  3. Better Iranian Tactics During Praying Mantis

    'Fraid not. SAR would have been simpler.
  4. Better Iranian Tactics During Praying Mantis

    Rumsfeld was, scratch that, IS a fool, and his advisors do notbegin to measure up to his skill level. I used to think that McNamara was the worst Secretary of Defense the U.S would even endure. I was sadly mistaken. IF you could gather at least a half dozen of the Iranian missile corvettes...
  5. Better Iranian Tactics During Praying Mantis

    Yep, more wreckage on the seafloor and shark food. Look at the capacities of the engaged units. Don't play the "if we catch them going the wrong way down a one way street" game. Do it for real, strength on strength, weakness on weakness. We have the historic results, they will not improve with...
  6. Better Iranian Tactics During Praying Mantis

    I have indeed seen those results, as well as a number of other exercise results. If you are willing to go to the Kamakazi level, then there are always possibilities. But in 1988, no Kilos were present in the Gulf, or Silkworms (C-802) for that matter, nor was the U.S. commander a fool or asleep...
  7. Better Iranian Tactics During Praying Mantis

    This would be of some, albeit small, concern during Praying Mantis, except for the fact that the United States attacked IRAN in Operation Praying Mantis in April of 1988. This was the Tanker War interlude when Iran & Iraq were at war with EACH OTHER. Of course, given the Iraqi Navy's sterling...
  8. What if Bonus Army aftermath escalated?

    Again, there would be NO reaction. This dog just won't hunt, no matter how many times you toss him into the field. There simply was not, at any time in American history, a critical mass of "socialist" intent (sorry Tielhard, but Reality Check time) sufficient to push matters to a head...
  9. Better Iranian Tactics During Praying Mantis

    Iran's ships were no match for USN surface combatants, even in a two-on-one. Iran was effectively out of SSM ship launched missiles, certainly out of the Exocet-style second generation SSM (the U.S. had provided 9 Harpoon in the Shah's day, but those were all expended by late 1987, perhaps...
  10. Better Iranian Tactics During Praying Mantis

    The Iranians sortied their ships from the various ports where they were located or vectored them to the combat area from patrol. To have massed them they would still have been forced to sortie them, exposing them to defeat in detail. Had the vessels all been concentrated into a single...
  11. Post-WWII Japanese Coup?

    Not sure. When was the last time a country was in the position to impose that as a peace condition? The U.S WAS in that kind of position vis-a-via Japan in 1945. Note I never said it would work, or be a good idea, but there was a segment of the political spectrum that thought it would be a...
  12. Post-WWII Japanese Coup?

    Hmmm... Resurgent Japanese militarists attacking American Occupation forces. Violate a peace treaty before the ink is dry. So much for the whole unpopular war thing. In 1952 the American people would have stood up and DEMANDED that a Japan as you outline be brought to heel (or be burned to...
  13. Post-WWII Japanese Coup?

    Given the huge presence of American forces in Japan in 1952, none of whom would have forgotten a bit of what happened the LAST time a ultranationalist group took over ? Shortest coup in history?
  14. What if Bonus Army aftermath escalated?

    There was no aftermath to McArthur's actions in OTL. Kind of hard to escalate nothing.
  15. Fire from Water: The Greek Nitron Rifle

    So we now have a grenade using an insufficently powerful source of chemical reaction to have anything beyond a very weak "flash-bang" effect that uses, well, nothing, as shrapnel (nothing like getting hit by a half ounce piece of leather going 25 miles an hour to really ruin your day...
  16. Fire from Water: The Greek Nitron Rifle

    No. Ever seen a steam rifle? The pressures available do not allow for practical use of a projectile.
  17. Fire from Water: The Greek Nitron Rifle

    Welcome to the board. The entire system you created here is impossible, for all the reasons already noted. There are a huge number of ways to get a Timeline to diverge, but it has to proceed from a reasonable starting point. As a hint: If somebody in the West didn't try, at some point, to...
  18. Your region in Dies the Fire?

    The question is, will you die of hunger or thirst 1st. You need to be far enough away from a major population center that, if you are in the 5% who are smart & tough enough to survive, the 5% isn't still too many people for the local land to handle. In the case of a metroplex, that number is...
  19. Frank Miller's 300

    Let's hear it for our education system! :eek: :mad: :eek:
  20. Hitler won war -> the consequences?

    This is far too late for the Reich to have a prayer. By mid-1944, the only question left was exactly how long it would take for the USSR to reach Berlin. D-Day fails and you wind up with more of Post War Europe under Soviet domination, but the Nazi's are done. The last chance for Nazi victory...
Top