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  1. More Improvised Airforces?

    The Carribean is one of the most closely monitored airspaces on Earth. It makes the Cold War era inter-German border look like the Northern reaches of the Alaska/Canada frontier by comparison. The U.S. maintains not just round the clock AWACS coverage, Coast Guard, DEA & Customs Service (ICE)...
  2. Time for the Semiannual Sealion Smackdown!

    Oh. I thought those were curb feelers.:p
  3. Time for the Semiannual Sealion Smackdown!

    Might help if the Luftwaffe had anything beyond blind luck in its inventory capable of sinking a capital ship. The British had quite a few. ONE BB or BC, even a refugee from the breakers' yard, would have been enough to ruin the invasion. That being said, even a capital ship isn't really...
  4. Time for the Semiannual Sealion Smackdown!

    BAD Posleen! Bad! No cookie for YOU! :p
  5. More Improvised Airforces?

    The Tigers get away with it because the legitimate government of Sri Lanka is so weak. Aircraft are tied to airfields, even if they are grass strips, and in most insurgencies the insurgents face forces with radar. As an example, can you imagine the Basques, IRA, PLO or Iraqi insurgents pulling...
  6. Ok, no Israel- now what?

    Awesome???? WTF????:eek:
  7. what should have happend if the american revulution succided.

    I asked that in his other thread.
  8. Japanes invasion of USA and Australia

    That was exactly my point.:D
  9. Japanes invasion of USA and Australia

    ZERO Zilch The square root of -1 Japan lacked the sufficient ground forces to make any sort of meaningful invasion of a continental land mass (especially the U.S.), requiste amphibious lift, the ability to commit sufficient naval forces to cover such an attack, sufficient naval aircraft to...
  10. Ok, no Israel- now what?

    Assuming the British Mandate still expired as IOTL, Palestine WOULD have been part of Transjordan (with Gaza, IIRC, part of Egypt). There was never, to my knowledge, any plan to CREATE a state called Palestine.
  11. Ok, no Israel- now what?

    Almost certainly correct. Given the circumstances I could see half of the people who went to Palestine IOTL coming to the U.S. You would also likely see a decent number still emigrate to what would be either the British Mandate, or more likely, Transjordan. The was a sizable Jewish population...
  12. What if asians where considered white?

    Logic? Yea, racists worry about that.:rolleyes: I'm 1/2 blue eyed Czech & 1/2 (more or less) blue eyed Irish. In other words, I'm so white I'm almost clear. :D When my parents were engaged a lady from Church asked ny Grandmother what nationality my Dad was. When she heard he was Czech she...
  13. Paris Burns

    Darkest, have you totally flipped out? The Holocaust KILLED 6,000,000 Jews and an additional 500,000-1,000,000 other HUMAN BEINGS just because they pissed them off by existing. (I might add that, had they been a significant presence, this number would undoubtedly have included every member of...
  14. Less reasonable christianity?

    LESS reasonable than the Roman Church was from c 1000 - 1600?:eek: How the hell cound you do that? They killed everyone they could lay hands on who failed to worship as they thought God's Will demanded. The Popes of the 13th -16th Centuries make today's radical Islamists look like Cub Scouts...
  15. Plausibility Check: Stalin's Human-Ape Hybrid Army

    Medically? Not a chance in the world. Completely different species, different gentics well beyond any possible "crossbreeding".
  16. The Allied Occupation of the Soviet Union

    That's a bit of an overstatement. In fact it is completely untrue. Truman was prepared to ask Congress for the authority to take control of the Rail roads AND, if necessary, draft the strikers into the military. The simple threat was sufficient. He also took the United Mine Workers to...
  17. What if Stalin got the bomb first?

    Thank you. Saved me a long ranting post!:p
  18. 9/11 agianst the soviets.

    A West German teenager flew FROM the BRD in a Cesnna and LANDED in Red Square. The chance of PVO shooting down a Areoflot flight that has just taken off from Moscow are just about Zero. On the other hand I seriously doubt that 20 Islamic hijackers would be able to get onto the planes under the...
  19. NATO having standardized equipment?

    Possible? Sure. Likely? No. It's easy for some things. Ammo, radio receivers, and the like are simple and are in place. The big ticket items are a different matter. Tanks are, amongst other things, an BIG ticket export item. The U.S., British, German, and to a lesser degree French all market...
  20. Greatest Generals of the 19th Century

    On the other hand, there is that whole KKK thing. He said he wasn't a member, but he also said he could gather 40,000 Klansmen if he was asked. Then there is the Fort Pillow issue. Still very much an open question.
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