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  1. World War III in 1989, with a POD in 1962

    The Soviets had an advantage in Strategic Intel, based on their penetration agents, not on tactical, on the fly, information. NATO, with it's more effective technological elements (J-Star, SR-71, AWACS, Ferrets, other EW & ECM, etc.) would have dominated the tactical knowledge field. It also...
  2. The Turbulent Rage of the Winds and Waves

    If Japan changed its outlook regarding the Pacific & concentrated on the Asian Mainland (and this assumes that they can accept a possible threat to any number of their resource requirements) there is really no cause belli for combat with the U.S. The situation then would be similar to that...
  3. Alternate Aircraft Carrier name... If Gerald Ford dies a few years earlier...

    Moi? Hmmm... Possibility exists. Never Mind:p
  4. World War III in 1989, with a POD in 1962

    The Soviet economy was doomed from the get. The real issue, however, is the Quality Control problems. The Five-Year Plans & their insane goals & quotas forced everyone to cut corners & lie about pretty much everything. The massive amount of corruption (agains something that really only came to...
  5. Alternate Aircraft Carrier name... If Gerald Ford dies a few years earlier...

    Personally, I can't wait until the have to name a carrier after Clinton.:D
  6. World War III in 1989, with a POD in 1962

    1989 is way too late for this war. Ivan was too far gone by then. By '89 NATO would have stuffed the Red Army before it got out of the Gap. The U.S had the F-117 in squadron service, the M1A1 had fully supplanted the original M1, and the precision weapons revolution is fully underway. The VPO...
  7. The Turbulent Rage of the Winds and Waves

    The IJA was utterly outclassed by the Red Army. A reasonable arguement can be made that the IJA never did really figure out combined arms operations. Japan/China vs. even a fragment of the Red Army = USSR victory. Ivan might have had a lot of flaws, but ground combat against light infantry was...
  8. Alternate Aircraft Carrier name... If Gerald Ford dies a few years earlier...

    Not really. The statement is a generalization and a pile of BS. Question stands.
  9. Alternate Aircraft Carrier name... If Gerald Ford dies a few years earlier...

    Really? Invariably? Got any stats to back that statement up?
  10. The Turbulent Rage of the Winds and Waves

    I have to stress the inevitability of the U.S./Japanese conflict, assuming no radical change in Japan's outlook, far beyond any so far described. There was no way for the U.S & Imperial Japan to peacefully coexist. Both nations required, as a minimal strategic position, control over at least 2/3...
  11. The Turbulent Rage of the Winds and Waves

    Why would the U.S effectively BUY peace with Japan? The math is all on the American side. IT is important to remember WHY the embargo was enacted in the first place, namely to force the Japanese to return to Status Quo Ante. The TL, as written to date, seems to allow the Japanese to keep...
  12. Does this prevent WW2?

    Nope. War was already well underway. Just ask the Japanese, Czechs, Chinese...
  13. Non ASB... AH Challenge... General Norm Schwartzkof topples Presidency by Junta?

    Well, the only chance of this happening has been taken off the table, namely ASB. Perhaps the President put too many inane polls up on a bulletin board & the American people demanded action? Either that, or the president spent so much time worrying about what wouild happen if some singer or...
  14. What if the V-3 Supergun was not destroyed by the Allies before it could be used?

    300 rounds an HOUR = 5 Rounds a minute = one shell every 12 seconds. Uh-huh. I call bullshit. Exactly who was making the cartridge casing. The only way to maintain that rate of fire with a cannon possessing the barrel lengh of the V-3 would be centerfire ammunition (similar to what the...
  15. Do you think the US today could of won the War in Vietnam

    Wouldn't we first need to figure out what the hell winning there meant? We DID win every battle over platoon size (at least in the sense of holding the field at the conclusion) and normally won decisively but we still were perceived to have lost (Khe Shan is a perfect example of this, a battle...
  16. 28 days later question- would Britain be abandoned/disbanded?

    Not in the U.S. Not sure about Canada. It isn't really clear if the infected from this scenario are vunerable to poison gas. If they are, bug spray them. I mean that literally, a high concentration of pesticide will do away with them very nicely. Darkest@ Silenced Weapons are NOT silent. The...
  17. How diffrent would the Falklands Conflict been.....

    Unless they had purchases Sea Harriers, the Argentines did have as modern of fighters/bombers as could operate off the Veinticinco De Mayo. The United States never sold the A-6 to anyone, and the carrier was not equipped to handle Phantoms. They could have operated A-7 Corsair II's instead of...
  18. Reduction of France's EEZ

    I just realized I posted here twice without answering your post!:o The easiest way would be independence for their Island territories in the Pacific and/or Indian Oceans. These account for virtually all of France's huge EEZ (since much of France proper has other nation states within 200 miles...
  19. Reduction of France's EEZ

    The Zone's are much larger. Terrirorial waters are either 3 or 12 miles (depending on the time period we are discussing) while EEZ's are generally 200 nautical miles (with some countries trying to claim even larger zones.
  20. WI in the early 80's the US had sold the UK a Carrier

    Just a correction - The Essex Class was fully capable of operating Jets. Both the Sky Hawk & Phantom operated off them for years. I do not believe that they were ever F-14 certified. The British had several squadrons of Phantoms at the time posited, I do not know if they were USN or USAF speced...
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