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  1. Vietnam air war with F14s, F15s

    :D :eek: :D :eek: :D :eek: :D :eek: :D :eek: :D :eek: :D Now, you add in some Laser guided bombs and stand off weapons with Cluster bomb warheads...
  2. Discussion on Terrorism, September 11th and what could have happened

    I have to disagree. They failed to learn from the past. That makes them stupid. ATTACKING the UNITED STATES?! Worse, they did it in a manner that made the results a given. They failed to make a true dent in the American Economy, they failed to put terror into the American public. They...
  3. Discussion on Terrorism, September 11th and what could have happened

    The two NYC planes were going to kill thousands, regardless of where they hit. Manhatten is too crowded for any other result. You could even build a decent arguement that by hitting the Towers as they did, where one plane hit, which gave those in the second building and in the 1st building below...
  4. A Three Way Cold War

    Why would Germany make peace? The Reich despised the Slavs. Why would the USSR make peace? The Communists despised the Reich. The two leaders despised each other with a white hot passion. The Eastern Front was the one piece of WW II that was win or die.
  5. Invasion of United States [Can it be done?]

    EMP at that level (capable of disarming warheads in SSBM's hundreds of feet below the surface & lurking just off the Euroasian continental shelf) would create so much damage that it would destroy the attacker's electronics as well. SLBM's make any attack against the U.S., USSR/Russia, Great...
  6. Star Fleet as a proper military

    As I mentioned earlier, that was exactly the original idea. The model was the old British Navy. They would send out Frigates (mostly) on extended missions of both exploration and military patrol. Captains of such vessels WERE the Empire, out of contact, often for months, they called their own...
  7. Which was the better rifle, the Mauser M-1898 or the Lee-Enfield Mk. III?

    I agree with Tony (disagreeing with him on small arms would be foolish) as far as the weapon. Training, or the lack of it, would be impacted by one thing not really mentioned. Although it's subjective, I find the Enfield .303 to have a less severe recoil to the Mauser 8mm. That MIGHT be...
  8. Defcon 1

    DEFCON-1? Actual weapon release/launch? Berlin Blockade Korean War just after the Chinese intervened. Cuba The night the Soviet missile radar malfunctioned and thought the Moon was a massive missile attack (sometime in the 'early '80's). This would be a reaction to a Soviet launch...
  9. Which was the better rifle, the Mauser M-1898 or the Lee-Enfield Mk. III?

    The Enfield is easier to handle. Less recoil, shorter bolt throw, just generally a more "user-friendly" weapon IMHO. The Mauser has its advantages, being tough as hell is one of the biggest, but that doesn't outweigh the overall advantages of the Enfield.
  10. What if Bush Assasinated

    There is something to be said for having one bunch of bastards to keep an eye on instead of a couple dozen of them. That fact notwithstanding I am hugely relieved that the Cold War, and the threat of MAD, is gone (since I have one primary and at least three different secondary targets within...
  11. Three Mile Island goes up

    Having thrown my $0.02 on Ms. Fonda, let me go for a full nickel here. Three Mile Island WAS just about as bad as it could have been. Th gap between TMI and Chernobyl is wider than the gap between Pennsylvania & The Ukraine. The accidents have no relation to each other in scope or in type...
  12. Three Mile Island goes up

    So in order to consider Jane Fonda to be a traitor to the United States, a self righteous, two faced witch, whose actions caused damage to the morale of American Servicemen held in deplorable conditions and allowed herself to be willing used to advance the propaganda agenda of a brutal reigme...
  13. Montgomery Takes Berlin, 1944

    You'd have a shitload of dead British troops, a double shitload of dead American troops and a cashiered, disgraced, Montgomery (actually that last part isn't so unattractive:p ). The Germans had LOTS of defensive firepower left. Monty would not have been able to take Berlin. The fact the he...
  14. Bear and the Dragon.... 2006

    The reason for the disarmament is based on the events in the last part "The Sum of all Fears". It is, like most of Clancy's later work, a thinly veiled position paper of the author's own beliefs on the subject. In large part it was a "let's not position ourselves to kill the world" statement. It...
  15. Admiral Eisenhower?

    Not a blessed thing.:p
  16. What if Bush Assasinated

    That may be most ill-conceived post I have ever seen on this board. Not to mention being completely out of bounds.
  17. Invasion of United States [Can it be done?]

    "Near Future?" Are we talking on the Cosmic scale, where a million years is a short time frame? In that case, maybe. If we are talking regular years, not a prayer. 8,000 immediately available, deliverable, nuclear weapons vs 0. Not a promising match-up. Hundreds of long range Nuclear Capable...
  18. Admiral Eisenhower?

    Let's not forget John McCain. Very possible 2008 GOP nominee
  19. Actor Castings good and bad?

    Arnold Schwartzengger was the perfect actor for Conan. He made the Terminator his role, but he was designed to be Conan.
  20. Bear and the Dragon.... 2006

    That's a bit offsides. Would either country, as things stand at this second, tear into each other? No. But that isn't the point. If for whatever reason a conflict was begun (I have several ideas on how it could, but since one of them might turn into my next story on the Writer's Forum after i...
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