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  1. Watershed Borders as National Frontiers

    This reminds me a bit of an old book called the Nine Nations of North America. These borders make a lot more sense than the ones in that book. I appear to still be in the most liberal part of North America. That isn't all bad, I get to feel like a conservative but actually be compassionate...
  2. Nuke DC! What next?

    I would expect that the whole Virginia/Maryland area would be a bit discombobulated if D.C. got nuked. My vote is for the Denver area. Central location, lots of Regional Federal offices in place, close to NORAD (just in case the nukes fall again). BTW: Shouldn't we worry about who blew the...
  3. India and Pakistan: Nuclear war!

    Actually the BIG question is if the conflict would stay limited to just India & Pakistan. Most all of the Doomsday scenarios indicate that once the nukes start to fly, things tend to go to hell in a handbasket quite quickly.
  4. Somewhat ASB-ish: Angloes give French respect they deserve

    Very true. Not a shining moment.
  5. John Edgar Hoover launches a coup and takes power

    Lets just say he was conflicted.:D
  6. Somewhat ASB-ish: Angloes give French respect they deserve

    Wow. They did that with Napa Valley wines as well. Remember the Rainbow Warrior was sunk by a rouge element of France's intelligence community working outside of normal channels (ya, right).:p
  7. Map Challange: Japan Advance in WW2

    The Red Army disappears in a bright flash of light. Every firearm in China, except those in Japanese hands, disappears in the same flash of light. The British, Americans... Aw hell, even then it is impossible. ASB all the way. I played a video game and totally destroyed the Soviet Fleet...
  8. Somewhat ASB-ish: Angloes give French respect they deserve

    I would venture to say that the vast majority of Americans who know who Blair is respect him. I would also venture to say that 80% of the U.S. population has no idea who he is. Knowledge of other countries, especially their politics, is rather pitiful amongst my fellow citizens.
  9. Ashes of Camelot

    First off, welcome. Just a few points. No way that the Inauguration takes place behind closed door. No way that the President doesn't have to appear before the public. Just not the way things work. Chine hasn't a prayer of putting enough forces onto Taiwan to take the Island today. In...
  10. Somewhat ASB-ish: Angloes give French respect they deserve

    Okay. Did the Czechs munitions kill more allies than Germans? Yes. Did the Czechs still sabotage as much as they could? Yes. Do the Czechs like cheese? I'll take your word for it. My Grandma never seemed to use the stuff. The French had the advantage of seeing what had happened to the...
  11. Somewhat ASB-ish: Angloes give French respect they deserve

    I believe that I specified the High Command. Their actions were stupid to the point of criminality. Better tanks, more tanks, internal lines of communication, the lessons from Poland, etc. and they STILL managed to lose the war in under two months. As I say, I can go to a shopping mall and find...
  12. John Edgar Hoover launches a coup and takes power

    Cross-dressers vs. everyone else?:p Doesn't have quite the same zing as North vs. South.:D
  13. Somewhat ASB-ish: Angloes give French respect they deserve

    Not much actually. I will say that I could get five people off the street in any major world city that could have outperformed the French High Command I do not. It should not be a surprise that others, including the Americans, find them to be somewhat grating. Helping either country at...
  14. John Edgar Hoover launches a coup and takes power

    J Edgar Hoover? Yea, that would happen! Maybe that P.O.S. McArthur, he seemed to want to be King of someplace. Not Hoover. It would have cut back on his dress modeling time.:D
  15. Somewhat ASB-ish: Angloes give French respect they deserve

    A) Thanks for the correction. B) Okay. (I apoligze to those who will be offended by the vulgarity of the rest of this response) Your response is total bullshit. The British only got their asses in a crack with the Nazi's when the helped the French Army in 1940. Once on the continent the...
  16. Somewhat ASB-ish: Angloes give French respect they deserve

    Bolvine excrement. Are we talking about the same media that embraced one of the stupidest theories of the last half century? That the UNITED STATES committed the 9/11 attacks against itself. Is the U.S. media biased? Of course, as often as not AGAINST American policy. Is the European...
  17. Somewhat ASB-ish: Angloes give French respect they deserve

    Ummm.... The United States? The Canadians? The British? You know, the guys who losts tens of thousands of troops liberating Europe (including Vichy France). I'm sure you heard about it, it was in all the Papers.
  18. The Khuzestan gambit

    Actually it's a bit larger than Alaska.
  19. The Khuzestan gambit

    A war with Iran presents a series of challenges to the attacker. 1. Iran is BIG, roughly the size of the "lower 48" U.S. states (1,648,000 sq. km.) 2. Iran has actual terrain features. Unlike Iraq, which is mostly flat desert, Iran had a great deal of mountainous terrain. 3. Iran has...
  20. The War of Mexican Intervention? (~1995)

    Interesting technical update. Remember the old saw: In the battle between armor & warhead, in the long run warhead always wins.
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