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  1. Nazi Efficiency

    It isn't the sole determing factor, but it sure helps. The real key is leadership & planning COMBINED with logistics. Again: This is what you get when you let a corporal run your army. Especially one that's crazy as a bedbug!
  2. Pre-emptive strikes all around

    Very true. One full size CBG (or 25 available Vulcans w/refueling support) and that whole unpleasantness never happens.
  3. Nazi Efficiency

    The Nazi myth of efficiency has lasted for years, mostly because it makes the Allies look better. The United States out produced the entire Axis, without even counting the USSR or the UK. Germany’s efforts have always been held up as heroic, since they made NOTHING else of note during the war...
  4. Smart weapons developed earlier

    The U.S. had Smart weapons as early as Vietnam. TV guided bombs were used to drop the rail & road bridges connection N. Vietnam & the PRC during the Christmas bombing offensive. They had been available earlier, but were considered to be too secret to use in the 'Nam. In 1981 U.S. naval air...
  5. Passing on through History

    Why not? Their Supreme Leader is a Ayatollah. Your civilian government is subservient to a religious council, sounds like a theocracy to me. Nothing like religious fanitics with WMD's.:eek: If we are VERY lucky, Iraq becomes Iran light (All the Allah, half the crazies) and Afganistan...
  6. Passing on through History

    Serbia goes to WAR with NATO (this time for REAL)? Has their ass started to sag down from their shoulder blades where it got kicked last time? Slovenia goes to WAR with a FELLOW NATO member? Seems fairly unlikely. Croatia goes to WAR with NATO? Somebody decide that they have been...
  7. Passing on through History

    There will be a Presidential election in the U.S. The election will be a pivot point in America's direction. Will the nation become even more divided along Red State/Blue State lines or will a more moderate "big tent" cantidate bring the nation back toward the center? The Beijing Olympics...
  8. Two term limit unconstitutional?

    Hmmm... Ronald Reagan would have died in office, just before completing his 6th term? Maybe not. He may have been forced to leave office when he got sick, so make that 4 terms. Bill Clinton would still be president today, outrunning whatever current scandal was dogging his heels, a prohibitive...
  9. American Revolution

    Actually there is a thread on Presidential term limits on the board right now. To answer the question - You can repeal the 22nd amendment and allow more terms, but it would be virtually impossible to do it before the 2008 elections. (thankfully!) As far as the future... Given the quality of...
  10. regan dies from assasination, john lennon lives.

    At least Moore can spell! He can also lie better than any non politician I have ever heard about! :eek:
  11. Two term limit unconstitutional?

    Bill Clinton can NOT become Vice President. To quote the last line of the 12th Amendment "...But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." Since the 22th Amendment is still in effect Bill is out of...
  12. Two term limit unconstitutional?

    You have a point, from a certain philosophical position. However, please note that the Founders also knew that the world would change over the generations. This was the genius of the Founders; understanding that they were writing a document that would bind together a nation for centuries to...
  13. Better Allied Medium Tank in 1944

    Will the best medium tank in the world make a strategic difference? I mean lets give the Western allies M-46's & M-48's, Centurions? Hell, let's go with M-60's. Will these make any real STRATEGIC difference? Will they make the logistics any easier? Will the fuel crisis go away? Will it be...
  14. Pre-emptive strikes all around

    Well, in that case, I would say that everything I have there stands as-is, including the Archduke. The FBI had plenty of warnings, from their own field agents, about the 9/11 hijackers being up to something. Rwanda was a slaughter waiting to happen, the evidence was fairly easy to see...
  15. WWI: A unoticed blip in history

    Actually I am on a first bark basis with quite a few. :D The 1914 Crisis was incredibly easy to avoid. The system had a huge number of checks built into it, that was why there had been no general European War since 1815. The Kaiser was the key. He, quite stupidly (IMHO), was itching for a...
  16. Two term limit unconstitutional?

    Actually they can. They just can not receive the Electoral College votes from their joint home state. Besides, Bill could just move to Jersey. Given his wide taste in int.., er, women, he wouldn't be too upset with the change.
  17. Passing on through History

    Well, thank you. I only spend that much back & forth with someone who has a differing viewpoint and is willing & able to defend it. My real problem was the whole POTUS thing. I was glad to see you start the Tsar thread. :) BTW: I AM right about the whole socialism thing!:D
  18. Pre-emptive strikes all around

    How far back do we go? The FBI making 15 arrests on September 10, 2001? French & U.S. paras sitting in Rwanda in 1994? A B-52 strike on the lead elements of the Iraqi Army on the way to the Kuwaiti border in August 1990? Israel repeating the 1967 preempt in 1973? The U.S. invading...
  19. regan dies from assasination, john lennon lives.

    The build-up did start well before 1980. However, it was the unveiling of Stealth & Brilliant weapons in the early-mid 80's that exposed the USSR's massive spending on Air Defense as a total waste (of course the German kid who landed his puddle jumper in Red Square helped!). To attempt to...
  20. Passing on through History

    Okay. I seem to have become the Scourge of God. Sorry about that. I will try to be gentle. No, really!:D Things that make me go Hmmm.... How did mobs manage to gather in Tel Aviv without being broken up by the IDF & the local population of Jewish Israelis? Are you aware that many, if...
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