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  1. I want to thank everyone for their help

    You know, I'm not sure what concerns me the most; TMOT's sincerity about going back & saving Kaiser or his almost nonchalant belief in moving across the timeline. If I wake up tomorrow & find a Studebaker pick-up in the driveway, at least I'll know who to blame (thank?)!
  2. Japan aquires nuclear weapons

    RIIIGHT. :p
  3. Soviet Invasion of Iran 1979

    Actually it isn't. The U.S. would have been faced with the choice of abandoning it's largest, if not most powerful, ally in the Persian Gulf & giving it's (at the time) mortal enemy control over the life blood of the Western economies or trying to stop the USSR. Fail to make the attempt hands...
  4. Soviet Invasion of Iran 1979

    Afganistan was in the dumper well before Ivan arrived. No way in the world that U.S. allows the USSR access to a warm water port, much less one in the PERSIAN GULF!:eek: Even Carter would have gone nuts on that one. The Shah was an American ally, using American equipment, against the still...
  5. Japan aquires nuclear weapons

    Since Japanese LAW forbids offensive weapons (the whole Peace Constitution thingie) the entire cabal that developed the weapon gets tossed into the slammer.:eek: Then the weapons are dismantled and turned over to either the UN or the U.S. If the Constitution gets changed so the weapons are...
  6. Raid on a Nimitz

    How in the world would a non-carrier based plane LAND on a carrier? You might be able to get a SMALL light plane (Cessna) down if you managed to stall right as you crossed the threshold (I think I saw a bad TV movie where a teenager had to do this), but anything bigger? No chance. Need that tail...
  7. Doug MacArthur gets way in 1951, Korean War goes nuclear

    No. They kept talking about building one, but they never did. First Soviet carrier was the Kiev in the 1970's, and she was more of a missile cruiser. The Kunestov was the only real carrier the Soviets/Russians ever completed.
  8. Doug MacArthur gets way in 1951, Korean War goes nuclear

    Like it had been during WW II. Coastal defense force with lots of short legged subs & a few U-boats taken as war booty, based almost exclusively in the Baltic & Black Sea, around Murmansk, and Vladivostok. No legs, no logistical base, no modern major surface combattants worth the title (some OLD...
  9. Doug MacArthur gets way in 1951, Korean War goes nuclear

    One problem that seems to be cropping up here is that modern feeling are being overlayed onto the early 50's. This was likely the LEAST anti-American period in history. Uncle Sam had just helped to save the world. Japan had gotten nuked, and to the general appause of the world. The whole "No...
  10. 1916 - 1952; The War to End All Wars

    Realistically, the 19th - 20th Century exceeded your requirements. The World War started in 1898 with the U.S./Spanish conflict and ended with the fall of the USSR in 1989. The entire century was about the end of colonialism and the wars that were necessary to achieve it. WW I & WW II are as...
  11. Raid on a Nimitz

    I didn't know that the Norwegian's operated Guided Missile diesel boats. I knew that they has a solid SSk force that was a significant part of the NATO Northern Tier Order of Battle. When did they aquire the Missile boats & from who? (As far as I know only Russia, & the U.S. have SSGN's & the...
  12. Raid on a Nimitz

    The entire scenario is silly. If you have a REALLY good sub driver, with a really well worked up boat & crew, you might get inside the carrier's screen (I understand that Ivan did it a time or two, back in the day) and be able to do some damage, MAYBE even sink her, although that would be a...
  13. Who saw "Amerika"?

    Get PAST it for Christ's sake! Gore didn't CARRY HIS HOME STATE! If he had he would have been POTUS. Gore was running as a quasi-incumbent with the strongest economy in recent history as his legacy & HE BLEW IT.:eek: Unfortunate? Yes! Incredibly incompentent? Hell Yes! But it happened...
  14. Which civilization is the greatest?

    Define greatest. Does that mean longest lasting? If so, results are not yet in. Strongest in the military sense? Most innovative? Most populous? Largest in land area? Define civilization. Is it places with cities? Places with writing? Places with fire? Places with...
  15. Why I really came here. Please help.

    The failure of ALL american car companies, save, perhaps, GM & Ford's truck division. Six companies mean that they ALL have less market share & resultant smaller cash reserves to fall back on as the foreign makes advance into the American market post Oil Embargo. 1973 Oil shock hits: Packard...
  16. Earlier Coffee

    You also need to remember that coffee was the first stimulant introduced into Europe that didn't eventually turn into a downer. When you combined it with tobacco, which got to Europe at roughly the same time, you would up with a, well, energized, population.:D
  17. Why I really came here. Please help.

    I would suggest that you find a way to keep the Big Three viable in 2006 first. American automobile companies are, without question, the worse run businesses on Earth. Their inability to innovate over the last 40 years, their failure to see beyond the immediate bottom line, and their...
  18. Alternate India

    ASB's arrange it so India is not discovered by outsiders. The same ASB's create a single state in the sub-continent that is powerful enough to subvert most of the other kingdoms and conquer the ones that won't be subverted. Are my points like miles?
  19. New world remains Free world.

    Zero. Zilch. Nada. Age of Discovery explorers looking for an easier path to the Indian Ocean by going West will run into the Americas no matter what course they set. Discovery = colonization.
  20. Europe without'Europeans'

    No evolution? ASB? Overlooking the disturbingly racist overtones of this question... "Europeans" are light skinned as it increases vitamin D absorbtion. If you look at "race", based on skin color you will generally find that the shade of brown of the pre-historical populations lightens as...
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