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  1. So how would a timeline with the following events play out?

    The Trident subs go hot and go full countervalue, plastering most of Russia’s urban areas - and also any Russian submarines that happen to be in port. Simultaneously, any Russia submarines with tails are immediately sunk.

  2. Mr Clinton Goes To War (Taiwan Strait War 1996)

    The battleships aren't coming back. The US Navy isn't going to be able to find the 8000-odd personnel to man them, and while they could haul Wichita-class oilers out of the reserve fleet to keep them topped up, that just exacerbates the manpower problems. All these for ships that need to be...

  3. USSR Backs Iraq

    Agreed. The US would shrug, keep coalition-building, and go in anyway. A big reason the Gulf War was so successful, particularly politically, was because the US spent the time and effort to get half the planet, and crucially most of Iraq’s neighbors, on board. The USSR’s veto doesn’t really...

  4. WI: A return to the ‘treaty system’ post WW2

    I’m sorry, but even allowing for the premise I genuinely don’t see how this would work. The US knows it’s in a dominant position and won’t want to give it up; you’re liable to see a Revolt of the Admirals two years early. The Brits will want to kill submarines and won’t care about surface ship...

  5. Mr Clinton Goes To War (Taiwan Strait War 1996)

    Mexico is probably going to get even more business, especially with NAFTA recently going into effect. I tend to agree Southeast Asia in aggregate is going to get a lot of business, and assuming this war doesn’t butterfly the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 it’s likely Indonesia and Thailand in...

  6. Prevent NATO Expansion, and Keep Eastern Europe Tied to Russia

    And, of course, East Germany “joined NATO” by means of ceasing to exist and becoming part of a United Germany that inherited a NATO spot from West Germany.

  7. Prevent NATO Expansion, and Keep Eastern Europe Tied to Russia

    Which is why the Warsaw Pact states didn’t take the first opportunity to bolt from Soviet Domination, even before the Soviet Union collapsed, and why the Soviets didn’t have to militarily intervene multiple times to keep their satellite states in line and crush popular uprisings. Oh, no, wait...

  8. WI the Rolling Stones broke up in the 1980s?

    Honestly, probably not much. To be blunt, by the early 80s the Stones were past their prime as a band. As popular as they were, their time as influencers was over. Start Me Up is the only one of their hits from this era to remain in the popular consciousness and even it doesn't have a whole lot...

  9. Californie- French California

    Alas, poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the United States.

  10. How did the Union Army Compare to its European Counterparts in 1865?

    I'm going to echo what others have said about seapower: the Union navy isn't a match for the larger naval powers on the high seas, but I'd like to add the caveat that that was because it wasn't built to. The Union Navy was a coastal force designed to conduct close blockade and assault fortified...

  11. WI: No WWII, no massive increase in military spending, what happens to the USA?

    The Japanese would prefer to escalate straight to war in that situation, and the US happy to oblige them. Most likely you would see the kind of slow boil that led to war IOTL.

  12. Entente holds in Summer 1940: Impacts on US rearmament, foreign policy, Anglo-French exchanges

    Probably, though I’m not certain.

  13. Entente holds in Summer 1940: Impacts on US rearmament, foreign policy, Anglo-French exchanges

    The big deficit by 1941 is artillery ammunition. Unfortunately, I’ve never been able to find again where I read this, but the Germans were cruising for a collapse in artillery ammo production that year due to a lack of vital material inputs, a fate they only avoided IOTL by looting France.

  14. WI: No WWII, no massive increase in military spending, what happens to the USA?

    I couldn’t say with any certainty. These things are hard to predict. Oh, and that Asian Tiger thing definitely wouldn’t happen, not least because three of the four are run by the Japanese as colonies.

  15. WI: No WWII, no massive increase in military spending, what happens to the USA?

    I doubt it. Japanese industry was not up to the task; even in their domestic market they were getting outcompeted by Europe, let alone the US, in sectors such as shipbuilding, where despite massive government investment Japanese shipping lines still preferred to import. Even postwar, with all...

  16. Entente holds in Summer 1940: Impacts on US rearmament, foreign policy, Anglo-French exchanges

    This is completely incorrect. Congress in June 1940 passed a modest 11% increase in the US Navy. A few days later the Fall of France happened. A few days after CNO Harold Stark marched into Congress and requested the ships of the Two-Ocean Navy Act. The next day, the House of Representatives...

  17. Alternate warships of nations

    It could probably be done, yes, though that specific armament fit is probably not possible.

  18. Sea Lion ….. No Really

    Because that worked so well for France in the 19th century… Bluntly, the only country that can contribute anything to a Sealion strategy, of the countries listed, is Italy. The majority of the French fleet is trapped overseas where it can be bottled up, French industry is little help given the...

  19. Could Airships have helped Britain in WW2 to deal with U-Boats?

    The N-class use the R-1300, which is just a single-row R-2600. Well within the reach of period designers. Nah, this is just a case of there being other solutions at the time and no time to put out a new design. Ideally, in this scenario the Brits would have a few ready to go prewar and can...

  20. Could Airships have helped Britain in WW2 to deal with U-Boats?

    https://lynceans.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Goodyear_N-class-blimps-converted-compressed.pdf In this source you can see an N-class blimp making a round trip across the Atlantic. This is a postwar design but I don’t think there’s any technical reason a similar design couldn’t be built during...
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