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  1. Is rationing by the US in ww2 Unnecessary or Necessary?

    Much of what the US government does is "feel good nonsense". Take the whole TSA for example. It's all security theater. But keeping the public thinking its actively helping a national effort or being protected is important. Because a panicked public is a dangerously unpredictable thing. That...

  2. US abandones Kuwait

    Saddam Hussein was a US ally as late as the mid 1980's. The US still supported Iraq unofficially until Bush 1 changed his mind in late 1989. The Iraqis invade Kuwait in August of 1990. 11 months of being an enemy isn't that long. Plenty of butterflies to explain a different US response.

  3. US abandones Kuwait

    Really? Who's buying all that Russian, Venezuelan and Iranian oil? I bet a lot of the people are on Washington's side. Why can't Saddam become Washington's guy just as easily as the Emir Sheikh Jaber al Ahmand al-Sabah? Franco was Hitler's guy until April 1945 when that job sort of suddenly...

  4. US abandones Kuwait

    Why not? Oil sold by Baghdad refines just as easily as oil sold by Kuwait City the only difference is who is cashing the check.

  5. World War I Begins in 1917?

    Is anything discredited when its dismissed by a wing of a totalitarian government? Asked the CCP if China did something bad in the past is like asking Putin's Russia if Lend-Lease was useful. 99.9% of the time you're getting party line propaganda not real analysis.

  6. If Rome got rid of slavery would it have advanced more?

    And yet Roman used large water wheel powered mills. If slavery was the reason they didn't develop steam engines shouldn't the same thing apply to water power?

  7. How accurate is the description of the Naval War in the Atlantic in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising"?

    Maybe it was the murder of the Icelandic family and the gang rape of their daughter.

  8. How accurate is the description of the Naval War in the Atlantic in Tom Clancy's "Red Storm Rising"?

    Yes. And the invasion was aided by a missile taking out the ground forces command post. It that hadn't happened the resistance might have been better.

  9. William Walker retains control of Nicaragua

    Outside of ASB intervention there is no way Walker could retain control long enough to remake the areas he controlled into anything. He was just a flash in the pan.

  10. Germany doesn't blink (an escalation of the Venuezala Crisis 1902/1903)

    At the time of this OP the US had a whole system of domestics QF guns under-development. M1902/1905 3 inch gun, range 8500 yards M1908/M1915 3.8 inch howitzer, range 6338 yards M1908 4.7 inch howitzer, range 7000 yards M1908 6 inch howitzer, range 9000 yards M1908 4.7 inch gun, range 9,000...

  11. Prepare the U.S. Military better for the Korean War Period

    With a better managed draw drown they would have the ships and men available anyway, so why not bring its property back. The OP is to better prepare the US military, that doesn't mean helping western Europe. They can make do with what their own leaders can do. It not a question of having...

  12. Germany doesn't blink (an escalation of the Venuezala Crisis 1902/1903)

    You don't really need mines. You just need land to store coal on, and an anchorage to load it from. Although, taking the island isn't the same and holding it. Especially since the Navy like Gitmo and a base at the time.

  13. Germany doesn't blink (an escalation of the Venuezala Crisis 1902/1903)

    Puerto Rico isn't a good place to blockade New England or the mid-Atlantic ports from. Those should be the busiest eastern ports at the time.

  14. Prepare the U.S. Military better for the Korean War Period

    So following the OP I assume complete control of the military as the Secretary of the Army and Navy on August 16, 1945 until September 1947 when I assume complete control of the new Department of Defense. 1. Starting in August 1945. I better manage the draw down overall. The points system is...

  15. Germany doesn't blink (an escalation of the Venuezala Crisis 1902/1903)

    If there is war, where does Germany base its blockade out of? It doesn't have any bases close to North America.

  16. How Long Could a Successful Third Reich Realistically Survive

    How long realistically can Hitler live given his health problems? That needs to be agreed to before we can even begin to guess. In my mind the big question is how the interplay between the nuts in the Nazi inner circle is the big question. Who's left in power by the time Hitler dies?

  17. I am back. I had to travel for 12 days unexpectedly and had no internet access. Sorry.

    I am back. I had to travel for 12 days unexpectedly and had no internet access. Sorry.

  18. The Domination: Why didn't the U.S. go after the Draka in WWII?

    The truth is because those places in Stirling's world only really share the same names as those place in our world. It wasn't our US or our UK facing the Draka. It was people who didn't have a problem with the Draka's government system until they realized it applied to them and that was after...

  19. AH novel in which US and other Allies go to war w/ USSR?

    Thanks for the link to your blog. Do you remember a late 1980's book about WW3 that set in post-nuclear exchange Kentucky? Its was about a National Guard unit keeping order in a small Kentucky town. I want to say the title was Fallen Angels or something like that. I think it was published under...

  20. WI: Michael Jordan is disemboweled with a katana

    This is wrong, and I don't want to think about losing the greatest basketball player of all time. Jordan's abs should deflect the sword, and he's ok. The close call causes him to refocus his life to his art. He never retires, never plays minor league baseball. He stays with the Bulls and a 2...
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