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  1. Is a Late CP Victory Possible?

    That's another of these 'hope' questions; not taking your own course of action that you can rely on in the hope that someone else who can't be relied on will do something for you. Maybe Italy would have joined in that case, but what happens if they don't or join too late? Germany has given up...

  2. Cold War NATO navies.

    The path Britain chose IOTL was vastly expensive, and gave worse results. By 1965 Britain had the airgroups to equip CVA01 & 02 on order and in production and had ordered the long lead items for CVA01 which was estimated to cost 66 million in May 1965 and 70 million in January 1966. HMS Eagle...

  3. Cold War NATO navies.

    In 1973 between 9 and 30 October the US sealifted 33,000 tons of materiel to Israel, the Soviets sealifted 63,000 tons to Egypt and Syria in a similar timeframe. Additionally some 22,000 of material was airlifted and some 100 F4 and 36 A4 were supplied to Israel between 9 and 24 October. I...

  4. Cold War Canada Wank?

    Canada is not alone in hollowing out it's military, Australia did it in the decades after Vietnam with ships fitted 'for but not with' equipment and Regular Army formations manned at 70% and even down to 50% of established strength and Reserves usually at 35%. However Canada appeared to make...

  5. Is a Late CP Victory Possible?

    Italy and Germany had an agreement where an Italian army would deploy to the French-German border and replace the German 6th Army so it could be transferred to the right wing. IIUC it was supposed to arrive at M+20. In the event the Italians didn't join the war on the German side from the...

  6. Cold War NATO navies.

    To clarify, I'm not thinking of WW2 style Atlantic Convoys with the objective of starving Britain out. Rather more along the lines of the convoys Britain fought through the Med to reinforce the 8th Army and/or Malta or more recently the the seaborne component of the 1973 resupply to Israel. I...

  7. Cold War NATO navies.

    I'd suggest that the Soviets had the resources to do all 4 of those things. If that's the case then NATO wasn't way off base with the navies they had.

  8. German victory WW1. What are the terms of the peace with Britain and France ?

    The OTL late war non-negotiable German war aims were for the Western Allies to accept their gains in the east and not erect punitive trade barriers against Germany worldwide. The German electorate wasn't overly interested in territory in the west, so that will be used as a bargaining chip to get...

  9. Cold War NATO navies.

    Yes, but in a Task Force with maybe OTL Ark Royal or ATL Eagle or CVA01 and their Phantoms and Buccaneers the Skyhawks can undertake secondary tasks that would otherwise have to be done by the Ark's more powerful aircraft which could instead be tasked with the harder, longer-ranged missions.

  10. Is a Late CP Victory Possible?

    Thanks for that. If the Army strength was to be 618,683 and Schlieffen wanted an extra 300,000 men did he want ~30 Corps? IIUC 1914 Army strength was 25 Corps, and Moltke economised on troops; by not invading Netherlands he saved 2 Corps and be besieged Antwerp with 2 Corps unlike Schlieffen...

  11. Cold War NATO navies.

    Not alone, but in a NATO context operating in a Task Force with USN or more importantly RN or MN big carriers a light carrier with a sqn of Skyhawks and Trackers would be a handy addition. IIRC in the 60s Britain called a Tactical Air Unit 2 snqs of of Fighters and 2 sqns of Buccaneers which...

  12. Cold War NATO navies.

    Were there enough NATO SSNs to do the job? Should NATO navies have invested their surface fleet money in strike forces able to go on to the offensive against the Soviet Navy and land targets? Eg Canada and Netherlands keeping their carriers for as long as possible and making them as powerful...

  13. Kriegsmarine: what if Germany managed to surpass the British Navy?

    As for the OP, building a major fleet is a task for peacetime and prior to WW1 this was unlikely to impossible for Germany for reasons others have pointed out including land border security and lack of industrial capacity. However if Germany won WW1 they might be able to have a go at it. Their...

  14. Kriegsmarine: what if Germany managed to surpass the British Navy?

    Before the war the Kaiserliche Marnie had 2 fleets (High Seas & Baltic) and 2 Naval Stations (North & Baltic Sea), by October 1914 a 3rd Naval station was formed; the MarineKorps Flanders, surprisingly enough this was in Flanders, Belgium.

  15. Is a Late CP Victory Possible?

    He could do what great generals have done for millennia, put himself at the decisive point or with the decisive arm. For Kings of history this was with the shock cavalry but for Moltke it would have been with the commanders of the right wing, travelling between HQs to see for himself and have...

  16. Cold War NATO navies.

    IIUC it was the Deltas that were the first that could operate in bastions, but certainly the older SSBNs would have served out their designed service lives. The Soviet Union was a poor country, they have to ride everything they build right to the limit. As an aside from time to time threads...

  17. Cold War NATO navies.

    It really makes the case for the RN's CVA01&02 rather than the dinky Invincible class, then again the RN should have taken the offensive strategy back in '49.

  18. Cold War NATO navies.

    So patrolling NATO ASW forces were indirectly protecting the USN/RN/French SSBNs, as well as protecting against forward deployed SSBNs?

  19. Cold War NATO navies.

    If the Soviets weren't going to interdict shipping in WW3 what was the purpose of the SSGNs and Tu22Ms? Obviously anti-carrier, but was that because carriers were seen as a strategic nuclear threat to the Soviet homeland?

  20. Cold War NATO navies.

    In 1948-49 when long term planning began again the RN was faced with a choice on how to deal with the only naval threat, the Soviet Union's large fleet of submarines. They could choose a defensive strategy of escorting convoys with ASW escorts, or an offensive strategy of strike warfare like...
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