6) - Authorial fiat.
Basically this, and he just hit the ground running with it.
A) - Stuart had only a very cursory and limited knowledge of non weapon related history, not even wikipedia level of knowledge. If the story was posted here he will be full of comment about the mistake and implausibility in less than 5 seconds, but in 10 Calbear will ban him due to his aversion to admit to have done any mistake and being very vocal about it. Probably this is one of the reason why he had a low opinion of this forum.
I think there's lots of former posters who dislike that they're opinions were disagreed with and so had to lash out in a way that ended up with them criticizing this site for enforcing civility.
B) - Can't keep separate his political idea from the story...but there is also the big suspect that's in reality he is just panpering the audience.
Yeah the story waxes anvilicious at times when he tries to grind his ideas home despite a lack of realism.
C) - his writing style is very boring.
This I would disagree with. It's a very gearhead style probably suited more to Calbear's AANW style narrative (I mean I couldn't for the life of me name who any of Slade's non-historical characters are) which charts things from an operational/technical perspective. His battle scenes can be exciting when you look at them from the meta of weapons going off (in true David Weber fashion) but can bog down in the minutia as we see "X weapon system used Y technical specification to produce Z result against A type of enemy gun emplacement firing B type of ammunition at C range against F style terrain" which can become boring. It can be done effectively, and by admittance I've read some of his work where it is. It's hard to do right though.
- No Chipang (Japan while conquering China become sinizated in a couple of years...yes i suspect that Slade had not read a single book about that period), please; at max a resurgent Imperial China that take control of the Japanese Island and create her own Sphere of Co-prosperity
Definitely. This needed to be excised. It would be far more interesting for a struggling Japanese Co-Prosperity Sphere to slug on into the 60s-70s then have the geopolitical consequences of that pan out.
- No randomid caliphate, better a nasserite-like Arab Union
That was simply the most ridiculous thing ever put to paper outside a Tom Kratman book.
- If the war ended some years after OTL and after the attack there has been a multi-years effort to destroy any German remnants in Russia/east Europe...thing are pretty much changed from the ethnic pow.
Eh that's why the Big One is flawed even in conception. High probability of operational failure from simple logistics and maintenance issues, followed by a vulnerability to improved German AA and interceptors would mean it would be less than effective. Not to mention the German field armies then simply entrench in Eastern Europe and you haven't even solved the problem of occupied Europe as the surviving Nazis rape the occupied territories to rebuild, and now you don't have a coherent plan to finish them off...
- Yes i undestand Slade that for keep America in his eternal 50's the rest of the world need to be nerfed and no credible menace must rise...but is ridicolous and more try to keep it in this manner and more credibility go down the flush.
Nothing to add to this.