Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread
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Shanxi and Hebei is an unusual grouping to begin with, since they're separated by mountains with only a few passes, while Hebei has a river connection to Henan and Shandong has no mountains in the way. The really outrageous thing is the way it awkwardly slices through Inner Mongolia.
The whole unit is a bit like Libya annexing Sudan and Algeria.
The original plan for the Golden Gate Bridge was to paint it with a dazzle pattern, similar to what used on ships during World War I, as a way to make it more apparent in the bay's fog. This bumblebee pattern is just one option; another was to paint it like a candy cane. Then it was found that bright orange stood out much better, and so the bridge was painted the color we know.
Thank you for the explanation. So as if I yeeted Nevada (sans Vegas), Utah, Colorado, Oregon and Washington into the same administrative unit?
I actually learned about this from a novel called All the Light we Cannot aseeSince we seem to be on a Nazi kick right now, may I add the Fuhrermuseum?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Führermuseum
Here we have the oft-overlooked military plan Operation Pike, whose goal was to destroy the Soviet oil industry.
After the division of Poland and the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the UK and France began looking for a way to destroy or at least weaken the USSR's economy. Noticing Germany's reliance on Soviet oil imports, they began looking into the possibility of hitting the oil refineries of the Caucasus, particularly Baku, where 90% of oil extraction and 80% of refinement took place. The goal would be crippling two countries for the price of one.
Serious planning began after the Winter War, with aerial reconnaissance and the movement of bombers to the Middle east. The French were more gung-ho about the operation, but the British were a lot more cautious. There were fears that the bombing run might lead to a German-Russian alliance against Western europe. Unfortunately, after Nazi Germany invaded France, the plans were discovered. However, after Operation Barbarossa, the plan was revived as a possibility to deny the Nazis access to oil fields.
But either way, with around 100 bombers only capable of carrying half a ton of bombs each, low payload and poor accuracy, it was extremely unlikely that they would've had a huge success on bombing the oil facilities. Not to mention, if the plan had actually succeeded and were carried out during Barbarossa, Russia would have suffered far more of the impact and it actually may have weakened the country at a time when a massive bulwark was desperately needed. Whether or not that would actually be the catalyst for a Nazi victory is open to debate.
I find in some old, 1920s newspaper note about some plan or idea of Alexandre Ribot to unite Austria with Poland and Yugoslavia (before or during ww1 I guess)... do you know something about that?
(and theres quick-map how maybe could... or couldn´t? such state looks...)
(and theres quick-map how maybe could... or couldn´t? such state looks...)
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Can't remember if I've shown this here before, but here's Al-Quaeda's planned super-caliphate. It's interesting how it compares to ISIL's map.
Well, um, it's ambitious. Although, I'm not sure why it has left out Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Also, it looks like an EUIV achievement.
Can't remember if I've shown this here before, but here's Al-Quaeda's planned super-caliphate. It's interesting how it compares to ISIL's map.
“Yeah, the whole Horn of Africa, we need that too.... except Djibouti. I don’t want Djibouti.”
"Also, we need to excavate the entire coast of Senegal, but not the Gambia."
"We need Xinjiang as well. Except Kumul. Also screw the Hui."
“All of Spain. Except the Pyrenees, Galicia, and the Basque, nobody cares about those little shits”
Why would you add staunchly Buddhist Burma and Thailand and not add Kyrgyzia and Kazaxtan?
Can't remember if I've shown this here before, but here's Al-Quaeda's planned super-caliphate. It's interesting how it compares to ISIL's map.
