Agree in general. Raids and skirmishes are one thing, but weak transportation and a army weak in support makes them a weak threat to the Soviet Maritime, Far Eastern, Siberian, or Trans Ural districts. Neither is the Chinese Navy going to hie off and bomb Pearl Harbor, invade the Balikapan...
Am still reading on the anti Hitler conspiracy. If anyone has any recommendations for reading on this subject, or has comments I'd very much like to hear them.
Re: Molly Welsh. Working at age fourteen as a English servant girl. Accused of theft she was swiftly sentenced to transportation to one of the North America colonies. & to pay court and related costs she was Indentured. As part of this some entrepreneur purchased her Indenture papers and...
That the KMT did work with Germany during the 1920s and through 1937. One of the long term goals of the KMT was to terminate the "Unequal Treaties' & end the Concessions and other baggage. Germany had lost its enclave and colonial privileges post Great War. German businesses and other...
This derives from the multiple discussions I've seen about Japan as a Allied nation in WWII. The question/s revolve around how useful China is as a Axis supporter in WWII & the negative attention it receives (if any) from the Allies.
The PoD results in Japan not Occupying Manchuria in the...
My version of this had a PoD far back in the European dark ages or the Medival or Rennisance at the latest. The Reconquista spreads directly or indirectly to the Magreb & NW Africa in general. Either Spain confines its crusading to this region for a direct conquest. Or it gives effective...
The polygamy route was mentioned earlier. Lets assume a nation is culturally open to immigration, and allows multiple spouses. Said nation becomes well above average in prosperity, so a larger male population can afford a second bride and marriage brokers start working the global female...
All that did not help. To digress... I was looking at the course of nuclear physics research 1900 - 1942. It looks like a small jump to speed a few key steps up. That is Italy getting to a experimental reactor for power generation circa 1940.
The British were successful at amphibious/littoral/combined operations for several centuries. There was no fundamental reason they could not have made a successful effort in this case. Other than the leaders screwed it up. Among other items...
Security was bad. Information on what the...
Thats 100% correct. But, we know it is correct in hindsight. In march 1940 the Germans were running yet another map exercise at OKW HQ to test what was evolving into the sickle cut plan. A Lt Col List, a intelligence officer in the Enemy Forces West section was charged with running the...
My thoughts? One is I remember the Luftwaffe wanted the Netherlands airfields to put their bombers in practical range of England and the Channel. The bits on this I had read indicated the Luftwaffe leaders and staff had no confidence airfields nearer the Channel or London would be captured...
Yep. Their commanders on the spot were clearly not up to the task. Arrogance, indecisive changes in strategy, lack of study of Japans tactics and operations, gross overestimation of their own abilities.
All those factors would have led the Brits and the US to interfere with any attempt of...
Beyond the the point TRH makes, the Embargo went far past 'Oil'
Japanese accounts in US banks frozen. Japan was dependent of rolling credit to keep its industry and war going. In 1941 it was effectively at zero capitol in its banks. the only practical sources were either London, or New...
Its worth noting again the lead ships of the flotilla were at the last minefield. Once that was past there were negligible defenses. No significant artillery along the rest of the Bosporus, few war ships, few to none pesky torpedo boats. There were good reasons the Ottoman government was on...
At least he have a example of how well or poorly that worked in naval matters. Taking that idea to several levels up, what if the nazi regime only builds a balanced dense force and puts priority on economic domination of Europe? Would that work?
But.. but.. there's no guns anywhere. See...