Jesus christ. That's low enough numbers to make society itself difficult to run - the cities are gone, and it sounds like anything larger than 1000 people calling itself a town would have been hit as well. How can a society survive on populations that small, spread over a space as wide as Russia?
I thought it was familiar - I suppose when you hand nuclear arms to people while they're being shot at, every problem will look like an atomic target!
I wonder how far both Kruschev and Kennedy will go on inertia - will they be able to swallow pride and retreat when the moment of decision...
One typo - The United States was founded after 1945 - unless that's a sign of Kennedy making a slip on TV under the pressure?
Smoke 'em if you've got 'em, it's nearly showtime...
I can't find it now, but there's a clip from The Great War where Steven Westermann (SP?) describes the french in 'beautiful sky-blue coats' in the 1914 battles. Apparently they made wonderful targets. It's split with a french soldier describing germans advancing in squares and getting cut down...
Have we had any chapters on domestic production? By this point in our war, food was a serious problem within Germany and provincial Austria-Hungary, and I imagine the same would be true of Italy, cut off from imports of fertiliser and presumably unable to fish in serious numbers.
Completely impractical. Even the Germans had infinite oil, they had so many trains and so many trucks and so many horse-drawn carts, and they already struggled to supply food, ammunition, paperclips and everything else an army needs without choking all those supplies down a single direction. A...
The issue is not just the volume of oil, but getting it to the front. You could give the Wehrmacht an ocean of oil in 1941 and it wouldn't change the military picture because they were a barely mechanised army without mechanised logistics. There simply aren't enough trucks, planes, trains and...
How will the Somme work? In OTL Haig had to launch his battle early due to the situation at Verdun, and even when he launched the attack he was not happy with the state of his new army. If the battle is launched in the first months of summer will there be sufficient shells and manpower for the...
I wonder what Blair is up to - by this point the UK is probably committed to wars on two continents if he's still joined to Bush at the hip. The Army probably doesn't have the resources to join in Korea but the Navy is ideally suited for supporting operations up and down the coast.
Can the Crusaders support another 30,000 men in the form of Frederick's army? Logistics was always a problem in premodern warfare, and does the presence of Barbarossa actually help the problems the armies had with the personality clashes of their leaders?
Knowledge without engineering is useless, and most of the northern hemisphere's engineering capacity, machinery, and extraction capacity is gone. Finito. The southern hemisphere might one day ride to the rescue, but north of the equator I can't see industrial society ever recovering. Those who...
I find it hard to envisage a recovery; even without a nuclear winter, the global population is less than a billion in short order, and all of the easily-accessible resources have been used. A permanent regression to a medieval lifestyle, perhaps with the addition of small amounts of electricity...