I've always wondered why the French considered Brittany for a national redoubt but not Normandy. Suppose they retreat to Normandy? They'd have...
Supposing all the Germans manage to do is create a bulge, that leaves them overextended and vulnerable from three sides, resupplying via bad...
I bet it turns into a bloodbath for the Germans. Slowing them down for a few more days gives the French and British time to come up, perhaps win...
What if Percival follows orders and refuses to surrender Singapore, drawing the Japanese into urban warfare. I saw something on television...
Yes. If anything, the Allies were too hasty racing so far up into Belgium. The safer thing to do would have been to assemble a large mobile...
Have we ruled out the possibility that the Allies might be a bit more aggressive in September 1939? Hitler could still invade Poland, but...
This would result in a bloodbath, with Allied victory certain. Units in the line, if actually prepared to fight, would hold out and slow the...
Monty took charge in the north. You know Monty.
Good what if. I'm convinced that the Allies could have done it. Would have saved lives too, and not just Russians.
I also thought of the Civil War when I read the first post. I'm from New Jersey, but when I was about 13 I went to Gettysburg with the Boy Scouts...
Thanks for the really thorough reply, Carl. It's hard to read that stuff without thinking about all the mayhem that could have been prevented if...
What about a coordinated attack at the base of the German spearhead, as was tried but didn't really get too coordinated. No dice?
Churchill makes the point in his book that the problem wasn't so much that there was a breakthrough, but that there was no strategic reserve to...
I'll admit here I've never quite understood why Belgium remained neutral right up until the end, but let's suppose a meteorite falls on King...
Wow, you guys really know a lot about these guns. I would have had no idea which guns were where, let alone which had sights or not. Still, I...
Update - I read the book and it was everything I had hoped it would be. Guarnere and Heffron are direct, thoughtful, and funny. Robyn Post is...
Interesting. So I guess it would have been possible to hold the island after all. Do you think something like Midway would have happened in that...
Could it be that he valued the lives of his sailors, preservation of the fleet, and a war-winning strategy more than public perception of the size...
So the USN fights a Midway-type battle six months earlier? I think this could have easily been a Japanese victory because the Americans wouldn't...
Explain? If you think Wake would have been lost anyway, and the Navy would have taken heavy losses, then Pye made the right decision. Why do you...