Hmm. Looks like I was wrong about the level of emotional involvement that people have, at any rate. Personally I still think the whole Pacific...
TBH, the Pacific war was pretty much a sideshow. From the get-go it had pretty much only one concievable outcome - Japan runs out of steam after a...
IMHO, that's utter tosh. The German system was basically to teach everyone down to squaddie and NCO level the basic 'toolkit' of how to engage in...
I don't know about that. The impression I get is that his response was more along the lines of "ah well, that'll serve the b****r right for being...
I'm not convinced that after fighting their way through the advancing germans the remainder of 7 divisions (plus 3 divisions worth of labourers)...
There was also the Littlejohn adaptor which operated along similar lines. Theoretically I suppose there's no reason why that couldn't have been...
How about an extremely hypothetical scenario where (due to alien abductions/brain worm outbreak/mass hysteria or whatever) war hasn't broken out...
It's a lot more complicated than that. Radical elements were pretty much doing what they pleased in the Kwantung Army, and the Kwantung army was...
Well, if not inerted they are lethally dangerous, even a few grams of 90 year old explosive can ruin your day. And if you don't know for sure, you...
I'm not sure about that. East of e.g. Novosibirsk there's not really a lot of industry, or in fact much of anything. It would be kind of hard to...
There's no hindsight required, the archives have been pretty well picked over by now. Lifting a pertinent section from the wikipedia article on...
I think by the late thirties the lunatics were well in the driving seat and Japan was incapable of negotiating anything that didn't immediately...
Having them in plentiful supply, with a competent pilot in each one. Even with relatively average planes you can grind out a victory if you can...
Is that the one by Paul Brickhill which covers the whole of 617's war ops? I remember reading it many years ago but none of the numbers really...
While you never know how accurate internet info is, the figures most commonly quoted seem to be that a Tallboy would make a crater 80 feet deep...
Actually the soviets had some excellent engineers, who not only came up with great technical solutions but did their best to make sure that the...
Exactly. So even for poor countries, if you need a small rifle you go for something in the AK/AR/FNC/(etc. etc. almost ad infinitum) class, and if...
I'm with you on this one. The landings were an organisational nightmare as it was, and while there were some shortcomings in the artillery/air...
I'm not so sure I agree. Bunkerage is largely a non-issue for the RN since they can RAS or pop into any neutral/friendly port for oil if...
Hmmm. I sincerely doubt the Graf Spee would have managed to do very much against two grown-up capital ships. 6x28 cm on a heavy cruiser that most...
