IMO the Washington naval treaty was a failure, as it fuelled Japanese resentment that eventually helped the "military faction" to take the upper...
The demise of ABDA should have shown the IJN was far from incompetent, and IIRC that campaign included multiple night combats, the IJN was did not...
The reinforced 1942 ARMIR as made up of three 3 division corps, a mountain one (alpini) a semi motorized one and a regular infantry one plus an...
The "small countries" didn't have the means to enforce their neutrality, San Marino was heavily bombed by allied planes despite mostly managing to...
I do not think the 1942 and 1943 Kharkov disasters were due to "junior officers" failings. Lack of willingness to risk Stalin's wrath by going to...
The key to the whole debate is that there was no assurance the bomb would have the effect of bringing the Japanese to the negotiation table, which...
Wouldn't matter, this site is open enough that propaganda will not stand unchallenged, though it would waste a lot of members time in pointless...
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Western intelligence agencies have been playing the propaganda game with enthusiasm and not much...
They Soviets did overextend themselves at Kharkov both in 1942 and in 1943, so Manstein had probably little to do with it. There is a big...
I would be in doubt between Lisbon and Bern, looking at the Nazi "escapees" in 1945, Axis ties to some South American capitols may also have been...
Emilo Bianchi, the last survivor of the six divers that attacked HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant in Alexandria in December 1941 died on 15/8,...
With the North Korea madhouse and the fast growing Chinese close by today's Japan needs allies badly, actually the greatest threat to stability...
It's very difficult to make a definition of "terror bombing" that doesn't include the fire bombing campaigns or the A-Bombs and still refers to...
If you are looking for the "axis side" what about the official four volume history of the North Africa war by the historical office of the Italian...
I would agree the Pz IV reached the end of it's evolution in 1943 with the G model, the H was overweight and the J was a stripped down H to save...
There is bound to be some military infrastructure in any large city during wartime, for example recruiting offices. IMO this does not make the...
The story of PQ17 was a lot more complex than that, no doubts the weather conditions in the area the convoys had to go through were pretty...
The more I look at the naval war in the Med the more it looks like Enigma was a critical game changer, the lack of good Italian ASW before the...
When it comes to mathematics and other subjects that require abstract thinking leaps I believe individual contribution is a lot more important...
IMO Little Boy rather than Enola Gay, but it's really two aspects of the same thing
