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BlueTrousers replied to the thread Proposals and War Aims That Didn't Happen Map Thread.Heck, the Union between England and Scotland predate the United States by seventy-odd years, was entirely peaceful, and is still...
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BlueTrousers reacted to DougM's post in the thread What if the British Royal Navy was allowed to keep the two power standard and build 3 more battlecruisers and 2 more battleships? with
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Any attempt to give GB/RN this big a boost over the US and Japan would have resulted in 1) Japan taking this as a HUGE insult and... -
BlueTrousers replied to the thread What if the British Royal Navy was allowed to keep the two power standard and build 3 more battlecruisers and 2 more battleships?.Over the 20 years or so prior to the Washington Conference, the Royal Navy moved from 'next two largest combined' as its standard to...
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BlueTrousers reacted to TDM's post in the thread Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs? with Like.
The soviet invasion and the two atomic bombs all were within three days of each other, you can't split them apart. the reality is it's...
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BlueTrousers reacted to Look More Closely Later's post in the thread Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs? with Like.
The Indian Army was also coming for Imperial Japan in Southeast Asia, with a million plus troops, and was tying up the loose ends from...
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BlueTrousers replied to the thread Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs?.The forces in Southeast Asia were going to keep heading southeast, with ZIPPER capturing bases in Malaya, followed by MAILFIST to...
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BlueTrousers replied to the thread The Malouines War: France in the Falklands Redux.It's not a question of modifying the aircraft - it's a question of doctrinal readiness. If the COAN isn't set up to provide logicstics...
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BlueTrousers replied to the thread Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs?.No they didn't. They might have surrendered due to the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation, which never had that name - it doesn't...
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BlueTrousers replied to the thread Profitability of British Colonies in the Postwar World.The closure of the Suez Canal put the UK economy under severe pressure and lead to an oil shortage severe enough to see petrol rationing...
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BlueTrousers reacted to focus9912's post in the thread Profitability of British Colonies in the Postwar World with Like.
Hmm, isn't a significant percentage of the UK's post-war debt at the time (I don't know the exact number, but isn't it at least double...
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BlueTrousers replied to the thread Top Locomotives Never Built.Easy answer, have a couple of big John Deere customers (maybe agricultural firms who handle a lot of traffic by rail?) ask about...
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BlueTrousers replied to the thread Profitability of British Colonies in the Postwar World.There were the East Africa Rifles mutinies in 1963-1964, which were post-independence and (interestingly enough) seem to have been...
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BlueTrousers replied to the thread Profitability of British Colonies in the Postwar World.While not intending to defend colonialism, this is indicative of 'Treasury brain' striking again. Yep, it's a possibility, and seems to...
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BlueTrousers reacted to paperclipknight's post in the thread Profitability of British Colonies in the Postwar World with Like.
Brooke’s claimant? The problem with Britain retaining colonial possessions that aren’t city states or islands will always lay in what...
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BlueTrousers reacted to Jürgen's post in the thread Profitability of British Colonies in the Postwar World with Like.
The problem is that a colony could easily be a money pit for the government, but private actors made massive amount of money on them and...