Recent content by ennobee

May be in other countries, but with there being precious little wild tigers or lions in continental US, I can't see that animals gaining much traction in the political landscape. However, I can imagine a political battle between the Black Bear Fraction of the Californian branch of the Ruling...

I wonder how the movie would handle the competing claims as for the ship being a legitimate target because she was carrying ammunition, or if it will show the gun they bolted to her deck.

Crazy you mention the 1950's and 1980's. The way I was told it in (Belgian high school) history class was that halfway the 1950's Belgium recognized it could not keep Congo as a colony forever so they called a commission to study their options and in 1960 the commission concluded that: Yes...

I do not see much changing for much of the videogames out there. A quick glance into your Google or Apple app store will tell you that 95 to 99% of today's games do not have any political or societal message and could be played just as well in today's society as in a surviving USSR or Nazi...

I have to find my copy of the book again and look for the exact quote, but as far as I remember Ronald Dahl wrote a chapter in 'Going Solo' about him in a Hawker Hurricane hunting Ju.88's in the Greek Campaign. The way he has a fellow pilot explain to him how to hunt Junkers is that the Ju.88...

The Ju.88 was a run-of-the-mill twin engined light bomber, but designed around the German air doctrines of the time. Any twin-engined light bomber built in the US for the (then) USAAF would have to be designed around the consideration of USAAF 1940 air doctrines so even if it were designed by...

I would actually argue for the opposite: Coastal Command will take the Stirling as a stopgap measure, but only until enough new Sunderlands are available. The ability to land on water instead of special ultra long runways is too much of a boon for them. I can however see the new model...

For me, there are too many variables to make a good prediction. For instance a surviving Kaiserreich: does that mean that Germany is politically still a militaristic authoritarian pseudo-democracy with figurehead-worship a prime virtue and a pervasive system of censorship making sure you do not...

Oops, I didn't get to post the rest of my thoughts. Basically it went: Seeing that Bristol already took the basic design of its Beaufort torpedo bomber and turned it into the Beaufighter, in theory, someone could take the basic design of the Roc and Skua and build a shipborne heavy fighter out...

Yes, but would autocratic militarism without actual fighting still be fascism or just .... autocratic militarism?

The question is if a fascism that wouldn't end up in a war sooner or later would still be 'fascism' in the strictest sense of the word. After all, militarism and a perceived sense of the other nations having it in for you was overall almost as much a hallmark of Fascism as the concept of...

The problem with escort carriers is that after 1950 everything they could be used for was already taken over by helicopters and heli-carrying frigates. The rest was made obsolete by the other development of the WWII island-hopping campaign: the practical knowledge of building airstrips fast and...

If we literally take 'no Meiji modernization' as a starting point, there would still be Matthew Calbraith Perry and his use of gunboat diplomacy to force Japan to open its borders. So the US would be the prime candidate to colonize Japan. However that US at that point had no interest in...

Ok, so here's my Easter Egg for you... Spinning forth the tale of the Caudron 714 built by Renault: The Caudron 714 was a Hail-Mary fighter conceived out of desperation... twice. The first time was when in the general fighter panic leading up to WWII, Marcel Rifard proposed a lightweight...

And as for the Tudors, I think it's from having two famous players in one lineup: first Henry VII, with all his wives and the break with the Church of Rome. Then Elisabeth, the 'Virgin Queen' with her staring down the Spanish Armada. And of course, her sponsoring William Shakespeare didn't hurt...