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Below a possible booring thread of the political change which could make the naval strenght of the Royal Netherlands Navy a bit stronger and or more modern in the NEI. I tried it to keep it as plausible as posible although in OTL the cabinet, in January 1940, ordered the construction of at least...

I am not refering to the strategic part, but the tactical. Just the audacity to execute an operation on this scale and in a operation theatre of this enourmous size with weapons whihc were hardly used in conflicts before.

This is excactly how it should be seen in (militairy) history. In matter of fact the whole attack on the 7th and 8th, also in Asia, must be seen as a magnificent military undertaking seen from military perspective. An attack over sheer distances, using never used military hard ware (carrier...

Interesting discussion of a depth charge attack from a Japanese Imperial Navy ship on a British Royal Navy submarine may trigger or not the USA Pacific fleet. It is not only the stand of technology of the communication techniques or the (non-) ability for decoding of that time period. The...

They will not ramping up their readiness, or at least not even close to react on the attack which was underway. Due to the simple fact that an attack as it will be at 7th December is unconceivable, as mentioned by R.R.

Now this is a show of cooperation between the British and Dutch navies. A squadron composed of a Dutch and Brisitsh flotilla of light cruisers and destroyers. A Royal Netherlands Navy flottilla as an integrated part of a Royal Navy battle group, it is almost a revival of old times, from the...

The production capacity is not only depending on the number of factories, workers or material, but as well if the regime is stable. As I understand the Communist regime of the Sovjet Union seems to be in turmoil. This will have a negative effect on production.

Agree, what a lot of CP victory scenario's forget, are socio-economic situations. The fact that all parties will be in finacial ruins. especially Germany due to the way they funded thier war economy, basicly printing of new monney. This will have a major reporcusssion after the war. Liberties...

This is probbaly the largest butterfly. Under the milions of men and women there would be most likely some one who eiter invent or discover things whihc would speed up development in technology, biology or medicin and of course among the deaths there would be individuals who contribute the to...

Nice update of the common German city citizen, living in the National socialist police state, the hardly mentioned war and making the best of it.

Thanks for your reply, on this off topic details of your very nice to read story.

How is fertilizer production goiing? Or is nearly all nitrogin production used for amunition production? The food production in West Europe dramaticly declined mainly due to the shortage of fertilizer, i can imagine the situation in the East isn't much better, probably worse on the huge former...

Great to read of men who have the nerves to take responisibility and not hiding behind each other

Yes why not, Eendracht, Zeven Provincien and De Ruyter. Nice names for a cruiser class, refering to the 17th century. The first two were 17th century warships and De Ruyter was commanding the Zeven Provincien.

Eendracht class large light cruisers with 10 x 150 mm maingun armament Ever since the cancelation of the light cruiser Celebes, part of the Java Class light cruisers the Royal Netherlands Navy desired a third light cruiser. During the cabinet term of Ruys de Beerenbroekc III (1929-1933) ...