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  1. Bigger British army in France in 1939?

    Might be worth offering a few scenarios? How about: 1) The BEF is a significantly bigger but not too different, say 6 additional ready (motorised) divisions. These add to the concentration within the OTL British area of operations, with no significant changes to French deployments. Is this...
  2. Bigger British army in France in 1939?

    Have seen a lot of good threads on improving a particular aspect of equipment, doctrine etc. But what if the BEF in WW2 was no better, but just bigger. How much bigger would it have to have been to make a difference? For the sake of argument, some assumptions: -Due to a few small butterflies...
  3. What if the WW2 German military just wasn't very effective?

    Hah, it certainly had issues. But on the other hand, in spite of the things that didn't work so well, the overall performance was sufficient to achieve quite a lot against armies that were on paper peers or superiors. Yep, they made good use of training as well as studies and war games. But I...
  4. What if the WW2 German military just wasn't very effective?

    Nazi Germany began the second world war with very effective armed forces. They had the advantage of being ahead of others in quality and/or quantity of some key armaments, but they had also managed to retain and/or rebuild a very high level of 'man for man' effectiveness - that *something* that...
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