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  1. WI: Longer Maginot Line

    I kept thinking, on these ideas, that the same fate could have befallen about any stretch of any of the fortified defenses, as happened at Eban Imael and the Dutch, paratroopers. And this sounds tempting as argument against it, given lack of updates to tanks, aircraft and tactics related...

  2. Any hope of rescue of more U.S./allied troops from Philippines 1942

    Manchester and others have referred to the upper classes in Manila and their interest in a return to some increase in Spanish influence in the Islands. I wonder if there could be anything done with that. There was also the interest MacArthur and others had expressed, in the months before Pearl...

  3. Any hope of rescue of more U.S./allied troops from Philippines 1942

    Could there be a possible two time-frame potential. One would be the early days, the December 1941 time-frame, when IJ operations to capture Davao on Mindanao and Jolo Island, would be the possible target, and when there could be opened some temporary --perhaps submarine-- interisland rescue...

  4. Any hope of rescue of more U.S./allied troops from Philippines 1942

    MacA would have to be very quick to react to the success at Coral Sea/Port Moresby as a hopeful sign and an opportunity to exploit an improved New Guinea situation, for one thing. If we were to wait until Coral Sea, there would still be a few people on Mindanao that could be gotten off...

  5. Any hope of rescue of more U.S./allied troops from Philippines 1942

    In the earlier stages, when the IJ forces were taking Jolo and Davao, any complications for them in those operations, on top of having possible positive effects on Allied rescue of personnel from Luzon, the Visayans and Mindanao, would also have some impact on IJ efforts against Allies in DEI.

  6. Any hope of rescue of more U.S./allied troops from Philippines 1942

    Just mulling over that I don't recall this theme being addressed by any parties up here. Was trying to recall a few alternate ideas I'd heard mentioned such as some type of difference in activity and accomplishments by Japanese in the early days at Mindanao, Jolo Island, and perhaps such things...

  7. 1980 presidential election deadlocked?

    I would think at least two interesting states this time, would have been IL and WI, Anderson and Lucey's home states. Yes, MA was interesting, and was hair close OTL, iirc. But a bigger Electoral bang would be in the midwest. Carter was also going over like a lead balloon in Rust Belt...

  8. No More Half Measures--a Vitnam War comcept

    Just to contribute some info for the discussion, as to the potential of other nations that were involved in the conflict, this site lists all the forces involved on the South's side (however, there were a few more token size forces from a handful of other nations, such as Spain and United...

  9. No More Half Measures--a Vitnam War comcept

    differences between N. Vietham and N. Korea: Originally Posted by Master Xion What if the U.S. invaded North Vietnam?Would that have been successful or would it have made things worse?Because that is the only way I see that could have stopped the Viet Cong's supplies...

  10. No More Half Measures--a Vitnam War comcept

    If the OTL end of the Soviet era as 1980-5 is the beginning of the end point, and allow 6 months to a year for the difference in approach to sink in, following some rise in prominence in the South of such parties as Duong van Minh, in the time frame of around 1961-2 or 3 as the beginning point...

  11. No More Half Measures--a Vitnam War comcept

    JFK, in some of his final National Security Directives regarding Vietnam, ordered that the South Vietnamese navy be trained in commando tactics for the purpose of attacking Northern port and other facilities from the sea. This was an approach not used very much, instead being replaced by direct...

  12. No More Half Measures--a Vitnam War comcept

    In regards to the evacuation from the northern provinces I've wondered about a couple of things. Suppose if there were a Geneva conference like the one involving Laos, for Indochina, once again. This time, we get an agreement from both Vietnams, as part of the goal of reunification, for some...

  13. No More Half Measures--a Vitnam War comcept

    Korea---Vietnam Well, what I posted earlier, was to point out that a key difference between the two was that the enemy, not us, did the outflanking on the battlefield. And it was our side--ARVN, us and our allies--who were constantly outflanked up in the northern and north central provinces...

  14. No More Half Measures--a Vitnam War comcept

    Could I just take a moment here to critique historian rhetoric, as to how the issue of whether the French military had somehow engaged in "outdated" thinking or had been "surprised" by the events of its war in Indochina, I just have to say this: when JFK and LBJ were moving in 'Nam, there was a...

  15. No More Half Measures--a Vitnam War comcept

    I hope we can understand the quandary here since it is usually recognized that the nearest parallel as a possible outcome to what happened in Vietnam, would have been Korea. There, we choice the option of a protracted war and confrontation, which continued (and continues) for decades. But...

  16. No More Half Measures--a Vitnam War comcept

    This truly is the classic dilemma, isn't it: "The only way to keep the peace is a stable government in the South backed up by a better preforming South Vietnamese Army." I've tried to see, over these past few months, if the concept of a much smaller area to defend and a more solid defensive...

  17. Successfully Defend Hong Kong, 1941

    Pulling from memory, but the source's brief mention was in the context of an all-British discussion on the dynamics and merits of reinforcing HK in the immediate aftermath of Dec. 7. At that point tactical military alliance with KMT was a done deal, but probably the goal was to have something...

  18. Successfully Defend Hong Kong, 1941

    The only thing I'm recalling is the Chinese potential to assist Britain against the Japanese in the area. There were a couple of "ifs" beforehand. Certain things would have happened in the war between China and Japan, in I guess the least changed scenario. There was some mention of the Kowloon...

  19. France Never Surrenders

    September 11, 1941 Roosevelt issued an order permitting US naval vessels to fire on Axis vessels in American waters.

  20. WI: Hindenburg never explodes

    Well, just to answer a point on repairs and use on an earlier post, Matt II said: "There's a reason for this, and it's because airships are too big to try to repair." Airships of new design have come back into use in cargo and construction, and will probably come into increasing use with the...
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