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Why did the US suffer less casualties from Iraq than Vietnam?
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SeanBeansShako posted:Shattered Sword and the crazy self defeating antics of the IJN have been brought up many times in the thread, but if you find something you'd like to talk about go ahead and post man. I would really love an effort post about the post midway carrier actions.
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Sep 4, 2016 17:51
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my dad posted:How the gently caress does that work? Well armor wasn't really a thing all that much by the 60s because of the preponderances of firepower that could be slung around. There's gotta be an effort-post about general trends in ship development post world war II right?
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Oct 12, 2016 03:50
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Is it just a case of "gently caress you, gently caress your entire fleet, I don't care how heavily armored you are and whether or not I'll survive"?
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when did warfare become more shot than pike?
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Nov 2, 2016 01:00
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Kanine posted:Do we have any idea whatsoever what would happen if Trumo tried to do something stupid? There wouldn't be much stopping him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hering
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Nov 21, 2016 05:12
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Fangz posted:To be quite honest I'm not sure how much I'd want kids to be interested in war, especially in this current political environment. get him a book about that african-american contributions in the war.
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Nov 25, 2016 05:04
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What do units that are referred to as armored calvary do exactly? From what I've heard they seem more like skirmishers.
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Nov 26, 2016 00:28
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1:05 PM - Absolute Madman "Plutonis": stair 1:06 PM - Absolute Madman "Plutonis": can you do me a favor and post these on the milhist thread  
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Nov 30, 2016 23:41
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so which is the threads favorite: pike or shot?
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Dec 4, 2016 19:23
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Pistol_Pete posted:I could go on but the whole book is like this. I love the image of the peasant venturing a few fields too far from home, becoming hopelessly lost and wandering the country forever. this is what I was taught in my AP european high school history class this was only six years ago.
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Dec 9, 2016 18:04
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Well I mean it was a navy.
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Dec 21, 2016 17:16
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meatbag posted:If anything, it's the other way around, seeing as Imperial Star Destroyers can be destroyed with one or two shots to the shield generators I thought the shields went down because of a Y-wing bombing run?
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Dec 25, 2016 17:21
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quick question: did torpedo bombing in ww2 ever stop being a really dangerous ordeal for the pilots?
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Jan 2, 2017 21:07
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Cyrano4747 posted:From a long historical perspective the question really isn't "why do people justify slavery" but "why do people start to think slavery is wrong?" The economic justification faded away.
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Mar 3, 2017 21:39
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Really radiation is the least of your concerns when it comes to nuclear war's civilization ending capacities. Just the initial casualties would gently caress things up and that's ignoring the potential for a nuclear winter.
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Mar 17, 2017 03:21
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The thing is if the nukes go flying the bio-weapons go too and that could very well be gameover.
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Mar 19, 2017 23:07
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Wouldn't a sea-skimming nuclear armed ASCM basically be immune to most shipboard defenses? It can just initiate beyond the range of the CIWS and basically guarantee a mission kill at the very least right?
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Mar 24, 2017 05:15
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Has the average distance of tank engagements increased since World War II or remained static?
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Mar 26, 2017 17:01
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They need more American ships imo.
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Apr 10, 2017 21:37
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Dumb question: would the USSR have been better off converting GAZ back to a truck factory after 1942? Or half-tracks instead? All those t-70s didn't seem that terribly useful.
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Apr 21, 2017 02:40
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Also sending s battalion to take on a company frontally is military strategy 101.
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Apr 29, 2017 01:11
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From what I read somewhat. Part of the reason for Germany's decline on the eastern front was replacing infantry casualties in it's combined arms units
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Apr 30, 2017 17:12
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Ford was bigger than italy.
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May 9, 2017 22:26
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GotLag posted:I assume this means that China gets nuked by the Soviets as well as the Americans. no, I think america would be content to let the soviets handle that. finland on the other hand would be turbofucked in this regard.
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Jul 2, 2017 21:57
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How do dragoons fight? Do they dismount before they enter the battle? How did they protect themselves in close combat prior to the invention of the bayonet? Also what was the most successful implementation of the concept?
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Sep 2, 2017 06:11
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Murgos posted:E: and then Nappy went back to that slut Josephine. No, really, she got around. thsi is extremely cool and chill
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Sep 16, 2017 21:26
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historical socialist movements critiques of capitalism: very good historical socialist movements praxis: very bad Maybe the movements of the 21st century will get it together, or maybe capitalism's endgame will kill us all. It's hard to say no one can say for sure. I hope this resolves all the arguments.
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Nov 15, 2017 21:07
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I'd give yugoslavia like a c- if that's what you're implying Tias.
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Nov 15, 2017 21:48
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Yvonmukluk posted:Has there ever actually been a legitimate 'upset' in military exercises like Millennium Challenge supposedly was? There was that time a f101 scored a simulated kill on a flight of some f-16s with a air-2 genie. That's very lowkey though.
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Nov 27, 2017 04:39
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you can already do that by reading shattered sword.
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Dec 19, 2017 03:39
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an argument
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Jan 27, 2018 23:52
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The official ranking of things not to be killed by in war is nerve gas, nuclear weapons, arrows, a guy with a shovel, and finally bullets as the least worst.
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Jan 30, 2018 23:23
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Gaius Marius posted:Getting killed by nukes would be fine. It's not like you're gonna feel a thing. Now surviving a nuke that's when things get bad. The majority of people who died at Hiroshi and Nagasaki didn't pass away instantly.
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Jan 31, 2018 05:40
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SeanBeansShako posted:I mean, what happens if the Imperial Germany Navy under direct orders of the Kaiser moves to strip the whole thing so they could engineer their own battleship dreadnaught mutants with the technology? would the crew be cool with this? is there any like article or essay about reverse engineering technology from the future in any of these dumb alt-hist scenarios. I'm curious what they'd actually be able to accomplish considering the best that was done radar-wise in this time period was a patent for a system to avoid collisions in port.
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Mar 8, 2018 20:54
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The biggest problem, as I see it, is that it's not actually legal to shoot Nazis or hit them with blunt instruments during peacetime. This is a weakness of civil society that fascists cravenly exploit. Devils advocate: Those laws are also what keep people from dumping socialists in unmarked graves.
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Apr 25, 2018 23:32
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As an actual contribution(questionably) to the thread: Why did the Royal navy decide armoring their aircraft carriers was more important than having large air complements?
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Apr 25, 2018 23:39
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The Lone Badger posted:IIRC there were some Russian radar masts that would straight-up kill you if you were working on them when they were turned on. Like most modern warships have radars that do this at full power.
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May 7, 2018 22:51
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feedmegin posted:Presumably, how much it can carry. Bombs are heavy. Also low altitude performance or the lack of it. Things you want to bomb are on the ground. Not really. There's a proud History of fighters taking on the ground attack mission and excelling. Like the F-14D or the P-38.
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May 13, 2018 23:25
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Europe was a Jenga tower post 1880 and Bismarck was just one of the blocks
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Koramei posted:Imjin War stuff Vaguely releated, wasn't the gap between Japanese and continental forces something early works in the west about the conflict kind of over exaggerated?
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