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Cessna posted:Agreed. A Roman helmet is a well designed piece of gear; it protects your skull, a lot of your face, and the back of your neck, but lets you see and hear: There's popular claims/theories that the Roman helmets were reinforced in response to the Dacian Falx, so the author of the bug thing was probably making an analogy to that.
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Solaris 2.0 posted:I don’t think the Japanese ever actually had a plan for what they wanted to do in China? Like they bungled into it and then couldn’t figure a way out. I mean, the military situation for the KMT was completely and utterly hopeless, so it's not completely unreasonable to think that something like Wang Jingwei's defection could have had more internal support than it historically did. Now what this theoretical functional Reorganized government that is sufficiently stable and aligned with Japanese interests that they can meaningfully withdraw their occupying forces actually looks like, I don't know, and I don't think they did either.
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Mar 10, 2021 15:47
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PittTheElder posted:What even was the Japanese enthusiasm level for fighting the USSR? Obviously that's that Germany wanted to do, but it doesn't seem to achieve many of their economic goals. They were terrified of the Soviet Union, more so than wanting anything from it, is the impression I get.
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Mar 20, 2021 01:51
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feedmegin posted:Especially given the quality of Japanese tanks compared to Russian by late war. Imagine fighting an IS2 in a Chi-Ha That's the thing that gets me, is even if their pacific and Chinese wars had gone as well as they possibly could have, they still haven't improved their position relative to the Soviet threat in any meaningful way. It seems the strategy was to just let Germany take care of the problem for them, but that's a strat that doesn't really need the co-prosperity sphere.
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Mar 20, 2021 15:08
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There's a handful of Tim Horton's in NYC run by a former Dunkin Donuts franchisee who got into some dispute with DD corporate.
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May 6, 2021 18:29
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Tomn posted:Sorry about that, I was knee-deep in the archives and got to a bit about the blockade in WW1 and submarine campaigns in WW2 and my mind popped the question. Interesting answers, though - I've always had a vague sense that the USN was one of the particular American advantages and I WAS vaguely aware that other nations weren't just going to let that slide but wasn't aware just how far they've gone in finding ways to even the odds. I got busy raising kids and playing video games and left off around 1860 sadly.
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May 9, 2021 22:55
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wiegieman posted:Agricultural laborer and clothier too. There's a great ACOUP series on how thread spinning and weaving were ubiquitous, but with the ease of modern machine production of clothes they have left our conciousness so much that they aren't even background events in most media. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/359139.Women_s_Work I read this book about bronze age textile production a while back and liked it. There sure was an awful lot of spinning going on.
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Jul 8, 2021 14:50
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But would Japan have surrendered if we dropped the gay bomb??
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Aug 30, 2021 15:03
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It's fun to see how many decisions are based on existing ammunition stockpiles, but when world war breaks out those pre-war stockpiles get used up nearly instantly.
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Sep 28, 2021 14:31
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Siivola posted:Okay yeah, fair enough. US ships were already shooting it out with subs in the Atlantic, and it's pretty unlikely that the US would ally with Britain and the other colonial powers against Japan and just ignore the European war threatening those allies' existence. It certainly didn't do Hitler any good, but I don't think it changed much in the big picture.
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Glad to hear Japanese people are as bad at understanding anime plots as goons are
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