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There is ITTL and IOTL, a fundamental difference between the war fought, by the two global powers America and Britain, and that fought by all the others. The Anglo Americans fought a rich man’s war, while the rest fought a poor man’s war. Just as during the Napoleonic era, when it was said that...

While there were many Swedes who were friendly towards German, especially after the Soviet assault on Finland, there was a significant number who were ambivalent at best and hostile at worst. IOTL the collapse of Denmark and Norway, closely followed by the invasion of France and its collapse...

Can the British without American assistance successfully invade Northern Norway during the summer of 1942, via Narvik, and subsequently hold onto the territory as far south as possible, while clearing the Germans out of all the territory up to the Soviet border. To which the simple answer is...

The fundamental problem isn’t the speed of communication or the lack of preparation, availability of personnel, it’s simply the mindset of the players. All of the senior Admirals in the American, British, German, Italian and Japanese naves, were welded to the idea that the Battleship was the...

Dislexia rules ko. 😁 RR.

Stalin who while being a viscous cunning thug, was not a great intellect, or had the slightest clue about maritime operations. Is once again demanding that the British commit to an invasion of the European mainland, to take the pressure off the Red Army. Not only was he desperate to relieve the...

If the information about the attack on HMS Reguius, manages to reach Pearl Harbour by the evening of the 6th, and into the hands of either Admiral Kimmel or his deputy. What are the chances that it could affect the alert status of the American forces in Hawaii to such an extent that the Japanese...

The big difference is that the Atlantic was an active war zone, whereas the South China Sea is not. The overwhelming majority of ships in the South China Sea would be sailing under basic peace time regulations, with all their navigation lights on and not under blackout. As for who had dropped...

Oh dear, strictly speaking and from a purely technical standpoint, the Japanese attack with depth charges against HMS Regulus is in and of itself an attack of war. And thus the British can justify claim that their assault into Thailand against the Japanese forces there is a response to the...

@Monty Man , if you are suggesting that the Italians can send warships through the Dardanelles from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, I believe from my understanding that such a transit during wartime is forbidden under the relevant international treaty. As for sending Italian merchant ships...

The question of how much the Germans can use shipping as an addition to their logistics efforts ITTL, is a complex one and the answer is very different to what the answer was IOTL. Starting with the most basic, can the German/Italians use merchant ships to transport goods between the...

As an old fart myself I will take your request into consideration. RR.

So the Chiefs of Staff in London have been able to overcome the intense objections of the Foreign Office, and persuade Winston to give Gort permission to carry out his plans. Phillips is right, if it all goes wrong and Gort has managed to get Britain into a war with Japan, without the Americans...

Was the British various intelligence agencies successful during the intra war period and WWII, to which I believe the answer is Yes/No. Yes the British along with her Commonwealth allies ran a very successful intelligence campaign against the Axis powers. However they completely failed against...

The resent regime change in the French Levant has served to achieve a number of British objectives, and tremendously increase the pressure on Weygand. The regime change in the Levent has removed any threat to British interests in Palestine, and put the Turkish on notice that they need to...