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Definitely not trying to imply that the Russian peasantry was ignorant or backward or anything of the sort. I can't quote any specific...

I'm currently on a Russian history reading kick and working on an alternate history where I want to give Russia something of a...

Doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell from taking away funding from carrier aviation or submarines, which are the two most powerful...

Bro, you've got to respond to the last quote given, you totally skipped over the last guy.

Spoken by US President Lewis Strauss at the funeral of Chaim Rumkowski, former Marshall of the Polish Republic. While his career as an...

Isn't it arguable that both the Germans and the Japanese favoured high-risk strategies that paid very little attention to logistics and...

English expat Professor James Ingersoll, speaking at the 1977 Center for Strategic Objectivism. In 1929, following the Mundial War...

I should have specified, I expect its more likely for more Japanese carriers to be hit. During most of the carrier battles, each side...

What happens next after this hypothetical battle? I think the general consensus is both sides take pretty good punches; two to three...

But would the IJN know about this? It’s the difference between Yamamoto thinking he’s bringing four against two versus four on four or...

I was speaking about Yamamoto’s perspective. He believes he’s sunk two American carriers and there should only be two left. Can he know...

That sounds like the RN was using courts martial as impromptu courts of inquiry, vice criminal proceedings (except in a few cases...

If you court martial every officer for failing in combat, especially at the beginning of the war, then you remove any possibility for...

The USN does have a bad habit of giving a lot of deference to upper ranks and a definite reluctance to punish senior commanders or...

I'm unable to find an exact timeline of the events leading up to the bombing of Franklin, I'd probably have to try and track down the...