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  1. Ramp-Rat

    Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    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...
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    Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    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...
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    Malaya What If

    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...
  4. Ramp-Rat

    Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Dislexia rules ko. 😁 RR.
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    Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    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...
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    Malaya What If

    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...
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    Malaya What If

    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...
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    Malaya What If

    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...
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    Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    @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...
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    Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    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...
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    Malaya What If

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

    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...
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    Malaya What If

    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...
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    Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    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...
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    Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    I doubt that Benito would have provided a recording, or that there were the facilities on the Island to broadcast such without using radio, and thus broadcasting his message to the whole world. It should be noted that much as in Germany, those who could listened to the BBC World Service to try...
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    Malaya What If

    Why other than his own personal arrogance didn’t MacArthur authorise reconnaissance flights over the Japanese positions in French Indochina and Formosa during 1941. Mac was under strict instructions not to give the Japanese a reason to start a war with the United States, and thus overflying...
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    Malaya What If

    Thank-you good sir for the compliment, I do not have a better handle on this than you do, but unlike some others I am prepared to look at the Japanese side of the argument, and how they given their cultural views might see the situation. No Japanese officer who had presided over a defeat such as...
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    Malaya What If

    Have the Japanese noticed the various changes that have taken place in the British and Dutch Far East colonies, of course they have, they have an extensive intelligence system in place. However they have a number of problems, the first of which is their interpretation of what these changes mean...
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    Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    Should Weygand decide to switch sides, as apposed to the British carrying out a successful invasion of FNA, will make little difference to the Germans. Either way they are going to occupy the remainder of France, in a swift and prepared assault, in conjunction with their Italian allies. This...
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    Sir John Valentine Carden Survives. Part 2.

    And so the first major crack in the Vichy governance in the Mediterranean has occurred, and without the British or Free French military having to invade or a shot being fired. This will only serve to further increase the pressure on Weygand to make the jump himself, and switch sides coming out...
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