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  1. AHQ: How can Russia revitalize itself?

    Definitely not trying to imply that the Russian peasantry was ignorant or backward or anything of the sort. I can't quote any specific anecdotes, but I feel like I remember instances of Russian peasants rejecting mechanization or improved crop-rotation or consolidation of communal strips. And...

  2. AHQ: How can Russia revitalize itself?

    I'm currently on a Russian history reading kick and working on an alternate history where I want to give Russia something of a redemption story, as it seems like Russia has kind of gotten the shit end of the stick throughout history. I believe there's something of a lens of historical...

  3. WI: The US Navy Goes For Nuclear Seaplane Bombers Instead Of Nuclear Submarines?

    Doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell from taking away funding from carrier aviation or submarines, which are the two most powerful lobbying groups in the US Navy. Besides that, the entire draw of an SSBN is that it is expected to be fully survivable. You're not supposed to know where it is...

  4. Explain the AH Quote

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

  5. Explain the AH Quote

    Spoken by US President Lewis Strauss at the funeral of Chaim Rumkowski, former Marshall of the Polish Republic. While his career as an insurance agent during the early 1900s did not mark him out as a man of greatness, his ascent to political power began with the downfall of Imperial Germany and...

  6. Explain the AH Quote

    English expat Professor James Ingersoll, speaking at the 1977 Center for Strategic Objectivism. In 1929, following the Mundial War, which saw the Coalition (Britain, Saxony, Belgium, and Danubia) defeated and Britain stripped off its overseas empire, a violent Socialist revolution broke out...

  7. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    I should have specified, I expect its more likely for more Japanese carriers to be hit. During most of the carrier battles, each side really only got one good punch in, but because the Americans operated their carriers dispersed in two separate task forces, the Japanese would be bringing all of...

  8. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    What happens next after this hypothetical battle? I think the general consensus is both sides take pretty good punches; two to three carriers on the American side, two to four on the Japanese side, depending on who finds who first, the distribution of the strikes, and a fair amount of luck...

  9. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    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 four on three.

  10. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    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 Saratoga and Wasp are available? Yorktown was a surprise at Midway, it would probably be a surprise here.

  11. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    That sounds like the RN was using courts martial as impromptu courts of inquiry, vice criminal proceedings (except in a few cases probably, the infamous Byng comes to mind of course). Probably big enough to cause some serious disruption to the war effort and some major consternation in the...

  12. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    If you court martial every officer for failing in combat, especially at the beginning of the war, then you remove any possibility for those officers to learn from their mistakes and get better. In 1944 and 45, Halsey couldn't have been removed for the same reason MacArthur couldn't. He was a...

  13. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    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 discourage bad behavior; often leading to poor officers getting high command and then being fired when they fuck up. Part of this is due to the way the Navy's...

  14. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    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 ship's log or something, but reading secondary sources it kinda seems like Gehres ordered the downgrade just before (possibly minutes) the attack, so some of that...

  15. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    Disclaimer, I am not an expert or well-read on the design specifics of USN or RN aircraft carriers, but to suggest that American carriers were more fragile because of design flaws (and specifically what about the avgas storage methods and piping made them susceptible to battle damage and what...

  16. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    It was worse actually. They were being fueled and rearmed in the hangars, a confined space in close proximity to fueling lines, bomb lockers, lubrication oil, plus all the other flammable materials onboard a ship. Though Best's strike was lucky enough to hit one of Akagi's elevators, giving it...

  17. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    I'd argue that for the purposes of the tactical scenario, a mission kill i just as good as a sunken carrier. If a carrier is damaged to the point where it can no longer continue flight operations, such as Shokaku at Coral Sea, then that's a victory for the Americans. Similarly, the frailty of...

  18. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    That is probably a fair criticism; the escort carriers were known as "Combustible, Vulnerable, and Expendable." Even US crews acknowledged that they were not exactly safe to operate. Though to be fair to the US, virtually all escort carriers were conversions from civilian ships; merchant...

  19. Operation FS and the Kantai Kessen carrier battle in August 1942

    I've never read anything like this. American damage control has been universally praised by historians of the Pacific War and American ships were notoriously hardy. Yorktown likely would not have sunk had I-168 not penetrated her destroyer screen. The Lexington of the Essex-class was known as...

  20. What if Kyoto was nuked?

    Probably some more intense feelings on the immorality of using atomic weapons given that they would have been used on a city of greater historical and religious significance. Not much else though.
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