Recent content by raharris1973

This is completely imaginable. The Japanese don't rape Nanjing, they line up and pay their fees at tow/city red light district brothels like (relatively) civilized men. All these alternatives are conceivable. They may seem a little strange to us, but stranger things have been proposed, and...

These responses all assume *too much* that for greater Soviet gain, and aggression, there *must* be an equal and opposite anti-Soviet Western Allied reaction. I say to the contrary, not at all. Soviet aggression against Poland, the Baltics, Romania, did not cause permanent unforgivability of...

They were by 1936 facing a lot of resistance, or desire for it, in the northwest - from the warlords who kidnapped CKS, Yang Hucheng and Xiang Xueliang, and Fu Zuoyi, who in 1936 inspired even more resistance sentiment by successfully repelling a Japanese probe deeper into his own part of...

Even with the Lusitania, there is no straight, linear, inevitable, uninterruptible line from the Lusitania sinking in May 1915, less than a year into the war, and the US DoW in April 1914, 23 months, nearly two years, later, after several quite important intervening incidents and diplomatic...

I think this part is a little bit of an overoptimistic extrapolation. The whole situation could indeed make Norway trickier for Germany, but Germany is *not* going to let northern worries let it take the eye off the ball in the Low Countries and France in spring 1940.

It is said, but it is BS. Such an observation or theory of causation is the classic example of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc logical fallacy. That is latin for "this happened after this, therefore it was because of this" which fails to separates coincidences from causes. Correlations, even...

I as the OP, am reviving this thread, to allow more voting, as this thread, with its poll, would be complementary/ and supplementary to the current thread. And such a poll would be time-consuming to freshly reconstruct from scratch...

@HJ Tulp @Garrison @Carl Schwamberger and everyone else. Some years back, I made a thread with multiple choices (lots of them, using almost the whole alphabet) to ask just when Japan came to the viewpoint that an attack on one power to its south (the Dutch, the US, or UK) by necessity meant a...

By when, relative to the timing of the European War's outbreak in 1939? Could Japan have well puppet'ed the Nanjing government and its Whampoa Clique led Army under the command of He Yinqin, and be satisfied it has pretty thoroughly destroyed Communist Armies and bases in China proper, and...

I think colonies are overrated as a liability for Germany, simply because they were not retained in WWI and were not defensible, or really reachable during the war. It does not mean they were especially costly for Germany compared to what Britain's colonies cost Britain, France's cost France...

I assume this is based just on the blurb in Amazon, or the book's title: subtitle, not a reading of the book, or kindle sample?

Wouldn't the Koreans be better off? Or feel better off? Could/would the Russians make them feel as second or third class as the Japanese did?

If too big Russia wouldn't be sustainable for too long, then if you see Russia as a big bad bear of a threat, it sounds like nothing to worry about. Then what is not to love about a scenario that slows down Japanese growth, cockiness and exuberance in Korea and China, and also doesn't buff up...

https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-American-Gamble-Harbor-Germanys-ebook/dp/B08Y8LSKD4/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=q8uxt&content-id=amzn1.sym.c3fcbb7c-339f-45ab-80dc-facbe5841fce&pf_rd_p=c3fcbb7c-339f-45ab-80dc-facbe5841fce&pf_rd_r=7E13Y4QG248EWQH0H86G&pd_rd_wg=8tfA4&pd_rd_r=de62da6d-a324-4590-8183-6a4fd...

Well let's talk turkey and, and get to brass tacks, shall we? First off, the bolded second part of your statement is rather important, eh? "KNIL had 6 P-6 fighters" (I assume this was the 1936 and 1937 figure, was it something higher in 1941-42? - What about in between, like the winter of...