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Why was the French leadership in WW2 so lethargic? It sounds like they were getting reports via bicycle courier and sleeping on every decision.
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Why does American military hardware all start with an M?
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Aug 19, 2011 21:16
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Sure their tanks and BMPs were radiation protected, but what about their supply trucks!
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Aug 20, 2011 05:01
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Why are tank guns smoothbore instead of rifled?
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Aug 24, 2011 20:13
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Has anyone invented cluster bombs with random timed fuses? It would be very risky to clear them without a bulldozer or exploding-rope-on-a-rocket.
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Aug 30, 2011 22:37
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I've heard that the Bradly had a rough development. Was it mission creep or something else?
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Sep 11, 2011 06:17
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They can probably do most of their training flights with more accessible planes.
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Sep 12, 2011 01:39
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An Iranian nuclear program intended for immediate use against Israel would require the thousands of people involved all be suicide bombers. A good argument against nukes is just Murphy's law; It's inevitable that SOMEONE/THING will gently caress up and destroy civilization. This is more true with faster delivery methods where NORAD or whoever have less time to figure out whether or not full-scale retaliation is the proper response. "Whoops, it was just a computer glitch! Boy is my face red and also melting". Ograbme fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Sep 12, 2011 |
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Sep 12, 2011 22:12
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DJ Dizzy posted:How would you describe the outbreak of WW1? Comical? A complete and utter dogmatized officercorp? Alchenar posted:A roll of the dice by a German Government which was aware that within two years it's only plan to win the next war would be rendered obselete and which needed a war to assert it's status as a great power.
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Sep 13, 2011 23:04
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Were there any diehard fanatics who didn't accept Doinitz's surrender and kept fighting the Allies?
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Sep 16, 2011 23:54
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How is the Stryker? I somehow got the impression that it suffers from design by committee/feature creep but I don't know how true that is.
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Sep 24, 2011 21:05
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Was civilian morale really that important with a relatively fanatical population and near absolute control?
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Sep 24, 2011 22:23
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drat. The thought of Napoleonic lines and columns with bolt action rifles 
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Oct 1, 2011 01:09
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Too bad the French didn't believe in fuel.
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Oct 3, 2011 17:00
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What were Napoleon's secrets to success? A clever gimmick, luck, balls, genius, or ???
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Oct 7, 2011 00:13
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Someone say stuff about naval development and battles between the first ironclad and the Dreadnought. Like why did ships in WW1 still have what looks like rigging.
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Oct 12, 2011 18:08
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INTJ Mastermind posted:Step 2 I knew the other steps from Oberlieutenant's Silent Hunter LP, but I never knew how they got this one. That's a lot more precise than they "ehh, looks like it pointing towards us by 15 degrees" method. Ograbme fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Oct 13, 2011 |
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Oct 13, 2011 05:04
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Were American Civil War battles still fought in Napoleonic point-blank battles? The rifles were so much more accurate that I can't see the shooting phase of a battle lasting more than 15 minutes!
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Oct 28, 2011 05:51
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Someone say stuff about 3rd-4th generation jets! Weapons, radar, planes, tactics, avionics, whatever.
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May 18, 2012 00:59
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How did wargames work before modern computers and laser tag? I have a hard time picturing Napoleon rolling dice and looking up a terrain effects chart or a referee standing between two firing lines telling x number of grenadiers they're "out" between volleys.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Those were actually anti-torpedo bulges.
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Trench_Rat posted:
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than the Czar Tank
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What were conventional NATO/WarPac forces expected to do in a nuclear WW3? Morale would be zero and everyone not in a tank or APC would be vomiting blood.
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Jun 9, 2012 01:28
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I'm surprised Turkey doesn't support Kurdish autonomy in Iraq just so they can say "THERE. THERE'S YOUR loving KURDISTAN. NOW QUIT YOUR BITCHING AND GET OUT."
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Samopsa posted:Yeah, the west really hosed up the mid-east during that period. Turkey turned out pretty nice apart from the (still denied) genocide of Armenians. They have a secular government, but the military holds lots of power. Pretty weird, but wayyy better compared to the poo poo that's happened in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan etc. Oil and greed really screwed the citizens in that region. What have international mercenaries been up to since WW2? Aside from survivalist/hitmen ads in Soldier of Fortune, I only know about the Congo wars and the Seychelles coup (deposed president hired some guys to retake the island Jagged Alliance-style, then some idiot told the airport customs guy that he had an AK in his duffel bag).
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