Like many war leaders have discovered at the cost of many lives, fighting a two front war is usually a bad idea. The Germans did not learn from WWI...
I have certainly enjoyed this conversation, and like me, I assume those participating are doing their homework on this subject, so let me interject a...
I totally agree with the too early part, it might be equivalent to moving your queen out too early on the chess board and then getting her trapped...
As Americans we need to stop using the phrase "sneak attack" when refering to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. There are two reasons for this....
Their choice to develop a slave based system was probably more along the lines of a costs/benefits analysis. In the context of international...
No doubt it was a good thing that the Axis made critical strategic errors. This kind of discussion is one of the reasons I love history. Students...
Of this actually happened prior to the Germans accessing the Suez and the oil, with Rommel's stalemate and defeat in the First and Second Battles of...
Access to resources like Middle East oil would have definitely changed the character of the war. Then the strategy of the Allies might have focused...
I was thinking a little bigger scale. For example, Japan could have made their presence felt in the western part of the Pacific without attacking...
The causes of the Civil War are well documented but should obviously start with a study of the regionalism that developed in USA prior to the 1860s....
Excellent observation, it is also important to consider the fact that many colonists did not want to choose a side and attempted to stay neutral....
Sorry, no pic, but the tip was obviously a detonating device that was cone shaped, mostly brass, with distance markings on the rings that allowed the...
I was curious if artillery shells in WWI used pnematically-driven ranging devices? I have seen what looked liked a range setting tip for an...
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