Rigging a 30cm AP round, and a bombsight accurate enough to get a hit from 5,000 feet is going to be quite a trick. Assuming you pull it off, then you are reproducing what the Japanese used against the US fleet @ PH. Long odds indeed for 1918
Major Powers with economic interests in China
British Empire.
French Empire
United States
USSR
Secondary Powers with economic interests in China
(probably forgot a couple here, but the reader should get the idea)
Italy
Portugal
Germany
Netherlands
Any one of the major powers might be...
Depends in part on how disruptive to the 'China Trade' Japanese occupation is. Into the early 20th Century China was the principle Asian trading bloc of the US. The collapse of the Imperial government, the failure of the Republic, the Warlord era, the civil war as the KMT sought to take...
Ive seen a few that approached this. None went far. Part of it was Patton was a typical WASP of that era. He did favor democracy and the American way as far as it applied to the right people and they were in charge. Like my uncle Edwin a contemporary of Patton, democracy was just fine...
The other half of that is the relevant admirals dismissing the signals intel warning of the German ships sortie. Its possible that will happen with a carrier shipping out with the ugly sisters.
Ahem. Addressing the OP question. I am assuming The increased Christian population occurs relatively recently, partially as a product of the Ottoman Milet system.
In simple terms yes. There are many nuances, but the bottom line the 'native' Palestinian population including many more...
Yepper. If Japan attacks prematurity it is a bad move for the Axis. If someone tried that on a WWII game board the players might be calling the game very early and move on.
Im not the expert on Japanese capabilities here, but making the Maritime provinces the primary goal for 1941 looks like the smart money. Maybe select points in the Far Eastern provinces is a doable secondary goal. Major offensive all along the Far Eastern region is simply not practical.
One of the core questions here is: When does Britain determine to actually go to war with Japan? There are several underlying questions for this.
1. Has Japan decided not to occupy French Indo China. If not then we can waive away the embargo of 1941 & the related tension between Japan, the...
I turn off the auto correct when I can figure out how. Wastes a lot of time with non English words, archaic spellings, and abreviations and acronyms. I spend more time proof reading with auto correct than without it.
They could, but its unlikely. IJN doctrine eschewed the scale of NGF support of land operations the Allied engaged in 1943-45. For everyone the damage NGF vs land targets was overestimated pre war & it took some experience to get to the useful formula. "Generous" in Japanese therms of...
A common 19th Century attitude. The expectation was things would sort them selves out in a year or two. There was also a old attitude that people in financial distress were suffering from a moral failing. Investors, bank officers, and the home or business owners affected were all in trouble...