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The Germans learned togther with the Soviets during the inter-war years about mobile armored warfare for doctrine. The french tank designs reflected a thinking that didn't implement mobile armored warfare.

ISTR that the fuel logistic situation in the french army was in a poor state. Their defensive response with their tanks was limited because of it.

Aitape, Papua New Guinea. M10s got around.

I keep thinking of these when the booker thread is bumped.

Yeah, I remember that talk. F/A-XX currently seems to be in hot soup. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-navys-new-fighter-jet-threatened-by-funding-dispute-sources-say-2025-05-14/ Maybe another click baiter's Godsend is a breathtaking reversal big annoncement that the F-55 is a "stealth F-14" that saves the navy. Who knows.. But with the delays in development and cost overruns in so many projects for so many years, at some point, it's all going to hit reality, one way or the other.

Japan lost control of the sea so the US was able to be selective as to where to penetrate and where to skip. Keep control of the sea and have no weak land areas that could be easy to capture to be used as access-denial against sea control.

For the Pacific, just garrison the various locations. Don't plan on losing sea control. Give FLRAA money to the Navy for F-35Cs, Block 3 F-18s, 2 subs a year construction pace. Japan, the Philippines, Australia, and a possibly even South Korea can help garrison some places throughout the theatre.

Maybe a ground radar station provided target data to the PL15?

Invaded China while proper democracy countries had empires. Besides, Xi'an incident led Second Sino-Chinese War to be partially a cause by the Chinese. The Chinese which was not one faction. Nationalists Chinese were trapped by Communists Chinese into war prematurely with Japan. It wasn't Japan's invasion of China that really set off the Rooservelt administration to escalate on Japan. It was Japan approaching success as by 1940, a 3rd Chinese faction was firmly established led by Wang Jingwei, whose faction got commitment to an end of extraordinary rights from Japan before Chiang Kai-shek got similar declared commitments from US and GB. So much airbrushed history.

What hasn't been explored at all was what if Asia matters were treated differently from European matters? Afterall, 1920/30s Europe and the US was the most advanced hotspot while 1920s/30s Asia was land of colonies and China civil war. From qualitative perspective no oil embargo with US war vs just Germany could be better outcome.

So what's the big celebration for? China's fall to communism, Korea cut in half and Korean War, the birth of DPRK, Taiwan's fall to dictorship KMT? Keeping celebrations to the European theatre does make sense.

PLA Air Force during some joint training in Egypt. https://www.ts.cn/xwzx/gnxw/202505/t20250505_28326984.shtml https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/1333341.shtml

I'm happy to share, thank you for looking at them and the compliments.

The curse of two Koreas has continued since then all the way to now, where heavy geopolitical competition with China and Russia is being topped-off with a nuclear North Korea. The outcome of the two Koreas debacle is yet to be concluded. It should have been one Korea released from the destruction of the empire of Japan. The early normalizaton and acceptance of two Koreas is the "win" bar standard set below what a win is in reality.

Fair enough.