Definitely, I enjoyed the hand wringing about how old the B-52 was (in 1979!) and chuckled at the suggestion that conscription would allow us to compete against the Russians and would give us “value for our money.”
Granted it would take a lot more time than 90 minutes, but if the fleet sorties out of Pearl and into deep water, any ships that are sunk are not going to be recovered or salvaged. I expect losses could be even worse if the sortie is disorganized or piecemeal.
I think it is entirely possible that after the Randolph is nuked, the NCA would order air strikes against targets in Cuba. All it takes at that point is for a single SS-4 to be launched at the mainland US by the Soviet ground crews in Cuba and SAC is going to respond with overwhelming attacks...
Events would have almost certainly escalated out of control once the US responds in kind with a nuclear counterattack. It would have been almost impossible to stop once it started going, particular without the direct line of communication between DC and Moscow that was put in place after the...
Why not just adapt the original Dark Horse comic? It was great, had a good feel like that of the Aliens (1986) film. They went in such a dumb direction instead with the AvP films.
They were bought by Northrop back in '94 and became Northrop Grumman. They are still around. Alley Cat sounds like an unofficial name since a lot of their planes had "cat" names.
You might want to look into the development of the Charlton Automatic Rifle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Automatic_Rifle), as it is essentially a select fire light machine gun which was developed from the SMLE during WW2.
Flying in additional infantry is only going to exacerbate the already horrible supply situation, Sixth Army was starving...flying in 150 lbs of rations will be much more effective than flying in a 150 lb German paratroop that will have to be fed, supplied, and whatnot. That isn't to say that...