did the Israelis actually plan on driving on Damascus? IIRC, they debated it, but decided it would be beyond their capacity to capture and hold. And 'not tactically proficient' is an understated way of putting it... the Iraqis wasted a big chunk of their armored force by basically driving...
I don't see the US being all that interested in Saddam or Iraq if he doesn't invade, other than to make sure his army is well supplied and sitting on the border with Iran to keep the latter cowed. Once the Iran-Iraq war was over, the US had pretty much achieved what it wanted... basically...
I wonder if the biggest affect might not be on how the rest of the world sees the USA. I've always had a vague idea that before WW2, the USA was regarded overseas as 'rich, but insular and not all that powerful or important'. Now, the USA has just defeated a major power, has one of the bigger...
well, don't forget that a lot of what the CSA black population did was agricultural work, running small farms, working on big white owned farms, and a lot of those jobs went away with mechanization. And I'd think that even if the Freedomites knew about the ramifications of their genocidal...
it's been a while since I read the books, but weren't the Mexicans (both immigrants and native born) seen as the 'replacements' for the black population being slaughtered, in that they would take over the menial jobs the latter were doing? Also, weren't the men all allowed to vote? I had the...
now, that seems likely.... settling down starting in the better watered areas and spreading out into less suitable areas with modifications to the crop package. Which brings up the question of just which native plants would grow well in the dryer areas of the west...
having other animals for food would seem to depend a lot on just how settled they get to be. As noted earlier in the thread, maize would be hard to grow in a lot of places in the west due to lack of water, and there's not really a good substitute waiting in the ranks for it. Still, they could...
okay, hadn't read that. Were they truly domesticated like boars/pigs, or just confined and slaughtered when needed?
If the horse is the only big domesticate they have though, I'd think 'reliable food source' would be a big role for them. True, bison would continue to be hunted, but relying on...
a bit OT, but I can remember a 'battle replay' in an old General concerning some game set in the Pacific in WW2, where the Allied player slowly built up a considerable RN force somewhere on the map. And then rather ruthlessly sent them in to die valiantly in combat with the IJN, and taking out...
can peccaries be domesticated? Never read of anyone doing that.
the subject of 'Native Americans domesticating horses that never died out' has come up on here before, and I'd point out that if it happened, the horse would basically be everything to them, as it's the one big native animal they...
I was still living in the small town in MT that I grew up in, near nothing important, so I would have survived the war, but not the aftermath. With the breakdown of supply routes, and the general lack of priority for the state, a lot of the population would be starving in the winter. About the...
this was my first thought as well... the US didn't have any real tradition of 'heavy shock cavalry', but the ACW saw uses for cavalry for other tasks that worked just fine. Raiding was about the one thing they could do that worked well in combat, and even that was more a matter of 'using lots...
going beyond the US/Iran conflict... what would this do to other nations who have embassies there? I'd wonder if just about all of them would either reduce or eliminate their presences there since Iran just showed it is more than willing to ignore diplomatic sovereignty and actually slaughter a...