http://www.netvouz.com/emmineb/tag/germany?feed=rss emmineb's bookmarks tagged "germany" on Netvouz http://www.alternatehistory.com/gateway/essays/Sealion.html The Second World War has always been a favorite stomping ground of alternate historians, especially the writers of alternate history novels. Probably the most popular single alternate history in the western world is one where the Nazis win the war. In order to accomplish this, the creators of many timelines utilize Operation Sealion, a German plan in 1940 for the invasion of Britain. Unfortunately, what most don't realize is that Sealion was nothing more than a pipe dream - utterly unworkable in any alternate history at all similar to the history we are familiar with. In this essay, I will examine the various reasons why Operation Sealion would not work, and could not be made to work (without _extremely_ large changes) in an alternate timeline. Check out my emmineb Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:01:47 GMT http://www.flin.demon.co.uk/althist/seal1.htm One of the more common suggestions that crop up at all-too regular intervals goes along the lines of: "If Hitler hadn't switched from bombing airfields to bombing cities, then Operation Sealion would have worked." Unfortunately for these suggestions, the plan for Sealion was perhaps the most flawed plan in the history of modern warfare. Getting it to a workable state requires so many changes that an author's artistic license would be revoked. What follows is an analysis of Sealion in OTL emmineb Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:58:55 GMT https://thediplomat.com/2014/11/everything-you-know-about-clausewitz-is-wrong/ As Mark Twain reputedly quipped, it’s not so much what we know that gets us in trouble; it’s what we know that just ain’t so. How much of what we know about martial ventures is wrong? In the naval sphere, for instance, it’s common knowledge that Alfred Thayer Mahan instructs commanders never to divide the fleet. Except he doesn’t. Once upon a time, it turns out, historians took to quoting other historians quoting Mahan to that effect. Over time the quotation — in reality, someone’s bowdlerized version of his ideas about concentrating naval strength — took on an air of authenticity and authority. “Never divide the fleet” endured as a truism despite its flimsy provenance. And it drowned out Mahan’s real ideas through constant repetition. emmineb Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:59:10 GMT http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de/mapsp/mapd848.htm Staaten im Deutschen Bund 1848 emmineb Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:52:30 GMT