<t> Back in the 90's there was an earlier version of this game, my first game was a hot seat game and it was very similar. I reinforced Singapore with the Flying Tigers, and air units from the PI, my convoys to Singapore were massive, the British carrier group flying 100%CAP and nothing else as much ...

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I believe that looks sweet, though I would be tempted to turn Tagula Island into an big defensive air base. his 4E bombers need to attack somewhere ...

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a good friend of mine from way back, moved to Chicago from West Virgina when he was 14, now he knew that W.Va. had a heavy accent and at 14 he did not want to be made fun of, so he took ...

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very interesting talk, but in a lot of ways he was confined into the group-think box which dominated the policies of last decade. Also I never realized one of my favorite guitarist was a ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: GreyJoy<br/>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>This paper is from 2009 and uses older data. Things have gotten dramatically worse for Iranian young people in the past two years under sanctions. They have an unsustainable unemployment rate, one of the youngest populations is in the world due to social effects after the ...

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Why is a political question my answer would only start fights, but as US87891, put it before he deleted the post, a professional military does ...

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a very large, very young, very unemployed male population which can't get brides unless something changes. This is a nation which lost circa one million men in a fruitless war against Iraq. Human wave attacks. And the economy ...

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true, true... you know if someone ...

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impossibility of running a modern country with a 100.0% reduction in one's main / exclusive (?) cash export<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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a person would expect Saudi Arabia to have a far more sophisticated manufacturing center and ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>I recall a long series of news stories about five or eight years ago suggesting that the Iranian public was on the verge of uprising to overthrow the government. I assume that this sentiment was quashed by the government's rather violent response over the years ensuing. So ...

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Part of the problem is that the article , like the conceptions most people tend to have of a potential gulf war, is that it will either be a cakewalk or armagendon. Like most things in life, I think the answer is somewhere in the ...

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-Why do players rush to get the upgrades for the Oscar and the Zero? Honestly it seems like the only fighter worth getting is is the George. Am I missing something? I'm looking at the stats and the George beats the pants off any other ...

But the val and other dive-bombers are so valuable out on some forward island where you don't have a air HQ for the torpedo, Or on a CVE without torpedo capability.

<t> Pakistan will get real interesting, Pakistan is made up of four ethic groups, The largest is Sunni and who makes up the bulk of the civilian middle class, the next largest also Sunni has ruled for decades and controls the military, there are the Pashtune or the tribal area, they too are Sunni ...

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US goals will to wage an air war only, targeting Iranian nuclear facilities and their military industrial complex, with the ultimate goal of ...

<r> An Interesting report : Analyzing the Impact of Preventive<br/>
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Move the General Defense HQ over one hex.

Oh and a very nice start to the air war over Chungking, not only are you chewing up the flying Tigers, but more important his supply. I bet they high tail it to India soon. But the longer they fly over China the better. More starvation for the Chinese army.