History, Politics And Current Affairs

Question 193rd Infantry Brigade had a airborne battalion during the cold war. The battalion was sent to Italy for the expansion of the 173rd should SOUTHCOM have a organic airborne battalion? In peacetime? Why? Once the 193rd IB left Panama when the US turned over control of the Panama Canal at the...

Now that the TU-22DP has been canonically mentioned/theorized . . . We're talking about something that had been theorized in fiction and war games since, what, the late 1970s to mid 1980s? And NATO intel might have caught wind of an actual Tu-22M2 based program in the 1980s. And then . . . nothing, ...

Good chapter. The KGB chairman is not a happy man. I'd be shocked if the Office of Naval Intelligence and Air Force Intelligence Agency can't figure out what the Soviets did. As far as the boys in the basement, I wonder how much longer that Admiral is going to be able to keep his personal red team F...

So it looks like we're really doing this. I can think of better ways to spend money than moving HQs, but it is what it is.
I was rather hoping that today's announcement would be about F/A-XX.

Trump Says Space Command HQ Will Move to Alabama (2 September 2025)

Just because I'm bored . . . Y'all do know this isn't the first appearance of a Soviet mystery aircraft in the story? :lol: Please elucidate... Yes please help us out, this story is old enough to buy beer in the USA now so it's hard to remember episodes from way back Also know one, members who read...

Just because I'm bored . . .
Y'all do know this isn't the first appearance of a Soviet mystery aircraft in the story?

Or use existing two seater fighters with tanker support. It will virtually attrit fighters and tankers, but that’s your fastest response. Those don't exactly grow in trees. But, the consolidated survivors of the Unites States' two F-14D squadrons do form a squadron(-) in Alaska. Short term, they ri...

Add Hughes AN/APG-71 radar to the nose in a chin mount (long since done) as that system can already handle AIM-54 and AIM-120 and the thing already has wiring loom paths to plumb pylons (if not the correct loom). It'll even give the radar return of a B-747.... Or just rustle F-14's from the boneyar...

How long would it take to turn a B-1 into a B-R? B-1B => B-1R? Years. New engine, new engine nacelles, new radar, systems integration, flight test program. You get the idea. Hang an AIM-120 or AIM-152? We're still looking at adding an A2A fire-control mode for the APQ-164 that goes beyond the "...

Something else to consider. Leveraging the USSR out of Mongolia may be in the PRC's interest, but NATO was probably fine with four fresh Soviet divisions + attachments just sitting in Mongolia. But if the Soviets are kicked out of Mongolia as they do not need another front, those 4 fresh Soviet div...

Great update as always, never expected to see that China hidden agenda is posabile starting a war with the Soviet Union wich would put China in a strange position of not only being a communist country at war with another communist country but also to have to deal with North Korea a communist countr...

Good chapter! Mongolia must be an interesting story in TLWverse. In @, the USSR and the PRC signed an agreement on the reduction of Soviet forces in Mongolia in February 1989, with the withdrawal of 39th Army announced in May 1989 - both pre-POD. I guess the USSR somehow reasserted itself in Mongoli...

The plot thickens . . . Air Force makes arrest in airman’s shooting death involving M18 pistol By Stephen Losey August 8, 2025 The Air Force has arrested an airman in connection with the July 20 death of another airman, which involved a Sig Sauer M18 and led the service to suspend the use of the pis...

Good chapter!

I'm curious to learn the sourcing of the RC helicopters, especially given the D+31 first appearance.

Interesting to see the Australian version of Ground Branch. Even more interesting that they were inserted pre-war.

Keep up the good work!

Question for Bernard from Lordroel's board re. the French. We've stated that even though they are not a signatory, the French do consider themselves bound by the terms of the INF Treaty. The question is if French consider themselves bound by START III, and as such their SLBMs are only armed with 1-2...

Bundesmarine question.

How would the Narwal mini-sub fit in, and would there be more than one in service?

It sounds more intel-adjacent asset than a spec-ops / Kampfschwimmer support asset.

Good chapter! 1745 hours GMT, Near NAS Barbers Point, O’ahu. “Are you worried about that MD500 that’s tracking us?” Commander McGarrett asked. “It’s flying overwatch; couple of friends of Magnum. I felt that their bird would be more discrete than an HPD, or military chopper.” Both Chase and Purdey h...

We have a nominee for Chief of Naval Operations - Admiral Daryl Caudle. He is a career submariner. Though I am curious why it took this long. Trump taps Fleet Forces head as Navy’s next chief of naval operations - Navy Times, 18 June 2025 Trump taps Caudle as Navy’s next leader, USMC’s Mahoney as jo...

Added Finnish Navy.

Added Swedish Navy.