Sure. Same as the ones on Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.
heavy shore bombardment can clear many obstacles, but the reality is that enough survive that have to be taken one at a time by fire teams with satchel charges or flame throwers..
The Allies would have taken the beaches and eventually...
Most of the IJA in the Home Islands was, by the time the decision between Invasion or Blockade & Burn was made, largely static, with horse and ox drawn transport. Soldiers spent much of their time, as the blockade bit, working on truck gardens and as agricultural workers as on guard duty. They...
Arguably it was in some ways somewhat worse than The Great Famine. Many Irish were able to flee, and at least some relief supplies and funding was sent in (including a personal donation from Queen Victoria). The aid wasn't sufficient and many died who couldn't scrape the fund to flee.* Japanese...
In the end Japan more closely resembled 1968 Biafra, the hardest hit portions of Ethiopia during the 1983-85 Famine or Leningrad at the height of the siege
Japan didn't really surrender in the sense of asking for terms or having a "Tokyo Bay" signing ceremony. It simply begged for mercy. As I...
WO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED & TWENTY-SEVEN DAYS
You dragged a rotting corpse out of the grave for TWO bloody sentences?
NEVER even think of doing this again.
Reagan would have been reelected as many times as he ran (assuming conditions that allowed a serious Conservative wing of the GOP to appear out of what would seem to be a MUCH more liberal Party/Nation), but it is a good point about the two term tradition.
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Don't go out of the way to pick fights about "alternate Pariah states" in ANY of the Main AH Forums.
If you MUST try to start a political flame war do it in Chat.
I've grown tired of your regular voyages into the petrol seas.
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If Islamic expansion failed to this degree the entire Old World (at the very least) would be radically different. It would mean that the more distant lands (from Mecca & Medina) would be far more Christian than IOTL. There probably would never have been any Crusades.