BlkbrryTheGreat wrote:First off, you can bet your britches that Rommel, Patton, and Eisenhower will all be pushing for the creation of an Independent "branch" for ground combat, in otherwords an Army. If that fails then they will definatly try to at least get a "Marine" Corps organized. You can also bet that you'll be seeing enlisted men serving officers instead of having combat units filled with nothing but officers.
Reasonable and practical
BlkbrryTheGreat wrote:Once this comes to pass, I'd wager that you'll start seeing speicalized groud combat equipment in service again.
Keep in mind that some of the equipment your proposing will have to go through a development and testing cycle, so it won't be available in the short term.
BlkbrryTheGreat wrote: *Snip*
Eisenhower would definatly push for a dedicated specialized planetary landing craft, considering his expirence at D-Day. Rommel and Patton would push for close tactical airsupport craft and Armor/APC units, both of them realize the importance of movement.
Classic examples. It will be months at least, probably a year or more, before the Federation can design, test, mass produce, and deploy vehicles like these.
BlkbrryTheGreat wrote:Regardless of how effective it might be, I can't imagine any of these officers actually recommending the use of chemical weapons under less then dire circumstances though.
Even if they suggest it, I don't see the Federation going along.
BlkbrryTheGreat wrote:As for the Naval Arm, Yamamoto and Halsey would probably both push for the development of specialized "carrier" units equiped with a cloak.
Cloaks are forbidden by a treaty that the Federation didn't break for the Dominion War. Designing and constructing new starship designs will take years (although the Akira class is apparently already under construction by this time).
BlkbrryTheGreat wrote: You can also bet that Yamamoto would start research on vessels capable of going toe to toe with the large Klingon and Dominion Battleships...... renaming the first six vessels after the "Yamato" and "Iowa" class vessels would certainly be a nice touch.
Galaxy-class starships
are capable of directly fighting Vor'Cha-class Klingon attack cruisers; don't know about the Negh'Var-class or Dominion battleships, though. There has already been a Galaxy-class starship Yamato.
BlkbrryTheGreat wrote:Finally, Hermann Goring would be de-activated because even Starfleet would quickly realize how useless this Goring really was. If on the other hand they listen to Goring you can bet you'll see silly situations like the "Shuttle" fleet trying to assault the Cardassian Homeworld because Goring claimed that it was possible; regardless of evidence to the contrary.
It seems that Goring will be unanimously shouted down by the other holograms and eliminated by Starfleet. Forget him.
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