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Alexander the Great's empire, had he lived, always seems to end up with a global Hellenic empire, somehow. Everyone also seems to think that Rome was always completely unstoppable. Spain in the 15th-17th centuries also seems to be able to turn itself into a global empire as soon as the Armada...

From the leadership consensus, but I think, by and large, the rank and file membership (trade unionists, etc) are far more left than the New Labour leadership. Hence all the disillusionment in the party, even in reality (and the few popular far-left MPs, who attract support well outside their...

Labour loses the Iraq War vote and Blair loses a vote of confidence in Parliament as a consequence. Galloway (and by extension his Respect party) are brought back into the fold of the party by a Labour Party scrambling to the left in an effort to distance itself from the incredibly unpopular New...

It's probably worth noting that all of this activity of moving unwieldy siege guns isn't going to go unnoticed or unopposed, however, particularly by the significantly longer-ranged, mobile, and heavier naval artillery of the large number of battleships around. And that a fortress in the...

Such a force would be impossible to supply and cut off from all support except an already exceptionally weak Iraqi rebellion. To me, it just seems a recipe to hand over a division's worth of prisoners to the Allies, in exchange for buying a little more time for the rebels.

Their infantry can have Minbari fighting pikes. Personally, I'd give the Polish lancers singing spears.

I'd have thought that all of those threads where the Nazis invade through to India via in a pincer movement with the Japanese via Turkey would count as one of those for Nazi logistics.

Oh. I'm very sorry to have brought it up, then! I'm glad that my procrastination from doing my actual work is helping somebody*.

The problem with these designs is that any parasite fighter is going to have vastly inferior performance to a full-sized one. Which makes them expensive, problematic, and useless. Not that it has stopped many attempts at it; there were plans to do this kind of thing with Folland Gnats slung...

I'm not sure it's the thread that it says something about, given that it misses the AH parts. But it'll do. I'm also very impressed by your apparent ability to never sleep or eat. I've been working on and off every few hours, taking naps and then getting back to work for the past 30 hours; and...

Much as others have pointed out, the American Revolution wasn't (which is why it's more accurately called the American War of Independence). The same people were in charge of the country afterwards as they had been before; the faces on the coins just changed. It was essentially about the...

Just the brief point that deciding to capture Gibraltar, a heavily-defended fortress with only a narrow, mined strip of land connecting it to the mainland with a rather large number of guns pointing at it... Isn't the same as capturing Gibraltar, a heavily-defended fortress with only a narrow...

I feel this thread should be renamed to more accurately reflect its contents. Or, at least, so I can make a cheap joke now that the actual discussion part is over. And we've all bonded through this collective experience. How about:My Little Poland: Radar is Magic

If Japan gets involved, then the United States is probably thrown into the mix a good year and a half 'early'. With the Japanese home islands defenceless from the sea and with absolutely no protection of their supply lines for their campaign to China. And that's assuming that they are refuelled...

Well, you could certainly avoid an invasion of Poland in the same way in September 1939 by having Britain and France stand up for Czechoslovakia in 1938, rather than leaving them to face the Nazis alone. That'd butterfly a lot of things away, and it is a political change... but I'm not certain...