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  1. Earlier use of CT’s in the Civil War

    What do you think the short and long term impact would be of the earlier use of CT’s in America’s Civil War by 10 months to a year? 1

  2. Impact of post-Civil War American intervention against Spain and Maximilian?

    The United States came close to intervening in Mexico at various points in time after the Civil War. It also had war moments where it closed in on war with Spain not long after the war. What would be the impact of a more muscular American foreign policy in the first decade after the Civil War...

  3. Impact on the post-war South of a larger contingent of military trained African American veterans

    For a year in 1864 and 1865 a battle raged in the press and the Confederate Congress about the enlistment of African American troops in combat. I have been recently reading about it through the primary sources and it was certainly the most contentious debate the South had other then the...

  4. Major anti-British uprisings in the Middle East in late 1940

    An anti-British uprising starts in September 1940 in say Transjordan then Iraq and is poorly handled and spreads across the region and within a couple weeks large portions of the Middle East are in flames. What would be the impact on the wider war of Britain having to spread more its forces...

  5. Which generals of the 1900 to the present were the best and worst at counterinsurgency?

    Strong conventional war generals who understand what it takes to break an enemies lines often times find themselves completely out of their depth when faced with an insurgency. Out of nowhere there comes an enemy that wears no uniform, hides among civilians and appears and disappears at a...

  6. A contested Virginia referedum result April 5th 1861

    University of Richmond map of the second VA Secession Convention. 45 delegates voted for succession on April 4th 1861 to 90 against. However, at that point all were waiting on the upcoming citizens referendum results. The pro-Union camp in the Virginia legislature at the start of April was...

  7. A larger Tet offensive

    Suppose the NVA had thrown in almost completely in with a conventional attack from the North and turned it into an all or nothing gamble say by mobilizing an extra 300K NVA conventional troops and sending them South like the Easter offensive in 1972. What would the U.S. political and military...

  8. The IS attack on Mosul is delayed by 9 months

    Let's assume IS's Mosul commander isn't captured and killed with his massive supply of thumb drives with their highest level info captured and given to the U.S. triggering the attack on Mosul far sooner then IS wanted. What would be the effect of a delayed attack on Mosul by say 9 months without...

  9. Effect on the African and Europe front of the Pacific War going biochemical

    Suppose the IJA used gas against against U.S. troops in the Philippines in 1941, the U.S. responds by building up it's gas stockpile and using it in the Dolittle Raid followed by Japan launching balloons with weaponized plague-infected fleas in the West coast. How would it effect the war in...

  10. What if significantly more African and Middle Eastern troops had been used in WW2?

    What if the major combatants had decided to use Africans and Middle Easterners in much higher numbers then they did OTL in the course of the Desert War? Obviously, they did use Middle Easterners and Africans, even the DAK had them and units like the Free Arabian Legion the race laws were...

  11. Whose post WW2 WAlled plans were superior?

    Of the three major WAllied post war plans which were the superior of the three? Churchill's plan looks more like it was meant to weaken Germany for awhile before it eventually reunifies. FDR's reminds me of the Holy Roman Empire with so many mini states.

  12. Jefferson leaves Paris and attends the Constitutional Convention

    Jefferson hit his pro-abolitionist high water mark during his time in France with Sally and her brother the latter of which he publicly freed when he got home and the former, well, we don't know what happened to her papers other then she died for all intents and purposes a free woman living on...

  13. The Carmel Plan for the defense of Palestine takes place

    First one has to really have a POD back to at least 1940 and more likely earlier including closer Italian and German cooperation and perhaps the Turks and Spanish entering the war and a delayed American entry, but lets say events transpire to get the Panzer Army Africa into the Middle East. On...

  14. Paris uprising to correspond with D-Day

    What would be the short and long term effects of an uprising in Paris similar to the one that happened in Warsaw planned and organized to occur at the same time the landings in Normandy start occurring?

  15. Saddam turns over Zarqawi in 2002 after the killing of U.S. envoy Laurence Foley

    King Abdullah who has a world class intelligence agency told Saddam many times exactly where Zarqawi in 2002 in Iraq when he was moving around from Anbar to Baghdad to Northern Iraq to set the stage for a post war insurgency, but his regime refused Abdullah's requests. In 2002 Zarqawi from...

  16. If FDR lived would he have given Stalin an occupation zone in mainland Japan?

    Suppose FDR lived another 9 months and had been the one to drop the bomb on Japan. Would have have demanded Japan unconditionally surrender to both the U.S. as well as the USSR at the same time unlike what happened OTL and would FDR have split up mainland Japan into occupation zones between the...

  17. No Backing Down! The WH makes good on its Red Line

    August 27th 2013: President Obama tells the country that with or without Congress he will act in the interests of the U.S. and in the interests of humanity itself in Syria after the Ghouta nerve gas attack. August 28th 2013: The WH allays fears in Baghdad that the U.S. intervention in Syria...

  18. Political effects if two major Zarqawi terror attacks succeeded

    The first one was an attempted attack planned in 2001 and 2002 that was supposed to be executed in 2002 to blow up several Jewish centers in Germany and if they had bombs left over to destroy a train. The second one which was Zarqawi's second most ambitious attack next to blowing up the...

  19. The fallout from a much larger Operation Himmler

    What would be the fallout if Operation Himmler had been massively expanded to include gas attacks on German villages in Eastern Germany as well as large scale attacks on several towns in Eastern German villages by masked SS troops in Polish Army uniforms and several SS planted bombings in Berlin...

  20. Congress continues to vote no on the bank bailouts

    As we know OTL they voted no once. They voted no on bailing out the automakers as well and never voted for funds for them, but Bush used the money from the bank bailouts to save the automakers. In this scenario Congress continues to vote no on money to save the banks and Bush doesn't have...
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