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  1. What if the US Invasion of Grenada escalated into something bigger?

    How The population of Grenada was about 100,000. If 10% of Grenada are fighting men,prepared to fight to the death, and somehow magically getting unlimited ammo and weapons despite a US navy blockade (how?), You have 10,000 men, and even then it's hard to see how they could inflict more than...

  2. What if the US Invasion of Grenada escalated into something bigger?

    How? On Grenada itself, the US can easily isolate the tiny island and then overwhelm with numbers. Tougher resistance means slightly higher US casualties. Not strategically significant. If Castro wants to open a new front elsewhere outside of Cuba, he is just sending forces to their doom...

  3. WI: Could the Space Shuttle Program, if given the resources, theorhetically support 15-20 flights per year?

    I remember watching a news program pre Challenger about the economics of Shuttle Vs Ariane etc,. And NASA planning to flye every 2 weeks to bring down cost per launch and become commercially competitive as a satellite launch platform. They definitely were going to try with the tech and fleet...

  4. What if Terminator 2 kept the T-800 villainous?

    The original plan was to have Schwarzenegger as the good t800 and Michael Biehn as the bad t1000. They were not sure if audiences would have understood it, but would have been mind blowing Rp was great though

  5. What if: US conducts a punitive expedition instead of occupation in Afganistan?

    Never going to happen The same day they started bombing, they started dropping pallets of food out c130. There was massive internal and external pressure to fix every problem in Afghanistan. It started as get OBL, then get Taliban, and somehow occupation became about imposing democracy...

  6. What are the concequences of Argentina winning the Falklands War?

    Bulwark had had a major fire in 1981. This is quite different from other major ships that might have been older but had no such damage. She was proposed for reactivation, inspected for potential reactivation, and the idea was cancelled after inspection.

  7. What are the concequences of Argentina winning the Falklands War?

    I feel there is a lot of strange ahistorical and whig history stuff in this thread. A few pts: 1. There is no chance of secret Argentine landing on west falkland. The British were reading their communications. In any case, why would Argentina do that? They invaded because they assumed no...

  8. AHQ: Could the Nazis have reached the 70th meridian?

    The Czech legion made it from Ukraine to Vladivostok despite lots of hostile Russians in and along the way, and despite not controlling all the territory in between. It doesn't seem impossible for a German force to do something similar if Russia is in a sufficient state of chaos.

  9. South African Defence Force without sanctions?

    No arms embargo, no G5 howitzer. This affects the Iran-Iraq war, plus no Iraqi supergun project, and Desert Storm impacted too.

  10. Germans introduce V1 in 1940

    I found your comments very interesting. Thank you. Regarding this thread's scenario, while the blitz focused on the East End, the V1s would hit all over London. So Whitehall, the West End and other parts of London would be hit hard too. That's why I'm suggesting the ruling class might not be...

  11. Germans introduce V1 in 1940

    I'm very interested to hear what you think. I suspect ordinary Londoners may have been more stoic than much of the ruling class

  12. Alternate celebrity politicians?

    Advanced age seems less of an obstacle to US presidential candidates nowadays!

  13. Alternate celebrity politicians?

    It could still happen. He's still alive and Constitutional amendments are a thing

  14. RAF bomb Germany into surrender

    Surely at some point the state just takes the gloves off and interns all them and their supporters.

  15. Germans introduce V1 in 1940

    30,000 were produced in1944-1945, of which 8000 were launched at London (which was out of range after bases were over run) So while 130,000 is probably pushing it, I would think producing 60,000-70,000 over roughly twice as long as period and not being bombed to smithereens is doable. And...

  16. Germans introduce V1 in 1940

    think by early 1941, that's going to be possibility. There is certainly a faction that will say "we faced down invasion, so we can negotiate with Germany on a more equal basis, and we should, as London is being devastated, and there is no prospect of us stopping the V1s in the foreseeable...

  17. Germans introduce V1 in 1940

    Actual OTL V1 campaign against London (8000 V1s total launched) caused 23,000 casualties and destroyed or damaged over 1 million buildings. This campaign has the capacity to at least that every month for about 16.5 months in 1940-1941. Maybe more as interception/disruption efforts are not as...

  18. Germans introduce V1 in 1940

    There's a chart comparing OTL V1 to the Blitz. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb#Assessment Now in this timeline 1. V1s are roughly twice as effective as OTL because the launching sites are not bombed as much, not as many are shot down etc 2. Roughly twice as many V1s per day...

  19. Germans introduce V1 in 1940

    I was thinking in 1940, they put up with the V1s In 1941, the pressure to do something is becoming severe In 1942-3 the pressure to do something becomes unbearable. You get a Super Dieppe instead of Torch or Husky.

  20. Germans introduce V1 in 1940

    I was also the Germans can keep this up for years (in OTL it was only overrunning the bases that stopped V1 attacks on London) - maybe even increase the numbers further still over the next few years. V1 launch ramps can operate at night too. Churchill is now offering nothing but blood, sweat...
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