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  1. Interwar Soviet invasion of the United States

    That's...uh...fairly unlikely and bordering on ASB. The Native Alaskan communities were totally decimated by the mid-1920s. Native communities had something like the second or third highest death rates from Spanish Flu per capita in the world. Many tribal villages lacked running water...

  2. Interwar Soviet invasion of the United States

    Kinda seemed to be trolling, but I figured I'd give it a go anyway.

  3. Interwar Soviet invasion of the United States

    Not much. The US Army and Navy maintained an outpost at Russian Mission (St. Michael), and the USN had just finished setting up naval dockage facilities in Dutch Harbor. The USCG had pretty extensive basing and dockage throughout the territory to support the Alaska fishing and canning industry...

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  8. Could China have been as successful as it is today if the Communists did not win?

    As said above, Outer Mongolia, Tibet, and Turkestan were considered "Banner/Tributary Kingdoms" under the old Ming and Qing systems; they sent tribute and armed soldiers to the imperial government in Beijing in exchange for the continued existence of their monarchies. Outer Mongolia was a bone...

  9. Could China have been as successful as it is today if the Communists did not win?

    IMO one of the primary reasons would be maintaining it as a buffer with India. Tibet was never actually part of China; it was a banner kingdom during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It held the same status under the old imperial system that Mongolia did. They were nominally independent kingdoms...

  10. Could China have been as successful as it is today if the Communists did not win?

    That entirely depends on what sort of potential modernization you're discussing; the GMD-lead Nanjing Decade had similar growth rates to post-1979 Dengist China and was showing significant economic growth potential before the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Seeing Mao killed off during...

  11. Could China have been as successful as it is today if the Communists did not win?

    That entirely depends on the global economic outlook, the regime's determination to pursue economic growth strategies, and their willingness to allow for foreign investments. The Guomindang (GMD/KMT) demonstrated similar growth rates to the post-1979 CPC during the Nanjing Decade, with...

  12. When the Wind Blew: a P&S Open Thread

    Just keep in mind: South Korea's economic miracle didn't take place quite yet. The economic reforms were just taking hold in the country, and the military junta was still in control after the 1980 coup d'etat by General Chun Doo-Hwan. Seoul, Busan, and Incheon weren't big modern cities at that...

  13. When the Wind Blew: a P&S Open Thread

    Just a quick response while I see it and am actually on this site for a change: South Korea gets hammered like Heilongjiang and Jilin Provinces in the Chinese Northeast, but nastier. The DPRK had already embedded enough heavy artillery on retracting firing mechanisms in the hillsides above the...

  14. Ashes of the Dragon: A Protect and Survive Tale
    Threadmarks: Part II

    Good Morning Readers! I give to you the second part of the above update. As always, questions and comments welcomed. © Paul Goodfellow and After the Scifi Apocalypse, 2015. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from the author is strictly...

  15. Ashes of the Dragon: A Protect and Survive Tale

    A hearty hello to all readers! I hope you are all doing well in the midst of COVID. It's been quite a few months since I managed to get pen to paper (work stress, etc.), but I've started working on another postwar informational update. Not sure if everyone is interested or not given the...

  16. Ashes of the Dragon: A Protect and Survive Tale

    The problem with that argument is that most of the nuclear testing sites that the US, Soviets, PRC, and French used are still markedly radioactive after six decades. Now, that is a result of concentrated radiation release in these sites. But given the intensity of any 1980's nuclear bombardment...

  17. Ashes of the Dragon: A Protect and Survive Tale

    That all depends on the yield, detonation site, and other important factors. The reason I've got the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers being heavily polluted by radioactivity is that the flood control projects were hit with low-yield Soviet warheads along with major population centers and military...

  18. Ashes of the Dragon: A Protect and Survive Tale
    Threadmarks: Mini-Update

    Good Morning All, I have another chapter intro/mini-update for everyone to tide them over until I can finish my protest chapter. “Megadeaths and the Failure of Imagination: Prewar RAND Corporation Casualty Projections and Loss Tolerance Among NATO Military Planners,” Stephen Friar...

  19. Ashes of the Dragon: A Protect and Survive Tale

    Alright, so the reason that I've taken the tack with the story that I have to this point is that yes, I do agree with you that things would likely be a whole hell of a lot worse. It's an optimistic take where I've dialed down the fallout from realistic to, "Well, this is effectively survivable...

  20. Ashes of the Dragon: A Protect and Survive Tale

    It’s actually not that optimistic. Considering some 700 million people are dead/missing in the central provinces as a result of the Soviet nuclear bombardment, resulting dissolution of central government and rise of regional warlords, and a famine worse than anything on record. That’s maybe 1/3...
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