army

The German Imperial army IOTL was very volatile and powerful as it stood, not only in technology but in pure numbers as well as organization, however it can still always be improved upon, especially if given appropriate PODs. With a POD of no earlier ghan 1900, what can you do to optimize and...

It's very known that the Imperial German army suffered very big inefficiencies such as a lack of mobilization capabilities, proper inspectorates and many more problems. How could've they been fixed before the outbreak of WW1?

In this timeline, the ROC won the Chinese Civil War, and then annexed back East Turkestan. This version of the ROC controls all of Mainland China (excluding Macau that is to be returned in 1980 and HK that is to be returned in 1997), Taiwan, and the Diaoyu Islands except for Western and Central...

So I have recently started to take some interest in WW2, and Nimitz seems interesting so I satrted researching a bit about him and apparently he was interested in attending West Point but was unable to do so and instead went on to a naval academy, well what would have happened if he got in...

The Indian subcontinent has been subject to a lot of raids and conquests from central Asia, Persia or Tibet. Is it possible for a powerful Indian dynasty like the Mauryas or the Guptas to build a fortress wall like the Great Wall of China to protect against these invasions.? These forts could be...

Say that the boats that carried Washington's men across the Delaware broke or were otherwise unusable/unavailable. What would happen?

With a POD no earlier than 1900 and no later than 1912, have a Hungarian general (or atleast a general from Hungary) become the Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian common army! Is it doable? Who would be the most likely candidate? Tell me what you think!

The year is 1590, decisive Ottoman and Uzbek military victories against the Safavid Empire, coupled with internal political problems put the Safavids on the verge of collapse. In OT, the Treaty of Constantinople in 1590 granted all land West of the Zagros Mountains and Caspain Sea to the Ottoman...

Where and when could Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran from 1941 till the revolution of 1979, have a chance to test his vast array of military toys against a credible target (which never happened IOTL, compounding to his regime's loss of public popularity as his military reforms were seen as a...

The Siege of Constantinople in 717 AD was the Umayyad Caliphate's major combined arms offensive against the Roman Empire. And one of the largest sea and land military operations across the entire medieval era. The decision to lay siege to the city came about mostly as a result of an extended...

Would it be possible for the German army to become complacent after its stunning victory in 1871, similar to how the Prussian army grew complacent after the passing of Frederick the Great and again after the end of the Napoleonic Wars? If so, what are the potential implications of a Germany...

The ERE/Byzantine army under the Macedonians reached a size of 200,000 soldiers.While its’ understandable that the empire’s ability to raise armies would be impaired by the erosion of the theme system and the loss of territories,much of the land still retained by the Turks following Alexios and...

At the Treaty of Versailles there was a significant debate between the French and the Anglo-Americans over what sort of army the Germans should have. The French thought that a conscript army should be utilized by the Germans to constrain them, as a conscript army would preclude them from having...

In 1804, after protests from Napoleon Bonaparte over leadership over a suspected conspiratorial group, Jean Moreau, a notable french republican army commander sometimes held in equal regard to Napoleon, exiled himself to the United States. The US army was initially interested in employing him...

First of all, I must say that this scenario take place in recent history, in the last 20 years, but the PoD to allow such thing to happen is in the 19th or the 18th century so I gonna post this discussion here How would a modern day stratocracy be like, and what we need to do to make it...

As everyone, who is familiar with the era of the Great War knows how ill-equipped and poorly funded the Austro-Hungarian common army was, because both Austria and Hungary was more willing to spend on the second-line armies, the Landwehr and the Honvéd; an interesting idea came to my mind. What...

The Great Purges of 1937-1939 undoubtedly inflicted a massive blow to the Soviet Union's military capability. Up until that point, the Soviet Union embraced the rather nebulous ideas that embodied the German Blitzkrieg, (combined-arms cooperation, maneuver, mechanization, and concentrated...

I was recently just thinking that, for the most part, the Italian troops during WWII were poorly under equipped, often using weaponry from WWI, and were poorly undertrained. There are, of course, several examples where this was not the case, and there were several Italian units whose performance...

Recently I have been reading alot of historical accounts of battles taking place in the ancient world. One of the things that strikes me is the size of the armies that fought. During Xeres invasion of Greece he had an army of between a million and four million depending on the source. Alaxander...

Hello dear members, I have question for the specialists of US Military. The current 75th Ranger RGT have 3 battalions (6 until 1986). If US Army needs more Rangers during Cold War era and War on Terror era: 1/ Will the US command will just maintain the 6 battalions in the 75th rgt? 2/ Create...