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Definitely - as it was, the Redshirts and their leaders were largely able keep national eyes off of what was going on North Carolina, downplaying the scale of the violence, and selling a narrative of black malcontents and rioters being dealt with by impromptu citizen militias. If events...

What qualifies as full scale?

They were only present for a fairly limited time on the western front, late 1914 through late 1915, though during that period they were a respectable portion of the British divisions present.

Apparently, McKinley did offer to send US Marshals to North Carolina to help preserve order during the election if Governor Russell requested it. No such request was made. It could be that given the vast swarms of Redshirt militias spread across the state, Russell felt that there wouldn't be...

While nominally set in Korea, MASH had far more to do with the Vietnam War than the earlier conflict.

For many European Jews, it wasn't a matter of returning - they were still in Germany, stuck in DP camps.

Though it's worth noting that US restrictions on postwar Jewish immigration were only loosened after the foundation of Israel convinced policymakers that the majority of Jewish refugees would go there, not the US.

Does Hainan qualify as a mainland province?

Right, but those were HF sets instead of FM, so those range figures should be taken with a grain of salt. In practice, effective range could wildly gyrate depending on time of day, season, atmospheric conditions, ect. FM was far more consistent.

The people behind this have some... interesting historical interpretations:

For irregular forces, such rapid and even arbitrary promotions of people with minimal or no military experience isn't unheard of. History is replete with examples.

The conscripted enlisted men generally hated the army - military life was not especially popular for the rank and file of the Iraqi army, even in peacetime, and even before the official disbandment many formations that hadn't seen battle had largely ceased to existed through mass desertions as...

The Japanese were already receiving shipments of oil produced on Sakhalin - as part of their agreement to withdraw from the northern half of the island, they received mineral concessions.

Philip Roth's The Plot Against America springs to mind. He somehow manages to make the fascist takeover of America boring. And far more than general improbability, I'd say the greatest crime an author can commit is creating a boring work. It's 400 excruciating pages of Roth reminiscing about his...

Yes, but after the Japanese kept using chemical weapons in China, they failed to actually carry out said threat.