I don't think the Japanese Army could avoid committing a long list of warcrimes which would quickly sour the US public opinion, reports of murdered white civilians and soldiers would quickly emerge. Furthermore assuming the US is providing a high level of support to the Dutch, British and...
I think Siam from a diplomatic point of view was fairly hostile to the UK and France seeing them as predatory imperialists, so I imagine it would have been a tall order to get them to be an ally. I also don't imagine they would have been happy with a British garrison, but it would have been...
It might have helped at the margin, but once the Japanese are ashore and near Singapore the position of the UK is pretty dire. Stay behind units could have been offset by a couple more Japanese battalions of infantry being shipped in to patrol the roads and villages. Really (in my view) what...
Theoretically the British were as good as anyone at Jungle operations, and thus logistics within in them. The downside was that they would have seen things from their experience, which included a higher logistics need than the Japanese. I don't think it was appreciated how much of an impact...
I spent a fair bit of time looking into this topic - on a numbers basis the UK should have performed better, and I think it a more open terrain it would have despite the leadership issues.
However the terrain in Malaysia can be really thick jungle, which makes holding a continous front line...
I know there was the Boer war and quite a bit of Indian migration around then, but I don’t know enough about the topic to give much detail on the timelines. Hopefully someone here knows more :)
It is worth noting that the UK learnt some lessons from the formation of the USA and that Canada was given a much freer hand. There are certainly some grounds for optimism based on that, as well as valid concerns based on the likes of Algeria.
One of the situations I see is that without the...
Oddly enough I did a timeline on pretty much exactly this (though admittedly I assumed a little bit of luck on the first day for the UK), it is in my signature. I hypothesised that the US would end up in the war in about three months and with a far stronger starting presence in the...
I'm still pretty puzzled. I struggle to see how Cuba felt an armed body of trained men under a chain of command is not a military force. As I see it they are either the deployment of a unit of military engineers/labourers, which would have been provocative under the circumstances. Or they...
I don’t fully understand why it would be normal for construction workers (who are army reservists) to bring their weapons to work in a foreign country. I know some guys who were in the reserves and now work overseas, to the best of my knowledge they don’t take guns to the office. Indeed a...
My thoughts to help your story writing, and I would offer the suggestion that Japan winning is a minority opinion.
The planning was by no means complete when the war ended, and I don't think it is particuarly far fetched to suggest that weather alone makes a November target date get delayed...
It is worth pointing out that when Italy exited the war it also meant the German army had to fill in gaps in other places that the Italians had been garrisoning, as well as dealing with the loss of Italian forces on the Eastern front. I don’t know the incremental manpower needs, but it probably...
You need a scenario where the balance of power is heavily skewed towards towards France and Russia. I don’t think the above is enough
Some ideas on how to get there:
-There has been no Franco-Prussian war
-Germany is less belligerent and not building lots of warships, and has a smaller...