I see we've had multiple threads on the 1916 election and a Hughes victory. But most of it focused on whether he would have entered WW1 earlier/later, and the potential backlash against the GOP in the 1920s. Some people have said that the peace treaty would have been basically the same.
In the...
I guess my main question is whether the better cohesion of not being in the middle of a reorganization, would have made up for the tactical deficiency of having pennypack armor scattered with the infantry?
>Would not matter what doctrine was on the books the leaders & staff did not have time to...
I was watching this video which makes a case that the major reason for poor Soviet performance in 1941, was its reorganization in the face of blitzkrieg 1939-1940. And so the Red Army was in a major state of flux and disorganization when the Nazis hit them.
Now in theory it made sense to...
Would there be any possibility with the growth of the 19th century British Empire that Hanover could become more closely attached to the rest of the imperial realm under a King Victor I, something like a dominion? and so then there could be parliamentary support for defending a British...
I was just researching Daniel MacArthur myself there was a recent discussion at the wikia page.
http://turtledove.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Daniel_MacArthur
Trying to shoehorn in Douglas MacArthur is a huge stretch considering his mom was from New Orleans. But given that Patton's grandpa was a...
I was trying to fill the gap on how Californian George Patton ends up a Confederate general. At 1st I thought no problem as the Pattons are Virginian and only moved to California after the war. But I learned from an AH thread that Patton's maternal grandfather was a southerner and was already...
Is there any possibility of an Allied landing in 1942 capturing Tunis and cutting off Rommel's retreat from Libya? Or is was that beyond the capacity of Allied air, sea and amphibious abilities at the moment. Could Operation Torch have been launched further East, say in Algiers and Tunis without...
I enjoy the speculations of alt-hist, but I'm not too much for fiction. I actually enjoyed reading the Southern Victory timeline, better than actually reading Turtledove's prose. I very much enjoy the alternate worlds that are hinted at in AH fiction, but I find the fictional narratives...
One of Stalin's greatest blunders was the state of Soviet defenses in June 1941, which arguably left the USSR totally unprepared for Barbarossa. Despite repeated warnings from numerous sources, he ignored the impending invasion. This line of thought begs the question, of what would have been the...
It was my understanding historically, that over the 18th century, the Republican institutions of Holland were gradually diminished, as the House of Orange became more and more of a conservative, monarchical force, culminating in their enthronement after 1815 in the Kingdom of the Netherlands...
I'm reading The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, which is an interesting how to guide and speculation about how a manual of knowledge good be used to help reboot civilization after a post-apocalyptic scenario. And he quotes from Diderot as having the original inspiration for a...
I have toyed with a number of possible Anglo-Continental Unions, such as Denmark from Queen Anne, Sweden or Prussia. The most probable union would be Anglo-Dutch which did happen in 1688, and was all set to continue if William and Mary had had an heir.
While it is interesting to speculate...
Suppose after the 1812 declaration of war, Napoleon had waged a defensive campaign against Russia in Poland, possibly in conjunction with a Swedish and Turkish alliance. Assuming military forces were roughly equivalent to OTL, would fighting Russia in Poland have a made a big difference? I think...