A published take on it
Melissa Scott published "A Choice of Destinies" in 1986 that has an interesting take on the core question. She places the POD in Alexander's decision not to invade India. It concludes with a prince of the blood on a space station in the equivalent of 1591.
Kudo's and Koreans
First I want to thank Zheng He for this time line - masterful. I think we can use some historical guidelines in regards to the fate of the Korean laborers. IIRC, there were a number of Korean laborers on Guadacanal and they had a generally mixed to unhappy fate. To start...
What 2nd term?
Please recall that the original poster was asking if Harding's infidelities would affect his chances of a 2nd term. This is moot because of his health issues and was replaced on the Republican ticket by Cal Coolidge. His infidelities didn't help but almost certainly ran well...
Obey Orders
Step number one is to follow his orders - locate and report so the other units could be brought up. Step number two, curb his ego to the point where he figures his 700 can only handle two or three times their number. Of course curbing his ego is pretty close to ASB and related to...
Quagmire at the Movies
Brainbin,
I know you asked for the short version but I am addressing 6 movies spread over 35 years. Quagmire is in fact the accurate word to describe our venture in Vietnam. A little bit of scene setting is helpful. At peak deployment during 1968 we had over 500,000...
The timing is wrong
The basic problem with this question is that Sherman's route was north from Green River on the railroad in southern Wyoming into what is now the Big Horn basin, then east over the northern end of the Big Horn's and down the Tongue River to Miles City in Eastern Montana. His...
caught up
Brainbin,
I finally got completely caught up with this excellent time line. Thanks. As it happens I spent late 66' through late 69' in the army, engaged in that overseas quagmire in 68' so managed to neatly miss the first run of TOS. I did get it in syndication during the mid...
I have only been on AH for a few weeks having just discovered it. This is one of the TL's I have been following avidly. Just want to say to everybody, great job. I just finished page 149 and know I am nearly caught up here. Just a quick note to Brainbin, I also love TWR and posted a note...
Decloaking
Brainbin,
Just want to say thanks for the awesome series. I am a fairly new member since I just recently discovered AH, the board not the concept. Born in 1943. Can't really comment on favorite episodes of the TOS because it has been so long since I viewed them collectively...
What's the business plan?
Letters of Marque are not particularly analogous to "contractors" like Blackwater. The latter are straight up mercenaries hired by a government or corporate agency while the former is a license issued to a for profit entity to act independently. Look historically at...
Who would want one?
The point and value of having a letter of marque is that there have to be targets of value, the capture of which pays the holder for his risks and costs plus a profit. IMHO the most difficult problem is identifying a situation where such targets exist in an environment where...