Recent content by tbguy1992

It's been weeks since I last posted, and this timeline has been pretty effectively buried. But I am still trying to work at it, but with other projects and live intervening, I'm wondering if I should continue it with more a simple Timeline with just dates with some info, and come back later to...

Part Five: November 1947 - March 1949 The tenuous fiction that the Soviet Union and the Western democracies could work together had been fully broken after the whirlwind of repression and brutality that turned the occupied territories of Eastern Europe into tightly controlled puppet states for...

I'll talk about it soon enough, if I get that far...

The border between West and East Germany(s) is the Rhine River, yes. There is no land on the east of the Rhine part of the "Republic of Germany". The Netherlands is independent, as well as Belgium and Luxembourg, with no divisions. But not exactly a great defensive position...

Part Four: January 1946 - November 1947 Dear Mother, I don’t know when you’ll get this letter, and by the time you get it, it might be quite out of date. But I’m coming home. Happy New Years! Your son, Pat Letter from Patrick “Pat” Morrison, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry...

Years ago when I was working on a timeline on the AltHistory Wiki, I made a few video games for that timeline, which I now present to you guys: Command & Conquer (1994); the start of a popular series of Real Time Military games, created by then little known Westwood Studios. The story is of a...

Part 3: July 1945 - January 1946 ...the Pacific War was, for all intents and purposes, a totally separate conflict from the one that was being waged in Europe. It’s a testament to the great, untapped strength and righteous fury of America that, after the poke in the eye that was Pearl Harbor...

Alfred Thayer Mahan's book was massively influential, with Kaiser Wilhelm ordering his naval officers to read it. And it was basically "The nation with the bigger fleet of bigger, more powerful ships can dominate the ocean," which appealed to Kaiser Wilhelm in his love/hate relationship with the...

I honestly don't buy the whole "we were anti-German for so long that we will gang up on them just because" because by the end of the 19th/early 20th century, every nation in Europe had a strong pro/anti (INSERT NATIONALITY HERE) movement, usually tied in with the greater move for nationalism...

Basically, Tripitz never convinces the Kaiser to get his battleships, and the Army gets most of the resources instead. Mahan is still popular in the US, UK and elsewhere, but not in Germany. Would the German navy have instead focused on a more commerce raiding role with their limited navy...

"The best way to keep a much bigger, more powerful nation out of a war who have a habit of sending Marines to small Caribbean islands when their companies are under threat and last entered a war because the Germans sank ships without warning... is to launch a surprise attack on their biggest...

"Let get all our soldiers to line up in perfect rows and march them straight at the enemy positions. Our artillery, despite not enough big guns and lots of defective shells, should totally destroy the entire enemy position and we can break through the whole line and win the war! Sure, it hasn't...

The War of the Triple Alliance, aka the Paraguayan War. Francisco Solano López goes to war against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, and basically destroys the whole nation: after being defeated in a conventional war, retreats into the jungles and launches a years long guerilla war until finally...

Ahh! Thank you for mentioning that. Fixed now

Part 2: November 1944 - July 1945 Dear Mother, I’m currently writing you from Brest, in France. I got your letter a few weeks ago when I was still in England, but before I could write back, we ended up in Europe thanks to the French resistance. I’ve finally found some time to write. Thank you...