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Well, it would have meant that her air wing would be out of action for any subsequent air attacks.

Didn't bomb hits tend to warp the flight deck and make it unusable, even if the ship otherwise survived?

Many wouldn't but the pseudo-legal mental model of some wouldn't see why any one could take issue with an army killing a colonel in chief of an army that they were at war with. I believe that was among the justifications for why a 79 year old man and his family on yachting trip was a legitimate...

And, as Colonel-in-Chief of the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, she would of course be a perfectly legitimate military target.

While it's unlikely the IRA would attack British athletes in general, there's always been a very "freeman on the land" -esque strand of Republican thought which can obsess over fairly theoretical technicalities. I think it's plausible that this tendency could see some cells targeting a...

From a European perspective, one of the oddest things about American football is the hyper specialisation if players, enabled because coaches can seemingly swap players in and out at will. Was this always a feature of the game? How would American football have developed if players had to be...

How much better could the soldiers have gotten anyway? Training sees serious reductions marginal gains and it takes combat experience to ultimately make greens troops less green. You could have tried slowly rotating battalions and regiments in quiet sectors but the Entente didn't have that much...

I've always thought the objection was the other way around i.e. that Wales and Scotland found it demeaning to be made equivalent to English regions.

The events of 1940 were obviously deeply shocking to France and the wider world but, while they likely thought the balance of power favoured them, they must have expected some serious attempt by Germany to win the war. Were there any ideas in French military circles what this might have looked...

Given the difference in scale of economy, population and military size, a more appropriate question might be "AHQ: British Military acting like USMC". The concept probably woupd appeal to certain elements of the military, although the requirements of the BAOR might have made it a non-starter.

I think this is what I find hard to avoid. If the Ottomans were so fragile that Gallipoli could have knocked them out of the war, then the OTL landings would have knocked them out of the war.

If race relations are better, why are white people proposing a sham democracy?

And the Africans would see through your proposed sham democracy and fight against it, as happened historically.

If Yugoslavia had won a world cup in the 80's, it probably would have helped with national feeling.

What impacts would this have on the wider perception of the Nazis? The Nazis deliberately associated themselves with dynamic new technologies like the automobile, the plane or the cinema and radio. If Hitler is a train enthusiast, it detracts from this vigorous modern image.