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Koresh was the sole driving force behind the group and the group appeared to need Koresh's daily presence to give direction and purpose. Even the advisory / enforcement council of 'Mighty Men' was totally subordinate to him as a council and as individuals. My guess is that the arrest of...

The Davidian raid was authorized by subordinates many levels below Reno as Attorney General and far down into the ATF has a separate agency. Prior to the raid and shoot out, Koresh was simply not on the national law enforcement radar and Reno was not briefed regarding any proposed actions to...

Admiral Fedishi Up-gawa listened to Captain Hara: Captain Tameichi Hara, also fed up, related that the planned Yamato suicide sortie would not serve a military purpose and was an unethical waste of Japanese lives- thus it was a crime against Japan. As Hara was one of the few experienced...

The truth is some where in between those figures. 25,000 (+) included any Arab who drifted into Pakistan / Afghanistan during the conflict. A substantial number of 'jihad tourists' never left base camps in Pakistan. Some never even left their Pakistani hotels. They then returned home as a...

The Mujahideen consisted of many competing different factions, including those whose primary loyalty was to Islamic fundamentalism / global jihad, their ethnicity, and in a some cases, completely to themselves. No all factional leaders were known for objective thinking. Motivations for...

Old Californians Language: Primarily a Spanish based language (influence from Mexico and Spanish Los Angeles areas) with a significant number of Russian loan words. Old Californian is written in the Latin script. Ancestry: A creole culture of Spanish, Native American and Russian...

There are monotheists (Hindu format), and then there are Monotheists (Abrahamic format. Monotheism of some sort is probably inevitable in Europe. But, Abrahamic monotheism as the completely dominate religion was probably not inevitable. I think indigenous paganism could have competed had it...

And eventually, economic math wins.

Historical timeline shows otherwise. Slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888- not out of a change of heart from owners, but because plantation slavery was no longer economical. Likewise, there is no need for mechanized cotton pickers as in otl human share croppers fulfilled that role...

Economic math always trumps subjective feelings. At the end of the day, slavery was going to become uneconomical by the 1880s. Sure, the CSA planters would follow the "slavery today, slavery forever" slogan of the Cuban (emancipation in Cuba was gradual and took until the 1880s) and Brazilian...

Armies fighting on the defensive don't win wars when facing an industrialized opponent. The result is just slow strangulation from the industrialized power. The only way for the CSA to win was to break the union will to fight was to attempt to fight an offensive war- preferably on Union...

Mechanized agriculture was going to abolish slavery in the CSA just like it did in Brazil (1880s). My guess is that the CSA would then follow Brazil, Cuba, Russia, and the Carribean by instituting a system of quasi free sharecroppers on near mandatory "contracts".

Maybe..... - Ethnic Malays revolt against British rule. Some poorly disciplined Malay rebel groups go on rampages against Chinese immigrants. This causes the group to firmly align with the British and Chinese communities form both self defense militias and contribure a disproportionate amount...

The JF-17s are capable, but not truly advanced aircraft when talking globally. As a result, they have been designed and manufactured jointly with Pakistan and are being considered by several other countries for purchase. I doubt China would have any difficulty exporting them to Iran- though...

Yes, that is what I mean by "truly defend". Iran would probably want to deter quick and easy military interventions by the United States and make an US military action require a relatively large mobilization to initiate. Then, they would probably want to be able to resist long enough until...

I believe a small number of Bears were exported to Indonesia when the country was leaning socialist. That aside, any export prohibitions on say Backfires would need to be looked at before and after the Soviet Union collapsed. Following the collapse, a lot of previous export prohibitions were...

Farhad Navykhan puts the French translation of Influence of Sea Power on world History back on his desk and thinks. Iran has not had a real fleet since the days of Xeres, but that does not mean that Iran can’t develop sea power by using the well trained and effective air force as a seed...

I think the benefits would far out weigh the price increases. F-4 Phantoms with drop tanks would have the ubber long range to match the vast Canadian airspace. Then factor in the dazzling multi role aspects of the aircraft and the Canadians would be getting a heavy fighter, a bomber, a photo...

I agree. They also faced an "all chips are down" situation in the early stages of the battle of the Atlantic. One can also argue that the Battle of Britain was also a similar situation as a clear defeat of the RAF could have led to a cross channel invasion.