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Were I making the planning in the war room it would be Iskandar and shah of Iraq and Ibrahim left to rule Persia proper. Unless I can break up Persia even more. Russian armies striking central Asia maybe?

Say goodbye to the Greek crisis as we know it. Altogether really. Not without Karamanlis to mess things up beyond all recognition. If I may make a few military predictions for Greece. Eurofighter still not bought, the plan to buy 6 FREMM was a Karamanlis government brain-child as was buying the...

The one the Greeks were looking into by 1939 was roughly as follows: Displacement: 18,500-19,000t Speed: 33-34kts Belt: 9in Deck armour: 5in Main armament: 6x10in Secondaries: 12x4in Cost was estimated at between 3.8 and 5 million pounds. I like it in how it was effectively armoured against...

Let me just note that @Basileus444 said nothing at all about Odysseus capturing and annexing Mesopotamia in the war all are expecting to be coming. He has written that he does not expect the empire would be able to hold it in the long term. These are entirely different things. No reason at all...

Yerevan April 2nd, 1921 The Soviet army was back in control of the city having pushed the Armenian rebels out of it. But the revolt was not over as the rebels retreated to the mountains proclaiming the republic of Mountainous Armenia in April 26th. Western Anatolia, April 7th, 1921 (old...

I was somewhat leery about seizing and holding the ports to cut down resupply because IMO you'd need to permanently tie down at least a two-regiment brigade if not a single division for each of Inepolis sorry Inebolu and Samsun to do it properly, my copy of the Turkish general staff's official...

Oh all that is substantially correct. But it's not necessarily the whole picture. In the table below is the breakdown of manpower in the US and British divisions in 1944 and the Greek and French ones in 1940. Inf Div USA Inf Div British Inf Div Greek Inf div French Inf rgt 3256 2632...

You have liberated everything up to the Olympus so far. That's roughly 4.863 million out of a pre-war population of about 7.345 million, slightly over that 2/3 of it. That's a manpower pool of about 300-350,000 men from the 500-550,000 Greece had under arms at the time of the German invasion...

The French and British both had concepts of 5th generation fighters. If the Russian project's for the same never stopped here I'd put it as highly probable to see France developing a Rafale follow-on, probably one engined like Dassault FACE TTL, along even more radical upgrades on Rafale than...

Switching development from MiG 1/42 to MiG 4.12 seems more logical to me, both in terms of affordability even with a bigger Russian economy and for its export potential. For S-37 I am not certain I agree. Yes you are right on the logic. But S-37 was for every practical purpose a paper project...

That's of course correct. But the Regia Marina is also vastly inferior to the Royal Navy. TTL the war remains one between the Entente and Turkey even if (most of) the fighting is being done by Greece. Of course if you want to get technical Italy is still part of the Entente and at war with...

It happened almost at the 4 years, about a month early I can't quit remember if Simitis called in a few weeks early, only that I held my nose to vote George Papandreou, Simitis I liked, Georgie's sole saving grace was he was PASOK but held very clear opinions on his abilities or lack thereof...

Or if it doesn't hit it at all, or hits it only to a limited extend. The OTL Greek crisis can be pinpointed to the Karamanlis government messing things up, anyway you want to look at it he got one of the fastest growing economies in EU, with relatively low deficits and about 170 billion dollars...

It would be beneficial but unlikely to happen. As for a blockade, there is going to be one, the light cruisers in particular will be very convenient in the role. Of course the Italians will be still refusing to have their ships stopped and searched just like OTL, although TTL the French will be...

Topal Osman was in the area, he was terrorising the villages around Samsun although he was not let into the town itself till May if memory serves so it made sense for his forces to try to contest the Greek landings, particularly given their limited numbers. Landing a 380 pound shell on his head...

Dersim, March 6th, 1921 A romantic would say that the Kurds rose up in revolt. Someone more cynic would say that a handful of Kurds rose up in revolt. The cynic would be the one closer to reality. The Koçkiri tribe, with about 3,000 fighters, had risen up at the instigation of the Cemîyeta...

While part 6 gets ready a video from the excellent Salvation and Catastrophe by professor Konstantinos Travlos of Özyeğin University on the geography of the war, that might be interesting

The fleet that landed in Anzio is shall we say free TTL?

The whole cabinet yes likely. That said keeping Maniadakis for example, Metaxas security minister in government? No way. The army and navy ministries may be more interesting. Admiral Sakellariou, Tsouderos minister of marine was of course ardently royalist and fought on the royalist side in 1935...

I wouldn't exactly describe Sarantaporo as just hilly or easy terrain to cross but it's certainly better than the Tempi valley up to Platamon which would be shall we say impassable if seriously defended? The obvious solution of course is landing a couple or more divisions behind the German lines.