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Yup. As a warrant officer had put it to me back then, in the Greek army you could become a 2nd Lt in either 4 years, or 21 years or 16 months. We reservists were taking the faster route. :P

More kalamarades in Cyprus, in the other sense of the word, would be certainly beneficial... (hey back way when I was in OCS together with Cypriots for several months. I can claim understanding kypraiika by immersion :p ) Puns aside the Greek state spent quite a bit supporting Greek schools...

Hypothetically speaking if seen from the Italian point of view should Greece become tied to the Italian sphere of influence is she still a problem? Alternatively if she has to deal with severe internal trouble is she that much of a problem? To take this to the logical next step how much does it...

Geography is of course an obvious issue but there are several mitigating factors TTL I would think. To see them one by one. 1. Cyprus is close to Turkey. So it is but how much of an advantage that actually gives the Ottomans? Cilicia is very backwards at the time with a very low population. No...

London, July 7th, 1923 David Lloyd George, declared a victory of his government's foreign policy over the just concluded Corfu crisis, then went to the king and asked for a snap election, normally the election should had been held no later than December 1923. In truth it was clear to everyone...

So let's move on in the immediate post-war era. Just a few observations. 1. Egypt is a crisis that will happen sooner rather than later. Ibrahim's health wasn't the best so he's liable to be dying at any time during the events underway. Egypt here is in a much stronger position militarily and...

Britain has nothing on Cyprus at the moment. It still is an island under Ottoman control.

I don't think a forward swept wing was a very practical idea for an operational aircraft. So Berkut should be out. I'd be putting my additional development money on Yak-43 actually and the single engine Yak stealth follow on.

Reaction to the youth organisation varied from derision to hate...

Another royalist, a capable security officer for certain, he got the communist party thoroughly infiltrated and nearly destroyed, for a time there was a rival central committee being run by the Greek security services which were also pretty successful against Italian and German intelligence...

Koryzis was governor of the bank of Greece, installed as prime minister by the king. He had no ideological connection to Metaxas, but then not many did in the first place. And was not involved into politics himself. He was personally a moderate royalist that was on good relations with the...

Who would lead them in 1941 when Metaxas dies? No designated successor, no younger generation politician or military man following in his footsteps, hell he had gotten all of 3.94% in the 1936 elections. How does his regime, the royal dictactorship rather, survive the year?

Metaxas would had been 103 years old in 1974. He was already 70 when he died in 1941.

His reputation is problematic to begin with, although I'd say Franco's Spain may be a better comparison. Without the war he still dies on schedule in early 1941. He lacks a successor and his dictactorship derived all her support from the throne. George II had installed him, Metaxas was himself...

If memory serves it was roughly 60-40 in 1912 and 150,000 Serbs had migrated out after 1876. So there might be a Serb plurality at the moment. Or not.

Panslavism is on the rise already. Russia will be increasingly turning towards the Bulgarians and Serbs at Greek cost. It is not that Greece and Russia will be getting outright hostile but still between Bulgaria and Greece Russia will tend to prefer the former usually. And this brings us to the...

A reasonable approach would had been to switch to developing the proposed MiG 4.12 in the 1990s, effectively taking up the niche of F-35 with Su-57 then developed as the heavy fighter replacement. Here the Russians are developing a new heavy fighter after having put into service another new...

Washington does not allow the export of warships already in service. It says nothing about building ships for export, the same arguably holds for ships under construction. In the case of the Netherlands they wanted battleships before WW1, again before WW2 but I've seen nothing about them wanting...

On the upside Salamis was a pretty good design for its time. The modernised design proposed in 1929 was pretty much on par with the modernized Cavour's if not slightly superior. That said she is still a hulk rotting in Vukcan's shipyard for nearly a decade and completing her would cost about 3.8...

Athens, June 1st 1923 Italy simultaneously with the bombardment and occupation of Corfu had closed the straits of Otranto to Greek ships and suspended sea-borne communications between Greece and Italy. The Albanian government had at the same time closed the Greek Albanian border and massed what...