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Interfering in a good way I hope :)

It was? Given the way decolonization ended up this sounds a bit top bizarre to me to be honest.

If the battle of Waterloo isn't changed much it's a Dutch-wank. The Prince of Orange was constantly involved in scheme to get a throne (which is pretty insane of you are the Crown-Prince) and because of that totally botched the start of the Belgian Revolution. His younger brother seemed to have...

True. The Dutch navy did already train for wolfpack-like tactics in de mid 1930s though, aiming to use flottila's of submarines to knock out Japanese invasion fleets. Ofcourse they did totally abondon it on the eve of war in favour of a navalist cruiser-based doctrine unfortunantly. ITTL maybe...

Hmmm, not really. His careerpath makes it unlikely that he would be naval attache at this point. True. However, given the dangers of mines and such I doubt I can orchestrate a rendez-vous of a Dutch ship with the HSF before it meets HMS Cardiff. It seems that the Allies were seriously (and...

The RN did seem to view submarines as nothing more than 'smart' minefields, deploying them in simple lines.

Thanks for the tip! Do you perhaps know of any accounts from Edinburghians (Edinburghers?) who actually saw operation ZZ taking place? I knew that :) Wasn't it restricted while it was a RN base though? The reason I want to know is that in this TL I'd like a Dutch naval officer to either see...

Hey guys and gals, For a timeline I have been working on for a year now (and yet haven't written a single word!) I've got a few questions on the surrender/internment of the German fleet after the end of WWI. 1. I know the fleet was escorted on both sides by the Royal Navy. Were there any...

The Dutch might be better off without Atjeh. The cost of pacifying the place were enormous and control was never total.

Barely actually. The DEI government tried it's very best to be as autonomous as possible. If it had been up to Them they would have tried to sell to The Japanese though The Japanese demands didn't make IT easier.

Personally I think that a coup is inevitable once reports of Soviet troop movement towards the West start popping up. The Feldmarschalle rather see the Allies in Berlin than the Communists.

I'd argue that the Duth submarine service performed so well despite Helfrich, not because of him. This navalist had spend most of The interbellum doing his upmost best to crush The submarine branch in favour of a navalist, cruiser-based approach.

Actually The Dutch navy of The interbellum was build around submarines instead of surface ships and had perfected wolfpack-like tactics to a degree that might have been higher than even The Kriegsmarine. Unfortunantly at The eve of The world war navalists rook over and all The advantages were...

Ofcourse DUTCHBAT wasn't perfect. Kattemans really was The worst possible commander and the troops were pretty screwed up after the long siege. However, Srebrenica was such a moronic position defensively and DUTCHBAT so underequipped that the enclave could only have been defended through the...

With a POD in 1654 there is not going to be a napoleonic war.

Great map once again! I do think that that the Dutch-controlled part of Friesland would be much smaller to be honest. If heavy guns were available then Fort Kornwederzand would have been shot to pieces after a while but even if not the Dutch would only control what they could reach with their 5...

The 'Vichy' scenario is quite unlikely. The DEI government of Governor-General Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer was pretty independent-minded. It was hesistant to recognize the dominance of the governement-in-exile in the first place, let alone one controlled by the Germans. The DEI will...

According to wikipedia there was no mention of India or Asia in the capitulations of Santa Fe but only 'the discovery of new lands.' :)

I was more thinking about a French intervention going hot. Far-fetched for sure but that's why it's a AHC ;)

What if a escalating Belgian Revolution crushes the Netherlands? I could perhaps see a rump Netherlands maybe looking for help from the Germans.