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How feasible is it for an extra-continental power in a pre-Cold War setting, anticipating the need to rapidly deploy large land forces to the European continent ahead of or at the onset of a general European conflict, to pre-position large stocks of military equipment in warehouses on the...

As far as I know, the basis for that claim was the fact that Limburg had been part of the German Confederation since 1839 as a result of the Treaty of London. ITTL, Limburg is never added to the Confederation, but the portion of Luxembourg now in Wallonia is never removed from it. A German...

Let's say that Alexander II will allow Armenians fleeing the Ottoman killings (Hamidian massacres) to seek refuge in Russia. However, let's then say that there will subsequently be a huge flood of Ottoman Armenians fleeing to Russia as the Ottomans will decide that this is a great way to...

If Alexander II survives the attempt on his life, could we see him lead Russia into a mid-1890s war against the Ottomans sparked by the Hamidian massacres? Being more reform-minded than either of his two OTL successors, perhaps Alexander II would be less wary of intervening in support of the...

I think that happens if you scroll through the page rather than letting the app scroll by itself. That's what I did the one time I had that happen to me, anyhow. Not sure. It shouldn't be a problem if you let it scroll past the part you want to capture, and then zip through the rest once it's...

Use PicPick. The scrolling window function lets you capture an entire window, and then you can select and crop to your infobox.

Did Spain have any naval forces in the Americas or the Pacific during this period? At the very least, there seems to have been a squadron of some strength (albeit in disrepair) based at Cavite during the Second Coalition War, but what about the Americas? Was the entire Spanish fleet, more or...

Really now? Where can I read about that?

Well, captured Spanish colonies could be used as leverage to force Spain to defect to the coalition — particularly if you were to capture Manila or even Guam and thereby cutoff any trade between China, the Philippines, and Spanish America.

So I guess you need either an earlier Trafalgar or an averted/delayed invasion of Spain in order to see a more aggressive British policy with regard to the Spanish colonies.

During the time that Spain was aligned with France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, the only major British expeditions against Spanish colonial possessions were those launched to seize the Rio de la Plata. Given the abundance of targets, the superiority of the Royal Navy, and...

Perhaps you can invent the Davis gun a few decades earlier. Maybe something similar to the Davis gun could be created for anti-balloon use in the Franco-Prussian War? The Prussians had the Ballongeschutz, but perhaps they might take a different approach to anti-aircraft weaponry, using a...

This is a really interesting topic.

As far as I know, Belgium never had a navy worth mentioning. In any case, I don't think tensions between Britain and the Netherlands are too likely, because the two nations have overlapping geopolitical and economic goals (containment of France, guaranteed freedom of navigation and trade, etc.)...

The Soviets endorsed the aims of the Coalition and voted in favor of the various UN resolutions, but could they have gone a step further and contributed combat forces to the Coalition? Saddam's Iraq was, in theory, a client state of the Soviet Union, but it was certainly a wayward one at that...

If it came to it, could Japan rely entirely on oil from the DEI?

I don’t think the Soviets would settle for an armistice in this scenario, and certainly not with terms that leave them without a Pacific inlet for war materiel. The Soviets know that the IJA is fighting on borrowed time and that Japan must rapidly shift its attention to the south — why would...

I might add footnotes to this to uncover the backstory, details, etc., but the general idea here should be fairly self-evident. Inspired by this PMs list made by Cevolian. MAGISTRATES-GENERAL of the COMMONWEALTH of COLUMBIA PoD: Indeterminate 1953-1961: Dwight D. Eisenhower (Military)...

I don’t think you would get a war over Luxembourg. The fortress there was garrisoned by Prussian troops, iirc.