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The British originally envisioned invading the Home Islands in 1947 as part of the planning of the CCS, but the Americans were aghast at the idea of the war going on that long and pushed to reach and invade the Home Islands sooner (1945 into 1946). For Japan to hold out to 1947 probably requires...

It's fine. Your loyal fans patiently await.

Ah! Sorry. I misunderstood. Yes in that case Hussein's goose is thoroughly cooked

Though a PLO takeover probably butterflies away the '73 war as we know it because as you noted, Israel was poised to intervene if Syria's intervention actually helped the PLO to takeover Jordan. So we get the next major middle east war in 1970 in Jordan between Israel and their royalist...

In short, yes. It isn't about being accommodating. It's about the fact that generally the US wasn't in the business of attempting a hostile occupation of an ally, and yes in 1945 the USSR was still a major ally of the United States. If this is going to be seriously discussed it needs to be...

In these plans the "occupation" of Kamchatka would not be anything remotely like the "occupation forces" you mention. From the document it evidently means the same thing as "stationing" (since it would be for the USSR to authorize the occupation of southern Kamchatka), not "military...

I think it's based on the counties that were almost entirely below 36-30...

Yeah... I'm not sure I agree it should be included either.

Sure. Why not?

In any case besides the map showing a Rwandan town not founded until 1920, the mere fact that the map shows the Belgian Congo with Ruanda-Urundi coloured in as part of it would strongly indicate it was a post-WWI map as Belgium didn't gain Ruanda-Urundi until after 1917 anyway. I suspect the...

The impression I got from at least some of the articles was that the 207th was directed towards Entebbe through the swamp and not via the causeway (perhaps there was some minor roads or so? Unless they meant the 207th was meant to advance along the causeway up to a point and then veer off...

Yes, that seems very doubtful. There was a enough doubt surrounding the events that getting EU sanctions would be hard to do. Even for Ukraine there were still some countries in the EU which were not keen on sanctions. Well then it wouldn't have anything to do with the sanctions pertaining to...

Or how about we just go off this map which can also be found on Wikimedia? It was created in 1950 from the Belgium Royal Academy of Colonial Sciences' General Atlas of the Congo. The same atlas by the way shows the more familiar borders of Katanga in 1912: This is why. Trading concession...

Oh you meant curved that way! I thought you meant curved in the sense of how Katanga's border was by the 1960s. In that case, you are quite possibly right.

Using the map from the Wikipedia article I plotted the advances of the 5 brigades. The plots are based on the information in the wikipedia articles on the war itself and the individual battles. It really is quite an interesting and tragic conflict (lots of mistakes and inexperience on both sides...

Nah. The border was like that until at least 1910.

1900 map fixed. Upon looking at some other areas there were a number of things missing or out of place: - British-Brazilian border in Roraima wasn't fixed by arbitration until 1904 - British-Venezuelan border was fixed by arbitration in 1899 (Venezuela did not repudiate this until 1962...

Well the problem there is that in 2008 and 2009 the EU itself could see that Georgia responded quite disproportionately to South Ossetians provocations and incidents that had been occurring for some time with a major artillery attack on Tskhinvali. Their 2009 independent fact finding mission...

Indeed. But even excluding the third that should be one heck of a TL

Now that's a TL I want to see: how a free trade treaty with Canada stifled the Fed in its cradle, kept the Yanks out of Europe and changed the Presidency forever.....