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This thread is inspired by an episode of ULTIMATE WEAPON I saw last night: now Vassili Oshchepkov, as 1 of the 1st Europeans to go to japan to learn judo & the main founder of the eclectic hybird fighting style which became Sambo, wished to have this martial art taught to the ordinary peasants &...

OK, there were discussions by late 1998 for the US govt to authorise specops to take out OBL in Afghanistan, which were however never acted upon due to fear of US casualties & collateral damage- therefore, the retaliations for the East African embassy bombings came in the form of cruise missile...

OK, Philadelphia as the city of brotherly love is the most prominent major city in America named after 1 of the ancient Asia Minor cities with substantial churches of the New Testament age- how bout also other such major American cities named after the others a la Ephesus, Laodicea, Philippi...

OK, in a similar vein as outfits like Berdan's Sharpshooters were established for crack rifle marksmen, could similar units have been setup by either side comprising specifically shotgunners ?

OK, WI URGENT FURY had gone better in Oct 1983 ? Things which should've been improved SO much: -better intel on the location of the 500 US medical students (which leads also to another WI- say, instead of OTL these students being in no actual danger, the Grenadian army had attempted to...

WI Manuel Noriega, after JUST CAUSE had started & his PDF & DIGBATS had started to have their butts kicked in Dec 1989, decided to flee into the countryside & implement a guerilla war against the Americans ? He actually had a set of plans called GENESIS & EXODUS for that purpose, together with...

Is there any way that Argentina, & Chile could've, similar to Brazil & central American countries, have developed large black populations ?

After reading a book on military rescue ops from WWII onwards today, I was just wondering how the MAYAGUEZ rescue op could've gone a damn sight better in April 1975 instead of the fiasco it was- the biggest improvements cold've been: -better intel- esp re the location of the ship's crew- not...

OK, just read THE KILLING FIELDS today at a Salvo's 2nd-hand shop- which went into detail re how the Khmer Rouge won the Cambodian CW on account of the gross incompetence & corruption of the Khmer Republic's political & military leaders from Lon Nol downwards, & the lack of will to fight, plus...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Werbell_III So, WI the planned invasion of Haiti by Haitian & Cuban exiles had succeeded without being aborted ? WI Haiti had been liberated of the Duvalier hold 20 yrs prior to OTL ?

Just read in a Lonely planet book on Brazil today, that 62% of Afro-Brazilians still live in poverty, due to the colour & class stratification which has existed since colonial times, with black Brazilians being chronically under-represented or absent in most areas of society such as political...

Is there any way that major Latin American powers such as Brazil, Argentina, Chile or Uruguay could've somehow directly intervened in the ACW, & on whose side ?

Just watched PUBLIC ENEMIES last wk- so WI Purvis, after he took down Dillinger et al, hadn't fallen foul of his boss & been forced to resign from the FBI ? How much more could he have advanced his crime-fighting career had he remained in the Bureau ?

What PODs would be required for the Mongols to have conquered all of Continental Europe, then be poised to go for England ? Say if the Mongols sweep beyond eastern & central Europe after Liegnitz in 1241 instead of OTL turning back due to succession issues in Mongolia ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver_(Stephen_Baxter) hmmm, I've yet to see this particular last novel of the TIME'S TAPESTRY series- sound extremely interesting, though- as the most AH of all this series...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Essex_(LHD-2) WI back in June 2008 the Bush admin had authorised the USS ESSEX battlegroup to deliver humanitarian aid in the cyclone-wrecked area of Burma, regardless of the junta's refusal to allow such delivery ? Could the 7th Fleet have become involved...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balibo_Five#Feature_film WI these 5 Australian journalists hadn't been killed in Oct 1975 during the Indonesian incursion ?

1945 by Robert Conroy THE MAN WITH THE IRON HEART by HT (I actually found this quite interesting, though somewhat implausible that the Werewolves under Heydrich always have the jump on the allied occupiers) in addition to my previous faves of DISASTER AT D-DAY by Peter Tsouras & K IS FOR...

OK, in CAPD, the main US black ops protagonists are light inf grunts such as Domingo 'Ding' Chavez-primarily Hispanics- drawn from the light coys of regular inf divs such as the 7th HOURGLASS, 10th Mountain & 25th TROPIC LIGHTNING, based on the rationale that the SOCOM community is too small &...

Is there any way that field medicine could've been more advanced during 1861-65, such that tens of thousands of wounded men could've survived instead of being butchered in the charnel houses which passed for hospitals ?