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Just read this at Borders on Sat- VERY good, I really liked this AH novel on a US invasion of Japan AFTER the atom bombs are used against a military dictatorship which deposed Hirohito. Very sobering esp to see at the book's end that the OTL US casualty figure of WWII would've DOUBLED in the...

WI outstanding officers or NCOs of WWII, who then retired & moved on with their civilian lives afterwards, actually stayed on in the military ? I mean guys like Dick Winters of BAND OF BROTHERS fame, Pappy Boyington, Evans Carlson, Merritt Edson, Vernon baker (the only living black MOH winner...

WI Lincoln had indeed been shot by a Confederate sniper at Ft Stevens in July 1864, had Oliver Wendell Holmes (or whichever other Union officer actually said those immortal words) not yelled out to him to get down at the fort's parapet ?

http://www.historyguy.com/Mexican-American_War.html So WI the irregular resistance against Winfield Scott's forces after the end of conventional fighting in 1848 had actually been more widespread & organised ? Would there have been any prospect of US forces being drawn into a guerilla...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys WI the 9 accused boys had ended up being lynched, as the local white mob wished to do to them, instead of being protected by the Alabama NG long enough to be (however inadequately) tried for their accused crimes ?

Saw this awesome SALUTE doco film in Darwin- pretty sad to hear how badly treated these incredibly brave athletes were as a result of their stand at the 1968 Mexico City 200 m sprint medal ceremony. Is there any way that these guys could've not been so persecuted for their strong stand for...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smalls WI this outstanding black ship's captain formally joined the USN after 1865 ? With the Navy then being the most integrated of the US armed services, could he have poss become the 1st black admiral before 1900, & with what effect on civil rights etc ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Mason_(DE-529) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_PC-1264 Is there any way that the USN could've commissioned any other ships with a largely African-American crew, similar to the USS MASON ? 1 of my fave ideas extending on this concept was with a light carrier...

OK, how could this result come about for both Himalayan kingdoms, displacing Buddhism & Hinduism respectively ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Allwright Is there any way that this legal precedent which overturned all-white democratic primaries in southern elections, could've been enforced by federal authorities (US Marshals, federal troops) in an earlier fashion to little Rock 1957 & Ole Miss...

OK, is there any way after Partition that the British army could've taken on Indian regts beyond the 4 Gurka regts who now serve ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezzail Would the British/British-Indian Army have poss decided to adopt the jezzail to say equip skirmishers, after their horrid experience of Afghan snipers during the Anglo-Afghan Wars ?

OK, this is pretty close to ASB- but how could Australia be involved in such a war that Canberra ends up being occupied by an invading army any time during the 20th C ? (btw, they'd in all probability tear down the War Memorial & other cool historical sites round the place- another reason to...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Hinkler OK I was up in Bundaberg a few wks ago for the Wide Bay airshow, they've got the aviation Hall of Fame/Museum dedicated to Bert Hinkler (which I must checkout next time I get back up there)- so WI he hadn't been killed in the aircrash over Italy in...

OK, in addition to the likes of Garibaldi & Kossuth, I'd also go for: Artur Gyorgey & his subordinate generals (if he & they somehow escape the Russians at Lemberg) Jozef Bem (if he goes to America instead of the Otytoman Empire, or if he doesn't die of fever there in 1850) Henryk Dembinski

Is there any way that the US military, instead of only forming SOCOM as a joint service command in 1987 after the hard experience of actual or near failure (EAGLE CLAW, URGENT FURY), could've done so immediately after the hard-won experience of Vietnam (poss after the MAYAGUEZ fiasco, or even...

Is there any way after 1865 that belligerent combatants from both sides of the ACW, & all colours- could've signed up en masse to serve as mercenaries in 'fre companies' in other conflicts in places like Latin America or Africa ?

OK, WI big rail-guns along the lines of the massive German & A-H pieces of the 2 WWs came into existence pre-1900 ? Who'd be the most likely candidates to do so, with what effects ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(howitzer) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun...

This thread's inspired bya GENERALS AT WAR doco I saw last wk on the Battle of the Bulge- so WI Hitler hadn't been so obsessed with attempting to take Bastogne, & instead reinforced Peiper's KAMFGRUPPE to secure the bridge at Trois-Points ?

OK, in line with all the foreign intervention in ACW posts- is there any way that, with a hypothetical British intervention, & despite the recent public memory of the Indian Mutiny, the redcoats would've included Indian sepoys ? What about the CS reaction ?