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how bout if a post-CW CSA started fragmenting as different states had their own grievances against Richmond & began seceding ? Perhaps in such a power vacuum more revolts by poor whites & blacks could result ? As for the Indians, would the pro-Union members of the Civilised Tribes in Indian...

Hmmm, you guys have listed most of the factors in question to have poss made Singapore into a potential Tobruk-like siege as opposed to the capitualtion which occurred 15 Feb 1942. How about the following, too: -Percival actually listens to his military engineers & allows proper defences to be...

well, the big POD would be if Hancock doesn't get seriously wounded on the 3rd day at Gettysburg- maybe if he was available, Lincoln could've replaced Meade with him immediately after the ANV had been defeated ?

OK fellas, keep in the mind these other factors when considering the bloodbath DOWNFALL would've been: -10,000 available kamikaze planes ready to crash into the invasion fleet -delays caused by the typhoon season in late 1945 -the massacre by the Japs of all Allied POWs & internees in their...

Just got this idea from my bible study attended tonight, which discussed among other things how the English language, in describing things in the Bible, is no way near as comprehensive or definitive as what the original Hebrew or Greek was- a key example being the term 'love', which in English...

Samantha Power in THE PROBLEM FROM HELL also describes in detail how the US for decades refused to ratify the 1948 Genocide Convention, on the grounds of national sovereignty, until 1986, when Sen William Proxmire's continual daily speeches on the subject since 1967 finally resulted in the...

WI during the ARW there'd been some overzealous psycho similar to Banastre Tarleton in charge of British & Tory irregular forces in the northern colonies ? How much worse would the British position have been say after they'd secured NY by 1777/78, had such brutal tactics (as used by Gen...

Is tehre any way that, at some point between WWII & the USSR's collapse in 1991, there could've been mass race riots- along the scale of East St Louis 1917, the Red Summer 1919 or Detroit 1943- between local Muslims vs ethnic Russians & other Slavs ? OTL, there were some racial disturbances in...

Of course, the Battle of New Orleans in Jan 1815 was 1 of the most pointless in hist, given that the Treaty of Ghent had been signed in 1814 but the combatants hadn't actually heard yet :( The British forces commanded by Gen Edward Pakenham included some highly formidable veteran regts from the...

Just been considering certain proposed names for military units which never actually came into existence or were renamed with other designations- such as Hitler proposing a WAFFEN SS Div WARRANGER (named after the Viking mercenary Varangian Guards in Byzantine service) which Himmler rejected as...

WI the proposed Anglo-French expeditionay force to be deployed to help the Finns during the Winter War actually had been sent ?

Any-1 read this newest AH novel by Conroy re a successful post-PH Jap invasion & occupation of Hawaii ?

Just read an article in a mil hist mag on this ABWEHR attempt to assassinate all 3 Allied leaders during the 1943 Tehran Conference- WI they'd been successful ?

OK, whil researching on the SHARPE series, i came across some info on the 95th Rifles that they actually were involved in leading a couple of abortive military expeditions, to German in 1805 to liberate Hanover, & to Sweden in 1808 to assist in fighting against Russie (before they were OTL sent...

WI during Aug 2008 the USS McFAUL or other NATO ships delivering humanitarian aid to Batumi had been targeted by Russian forces ?

Is there any way that California at anytime after 1848/49 could've developed its own Ranger law enforcement outfit similar to the Texas Rangers ?

OK, what's the best way for Rome to fall to either US 5th Army or British 8th Army in such a way that this feat isn't eclipsed by D-Day ?

WI Habyarimana's plane somehow hadn't been shot down on 6 April 1994 ? Say, if the SAM attempted to be used for the assassination was defective ? Or, alternatively, WI it'd been definitvely proven WHO exactly had shot him down, whether the shadowy French mercs or the RPF ? What would've been...

Read an article on Metacom's War in MIL HERITAGE on the wkend, which stated that Metacom wished to, after 1675, both secure French arms & get the Mohawks on side in his continuing war against the NE colonists. He attempted to facilitate the latter by arranging the ambush & murder of a small...

Just remembered reading in Samatha Powers' book A PROBLEM FROM HELL that George McGovern (ironically, given his leadership of the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War & running on an anti-war platform during the 1972 election) proposed in 1978 a multilateral humanitarian intervention to...