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Except Compass was executed without any troops leaving Britain. IIRC all they sent were tanks, if that even. I'd have to check that. In fact no troops left Britain until 1941. As BEF lost all of their equipment, sending tanks would still happen, whether BEF escapes or not. Intervention in Greece...

May 15th, late night, Berlin, OKW One of the teleprinters in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht started chirping and the paper, with densely packed letters came out within a few seconds. Initially the operator wanted to tag it with low priority, as it came from the Foreign Office. However, the...

I think it has no or very little effect. The Germans lack fuel, the ships are all marked in French and hard to operate. By the time the Germans get to operate them with any effect, Anvil is around the corner.

Would require a fairly early PoD because Italy was a poor and industrially undeveloped country. To change this introduces a flock of butterflies whose effects cannot easily be predicted.

In the 1960's, Hughes Rockets make orbit, Hughes dies on a return trip, but the Pentagon is suddenly interested, in spite of this setback... There, fixed it for ya... :) I was going to say no way private enterprise would be interested in this, but it is Hughes. So yeah. Malus is he...

Well, no. Because the part of the military buildup, authorized after June 1940, contained a hefty naval component. The US reckoned with a possibility of victorious Nazi Germany controlling the continental Europe and building a huge navy to challenge the US in the Atlantic. The development was...

It is linearly more difficult, not exponentially. It would take longer, but it would have happened, nonetheless. The Nazi Reich was insane, irrational and incapable of winning the sort of global war of attrition it cornered itself into. Again, IF they defeat the USSR to such an extent that...

They fail in both. The forces from the OTL Kiev pocket ends up escaping east, to fight another day, the panzers (presumably Guderian) fail to create a breakthrough towards Moscow due to logistic considerations. So it ends up worse than OTL.

Active enemy? How active is that? Nuisance at their very worst. Night attacks with a handful of airplanes (and hitting less than nothing), fighting in North Africa with zero prospect of landing on the mainland Europe while Barbarossa is in full swing. If the Soviet union can be knocked out in...

Counting brigades and divisions under the command of 1st BF, it would amount roughly to 800.000 soldiers. Based on the Wikipedia entry on Battle of Berlin. There were 76 divisions and 26 brigades subordinated to the front. I took divisions to have average 10.000 soldiers and a brigade to have...

No. It took three major powers because to defeat the Nazi by 1945. Two of them would maybe fight longer, but the issue would never be in doubt. Nazis lose either way. Each of their enemy alone could match and surpass the war making capacity of the Nazi Germany. Hell, the Soviets outproduced them...

They pretty soon collapse economically or become dependent on the USSR. Seeing this, the new Inner Circle decides to make war against the Soviet Union. It goes about as well as Barbarossa.

The one issue with this is that Yamato and Musashi were decisive weapons. They were supposed to be used only in a decisive engagement and IJN clearly did not see Guadalcanal, or Solomones for that matter, as such. Had they seen it as such, the entire Kido Butai would have been sent, not just the...

With whom? The Germans?!? The Germans (well, Hitler) were not very disposed to listen to the terms offered... Not unlike this. Details may vary, but Barbarossa goes pretty much on schedule. It was a cornerstone of the Nazi ideology.

Clearly, Stalin's death immediately after Barbarossa starts would potentially be most damaging for the Soviets. If no solution is found momentarily and infighting ensued, it *might* mean a total collapse of the Soviet war effort. On the other, hand, everyone would have had a stake in leaving the...

It was not something that Stagg pulled out of his hat, though. He had good indicators that the storm will calm down. The Allies spent years looking at weather patterns over North Atlantic and developed pretty good understanding of it. They were aware that the storm of late June was coming, but...

Ohio had 24 missiles with 8 warheads. Typhoon 20 with 10. Close enough to be indistinguishable.

It turns out that to have a successful torpedo attack on a capital ship, they need to mount the attack with large number of planes. One or two just won't be effective. It requires a dozen or so to make a textbook perfect attack to have a significant chance of actually scoring a hit. And the...

The trouble of using foreign made equipment is that one does not have a ready supply of spare parts. Moreover, the standards of production are likely to be very different and producing it would involve such a distraction that it won't pay off. The Germans have the additional problem that...

Didn't we have this question a few weeks earlier? Anyway, not much of an impact for various reasons. The Allies had plenty of other means to collect intelligence, some of which were not used because Ultra was successful. Eliminate Ultra, they turn back to 'conventional' intelligence. Fact is...