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In English speaking navies, barrel length is expressed as caliber. For example, the main guns on the Iowa-class battleship are designated 16"/50 caliber Mark 7. Whereas the US Army's official designation of the Garand was Rifle, Caliber .30, M1. These are related but distinct meanings

It won't ever be seriously considered because Jews are fully integrated in post-revolution society, and even a whiff of antisemitism is treated as tantamount to fascism. Like IOTL, American Jews are opposed to Zions and any form of separitism, and mostwould prefer that Jews immigrate to the...

Thread has 227 pages. Not one step back! After talking it over, we came to the conclusion that occupation zones in Turkey aren't really feasible. The Comintern will occupy the country, put a Communist/Kemalist united front in power, and place Soviet military installations on the Bosporus...

Here's the thing about Technocracy: it's basically Marxism-Leninism for mechanical engineers. Technocracy exults a highly elitist politics, a command economy, and a highly authoritarian state. But unlike classic Soviet-line communism, they don't give ordinary workers the starring role. Their...

Definitely seize first and ask questions later. After all, I'm sure Rosa is only doing the responsible thing and protecting it from looters until civil authority can be re-established ;)

That's not how Engima worked. Enigma is a symmetric cipher; the input and output require the same character set. To decode an Engima ciphertext, the machine is configured to the same initial setting that produced the Cipher text, and then the ciphertext is entered by the operator on the...

Most of Ross Perot's appeal came from being unattached to party politics. He appealed to naive middle class sentimentalism about Golden Means, compromise, the notion of the "independent" voter (most really aren't, they lean heavily one way or another), and anti-Washington sentiment. Capturing...

While the US did not declare war, they did cover their ass by giving public notice of hostilities. Vietnam, for example, was supposedly an internal police action to aid an Ally, a weak justification given how much bombing occurred in the North, but probably sufficient. The same with Iraq; 1991...

The Pearl Harbor attack was itself a criminal act, because it preceded any declaration of war or hostilities. Under the laws of war, everyone killed at Pearl were technically noncombatants

Mafia protection rackets advise the Japanese to take it down a couple notches. The Aleutians are, as of yet, not in Japanese hands, and the Army lost the political battle to take them after their cockup in Siberia. Vladivostok convoys, save for the brief period of the undeclared border war...

Literally the middle of nowhere.

Excerpts from Elias Z. Young*, Pacific 1943: The Search for Decisive Battle, (Annapolis: Revolutionary Naval Academy, 1981) The conduct of the Pacific War throughout 1942 had been dictated by two vastly discordant political aims. The military-political cliques dominating Imperial Japanese...

Yeah, they'd be foolish not to. Moscow can politically distance itself from DeLeon-Debs without saying no to reconstruction aid. Relations will see-saw back and forth, much like France's rocky relationship with the US and NATO IOTL.

He'd likely more be seen as a victim of reactionaries like Sulla. The notion that soldiers became more loyal to their commanders with Marius is a sort of rationalization that Optimates tended to make in Rome. The thing about conning towers is that no one uses them. The heavily armored conning...

When Castro's 26th of July Movement overthrew the Batista regime, Cuba had long fallen out of good graces with Washington, and had essentially been cut loose. The movement had made no outwardly communist genuflections to avoid any reinforcement to Cuba, and were able to take advantage of...

People often forget how many times Hitler saved the Heer from making extraordinary blunders. Take Kiev, for example. The military command wanted to push to Moscow, because they were strategic dunces who figured that Moscow was a win button, and had no regard for the logistical difficulty...

Eh not really. Native elites might not have the same status as Anglos in the early decades, but they're definitely part of the establishment.

Post-Revolution Battleships of the WFRN Name: Monitor-class Operators: Workers' and Farmers' Red Navy Preceded by: Comintern-class (ex-South Dakota-class) Succeeded by: Wat Tyler-class Built: 1934-1938 In commission: 1936-1951 Planned: 5 Completed: 5 Type: Fast battleship Displacement: 40,220...

I'd like to let everyone know I've been making some seemless edits to past update to deal with unintentional inconsistencies and contradictions that have popped up over the years of writing for this timeline. I also added tuxer's index to the OP, and will continue updating it in the future with...

It was probably never even read.