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Well, the OP didn't say that the timelines he had found portrayed Germany as a "failed state." So not quite sure why you're babbling on about that. :confused: The OP said the timelines portrayed Germany as a "downtrodden nation" which is quite different than a "failed state."

And the US barrels didn't look like British WWI tanks, either. The Confederates actually used copies of the British WWI tanks. So these have to be Confederate troops, not US troops.

Problem...US troops wouldn't have been wearing British tin hats. The Confederates would have.

Battery C, First Richmond Howitzers, in action somewhere in Pennsylvania, 1914. Sergeant Jake Featherston, commanding the gun in action, stands at far right. Picture taken by Captain J.E.B. Stuart III, later found among the papers of General J.E.B. Stuart, Jr., shortly after his suicide...

Yes, I did read it, evidently better than you did. It states that the tests spoken of in the article were conducted under authority of the US Navy Chief of Ordnance, Captain Andrew A. Harwood. The tests were performed using targets constructed by the Washington Navy Yard under orders from the...

The Confederates in TL191 were the Nazi analogue, granted, but that doesn't mean they LOOKED like Nazis. In fact, the (admittedly limited) descriptions of their uniforms given in the books make it very plain that they did not resemble Nazi uniforms. It's too bad we don't have somebody here...

Well, if you did, you're wrong, if, as I am assuming, the flag being discussed was the one I've circled in yellow, which actually does look like a Freedom Party Flag. The navy jack was simply a rectangular version of the standard red battle flag with blue cross and white stars. The flag...

Only if your're slightly color blind. :D Well, that is conceivable, however, they wouldn't have been German styled uniforms. Confederate uniforms were based on British and French models. US uniforms were based on German models.

Sorry to burst your bubble, guys, but the flag in question is the actual historical battle flag of General Richard Taylor's Army, used in Lousiana in 1864 and 1865. It has nothing to do with the Freedom Party and existed in OTL during the Civil War. Taylor's army was supposed to have flags...

Except the guy in the German-styled gray uniform should be the US soldier and the guy in Khaki (butternut) the Confederate soldier. :p

Your data is at variance with the U.S. Navy's own tests.

Exactly. People who get all anal about the "plausibility" of the POD (Don Lardo, I'm looking at you) are somewhat missing the point. The point of a scenario like this one is not to examine why Lee and Davis would act in this way and/or come to this particular course of action, or the...

Well, in point of fact, Lee did, on more than one occasion, influence Davis. He was one of the few people who COULD influence Davis and whose judgement Davis trusted as much as his own. For example, Davis wanted to send troops from Lee's Army to the relief of Vicksburg in the aftermath of...

Well, the Vandals didn't have one either, but got one. Well the "Hunnic" scenario being discussed involves a much larger Hunnic invasion. Possibly groups like the White Huns and the Red Huns who, in OTL, split off from the main Hunnic migration and headed south into Persia and India instead...

PART SIX: A.D. 1850-1900 A.D. 1851 onward, Hawaii--Since the adoption of a formal constitution in 1840, the Hawaiian monarchy has seen it’s power steadily declining, and European settlers have come to the islands in increasing numbers, taking land away from the natives and pushing for...

The late 19th century was when the large-scale use of nitrate fertilizers was first coming into vogue. The Chilean guano islands were being mined for the stuff, and there was another, lesser known source...bone meal. There were tons of bones lying around on Civil War battlefields, and an...

Hindsight is always 20/20, or so they say.

One thing that needs to be considered in this discussion is why the former owners of the land got to keep it. White Southern landowners got to keep the land, and blacks got to be sharecroppers, because white Northern Republican businessmen who were in control of the Federal government at that...

There actually wouldn't be a negative impact, and indeed, production might increase. Independent small farmers still have bills to pay and would need to grow cash crops because that would be their only means of income. The experience of the share-cropping system shows this. Sharecroppers grew...

Indian and Egyptian cotton never really competed to any great extent with Southern cotton except for the period of the war itself, when the blockade prevented large-scale exporting of cotton. Almost immediately after the war Southern cotton had once again resumed it's completely dominant role...