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  1. The Rainbow. A World War One on Canada's West Coast Timeline

    I am very sure where this is heading but for once I am hoping the Germans come out on top.

  2. Earliest possible invention of assault rifles and effect?

    Fedorov Avtomat 1915

  3. Plausibility of US recapture of Wake Island in 1943

    Along with all the reasons given so far, another reason was it (Wake) made a excellent impact area to train navy pilots on their route to the front lines.

  4. AHC: the USA concedes defeat to a weaker surprise attacker

    Make the Civil War longer and bloodier!

  5. Earlier mass shooting epidemic

    Mass shooting go back as far as 1949. Check this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh And if you just mass school KILLINGS that goes back to 1927. Check this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

  6. So How Effective Were Kamikazes Anyways (Also, Sources Needed)

    Check out this video:

  7. Can the US win the Vietnam War

    Simple answers is YES but it would not have been pretty.

  8. WWII AT rifle grenades

    U. S. Army training manuals on rifle grenade have from the mid 1940's included firing rifle grenade from the shoulder. The rifles covered by these manuals include the M1903, M1917, M1 Rifle, M1 Carbine and the M14. Grenades covered are the M9A1, M29 (Energa) and the M31.

  9. Eisenhower in the Pacific: Part 1 The Shoestring Warriors of Luzon

    My condolences.

  10. Japan wins at Guadalcanal - what next?

    POD - Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa goes after the transports after the Battle of Savo Island.

  11. 1913 Amendment: One 6-Year Presidential Term

    One thing the Constitution of the Confederate States of America got right.

  12. WI: Failed Operation Overlord?

    Have you Have you ever heard the phrase "The best-laid plans of mice and men go oft awry.". In the military it is taught that "The Plan" only is good until the first shoot is fired.

  13. WI: Central Powers and/or Axis had a "Unified Grand Strategy

    I realize there are many factors that contributed to the Central Powers and the Axis losing their respective wars. The one I would like to focus on in this thread is the total lack of what I will call a "Unified Grand Strategy". Again I realize that the obstacles in the way to a "Unified Grand...

  14. WI: Pearl Harbor Was Foiled

    I have always wondered what Lieutenant Kermit A. Tyler's response would have been if that flight of B-17's was not scheduled to arrive until Monday morning, 8 December 1942. Who would he have called? I know when I was a battalion/DivArty SDO the SOP was to call the XO if anything serious came...

  15. Falklands Question

    From my reading, and I may be wrong, the Argentinians did not base any fighter/bomber or interceptor (i.e. A-4Q Skyhawk, Mirage IIIEA, Super Etendard) in the Falklands. It is my understanding that the airport at Port Stanley could not accommodate them. That is why there are combat...

  16. non-Christian convert becomes Pope

    CORRECT! It is my ball. We play by my rules!;)

  17. Falklands Question

    A better question to ask (and I think I already know the answer) is why did not the Argentinians use the lessons of the Pacific War. What did the U. S. do even before an island was secured? Improve/build an airstrip! You can not sink an island!

  18. Best prepare the natives of the Americas for the arrival of Europeans

    I know this is off topic but can anyone explain why pre-Columbian America never got out of the stone age? It sure was not for lack of resources.

  19. WI- Mussolini Had Made No Lateran Treaty With Pope?

    It this your opinion or do you have a source that put forward this "understanding" of what was the effect of the Lateran Treaty? By the way have you read the Lateran Treaty? For those who would like to read it here is a link: http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/treaty.htm

  20. WI- Mussolini Had Made No Lateran Treaty With Pope?

    FYI https://www.ewtn.com/library/answers/piusjews.htm
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