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This one is a really minor one compared to the others, but I guess it can be quite fun. This is the German Kriegsmarine OOB: For our purposes, we're going to be focusing on the first group, centered around the pre-dread Schlweswig-Holstein, and comprising 4 minesweepers (one of which was...

Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Sea_Campaign TL/DR: South Vietnam held a bunch of islands, ranging from tiny to small, which the North Vietnamese occupied during the final collapse of the south's army. ITTL, Phu Quoc, Con Dao and the Spratlys are held by the ARVN, perhaps on...

For purposes of the discussion, we'll assume the following: 1. Ottomans remain neutral (and are allowed to stay that way, with stuff like Britain not invading Mesopotamia or a parallel Greco-Turkish war erupting) 2. The war drags on for ~4 years, give or take, with everyone exhausted and...

Between the Turkish entry in February and the wars end in early May, there was a narrow window during which the Turks could have managed to get boots on the ground in at least some of the Aegean Islands still occupied by the Germans sinced the botched British attempt to aid the Italian forces...

There is either no 1902 secret treaty between France and Italy regarding Libya, or the French simply ignore it. Either way, France occupies Libya before the Italians do. How does this shake things up?

Going to keep this short, since a restart ate my whole previous thread... The OTL plan of knocking out Russia, transferring west and knocking France out before the Americans arrive did not work (You don't say, Cpt. Obvious...) What this thread is not about is finding a way for getting the above...

Random idea I had - the US sponsors a White Russian rump state on North Sakhalin, following the collapse of the Whites in Siberia, in exchange for a naval base, as a means of putting pressure on Japan. What kind of geopolitical consequences are we looking at? No Washington Naval Treaty...

1. The only other proper thread on this I could find is this one from 8 years ago, and it mainly deals with a PoD that's way before the British bugged out of France. 2. some background before we get started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aerial...

So ITTL, the Ottomans do much, much better than OTL, but the CPs still lose the war by late 1918. How does the peace treaty with the Sublime Porte look like, considering the British & French were willing, by one account I read, to have settled for far less than they got OTL if the Turks pushed...

A thread title can never do you justice. There was so much more I wanted it to convey, so many different versions of it I considered - "a limited invasion of Norway", "a more cautious Kriegsmarine" etc. In any case, whilst I waste my time away in the queue at the car wash, here's the basic gist...

OTL, plans were in place to send the 50th Division from Britain to the Mediterranean. However, Wavell argued that "while he would be grateful for their arrival", he more urgently needed replenishments for existing formations, particularly more technical-oriented sub-units such as signals troops...

1. Why? - From the Sea of Marmara, they threaten not just the Anglo-French in the Mediterranean, but also the Russians in the Black Sea (whom they now massively outnumber) - With the Black Sea coast now vulnerable to potential Ottoman landings, Russia would have to pull men away from the fronts...

Upon seizing and consolidating power, Hitler informs Raeder no more new combat ships bigger than a torpedo boat are to be built. He can keep the ones he has, and even repair them and keep them up to spec, but no steel, materials and men will be invested in bringing in new ships to the fleet -...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corfu_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriatic_Question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_of_Fiume Mussolini had recently come to power, an Italian general was killed in mysterious circumstances on the Albanian-Greek border, Italy presented onerous...

Obligatory background reading: http://hellenicresearchcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/The-Fate-of-Greek-Majority-Psomiades.pdf One the one hand the situation for Greece looked especially grim, and their French "allies" were deliberately sabotaging them on many levels. However, I can't...

Austria was already clearly defeated, and being useful to the victorious French might drive these to spare Venice from any sort of revolutionary subversion, or so the logic of the Serenissima Repubblica might go. So, they declare war on Austria, mobilize and move to block the retreat of the...

This is a not so serious timeline I thought about recently. please ignore the butterfly genocide. - On December 11th 361, Emperor Julian "the Apostate" enters Constantinople, where he would reside for 5 months, dealing with issues of administration. Among his actions were presiding over the...

When his illustrious father died, young Alexander was still in his mother's womb. When the Bactrian princess Roxana finally gave birth to him, he was proclaimed king alongside his uncle, Alexander's half-brother, the mentally disabled Phillip Arrhidaeus. The regent Perdiccas kept the royals...

With the recent Trumpian stupidity over Greenland, I was reminded of something that happened in one of my Victoria playthroughs - Prussia annexing the Danish colonies (Greenland, but also Iceland and the Faroes). So, how plausible is this? Assuming Bismark pushes the issue and the Danes...

https://apnews.com/9d4a8021c3650800fdf6dd5903f68972 Let's say Truman personally puts the squeeze on the Danes, perhaps threatening less Marshall Plan aid, or even the possibility of letting the Soviets occupy Bornholm, if they don't sell. What happens if Copenhagen accepts?