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When you are fighting on two fronts, resolve your problems by opening the third. Total ASB reasoning, unless you are talking about Imperial Japan.

Tito's successor in 1948-53 timeframe would probably be Rankovič, I can see him sppeding up the dissolution of Yugoslavia, not the other way arround.

Preparing a viable successor while he was still alive would help a lot, but I simply can't imagine anyone in the Yugoslav political scene who could pick up the mantle. If he didn't crush the liberalisation movements of the 70's but tried to harness them instead, then I guess he could reconcile...

Iron Maiden - The Trooper

It would put Germans far too close to Leningrad for Stalin to tolerate, it's possible he would declare war right away. Soviet submarines would be devastating on German supply routes, as they can't bottle them up without Finnish help. Wehrmacht is much smaller than it was in 1941 and not as...

These groups are very hostile to such research and societies from which they recruit the most frown at showing ''unmanly'' behaviour, so data is scarce, but I read an article years ago about PTSD amongst Talibans. With ISIL, I wouldn't be surprised if they straight out executed anyone who...

He didn't have enough troops to hold back Austrians, Russians and the second Prussian army. Victory in Belgium would only delay the inveitable.

I wonder if we will see Blücher vs. Birmingham battle.

There is no indication they are using Abramses, the burned the few they captured in Anbar ambushes and there were none in Mosul. The senior leadership of ISIL is Iraqi and they saw Syria as sort of feeding ground where their forces would grow strong for the conflict in Iraq. If American troops...

Arabs have been ''conditioned'' to hate Israel by decades of propaganda. Israel openly supporting the rebels would weaken their support amongst the people.

There is no way for them to win Afganistan. Afganistan government was in freefall by the time they intervened, just training their forces and sending material wouldn't do it, they were building up their forces entire time, yet they had to do most of the fighting in 1979-1988 period. Crushing the...

Without outside intervention we would get Greater Serbia and Greater Croatia at the expense of Bosnia.

More like Kholm or Demyansk, but with breakout attempts it will be over sooner.

It would take really massive intervention by referees. FIFA simply can't afford to do that to Germany.

Would, without Mussolini, Italy build the Alpine wall? The French-Italian border is naturally defense friendly, so with no mayor territorial ambitions Italy would probably focus more on it's navy and air force, rather then ground forces. In general they can afford more sensible weapons...

I recall being mentioned somewhere that one planning session during Guadalcanal campaign turned into brawl between IJN and IJA officers.

I keep forgeting that TTL Russian leadership is not desperate, unlike the OTL Soviet leadership.

It will make attacks on the Rheinland cities costlier. I'm surprised Russians haven't launche winter offensive yet.

Neither UK nor France has logistics strong enough to do anything more than provide for the basic needs of refugees. Air campaign followed by ground intervention. And now starts the fun part, how do you get your soldiers and their supplies to Darfur? It's either through Red sea and Sudan, which...

I doubt German AA would be as strong as it was in OTL 1942. Will bombers cut through Netherlands airspace?