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It's a bit late in the period, but spare a thought for Venice? One of the mightiest trading hubs of the contemporary Mediterranean, highly defensible, and utterly beautiful.

As strange as it may sound, Oswald Mosley as champion fencer.

It's like how in CoD Modern Warfare II the Russians somehow fly into the US on helos without ever mentioning the navy. Then as now, populist techno thriller writers didn't know their stuff. Which is fine, because if they did they'd have a really bored audience.

Some of this thread sounds like the contemporary 'invasion fiction' people actually wrote in the early 20th century. The alliances there were no less ludicrous.

Somehow facilitate a return to the 'war of movement' before tanks are developed. That's the simple answer.

I'd argue that a British fallout would either be faux Edwardian (perceived as not as 'Dickensian' as the Victorian age, generally seen as the sun-drenched 'last gasp' of civilization before the lights went out in WWI; it even includes an arms race and invasion scares), or Agatha Christie time...

Having read this article in the Guardian-how were race relations in the Soviet Union? This appears to paint a very positive picture...

Impausibility levels of this timeline: intensifying. Not leas that the USA is recognizing (and implicitly backing) a state which wants to newly conquer an Empire larger than that of Alexander the Great.

Orwell later in his career was increasingly suffering from ill health and paranoia. If he lives into the '80s, then he is unlikely to be suffering from these problems until the very end.

He just wouldn't want to do it by then, that's the problem.

To judge from what happened to the V-1s and V-2s, it gets fed dodgy targetting information by allied intel and shells empty countryside.

Interesting, but I confess to being somewhat sceptical about how quickly these advances can be sustained with pre WWI logistics. I know that OTL's Eastern Front was pretty fast moving (for WWI), but getting to more or less the same place as OTL seems somewhat implausible. There are no tanks, no...

A Distant Plain's a pretty good one for grand strategy in the Afghan War: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/127518/distant-plain

This was fascinating, the attention to detail was incredible. Thank you for writing it.

I think that was more sentimental attachment; weren't they were the German Admiral's old squadron.

Is this the same UK as the one I live in here?

First thought of mine was the infamous Fairey Battle, but that did a reasonable job in other roles.

By late WWII, most armies would have PIATs, bazookas, panzerfausts etc-enough to at least take out the tank's tracks or slow it down, before we get to mines. So it isn't that easy. As for smaller armies, not every modern army has access to large stockpiles of tanks, cluster munitions etc...

If you take a smaller modern military, and put it against one of the superpowers of WWII, the former may run out of ammunition before the latter runs out of bodies, but it would still be bloody.

Do you mean infantryman? Tankist? Artillery crew? The term 'soldier' is extremely broad, and includes many questions such as equipment, supply, training, and so on, which inevitably link into other factors.