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Question: if the US is not deployed in Europe, how much is it going to deploy elsewhere, e.g. in the Middle East/Asia? How much will the British permit them to help out (or will the US want to help out) in defending their imperial interests in Asia? This has a major impact on the sort of troops...

I was expecting an American Agent Lavender. Carry on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Ssw_WQ-y4 Harold Wilson at a pipe exhibition.

Dear god, so good...

In addition, it's a myth that the British high command routinely underestimated the Japanese for 'poor eyesight' or other racial reasons. They had liason officers accompanying Japanese troops throughout the 1930s. Many were quite aware of Japanese capabilities. It is just that those reports...

I'm personally sceptical that a Neville Chamberlain anything like OTL's Chamberlain would have gone to war over China. The main threat to British interests was Germany, and Chamberlain was not a warmonger. He made guarantees to Poland, belatedly. He has made no such guarantee to Japan, unless...

It's possible that the Germans could force the Belgians to surrender their colonies in a peace deal, but the British would snap them up before the Germans could derive any meaningful advantage.

Some victorious CSA (which somehow industrialises and maintains stability)/British Empire alliance manages to force the USA into militarism, dictatorship (or at least a very authoritarian 'democracy') and an extreme Monroe Doctrine to keep its enemies in check? I don't think it's that plausible...

I personally thought the 'Russian linesman' was a sign of Wilson going slightly mad. There are signs already, and now he's manically attached to trying to take his dramatic revenge. The truth is besides the point of what he might actually say.

The battle in WWII involving multiple French VIPs, a squad of US troops and a number of German soldiers defending a castle against a larger force of SS.

Having read Lord Roem's story about Harold Wilson, I can't agree with you there. Even if all he does is sit in pubs and -cuts off for spoilers-

Better than I am (warning: link contains profanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQskdtF73qw )

That was what I was going to put.

It does occur to me that Britain and France wouldn't be pleased at Soviet arms pouring into Africa to 'support Abyssinia'.

I don't know how it is in the Ivy League, but I've found that by far the most important part of university for me has been the development of social and life skills. The internet does not teach those in the same way. Is the Ivy League the same thing as Oxbridge for the USA?

Superb. I'd love there to be a radio show of this. If nothing else, people's reaction to Enoch Powell would be something to behold.

Having read Frederick Marks' 'Six between Roosevelt and Hitler: America's Role in the Appeasement of Nazi Germany', among other works, I'd say the Europeans were entirely justified in teling the USA to stay out. US diplomats who worked to support Munich (among other exampls of appeasement) had...

Would a later war allow both sides to introduce jet aircraft early?

Spent the evening reading this. Loved it.

I've done a few dieselpunk rpgs.