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You're over selling your case. There's nothing ASB about this at all. Hawaii, the state where Japanese-Americans were most numerous had no internment. Not surprisingly Hawaii was a main source of Nisei volunteers. Japanese-American participation in the war also extended beyond the two Nisei...

In WWII there were OSS and SOE operations even within Germany but no direct action operations were carried out against Japan. Granted it was harder to impersonate Japanese subjects, but surely it was not impossible given the large numbers of Japanese in America and perhaps Chinese and Korean...

The China Lobby and the John Birch Society was at least as powerful as the Neo-Cons on the eve of the Iraq War. Also at the time the American intelligence community had very little idea about Chinese Communists. They believed Mao took orders from Moscow, and the Communist world was monolithic...

Not really. Truman was not fond of Chiang, but most Republicans were still keen on him. Mao was irked by US refusing to recognize his government after the establishment of the PRC. But it was only after the US Navy was ordered to defend Taiwan after the North Korean invasion of the south that...

China's main worry was the US will eventually invade Manchuria like Japan did after absorbing Korea and put Chiang Kai-shek back in power. Manchuria had half of China's heavy industry, it cannot modernize with a military threat on the border. Plus the plains of Manchuria are far harder to defend...

Whatever. You are a bore who don't know what you're talking about.

You're attributing qualities of bayonet formations to pike squares and Napoleonic artillery to Renaissance cannons. I'm not interested debating with someone who don't know what they're talking about. Goodbye.

No it wasn't. Canister DID NOT out range musketry. Both had max range of around 200 yards. Canister from a very big gun like may be a 12 pounder could fire out further, but they were a later development. During the days of the pike square, field guns were more like 4 pounders. They didn't even...

And that's good enough to check the artillery before they had shrapnel. The infantry can also march up closer when needed while the artillery isn't nearly as mobile. You realize we're talking about pike formations right? A pike square is immobile. Battles of this period were static, with pike...

Grape shots were at best 200 yard weapons, which is within musket range. I don't know where you're getting 300 yard grapeshot from, naval 24 pounders? Are you seriously suggesting pike formations would survive shrapnel? I don't know what to say about that. Actually I amended before your reply...

How can you compare grapeshot to shrapnel? The latter actually out range muskets, the former do not. Cavalry was a key asset against artillery. So long as you're flanking them, and not going the wrong way and taking flanking fire like the incident in the Crimea.

You could invent shrapnel shells earlier and remove the pike square from the battle field. Once infantry is forced into loose battle order, the cavalry will be dominant.

The cavalry needs to convert to projectile weapons as its main tactic. Horse archery remained effective well into the gunpowder era. However the technique was difficult to master and proved a high barrier of entry for non-nomadic peoples. In Europe this problem was resolved by the wheelock horse...

What I don't understand is why Chimu isn't the centerpiece of these kinds of time lines. There's nothing on the Mexican Pacific coast anywhere near as sophisticated as the city of Chan Chan. Were the Chinese to actually explore this region their records of contact will be mostly on the Chimu and...

The hull construction of planks secured with rope dates back to the Egyptians and the lanteen sail to the Romans. They were already sailing to China by the 5th century.

Before the year 900 to get in before the Mayan Collapse. Dhows were already capable of such a trip centuries before this.

Arrrgh, way too late to be interesting.

If they can get to the Maya during the Golden Age and transmit the technology of the dhow, then by the time of the collapse Mayans would likely migrate all over the Caribbean and perhaps to South America, the Gulf Coast of North America and Florida. A greater Mayan cultural sphere plus North...

I had a thread about this earlier this year. Ramming can be a very effective tactic if the ship is properly designed for it. https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=184330&highlight=ram

He will probably get back into the art scene, maybe try his hand at writing. Eventually he may end up as a teacher. I could see him becoming the stern headmaster of some unfortunate all boys school.