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This is quite the interesting question, because it raises some more questions about the structure and philosophy of NATO. Provision V, the "an attack against one is an attack against all" provision, seems to have several core assumptions inherent. The most prominent, of course, is that NATO...

I can work something out for Canadian teams in the NFL, just to get the ball rolling. In 1970, after the successful AFL-NFL merger, the NFL and CFL agree to a five year contract of yearly exhibitions played in the CFL's stadiums, to help promote the sport in Canada. In 1975, one of those...

I think this be the most ironic thing I've ever read on an alternate history website :).

Such is possible, yes. But I find it doubtful. I think it deals way too much in assumptions of a person's state of mind that we cannot either confirm or deny to be plausible. Again, doubtful. Did losing Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya and Burma knock the British out of the war? Did losing...

Yeah, I wouldn't think that the Russians would pursue any campaigns in Asia until at least after Kursk. Such would probably slow their advances into Europe, depending on how fierce resistance was in Manchuria and possibly Korea. I doubt they would be able to move against the Home Islands until...

I doubt that the USSR has the manpower to do anything immediate in the Far East. The bulk of their troops in the Far East were pulled out so they could be used against the Germans, which were used in the Dec 5-6 counterattack against the "central front" in the West. If anything, a state of war...

A possible POD might be the Battle of Stangebro in 1598. In 1592, King Sigismund III of Poland-Lithuania inherited the throne of Sweden from his father King John III, uniting the two crowns in one person; as King of Sweden, he opted to rule the state from Poland. His uncle, the eventual...

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Well there was a theory behind Stalingrad in OTL. Its primary purpose was one of propaganda: Stalin built his fame on the defense of it (when it was Tsaritsyn) during the Russian Civil War, and Hitler thinks that capturing it shows that Stalin can't defend "his city". It's also a port on...

The plans appear to include two more books in the Settling Accounts series: The Grapple will come in 2006, and In At the Death in 2007.

Turtledove's trying to underscore the extreme manpower differential between the USA and the CSA. Numbers mean everything. Confederate plans are pretty much built around the fact that the Confederates don't have nearly enough men to really put together a serious offensive. This is why they...

I'm going to go ahead and challenge this, because I've got a fairly good idea where they might come from. A "leisure class" still developed independent of slavery in the merchant ports...after all, it's not like Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, James Otis and John Hancock were manual laborers and...

I don't think the world is as similar as you make it out to be. This is the world in 1942, in the Turtledove universe: International law is whatever the Great Powers decide it is. They'll agree to certain things, like humane treatment of prisoners (the book does mention the Geneva...

OK, so we're seriously comparing OTL Germany of 1944 to TTL Germany of 1941? A Germany that had been fighting a war for three years, and is slowly losing its infantry, its tanks and crews, its planes and pilots to Allied advances on three fronts? A Germany that is being bombed daily by US and...

Spoils of war. The Japanese seized them during the war, were never dislodged, and were the only Entente ally to escape without having to surrender territory. Unfortunately, given the tunnel vision of the series, we never know how peace was negotiated in the Pacific War, other than comments on...

So, where's the African campaign? How about the Battle of Britain? Or the invasion of Poland? If it's exactly the same as WWII, why did Blackbeard only go after Ohio and Indiana, instead of being an all-frontal attack, stalling out in front of Philadelphia where a harsh winter brings forth...

The Treaty of Sevres in 1920 still stands, as opposed to the later Treaty of Lausanne that was negotiated by the Allies with Ataturk. (map of the treaty provisions: http://www.hri.org/docs/sevres/map1.html) Because Ataturk is not there to lead the Turkish Republicans, it could be assumed...

Labor history would certainly have been different. Lincoln was a strong advocate of labor. Maybe a more progressive series of legislation regarding labor issues comes as a result of the Lincoln presidency, with stuff like nationally mandated eight hour workdays (which might forestall the...

(Long time lurker, first time poster. Assume standard introduction here.) My name is kingdobbs, and I approve of this timeline. Except, I don't really think it's necessary to butterfly people like Madison, Jefferson and Henry out of existence so much as out of prominence. They could be...