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I thought that colonial American alcohol comsumption rates were more a result of the unsafe drinking water supplies of the era rather than any kind of moral or ethical self-restraint. If the choice was getting dysentary from the local well or drinking a beer, I think most rational people...

I've noticed this mentioned several times here and also in OTL history and it got me wondering if the German's ever had plans or even the confidence that they could inflict a military defeat on the UK.

For this PoD you would need to have the American space program be founded and funded as more than a geopolitical grandstanding/public-relations stunt. It was the concept of a "space race" that strangled NASA after the first Moon landing. Since Kennedy made it the grand prize of the race...

I'll admit I'm not an expert on the Saudi military, but I would guess that they would put up some kind of defense against an Iraqi invasion of their homeland. Regarding the Iraqi's capturing the Saudi air defenses intact, I'm doubtful of that happening. Either the Saudi's use it defending...

Unless the Iraqis planned to invade and hold Saudi Arabia that means they would have had to build or, most likely, buy much more AAA and missile defenses from the USSR to cover the new territory. If not, the only other way would be to strip their heavy AAA belt from around Bagdhad to spread...

Way too much has been made of Nazi high tech. No matter how good their science was their weakness was their decision-making abilities. You'll notice that according to the Wiki article, in OTL the designers were told that the weapon wasn't needed; then later ordered to (and were successful in)...

My understanding is that the IJN was threatening Midway with invasion only to sucker the USN into a major fleet battle in an attempt to reduce or even destroy the American carrier strength in the Pacific. Any occupation of Midway would have been gravy after the destruction of the American...