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Thank goodness for dictatorships and monarchies! At least they have long lasting peace. Makes me think of something like - the Marshall Plan. That was the perfect example of a democratic nation not allowing bygones be bygones.

What are 'confederate spaces'?

The USS Dunderberg is a really interesting ship. There is an excellent article, probably the only one of its kind, about its design and construction while under US colors in a Warship International journal from a few years back. It had been redesigned while on the stocks to a casemate ironclad...

A very good observation. I also think Wilhelm was being continually marginalized by the likes of Bethmann Hollweg and other members of his government.

The Schlieffen Plan was laid out years in advance, tho Moltke the Younger made adjustments to it - at least that is what the conventional take on the matter goes. I believe that Moltke had totally switched to a 'France First' mode in updating schedules, etc. by 1912.

Yes, the big edge goes to the Alaska class with its superior fire control and radar. Aside from that, I would think the Hood and the Russian Izmail class battlecruisers would make the Alaska think twice.

Very timely since March-April 2014 strategy & Tactics magazine has an interesting article titled 'Alcohol, The Alamo and the Texas War for Independence, 1835-1836 by Wayne Austerman. An interesting sidebar provides a WI in that Santa Ana had advanced immediately after the Alamo rather than...

I saw the book last night at Barnes & Noble and bought it. Flipped thru it late last night and thought it was fairly interesting. Will read it shortly.

I've got to say that Daniel Burnham was probably one of the greatest American city planners of the early 20th century. He also did a massive proposal for Manila IIRC. His ideas for San Francisco were amazing.

How about King George V and Prince of Wales are completed with 12 14in guns and the rather losing time developing a twin turret. One source that I've read mentioned that the original intention of the Admiralty was to mount 16in guns on the Duke of York, which, along with Anson and Howe, would...

I would consider Italy. It finally achieve parity with the French. Neither power could really exploit immediately what benefits it got from the Treaty.

Someone was seriously off course. I only tried briefly to see if there was a map of the respective courses of the ships online.

I would think that the US is a little late. I'm pretty sure that most islands were already claimed by then.

Your right with fascism developing after the Great War it is a little hard, and incorrect, to refer to those that came before the war as Fascists.

Viscount Nelson only had a portion of the British fleet with him at Trafalgar so total defeat here would not have presented the French with any additional benefit. It certainly may have cut a few years off the Napoleonic Wars, which would have been a boon to the various European countries being...

Coughlin is a good example, tho I was looking more towards the early 1900s, with the likes of Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger.

I think it would be very hard. The first proto-fascist, at least in America, came out of the Progressive Movement. While there were some negative aspects to what became Fascism, it doesn't really get a black eye until the rise of Nazism. In Germany it took root in a different society, then...