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1966 to 1989 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Border_War Like it says on the tin, with a PoD no later than 1966, how bad can it go for South Africa? How well can Cuba/SWAPO/MPLA etc plausibly do?

Picture this for me if you will. You're a young (impressionable), patriotic, ballsy fighter jock in the Argentine Air Force during the Falklands war. The San Carlos landings have just started. There's a briefing for the next strike you're being sent out on. The direction the war is taking is...

What if JFK had disappeared in a manner similar to that of Harold Holt - a friendly head of government that went swimming at the beach & was lost in the surf - instead of & at about the same time as the Assassination OTL? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt#Disappearance Given JFK's...

So OTL the 'Red Army Faction', a Left-Wing 'urban guerilla'/terrorist group in Western Germany attacked a military base in West Germany in 1977. They tried to sieze or destroy the nuclear weapons on the base. The attack went Fubar against them, their bomb didn't work, several were killed by...

(The events span the 1900 barrier, to pick before or after I've simply picked where the P.O.D needs lie). Challenge: How can the establishment of the Geneva & Hauge conventions go arwy? Can the west fail to establish 'laws of war' in the late 19th century allowing for industrialized warfare in...

Essentially, what if the current North American polar vortex freeze - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/07/polar-vortex-temperature-freezing-all-50-states Had happened in say the second week of screening for the climate change disaster flick "the day after tomorrow" involving a polar...

Hydroplaning Quads :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWWt9IC7mGs If riding into battle on motorbikes alone seems a bit outlandish, see this: http://www.ghqmodels.com/pdf/Germany/German%20Motorcycle%20Bttn.%20%281941%29.pdf I'll include river crossings as amphibious if ship to shore...

AHC: Have a major power produce (using technology of the day) a low production run, long range, dedicated strategic reconnaissance aircraft relying on whatever is perceived at the time to be 'ultra-high altitude' (for the day) performance for protection against interception/shootdown. Bonus...

There was a debate in Japanese circles before Dec 1941, whether to attack North (Soviet Union) or South (USA, UK, Dutch). The Battles of Khalkin-Gol etc led to a non-aggression treaty, the Japanese decision to 'Go South'. One question asked about the 'Go North' plan is whether it could have...

In much the same vein as 'pick a heritage listed building to survive that didn't', what ship deserved to be preserved that would have become a great attraction today?

Fairly simple premise. Trotsky casts an eye over his situation in Mexico, sees how the constant assassination attempts are merely harming his relatives & followers, feels that it's only prolonging the inevitable with Stalins power & his own seemingly ill health. He decides to try and enjoy...

[OOC: Based off "]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquis_du_Vercors After De Gaulles call for uprising by the Marquis to aid the D-Day landings - specifically mentioning the French Alps in his address, a force of 4000 French resistance members rose up taking the Vercours Plateau. Fighting against...

So there are tunnels running from North Korea under the border to South Korea to be used in the event of invasion, bypassing fortifications behind the DMZ. Some have been found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Tunnel_of_Aggression http://www.f-106deltadart.com/Korea-DMZ/tunnels.htm "More...

So say Franco is concerned that after Hitler he might be next, wants to be counted in the winners column post WW2, get on the W/Allies good side. June 6, he's given news that the Allies have landed in Normandy (D-Day). June 9, his military advisors tell him the window of opportunity the...

So in modern warfare Psychedelic chemicals are part of the potential armory of combatants. Case in point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-quinuclidinyl_benzilate or 'BZ'. These have all essentially been developed after WW2, the interest came after the invention of LSD in 1938 & accidental...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Sablin OTL. 1975, the day after a revolutionary holiday a Political Officer on a Soviet Frigate decides to try to inspire a new Communist revolution against the corrupt regime. He leads a Mutiny on board & plans to slip away from the fleet in the Baltic in...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_American_Indian_Memorial "The major part of the memorial was to be a 165-foot-tall (50 m) statue of a representative American Indian warrior atop a substantial foundation building housing a museum of native cultures, similar in scale to the Statue of...

When examining the potential landing sites for what became Operation Overlord (D-Day) in OTL, the planners looked over the full range of European coastline available to them. A major factor in choosing Normandy was the projected availability of aircover. The crushing of the Luftwaffe with the...

Say Nazi Germany had an Amerika Bomber in operation 44-45, with roughly similar effects the V weapons had on the U.K. Something like a Horten H.XVIII, flying too high/fast to be intercepted at first (que crash U.S interceptor efforts). Other than diverting a lot of resources to it's...

OTL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QF32) an Airbus A380 suffered an uncontrolled engine failure (the engine exploded) in 2010. With 469 people on board the aircraft suffered extensive problems before barely managing a landing in Singapore. Luckily, at hand onboard that flight were additional crew...