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Röhm wanted to get rid of the Wehrmacht and institute the SA as a mass people's army. Imagining a universe where he somehow gets to actually do this WW2 most definitely wouldn't go too well for the Germans. Basically they'd try to be the Red Army without the motivation that fighting the...

If the other countries are sufficiently enamored with their battleships the Japanese building carriers instead of battleships might even make them more complacent since they will be way ahead of the Japanese in the area that matters to them, battleships.

Your theories are a lot more boring than mine :) I really don't see Germany getting a leg up after they basically took a great big dump in the Brits' Cheerios at Munich quite frankly.

This is a fascinating question. What kind of terms the Germans would be willing to accept would depend on just how bad the Wehrmacht has been hit and what else is going on - just how restless is Stalin looking is a big one. On the other hand the Allies would have to give off the impression...

You're basically saying that every army in the world is run by morons who went and got the wrong guns and that, over the last 50 years of warfighting, none of them ever noticed. Sorry dude, that is a ridiculous statement. Besides, the Viet Minh from what I've read about them practised excellent...

Red Dawn has gotta be up there. Every time a new character ("character") was introduced it somehow just got worse.

Whoops there ya go I straight up forgot about the carbine. Point taken.

I don't think they can get away with anything basically. The Allies were, rightfully, completely unimpressed by the Italian military, so adding them to the Axis if they try something is no problem for the Allies at least once the Soviet Union is in the war and takes the pressure off the British...

1. If five compentent guys with garands go up against five competent guys with AKs it's a slaughter; the guys with AKs will have fire superiority and they can carry more ammo so they can keep it up longer. The jungle even makes the Garand's longer effective range irrelevant. The guys with AKs...

You're absolutely correct that mobilization etc. would take some time, so it depends on when they decide to start preparing. But the point that the German troops would have zero time for rest and refit still stands and IMO partly supersedes your objection. And I don't know where you get the idea...

Not sure if I can agree with everyone saying that it would have been a disaster. The German fortifications looked much, much better on paper than in reality, and the troops were, as has been mentioned, short on everything. Hitler was flying the war by the seat of his pants in 39 same as in 41...

The war was lost when the US decided to rely on Diem and his corrupt, tarnished by their association with the French Catholic sellouts as their alternative to the successful and popular nationalist movement that had kicked out the French colonialists. That's it. From there it was the Viet Minh's...

Well ain't that just charming. Fucking Nazis, fucking Finns.

Give Iran the bomb and you get a nonnegligible likelihood of a bunch of Jews reaching low earth orbit. Ofc the Iranians would get there at about the same time, but the OP didn't say that the Jews had to be the only ones :p

What on earth would the Finns want St. Petersburg for? That would go most of the way towards making them a minority in their own country.

The question is ASB, with all the industrialized nations spending five years looking at high priority for a way to make machine guns more portable, cheap and reliable there is no way in hell they're not inventing everything there is to invent with the existing tech base.

Suck up to the Brits and French (relinquish Elsass), do Anschluss, negotiate for Danzig and Sudetenland, guarantee the current border to the Poles and Czechs plus help against the Soviets if they scratch my back. Hope for Stalin to do something stupid, if he does do something stupid break up the...

The Vietnam-era marines had more advanced kit, support weapons, air support, logistics, medical science and doctrine, so I guess South Vietnam falls a couple years earlier with much higher American casualties and much lower Vietnamese civilian casualties. If I understand the somewhat weird...

Well there was no bigass secret conspiracy but there were a lot of people in the military who considered overthrowing Hitler over Czechoslovakia. He replaced a lot of these guys with puppets, but as the early successes were replaced by setbacks a putsch got likelier again later in the war.

Neither the Göring (in the 40s) nor Himmler (ever) had Hitler's charisma and standing in the population, and from reading Longerich's biography of Himmler he doesn't really strike me as someone who could serve successfully at the very top, more of a follower than a leader, totally reliant on...