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Nobody is psychic. Nobody can truly predict the future. But there WERE plenty of influential people around Hitler, throughout his career, who could see (and, indeed, were angered by) his unwillingness to compromise, or heed advice from his Generals, was harming the war effort. Quite...

Let's leave aside the how. Talking about "How Germany could've won WW2" has become a bit dull, and there are a billion threads about precisely that. For the purposes of this thread, we'll vaguely state that Germany defeated the USSR, and that the US either didn't declare war on the Axis, or that...

I recently got to watching a few videos on the handover of Hong Kong back to the Chinese, and reading a little into the history behind the move. According to the (ever reliable) internet, Thatcher had pushed for HK to become an independent nation with a seat at the UN, and that even as close as...

From the late 1800s, through WW1, and culminating around the 1920s Japan underwent a period of remarkable and rapid modernisation, in an effort to imitate and exceed the Great Powers of the world. This included an overhaul of Japan's ancient military, and the adoption of Western battle tactics...

Hey guys. I've been watching a lot of Indie's "The Great War" series, and he's just covered Greek reactions to the allies basing men in (and moving troops through) parts of Greece. It seems almost universally negative, with even the King of Greece writing scathingly about the British and French...

I'm sure many of you have heard of the so-called "Business Plot" - a claimed coup attempt against the United States Government in 1934-ish. While there's a lot of discussion as to how much truth there was behind the allegations, let's assume, for the sake of this discussion/scenario, the...

(My first creative endeavour for this site! I decided to play with my South African invasion/intervention in Rhodesia idea, and crank out a little writing, for you all. Let me know what you think! In this chapter, we see the aftermath of the mortar and rocket attack on Salisbury's Oil Depot...

Decolonisation-era Africa is fascinating, to me, as well as the alliances between rogue regimes. The two come together in a spectacular (and somewhat sinister) collision with the "official unofficial" alliance between Rhodesia (1965-1979/80), and Apartheid South Africa (~1948-1994). Though the...

I recently played a HoI3 campaign (I know, I know - but hear me out) as Greece, wherein I elected to attempt neutrality during dub-dub-two, and instead exploit global instability for the gain of the Hellenes. However, I became bogged-down in a horrifically costly war in Turkey, and was spared...