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It kinda looks like the map for Fatherland. Germany having reached the Urals, and a depopulated, mostly ungoverned rump-Russia limping on beyond the mountains in guerrilla warfare. But then again, IIRC, the Fatherland TL had the USA beating Japan much as in OTL.

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...

In OTL, Civil Rights protesters were often called Communists in an attempt to discredit them. ITTL, as you said, perhaps radical reactionary Militia groups form to protest the Civil Rights movement. When state or federal authorities step in to protect pro Civil Rights groups, the Militias often...

Ooh! Could we perhaps see some co-operation between France/Italy in security operations in their North African colonies, a-la Portugal/Rhodesia/South Africa? Libya and Algeria's placement on the map would mean that cross-border operations, and shared intel, could allow both countries to cling on...

Interesting. We could even potentially have TTL's Italy launching its own Paperclip, to secure Nazi scientists. As for how willing the US would be to play ball with Italy - I think the primary issue here is how Barbarossa goes, and how Europe will be divided up postwar. Will the Soviets get as...

I know about Operation Paperclip, and its sister-ops. But Italy had little to offer American intelligence agencies post-war. It never engaged in wide-scale eugenics programs, chemical weapons experimentation, nuclear research, et al - CERTAINLY not on the same scale as Germany. America didn't...

The wider world would come out of WW2 with a pretty bitter hatred for Authoritarianism/Fascism. ITTL, a Fascist country invading a weaker, majority-Jewish country is probably not going to go down well. Fascist Spain was allowed to exist as long as it OTL did because it deliberately avoided...

During the War, didn't Mussolini refuse to deport Jews right up until the end? In a postwar situation, this might give a big boost to Italy's image in the eyes of Jewish refugees. Plus, Italy, if desperate for settlers for Libya, might play up their role in "protecting the Jews" for propaganda...

I think the posters here have the right idea. Depending on when it appears, it could change the perception of the so-called free-love movement of the 60s - prompting more sexual conservatism, and stunting the whole Hippie movement. After all - a looooot of young people were enticed into those...

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...

The worst that Y2K could be? Just ask John Titor... ;)

Interesting (and one or two impassioned) responses thus far! In particular, it seems like one of the primary reasons for an inevitable PRC takeover (for wont of a peaceful handover) is the lack of a serious military garrison after the 50s. Another being America's reluctance to weigh-in on...

I think it would partially depend on when such a Union would occur. Remember - even the most hardened pro-Rhodesia crowd have to admit that Rhodesia was essentially a huge diamond-mining company, operating out of South Africa, until around 1920, and it was only WW2, the Cold War, and UDI, 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...

Very true. Perhaps, if they DID adopt such a rifle, the war in the Pacific Islands might have resulted in even greater losses for the Japanese, due to poorer fighting conditions, and greater difficulty maintaining or replacing rifles. Hadn't thought of that! :p

Oh right! That's good to know, actually. I was sure I'd read somewhere that the charge was emphasised as a general tactic in one of the Japanese Strategies of Attack ("meeting", "deliberate/planned", "hasty", and "pursuing"), and that it was adapted by Japanese officers when fighting the...

I think one of the main things I had in mind was whether it would have any effect on Infantry doctrine for the Japanese. The Imperial Japanese Army's doctrine was almost entirely structured around offensives - both large and small scale. Obviously, defensive tactics played a part, but many...

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...

The Idea: Perhaps Gaddafi turns to Western advisers, like Saddam Hussein with Gerald Bull & co, only on a wider scale? Simultaneously, however, he invests heavily in the cultural ideals of Pan Africanism and Pan Islamism, with grand festivals, and a complete overhaul of the school system. A...

WHOOPS. Corrected. :p