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He'll probably have to return to his old stomping grounds more than once to quell incursions and rebellions.

If you avoid the first one, it's probably going to switch things around so much that the other ones won't need to be avoided - they'll never happen.

How would this happen, and what would be the short term effects?

This is not correct, I can't speak for India, but Pakistani F-16s are definitely used in A2A, and were used in several successful intercepts against the Soviets during the Afghan war.

Korea is as much of a scaled down China as Belgium is a scaled down Germany or Italy. The only reason anyone would think this is if they are looking at an overly euro centric vision of the world, that would define all Asians or Africans as being identical.

How will they be any better than the German advisers?

I think somebody said "Seldom has the addition of another power to an alliance actually made them weaker", or something to that effect. I could envision Italy still doing things like invading Greece, only this time it will drive them over to the axis!

The tank looks to be slightly underpowered compared to the Sherman, but I would hazard a guess that the main reason for the Sherman being more effective would be simply the greater availability of spare parts and maintenance. If you want a scenario where they see action, perhaps after...

Shouldn't that be under a "treaties that never should have been signed" thread?

The F-86s would be of little help here, as the airport was ruined in the first Indian air strikes. In any kind of action on the Indian mainland (and the islands since they are so close) anything that any other nation tries is going to be pretty much doomed to failure, you would need a massive...

Indian GDP was 25% of the world before the British arrived. When they left it was closer to 2%. I would say they got quite the opposite! Here is an excellent paper on the De-industrialization of India under British Rule: http://www.nber.org/papers/w10586

British manufacturers are not going to be happy with something like this. As well, the main reason for granting Independence was that they couldn't afford to support places like this anymore. How are they going to fund this massive industrialization if the locals won't themselves? Also, once the...

Some of the islands would be plausible, but would there be anything at all to attract them to say, the Azores? Remember, these weren't even discovered until the 14th Century. I think a colony on Britain might be more likely than any Atlantic Islands.

Iowa Class. All that effort and expense to create a slightly faster South Dakota. Obsolete by the time they were launched too. Even Japan had the sense to convert Shinano to a carrier.

Judging by the # of posts in this forum it would be WWII.

There isn't really any way to estimate what the likelihood of something happening is, but 2,3,4... changes cannot by any law be stated to be outside the realm of possibility. Perhaps then, a better title would be "POD producing best case scenario for the Axis"?

So to continue with that example, do you think that discovering the codes is ridiculously implausible? This is something well within the realm of plausibility! There are numerous other points, but there is no need to go through them all. It would be better to call this "Germans do slightly...

This is clearly not a Best Case! For (one) example, you mentioned allied knowledge of Axis codes. In a "Best Case", everything turns up in the favor of one side. In a "Best Case", there would be no such knowledge to begin with, or as soon as reality ends and the case begins, the Axis will...

But Before 1900, nobody will know or care about that. Also, regardless of any claims whoever wants it is going to have to "use it or loose it", and with all that can be gained from exploiting other countries, I don't think that they will spare much to defend it from any rivals or marauding...

That last bit would make it more likely. If they do have a very powerful leader similar to Kim Il-sung, then those "huge interests" will mean they need to tread the path of Songun in order to maintain independence.