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Just a vague memory, but the US tried a rescue operation for the hostages in Tehran, and the abject failure led to the formation of JSOC. I could imagine that the arms of the Soviet military could have the same problems with interoperabiltiy the US did, so how successful would the hostage...

Nice, like limewater poisioning-or perhaps the early appearance of chronic fatigue syndrome?

My brother is a naval officer, and i showed him this 'well thought out idea' of the IJN attacking UK in the IO. After he stopped laughing (about 3 days later), he wondered if there was some kind of reason that Hong Kong wasnt attacked? You were using Hainan as a base?

I think we may be about to skip the cold war.....

May 10 1946 - Saigon falls to joint Thai/VFA forces, commanded by Ho Chi Minh. To erase the memory of the French colonial government, he renames the city Ho Chi Minh City, much to the chagrin of the Thai King May 30 1946 - China and UK forces clash in the New Territories of Hong Kong, and...

But without a beligerant Italy, and no Greece Crete North Afria campaigns, how does the RN controlling the Med make and impact on occupation of Nthn France or the Russian campaign?

You are thinking far too much along the 18th century naval warfare lines. Read the previous post- i was thinking of things like Blackwater, and mercenaries like in the movie wild geese

What if the US reinstated privateers and letters of marque after the 9/11 attacks? It would cause a lot of butterflies, especially when you think of the problems the military have faced with fighting a fanatic almost unidentifiable (untill too late) enemy. My first thought is along the lines...

Consider the time period, the hebrews had been looking for a messiah for centuries, and they were attempting to fight/ignore/live with Roman occupation. John the Baptist was considered to beh the messiah at one point, but said something like 'i prepare for the one that comes after me'. It is...

March-May 1946: Ho Chi Minh takes all Japanese arms and equipment he can find, and forms the Vetnamese Free Army, to fight the colonial power (France). March 1946: Australia formally annexes the western part of New Guinea island, renaiming the whole as Australian New Guinea; Royal Navy...

Lets look at the German motivation agaisnt Russia. The only reason they supported AH with the blank cheque was that they wanted to fight Russia sooner rather than later. The Tsar had started a military reorganisation and rearmament program after losing to Japan in 1905, and this was not...

Perhaps if HenryVIII of England had a son- Henry IX. The power of the Church would definitly been broken by a continuation of his policies. The much reduced influence of the bishops would allow Henry to play the nobles against each other. Parliament would never take hold, as the nobles would...

Godless religions do still exist. The spiritual belief system of the Australian Aborigines really didnt have deities as conventional western culture define them. It also survived the arrival of europeans in some areas. Could we all get behind the idea of a giant snake shaping the land?

Forget cash crops, they could begin by hacking into the old growth forrests for the shipbuilding industry.....possibly alongside fishing

Uncle Ho was simply a nationalist untill the french left in OTL French secure Saigon, and the british promise help to Ho to help rebuild both agriculture and industry (just to get up the nose of the French)

Australian timelines 1. The dutch make landfall lower and lower down the west coast as the trade route to Batavia gets more traffic, and they start to look at what is actually iron ore as a resource 2. Swan River colony as in OTL, the discovery of iron ore leads not to export, but local pig...

Africa was a total waste of time and resources- Hitler blindly went to fight Italy's war, simply because he regarded Mussolini as his 'hero'. His real aim was to move to the east, against the baltic and slavic nations, and would perhaps have been conducted better (if not more successfully)...

But imagine how devastating it would have been if the germans used it on the British at Mons? apart from the smoking carnage too awful to consider, a BIG hole just opened up on the French left, and Paris might soon have some armed guests in its hotels

January 1946 - Ho Chi Minh marches at the head of hundreds of (poorly) armed supporters into the Japanese miliary governers office, and declares 'I have accepted the Japanese military surrender, and i now declare Viet-nam to be a free nation, free of occupying armies, colonial rulers and foriegn...

Napalm is usually a mixture of gasoline with suitable thickening agents. The earliest thickeners were soaps, aluminum, and magnesium palmitates and stearates. I am sure the industrial establishment that made smokeless powder and highexplosives and blasting caps could have worked it out.