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This was the original plan, I believe. The original plan of Hitler and the German High Command was to capture the North Sea coast and force Britain/France to come to peace terms. In OTL there was a plane carrying all the secret plans which crash landed in Belgium forcing the Germans back to...

THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION We the People.... Article I Section 4 3: Participation in the democratic process being both a right and a responsibility, it shall be compulsory for all eligible citizenry to attend a place of voting, have their name duly checked against an electoral roll, and...

In OTL, the prime concern of the Japanese leadership in Aug 1945 was preserving the Imperial Throne. So much so that even though they had already seen one city disappear in a mushroom cloud, they dithered until another city was vapourized and a Soviet offensive forced their hand. MacArthur...

Pretty much as the title says. In OTL he invaded Kuwait and then sat there, thinking that the rest of the world would accept it as a fait accompli. But what if he believed that the world WOULD react. In that case would it not make more strategic sense to invade Saudi Arabia also and try to...

In WW1 in OTL the trench warfare on the western front because such a frustrating stalemate that both sides were willing to invest enormous resources on finding a breakthrough. The Germans tried mustard gas and unrestricted submarine warfare. The British/French began experimenting with tanks...

Italy's entry into WW2 was almost comical in its lack of planning and misguided objectives. Mussolini declared "I only need a few thousand dead so that I can sit at the peace conference as a man who has fought" and so cast his hand against Britain and France in June 1940. On June 20th the...

I've done some reading of the V1 and V2 rocket programs which were strategically just one big dead end for the Germans (sans a nuclear payload at any rate). I've read that some of the German scientists wanted to turn the rocket program away from offensive weapons and more toward surface to air...

The Fall of France was pretty much the zenith of Hitler's career. Having done in a matter of weeks what the Prussian Generals could not do in 4 years of WW1, he was riding the wave of popularity in Germany. Most German people thought the war would be over in months and they could all settle...

In OTL, the Brits spent most of the 1930s praying that Herr Hitler could be pacified and appeased. When he tore up the Munich agreement in 1939, that was the red line that the Germans crossed. Problem for Chamberlain and co is that they hadn't taken the time to put together any realistic Plan...

Whenever I think about where the Germans went wrong in the First World War, it always comes back to their failed Schlieffen Plan in 1914. Yes, yes I know it almost worked. But military scholars for the last 100 years all point out that it was a highly risky strategy. Essentially an all or...