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I see we've had multiple threads on the 1916 election and a Hughes victory. But most of it focused on whether he would have entered WW1 earlier/later, and the potential backlash against the GOP in the 1920s. Some people have said that the peace treaty would have been basically the same. In the...

I was watching this video which makes a case that the major reason for poor Soviet performance in 1941, was its reorganization in the face of blitzkrieg 1939-1940. And so the Red Army was in a major state of flux and disorganization when the Nazis hit them. Now in theory it made sense to...

Is there any possibility of an Allied landing in 1942 capturing Tunis and cutting off Rommel's retreat from Libya? Or is was that beyond the capacity of Allied air, sea and amphibious abilities at the moment. Could Operation Torch have been launched further East, say in Algiers and Tunis without...

I enjoy the speculations of alt-hist, but I'm not too much for fiction. I actually enjoyed reading the Southern Victory timeline, better than actually reading Turtledove's prose. I very much enjoy the alternate worlds that are hinted at in AH fiction, but I find the fictional narratives...

One of Stalin's greatest blunders was the state of Soviet defenses in June 1941, which arguably left the USSR totally unprepared for Barbarossa. Despite repeated warnings from numerous sources, he ignored the impending invasion. This line of thought begs the question, of what would have been the...

I'm reading The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, which is an interesting how to guide and speculation about how a manual of knowledge good be used to help reboot civilization after a post-apocalyptic scenario. And he quotes from Diderot as having the original inspiration for a...

I have toyed with a number of possible Anglo-Continental Unions, such as Denmark from Queen Anne, Sweden or Prussia. The most probable union would be Anglo-Dutch which did happen in 1688, and was all set to continue if William and Mary had had an heir. While it is interesting to speculate...

Suppose after the 1812 declaration of war, Napoleon had waged a defensive campaign against Russia in Poland, possibly in conjunction with a Swedish and Turkish alliance. Assuming military forces were roughly equivalent to OTL, would fighting Russia in Poland have a made a big difference? I think...

I remember reading somewhere that Patton's initial reaction to the German Ardennes offensive, was to suggest that his Third Army continue the attack into the Saar. Patton's famous quote was "Hell, let's have the guts to let the sons of bitches go all the way to Paris. Then we'll really cut 'em...

Winston Churchill begins his war memoirs with- The French objective since Charlemagne split up the Frankish Empire was to secure the westbank of the Rhine. The French Revolution in 3 years accomplished what the Bourbons had failed to do in 300 years. And indeed the most important conquest of...

Why didn't Napoleon make any attempt to dismantle the Prussian and Austrian Empires? Either through direct annexation, setting up a client state, placing a Bonaparte on the throne or partitioning among small-allied states? Napoleon occupied Vienna in 1805, and was in a military position to...

So I'm reading Max Hasting's history of the Pacific War. And he mentioned that Jiang Jieshi is regarded with favor even in mainland China as a result of historical revisionism that seems him as a Chinese nationalist unifying figure. A Communist Party historian is even quoted as saying that he...

So I Was just reading over the 2010 thread AH Challenge: Make France Protestant! and all the discussions reasonably enough focused on the Huguenot wars of religion. I was wondering if there was any possibility of establishing a Anglican/Episcopalian style Gallican National church during either...