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That's very interesting. Thank you. Now if only I could read German

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Germans' only mobilization plan for invading Belgium and starting the "Schlieffen Plan"? In that case, they'd have to be improvising the entire mobilization process as they went which could slow thing down and leave their army in chaos for a while if they...

I don't know if France would attack through Belgium, or at least not in the first couple years of fighting. If Britain is still somehow not in the war at that point, I think they'd stay neutral. Germany was its biggest threat and anything that helped Germany potentially meant a single power...

With as popular as TR is on this forum, I'm surprised he didn't win...and march triumphantly back into the White House...riding a grizzly bear :cool:. Sorry that I don't have a serious answer, because I don't know much about politics in that time, but someone had to say the grizzly bear...

Sorry, school kept me from replying on this for a while. Anyways, I was looking for a candidate with a Russia-first policy and being on the defensive in Alsace-Lorraine. But thanks for the suggestions so far, I'll have to look through these guys. If anyone knows of some Russia-first types off...

This is for a TL idea I'm working on, but who would succeed von Moltke the Younger if he were to die/retire in late 1912/early 1913? I haven't been able to find much on the internet, so any help is appreciated EDIT: Crap, wrong section. Could a mod move this please?

I think Gaius Marius and Sulla both deserve to be in the running here. Marius, for his reforms of the Roman army and turning back the Germanic tribes when there were several hundred thousand of them pouring through the Alps, which had beaten two large and classical Roman armies, and fairly...

I'd agree with Italy, hands down. They got torn up by the British in Egypt with 10:1 odds in their favor. Not even the Soviets needed those kinds of odds to WIN, and the Italians lost with that. That's bad. IDK much about their invasion of Greece other than that it didn't go well. Bad...

And back on topic. I said Moscow/Winter of 1941. Not declaring war on the US goes a long way to helping the Germans, and with also taking Moscow their prospects are very good

Holy Sea-Mammal, reviving a 3 year old thread :eek: Anyways, moving on to something relevant: Unless something happens drastically different, Fall Blau was doomed to failure. Taking Stalingrad does not totally cut of the Soviet armies in the Caucasus region and being so mountainous, it will...

Hmm...this makes the most sense to me, assuming whoever the CSA has to negotiate the peace is at all intelligent (and Confederate civilian leaders, for the most part, seemed to lack that). But bluffing like that and getting something elsewhere seems like a better plan. Its not that I thought...

I'm basically thinking along the lines of TL-191 where Lee destroys the Army of the Potomac (I know that wouldn't have happened, but let's roll with it). I've always been curious what would happen to the counties that seceded from Virginia, since West Virginia didn't become a state until 1864...

Biggest thing I can think of is that this POD has a good chance of completely butterflying away the 30 Years War and all the nastiness that entailed. No 30 Years War and you've unleashed a Rhode Island sized Lepidoptera ;)

I could be wrong, but I was always under the impression that American troops had next to nothing to do with stopping the Spring Offensive, and that it was more the British and French that stopped it (and just the German attack getting too far ahead thus exhausting itself and running out...

Good luck. As an unabashed, irrational nationalist most of the time, I eagerly await to see my country wanked to the extreme. However, and I realize this is set up to be an Ameriwank, I think OTL is already an Ameriwank to a certain extent. Everything fell into place for the US to let it become...

If I remember correctly, my first was Guns of the South. My dad kept telling me to read it because it was a combo of history and sci-fi, which were my two favorite genres. Then I decided to look for more Harry Turtledove stuff and found How Few Remain. That book was the one that hooked me and I...

Honestly, changing the outcome of one battle win not necessarily change who wins the war. After all, the South did "win" the vast majority of battles in the east and they still lost. Technology and the size of armies meant that its hard to gain a decisive Waterloo-esque battle. That said...

The closer to 1860 one gets, the harder this is. But a simple POD can, I think, do the trick. Just delay the invention of the cotton gin for 15 or so years. In the fervor following the Revolution, there was a movement starting to gain momentum to free all the slaves, with some Southern states...

As far as I know, the German plan was to take Antwerp and the supplies there , then make a beeline for the channel and cut off a whole lot of Allied troops. I could be wrong, but I just don't think there were enough Allied supplies to capture to keep the offensive going for too long. That said...

Hmm...If Gaul is so opposed to a single leader, then maybe the best case scenario is for Vercingetorix to be pushed out of power. Then the Senate will be a little peeved that some hairy barbarians took out so many troops, but their relief over not having to deal with a extremely powerful Caesar...