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So... Schumacher quits in 2012. Who replaces him? Alonso? Vettel? Does Nico Rosberg wind up lead driver? And does he dominate the way hamilton has? My hunch... Alonso. Who then winds up staying on as F1's most successful driver, Rosberg gets replaced by hamilton or button around 2016... What...

So, the experts pretty much decried MacArthur's concept as impossible - it was really only Mac's own personal charisma and status that seemed to sell it to the Navy and Marines. What if he fails? What if the two divisions becoming available are sent to Pusan and reinforce a breakout from...

So Mclaren end the 2012 season with arguably the fastest car on the grid, one that would still have been race-legal with a few tweaks for this year... and instead produce an utter dog of a car that has landed them the worst season in decades. Team principal Martin Whitmarsh specifically...

So my understanding is that this project was undermined by Stalin's scepticism of the intelligence received from the spy John Cairncross in 1941 and the fact that the Soviets didn't discover decent quantities of uranium until 1945 in Kazakhstan. What if Stalin listens to the intel, and for...

Just been reading Max Hastings' excellent book on the WW2 Pacific Theatre, and apparently ol' Mac got himself dangerously exposed to enemy fire hustling his generals on to take Manila. So, what if the Japanese had got him? I don't believe for a minute it would have changed the course of the...

Hi all, hope I've put this in the right thread. This is a question that's been nagging at me for a couple of weeks since a visit to the KGB museum in Prague- if anyone's going there for holidays, I urge you to check it out, even of the proprietor is a terrifying Stalinist who claims that a)...

I've read a few arguments on this board that one of the main reasons Hitler didn't unleash poison gas, biological agents etc. was his experiences in the trenches in WWI being gassed by the British. So... what if, instead of being gassed, Hitler was injured through conventional means, shot or...