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In 1994 Haitian Gen Cedras & his cronies stepped down from power as part of a US-brokered deal to forestall a planned US invasion (spearheaded by a massed drop by the 82nd Airborne)- with inducements as part of the peace process, they were then encouraged to be exiled to Panama & given an...

OK, in light of the 60th anniversary of the PRC this yr, how would Chiang Kai- Shek have been victorious in the Chinese CW by 1949, & with what effects on the Cold War ?

OK, I saw a doco on DATELINE a few yrs ago which was all about Cambodia, which had become a disaster with a dictatorial Hun Sen regime & an AIDS epidemic in the aftermath of the UNTAC mission during 1992-93 (& which had been claimed at the time as a 'monumental success'). 1 of the major reasons...

read an article in a Family Hist mag last wkend which contained a letter to the editor as to why the RN, Royal Marines & RAF have the Royal prefix, but not the British Army- ie no 'Royal Army'- which was answered on the basis that the army was comprised of individual regts which had more...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase OK, if the Andrews locomotive raid in Nth Ga in 1862 had been more successful, could the War Dept have authorised the formation of more such small raider units to conduct far-reaching strategic raids into the CS ? If such raiders were more...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uss_oriskany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)#1962_to_1969 WI these accidental fires onboard these carriers had been so serious as to actually have resulted in the sinking of 1 or more...

OK, in the event of a Confederate victroy, would the new CS regular army have retained fulltime such units with a hard-fighting reputation as the Louisiana Tiger Zouaves, the Stonewall Brigade or the Texas Brigade, or would these units have simply reverted back to their respective states of origin ?

OK, in addition to Darwin, other Australian towns such as Broome, Cairns & Townsville were hit by Jap air-raids during WWII- but WI the raids against the latter nth Qld towns were somehow as bad as the 1st Darwin air-raid of 19th Feb 1942 ?

During WWI, there were some perfunctory German attempts to form an Irish Free Legion from among captured Irishmen in the British Army in German POW camps to fight the British, but without any success. However, WI such efforts had been more successful, & some Irish Free Legion had been formed...

Just saw a documentary on NAT GEO earlier today re the Templars- WI Jacques de Molay had ordered his Templars to draw swords & fight French royal agents before the mass arrest in 1307, instead of quietly giving in ?

OK, how could this be done ? Perhaps more literature following on from Herman Melville's MOBY DICK ?

During WWII, western allied combat soldiers often found themselves outgunned by their German opposite nos. who were equipped with a much greater amount of firepower per company (Stephen Ambrose in CITIZEN SOLDIERS gives a comparative breakdown re the typical no. of automatic weapons respectively...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lafitte OK, is there any way that Lafitte could've thrown in his lot with the Brits instead of supporting the US ? Could NO have fallen without the input of Lafitte & his seasoned pirates ? Further, what poss PODs would be required for there to have been...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Higgins WI Col. Higgins hadn't been kidnapped by Hezbollah in 1988 while he was serving as a senior UNMO with UNIFIL ? OR WI, after his kidnap, he'd been rescued by either say Delta Force/SEAL Team 6 or Israeli spec ops such as MOSSAD or SAYARET MATKAL ?

Is there any way that irridentists in say Italy & Serbia could've joined forces in a war of conquest against the Hapsburg Empire before 1914 ?

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Name-Bright-Light-Efforts-Vietnam/dp/0440226503 Many authors on the secret war in Vietnam Laos & Cambodia discuss how there was Project BRIGHT LIGHT in place as a means for SOG to secretly rescue US aircrew & special ops personnel who'd been taken prisoner...

what counterfactual area would you write it on ? I reckon for myself- probably Op DOWNFALL- to explore & cement why the atom bombs were needed to end WWII. How bout you guys ?

OK, given the massive amount of animosity between the US & Qaddafi during the 1980s- as demonstrated by the 1981 Gulf of Sidra incident, the 1986 bombing of Tripoli (Op EL DORADO CANYON), the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing, & the 1989 Gulf of Sidra incident, is there any way that Pres Reagan-...

Just read an ACW mag article about how, at 1 point when Porter was sailing up the Mississippi River with his ironcals during the Vicksburg campaign, his boats were faced with the obstacle of big sandbanks which they ran aground upon, while at the same time defending CS infantry came out &...

Right here in Brisbane at present is an exhibition on the inventions of Leonardo DaVinci- so WI at some point during his lifetime, some rich nobleman decided to become his patron to have 1 or more of these inventions (such as the tank or helicopter) actually developed & used ?