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  1. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    No. The genesis of the T/L was a desire to generate discussion about what would have happened if the Reich actually managed to gain control of the European Peninsula. The rest just sort of happened.
  2. Could the Phillipines have been held 1941-2

    Held as in until the end of the war? No. The U.S. can't reasonably get back to the Islands until late 1944, not with an August 1941 POD Held through the Summer of 1942, maybe until early 1943? Maybe. With proper planning and preparation, especially stockpiling materials and supplies on Bataan...
  3. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    India. USSR. Korea. Vietnam. The Philippines (via fishing boat). With global travel (the economy of ATL is still very international, all that is different in the buyers and sellers) inside of a week the right sort of disease (long latency, airborne, with hosts infectious for for 7-10 days before...
  4. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    If things go really bad for the Indians and their seabed efforts? India winds up having the sort of partition that happened IOTL, but with nuclear weapons available to spice the meal. Even if cooler heads prevail, there would be a considerable body count as the central government tries to keep...
  5. The Anglo/American - Nazi War

    The Reich wanted to be VERY sure that the "Bolsheviks" and the Slavs never managed to become a threat. That was the one lesson the Nazi's learned from Versailles, if the enemy is down, make sure they can't get back up. Between the manpower drain and the materials that form the "reparations", the...
  6. What if Persia was still a Nation?

    Political to the core. Poll attached so can not be moved. Locked.
  7. AHC: Disband the CIA

    No, you just need to designate the lead dog. The Army doesn't love that the Air Force controls its ground attack assets. The Corps doesn't love that the Navy controls its budget. Too bad, so sad. Tell one Branch that it is in charge of gathering all data from the various branches. As an...
  8. AHC: Kill off both the GOP and the Democratic party

    Oh, the Soviets had some weapons. In 1950 they had FIVE of them. Got up to a couple hundred while Ike was in the White House. Delivery to North America? Not so much.
  9. AHC: Disband the CIA

    Easy. Make it all part of the Military. CIA is gone since it is a civilian organization.
  10. AHC: Kill off both the GOP and the Democratic party

    Truman? Not really, at least not with BOTH sides having weapons Ike? Again, pretty much a one sided event. Kennedy? now you are getting there, although most damage is in Europe, Soviet capability to hot the majority of the U.S. is very low. Johnson through now? Ya, now we're talking.
  11. No Civil War - when is slavery abolished?

    There is a long history of slaves working in skilled, even highly skilled, professions. Many of the slaves who eventually managed to buy their way to freedom did it by getting wages for work (their owners would give them the chance to do this as long as their work for the owner was excellent) in...
  12. No Civil War - when is slavery abolished?

    How does the end of the Japanese Shogunate lead directly to the Soviet Union? Not saying the diplomatic issue is entirely wrong, but the Meiji period = communism totally loses me.
  13. No Civil War - when is slavery abolished?

    Possibly. The issue will be getting the 3/4 majority. Even in the states that de facto abolished slavery there would be plenty of Congressmen and Senators who wouldn't vote to eliminate the institution, along with conservative Northerners who would be against the "theft" of property by the...
  14. No Civil War - when is slavery abolished?

    Realistically? Never. Without the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendment there is now way it happens, not in all of the South. Some states (DE, MD, KY, VA) would likely have seen de facto emancipation by the 1880s. AR, TN, TX might be done before the turn of the Century. The "Deep South" (AL, GA, FL...
  15. Plausibility Check: An Earlier Pearl Harbor

    November 1941. Shokaku & especially Zuikaku were not ready until then. Shokaku finished her shakedown cruise on August 25, 1941. Zuikaku completed her abbreviated shakedown cruise on November 5, 1941. The attack plan required six decks. The Japanese made the attack virtually the first Sunday...
  16. Questions about Native Americans

    Well, they did. The Aztec, Maya, and Inca had cities, large ones. Several Mezzo-American cultures developed written or other sorts of recorded language (at least five distinct ones). The Mississippian Culture had cities with up to 20,000 residents (Cahokia). Tical, in the Mayan Empire had a...
  17. Japan with allies

    You have GOT to be joking. Imperial Japan 1938-1945 was as brutal as any country in modern history that didn't march under the Swastika. It conducted biological warfare experiments on Chinese civilians, caused the deaths, on average, of 100,000 CIVILIANS in territories it had already occupied...
  18. AHC: Yom Kippur War Goes Nuclear

    By all accounts Nixon really shocked the hell out of the Kremlin when he jumped to DEFCON 3 (although that was just for the strategic forces). Brezhnev couldn't understand why he would go to the mattresses that quickly. Did the show mention that the Soviets had moved nuclear weapons via ship to...
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