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  1. France defeated before the Louisiana Purchase

    Unless you have clinical finding on the subject, you may want to back off on diagnosis of fellow Board members.
  2. Tesla invents the transistor in 1896

    For the sake of WHAT discussion? Last post before this one was in 2009.
  3. With Teddy as VP, can Humphrey win 68?

    Do NOT drag current politics into a discussion about 48 years ago again. You get one bite of this apple and you just got your's.
  4. David Mark Chapman and John Hinckley Jr. Engage in a gunfight in early 1980.

    Uh... We have a frivolous ASB thread for this sort of thing. Locked.
  5. Iwo Jima Kuribayashi Right Strategy?

    Kuribayashi was one of the first JIA offers to "get it". You were flat out not going to stop the landings. You couldn't win the battle; the Americans decided to land, you were going to lose. That was demonstrated at Tarawa, where the Japanese believed they had created an impregnable "1,000...
  6. Lee Harvery Oswald takes the stand

    Support of conspiracy theories is a violation of Board policy. Since you are just nibbling on the edges, this is only a warning. Please don't go to the well twice. It tends to end poorly.
  7. PC/WI: British Impressed US Sailors during WWI?

    How about removing ships that can't survive a couple hits from a 12" gun? Should clear off the RN BC quite nicely (just sayin')
  8. PC/WI: British Impressed US Sailors during WWI?

    If the British did this the Entente loses the war. By 1917 both France than Britain would be flat broke. Forget about the massive difference that American entry had on the war, both manpower-wise and morale. Forget about the fact that Grand Fleet has now lost quantitive (and arguably...
  9. AHC: Realistically rewrite the Washington Naval Treaty and its extenstions

    The Depression makes for a really interesting issue. It started in the U.S., but rather quickly dragged down most of the industrialized world, in no small part due to the loss of U.S. investment capital. Japan was actually less impacted than many of the other countries (especially those involved...
  10. AHC: Realistically rewrite the Washington Naval Treaty and its extenstions

    I don't know that the opinion of the WNT/LNT is that bad among historians. There are plenty of ships that are lamented by those who find the designs to be beautiful (the G3 class in particular) and fine fodder for speculation. The Treaty did not force the rise of the carrier, if anything it...
  11. WI: S. Vietnam doesn't Fall, How Does Vietnam look like today

    Best Case? The ROK Worst Case? Cambodia A lot depends on what actually happens to the North more than the South. If the North eventually collapsed due to Soviet disinterest (somewhat like the economy of Cuba from the 80s forward) you start leaning toward the best case. If the U.S. keeps...
  12. Less British arms in North Africa = No Fall of Malaya and Singapore?

    There is the important distinction between the "possible" and the actually happening. It was possible that the Japanese would attack, although that wasn't seen as a real possibility until the early fall of 1941, even then it wasn't clear. One of the things that can ben overlooked is that the...
  13. Less British arms in North Africa = No Fall of Malaya and Singapore?

    It wasn't the lack of armor or even a few Spitfires that doomed Malaya and Singapore. The Commonwealth forces were outfought, partly due to inadequate training (especially evident in the Indian Army units), poor leadership on the part of the Commonwealth (starting with the top and working down...
  14. If you had control over the treaty of Versailles, what would the terms be?

    Congratulations on a truly well thought out and scholarly response. NEVER do this again.
  15. Pacific Ordeal

    I'm positive that I sank the Alaska in AANW. Does that count? :D
  16. Pacific Ordeal

    On my iPad at the moment so I'll be brief. With this change British forces will be in combat against the Japanese only in the CBI. Defending the Raj, offensive in Burma and eventually Malaya/Singapore. There is a chance they may wind up engaging in either the DEI or French Indochina, but either...
  17. Pacific Ordeal

    Thanks .
  18. Pacific Ordeal

    :o Thanks. Like I said. FOUR rewrites.
  19. Pacific Ordeal

    BTW: The reason for the delay was that I rewrote this chapter about four times. I think it is good to go, but it may still get some small revisions.
  20. Pacific Ordeal

    Here is the latest update. Comments always welcome. 9 As the first anniversary of the Germany Coup approached, the Allies found themselves far behind where the Combined Joint Chiefs had expected, even further behind where Fleet Street and some major American newspapers had expected. The...
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