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  1. What if Iran captured US Marines instead of British Naval personnel

    Hopefully, given the disaster that we managed to make of what could have been a reasonably short occupation, nothing. The U.S. wouldn't INVADE Iran over this. It WOULD, no doubt, use it as a cause belli to eliminate Iran's potential to become a regional superpower. Don't need to put boots on...
  2. Would an audience w/Wilson in 1919 have helped Ho Chih Minh any?

    Highlander, listen to this carefully, it may never happen again. I agree with you 100%. :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: I know, can't believe it myself.:p :D
  3. 28 Months Later

    Actually, when I said potentially infected I was referring to the immune. You would never know if a survivor was actually just a REALLY lucky bastard or if they were as deadly as a supernova. The only safe way to work would be to kill everybody or handle every survivor as a Level Five...
  4. Down with Dixie

    Good points. The "loyalist" regions would also provide a population base to select local leadership. The 40 acres concept would, if anything be expanded. A major part of my (half thought through) idea is to use the freed slave population as a counterweight to the status quo.
  5. 28 Months Later

    Spoiler herein Spoiler likelyhood HIGH!!! You have been WARNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No, I mean it!!! :p The unbelivable elements in the movie just sort of pile up as the film continues, starting with the TL. How do you CLEAR an entire Island the size of Britain in...
  6. Down with Dixie

    War ends as IOTL, but the Congress does not accept that Grant was correct. ALL members of the Confederate government wind up hung, along with most of the senior military leadership. Military govenors for all of the former states that rebelled. Rapid crackdown, probaly using Black troops...
  7. What if Iran captured US Marines instead of British Naval personnel

    Any attack on American forces (and, as was stated, the ROE for U.S. forces INCLUDING the Frigate would have been very different from that of the British, something that goes back to the Pueblo fiasco in '68) would have resulted in a robust reaction. Count on, at a minimum, an Alpha Strike...
  8. Your region in Dies the Fire?

    Well, that was bloody nice of... whoever. Thanks for info on the FAQ. I belong to the group, but I managed to miss that.
  9. Your region in Dies the Fire?

    Probably fairly quickly. Air pollution should more or less disappear, vegetation will cover the asphalt with surprising speed. With other differences caused by the Change (dam failures, loss of irrigation in what is current farmland that was once semi-desert) you would see alterations in the...
  10. What timeline should Jared write next?

    Hell, I'm amazed that you have been able to concentrate on DoD as long as you have. Sure you woundn't like to take a deep breath?:D Disaster T/Ls are not uncommon here. More than a couple.:p There are series of short stories with this exact theme. How unhappy would they actually...
  11. WWIII in 3/1968; A Tale of 2 Submarines...

    Assuming that the two authors are correct (& there are LOTS of ifs & WTFs in both books) the two sides went to extraodinary lengths to avoid letting things get out of hand. The other options was, well, unattractive. If the two side are being run by suicidals...:eek:
  12. TOP SECRET/MAJIC?

    Didn't I write a whole book on this (Skunk Works)?:p
  13. Dies The Fire series - a question

    I have to say that the trilogy works very well when read as a group. The ending of Meeting at Corvallis was, it me, a bit of a letdown, but it did allow for an excellent jumping off point for the second trilogy. I fully expect the entire series to be one of the best pieces of AltHistory ever...
  14. AH Challenge: Prevent an Extinction

    Easy. Get the back country Imans in Nigeria and the other regions where they are currently blocking vaccinations on rather odd quasi-religious grounds to go into business earlier. That keeps us from killing off smallpox.
  15. Hitler invades Switzerland

    Two very different things argue against this kind of attack. One is the AID that a country like Switzerland is to a warring Power. The Swiss could, and did, maintain economic ties with ALL the engaged states during WW II. This was a place that Germany could get hard currency from throughout...
  16. Your region in Dies the Fire?

    That's part of the new book! parts are posted on Stirling's web site.
  17. Argentina takes Ascension 1982

    Really don't HAVE to be U.S. forces BASED there. Just have have the U.S. find itself offended by the actions & this would, without question accomplish that. The U.S isn't the UK or the Argentines. The U.S. CAN project force, lots & lots of it. Nothing like picking a fight with the 800 pound...
  18. An extract submitted for comment and criticism

    Ummm... The Washington 1922 Treaty DOES provide for a series of limitation on submarines, ranging from individual gross tonnage (Article 7) to a tonnage cap among the three main naval powers (Imperial Japan, the U.K. & the U.S. in Article 16). The Treaty participants all had a vested interest...
  19. WI: River Phoenix doesn't take that Speedball

    By all means, if you see me post a THREAD regarding a lesser known actor of limited history and with few, if any, actual adult roles, and ask how his avoidance of self-imolation from a self induced drug habit would have altered the Motion Piciture Industry & the world in general in any...
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