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  1. England part of Germany

    Be easier to make Germany part of England. No Norman invasion perhaps? Or the British Royal family taking it's Continental holding far more seriously and attempting expansion?
  2. World War III starts in 1945

    ????? Stalin wanted Hitler as a pet. There is no way that the Red Army was stopping anywhere short of Berlin. Stalin had very few traits that I admire, but he did understand that payback is a bitch, and the USSR was going to get all the payback it could inflict.
  3. 1941: Hitler's Mediterranean strategy

    The abilities of the Indian Army is, it appears, being undervalued, and those of the Japanese being over rated. At no point in the war did the Japanese simply roll over a well led Western force of any size. Even at Bataan, which was a major cluster ----, it took the Japanese months to defeat the...
  4. AH Challange: How long can you make Japan last in WW2

    If the Japanese are very, very, lucky (Win Big at Midway, have an Admiral with some guts commanding the attack force at Pearl Harbor, etc.) they might get an extra six months befor the systematic bombing of the Home Islands begins, introduction of a decent convoy system and proper use of the...
  5. The War of Mexican Intervention? (~1995)

    Interesting rewrite. The military response is much less robust than what would seem to be indicated, however, it is well within the span of a big butterfly's wings. I would question the comparison to the Viet Nam situation; times, weapons & locations are very different, once again this is...
  6. World War III starts in 1945

    No, they weren't, but neither were the Western Allies. And I misspoke, the first (Almost) fully motorized war was what I should have said. Both sides had LOTS for pure foot infantry, but, unlike the Wermacht, had relatively little animal drawn transport.
  7. Terraforming Questions

    I agree, that given enough time you can, in theory, do anything. We do have the orbital mechanic calclulation needed to make it work, however, as I mentioned previously, how do you generate that amount of energy without the byproduct slagging the body you want to move? My biggest concern is...
  8. swedish middle east

    I was about to say, "here is another totally waste of time thread"! That is the funniest damn thing I've read all week! :D :D :D :D :D :D
  9. Plausible Superhumans

    I was about to scream ASB's, however... You could, with some tinkering of the genome, maximize a single person with all "design optimums" for the current human form. Beyond normal "perfect" eyesight, reflexes, flexibility, hearing, endurance, strength, etc. along with "gifted" musical...
  10. World War III starts in 1945

    Wow. You think that the Western allies would be able to hold the Rhine? I was already sending the ships to Dunkirk. From a purely research level it would have been interesting to watch. The first (Almost) fully mechanized war between two forces with completely different tactical &...
  11. Terraforming Questions

    Optimistic? That is against my very nature! :eek: However, that being said, the popular SciFi answer seems to be on the scale of centuries - millenia, depending on how bad things are to start with. (L.E. Modesitt Jr. has terra-forming as one of the main elements of one or two of his books and...
  12. The War of Mexican Intervention? (~1995)

    Su-27's & SU 39's? It is extremely unlikely that the U.S would gently allow the introduction of such aircraft. I would point out that Chavez is alive today solely because the U.S. failed to support a coup against him. Introduce offensive weapons like this and Chavez would likely have long since...
  13. The War of Mexican Intervention? (~1995)

    Welcome aboard the Board!(?):D Interesting POD. I have a few observations, but I hold most of them until you post more of the TL (Yes Darkest, I am being nice:eek: ). Observation: Belt fed Machine Guns are heavy as hell, burn ammo like there is no tomorrow, and are very ungainly. It...
  14. Change in the US electoral system

    Probably not. Southern California (except LA which will send whoever can spend the most on their campaign) will probably send GOP, Northern California Democtats, and a Green or two from the Northwest corner of the state. Things may not go quite the way that people think, since the big...
  15. WI Iraq had a chance to rebuild its military after the Persian Gulf War?

    Given the U.S. lead over Iraq (and truthfully, everyone else) in the area of High Tech & High Lethality weapons I doubt that even changes on this level would have made a significant difference. Saddam may have been better served by having ALL of his forces dispurse and conduct small unit...
  16. WI Iraq had a chance to rebuild its military after the Persian Gulf War?

    I assume you mean after Desert Storm. The war would still have happened. More Iraqi troops would have died. Much of the protesting about the U.S. intervention would not exist, as the Iraqi's would have been viewed as a legitimate regional threat that needed to be curtailed (not to mention the...
  17. Beowulf, greek epics, arabian knights influence japanese culture

    It wouldn't be any fun that way? It wouldn't allow his post to twist into whatever he really is getting at? BTW: R_N, nice to see your spelling has improved. They are halfway readable now.
  18. Nazi Efficiency

    Actually, we more agree than not. I do have to once more point out that Africa was not just a sideline, but a sideline of a sideline. Losing that many trained professional troops when you have locked into a serious 2 front was beyond stupid in the extreme. Dunkirk was the result of trying to...
  19. Nazi Efficiency

    Hmmm... The Turing Machine? Actually the British were pretty much all war economy, and their production successes may have been even more impressive than Germany's. That was the problem. The lost 150,000 prisoners at Tunis alone. For nothing. Insanity. True, to a point. But you sould...
  20. Antebellum South not just black-white

    It doesn't. As long as their is a slave based ecomomy, regardless of how well it is otherwise mixed, things will end badly. In fact the states with the most "mixed" non-slave populations tended to be have some of the harshest definations of what constituted a "negro", hence the "one drop of...
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