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  1. McPherson

    What happens if Rock Island chooses the Christie Route to American armor for WWII?
    Threadmarks: Why are American tanks so backward?

    I really can only suggest that the power egg design Rock Island came up with for it was an attempt to save weight. As for postwar, the American army was back on poverty row again. The atom bomb was going to make tanks obsolete, along with planes, trains, electronic brains and humanity in...
  2. AHQ: was Greece destined to be the cradle of European civilization?

    Loanwords can be useful metric but they can also be misleading when taken literally, whether a language has many loanwords or not is not just based on levels of influence and contact, but also other factors. For example Mandarin calques a lot of western concepts, so if you analyzed the language...
  3. More Helicopter/light carriers in post ww2 period

    It's a lot easier to develop a decent CATOBAR setup than a decent VTOL or V/STOL or STOVL fighter. They're also having a lot less trouble developing modern warships than modern aircraft. By which I mean they've found developing a modern AESA radar to be a much easier proposition than...
  4. River of Death

    A House Divided Against Itself: An 1860 Election Timeline

    My apologies if I have missed this in the posts so far, but what exactly is the PoD for this TL? It has to be something well before the conventions themselves, such that Lincoln and Breckenridge (and possibly others) do not or cannot run.
  5. Plausibility Check: New Netherland Settler Colony?

    In the event of a Dutch New Netherland, you likely don't see an American Revolution resembling OTL. First you have to get through the French and Indian War/7 Yr war, which is going to have major butterflies. That war started with a French and British squabble over the Ohio Valley, which...
  6. Sir John Valentine Carden survives.

    As people have said , the troops would be useful enough alone as replacements for casulties or as security divisons maybe in the eastern front wich would be rather helpful . The germans didnt count on the casualties they took fighting the soviets and this could help them . Or as people have...
  7. More Helicopter/light carriers in post ww2 period

    Related to this but I've been wondering for a while why the PLA hasn't even attempted a program to develop a VTOL fighter? Instead they've h gone full scale for CATOBAR. Admittedly after Tienamen they couldn't buy British or American Harriers. And the only VTOL fighter the Soviets ever built...
  8. AHQ/AHC: Ideal modern tank design?

    And ideally get back to the 50-ton range rather than the 70+-ton monstrosities the Abrams and Challenger have turned into.
  9. WI: Japan don't attack Philippines/Hawaii in 1941: how does US react

    By not attacking the Philippines the Japanese might serious weaken their line of communications with the East Indies.
  10. WIP Map Thread

    Whatever was happening OTL. I didn't edit that from the 1930 QBAM. I'm not sure what it was though. Once I figure it out I'll change it. Fair point. I'll see what I can do.
  11. Could any of the communist goverments of Eastern Europe have survived the Soviet Collapse?

    But one reason for that was the demoralisation of the system in general and the armed forces in particular. I'm not saying that it's impossible that young Russian conscripts would have shown political initiative like that, but I still think it's unlikely. This wasn't like 1917 when political...
  12. AHQ: was Greece destined to be the cradle of European civilization?

    On the contrary, the concept of Europe is very useful and can hardly be ignored when we consider how the development of large scale societies/sates and correlated features seem to have undergone, which is through diffusion and inspiration and given that most of Europe(population-wise anyway) is...
  13. AHQ/AHC: Ideal modern tank design?

    ROK K2 Black Panther isn't a bad candidate. Very similar base armor system to the enhanced SEP V3 for M1A2 plus active and passive systems to defeat RPG and ATGM, addition of reactive armor on top of the composite plate, what seems to be a thoroughly effective autoloader, Both the M1A1 and...
  14. Gokbay

    WIP Map Thread

    ...(Either Ming or some Native Chinese replacement, Qing stayed in Manchuria). Lost the South to republican revolution. Managed to hang onto life on *Portuguese support (one of the reasons for revolution was the Dynasty being seen as puppets of the *Portuguese and also the European Rivals of...
  15. Socialist revolution in a European empire; what happens to the colonies?

    Another thing that could happen is another great powers globing the colonies of the socialist great power. If there was a socialist revolution in France during the lat 19th century, for example, then Britain is a good candidate for taking places like Madagascar, even if the right-wing French...
  16. WI: Japan don't attack Philippines/Hawaii in 1941: how does US react

    In a note given to Ambassador Nomura on 17 August, the United States declared: “This Government now finds it necessary to say to the Government of Japan that if the Japanese Government takes any further steps in pursuance of a policy or program of military domination by force or threat of force...
  17. Prince Waldemar of Prussia made King of Nepal in 1845

    He can become the King of Nepal, Infact British might even help him as they might see his Nepal being friendly to British, but can he actually convert any significant population to Christianity ? and would Nepal and Nepalis even tolerate that ?, this was after the Anglo Nepali wars, after which...
  18. "Phil won't leave his room" - A Doctor Who Production History

    this timeline is very interesting
  19. Gukpard

    The New Order: Last Days of Europe - An Axis Victory Cold War Mod for HoIIV

    Nationalism as a political ideology is unrelated to authoritarism, as you said. Its a "seasoning", like populism. You get what you want like a liberal republic and add nationalism, or a right wing dictatorship and add it. I cited these figures since I wanted to make the point to comrade...
  20. Napoleon invades Greece instead of Egypt?

    I’m afraid that you did not quite get my points. At the time in question: (1) There was no Russian goal or interest in Constantinople: time of the fantastic projects of CII was over and the Black Sea trade did not start yet. (2) Anybody’s landing with 40,000 in Greece would not endanger the...
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