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  1. How much would it cost the modern UK to rebuild the Royal Navy to 1960s/70s levels of fleet strength?

    Not sure that gets you much given how hard they would have been used before the USN would give them up, and the fact that the USN runs much higher manpower numbers on ships than even the RN.
  2. Alternate warships of nations

    To be fair about the shell issue the western front was sucking most of the production capacity which meant making changes was rather hard to do.
  3. The Forge of Weyland

    Modern usage of the term doesn't come close to doing justice to the shear horror of a classical decimation punishment. It's not just that 1 in 10 are brutally executed but that the other 90% have to carry it out and then live with the fact that they killed their closest friends, brothers in...
  4. The Forge of Weyland

    Its already obvious that they need to dig in to free up some divisions for a mobile reserve. That's what saved them this time, but they need at least one more, plus the British one. Fortifying up on defensive lines allows troops to be put into these reserve formations. They also need to be...
  5. Vanguard45

    Alternate warships of nations

    The sad part was he wasn't listened to enough, he knew about the shell issues but the armaments' bureau didn't rectify until too late robbing him of the victory and in the 1920s he wanted the main base in the East moved to Sydney while using Singapore to hold light units. Had he been listened to
  6. Afonso, Prince of Portugal lives

    I confess I do not know for sure what the Castillan elites would think of setting the capital in Lisbon, but I suspect they wouldn't be too happy... Moving the capital every other months might work for a while, but wouldn't some king down the line want to settle somewhere permanently? This is...
  7. The flame of British Liberalism burns steady and brighter: A timeline from 1945

    She will be elected as a Labour MP in a general election in 1966, or in a by-election before then.
  8. What if communism didn’t exist

    If Marxism-Lenninism ends up simply replaced by anarcho-syndicalism or some other brand of revolutionary socialism the Mussolinis of the world can simply use those as replacement boogeymen.
  9. Guatemalan Nat-Synd

    WI Spain does nothing to assist American independence

    There will be no United States, simple and quick, that’s all.
  10. Case for coastal artillery until the 1980s

    The coastal artillery role can be taken presently by 155 SPG. They have the range, they can shoot and move, and the 155mm shells they fire are destructive enough to force modern surface warships to stay out of range. Being mobile, they are less vulnerable to land attack sea launched missiles...
  11. Suicide weaponized by Soviet bloc

    The advantage of the Soviet weapons as far as the “proxies” were involved had been reliability and easiness to learn and to keep in the fighting condition. The “opposite side” was giving its proxies weapons that could have tactical advantages but tended to be sensitive, required longer training...
  12. WI: The Portuguese Fight on at Goa

    Any British premiere even seriously considering nukes for goa, let alone announce that they do so, will be removed from office for reasons of sudden insanity.
  13. Romanov Ascendant: What if the Soviet Union survived?

    Not gonna lie I'm loving this timeline. Just read the whole thing. The idea of a modern world in which neoliberalism hasn't triumphed is fascinating to say the least. In OTL the only real competing power to to the neoliberal world order is China, with a few declining regimes here and there. With...
  14. AHC: Peerless Air Ministry

    They had the aircraft but those damned Byzantines didn't deliver the petrol in time.
  15. The Forge of Weyland

    Totally love this.... JMHO, but I think the French attacking now without clear knowledge of enemy forces locations and strengths would be unlikely. On the contrary I would thinking that the priority would be on: 1. Re-supplying all units (men and ammunition) 2. Re-setting lines and...
  16. AHC: Peerless Air Ministry

    That should of course be 1940!!!!
  17. AHC/WI: Centralized Japan

    There have been countless threads in this forum about the possibility of a much earlier expansionist (or at least non-isolationist )Japan. However, a frequent problem with most of these threads is that people always focus on the Sengoku and Edo periods (or in an hypothetical alternate shogunate...
  18. Case for coastal artillery until the 1980s

    I don't see much overlap between nations that are too poor for missiles, desperatly need serious anti-naval firepower, and have access (and money) for big static guns.
  19. Explain the AH Quote

    A quote from an Alaska history textbook. The Republic of Ezo was re-established by Japanese settlers invited by Russia after the Russian government couldn’t get enough Russian settlers. The original republic lost the Japanese Civil War after failing to overthrow the monarchy and many supporters...
  20. Prolonging the Futility: A WW2 European TL
    Threadmarks: Dec 43-Apr 44

    Dec 43-April 44: Licking wounds While the average citizen of an Axis-allied country had not yet realized that the war was definitely lost at this point, popularly it was delt that a peace deal was a month away and that at the Soviet’s expense major land concessions would have justified the...
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