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  1. Pilgrims stay in Holland- no Plymouth Colony

    So, WI the Pilgrims stayed in Holland in 1621 ? How would American settlement have looked with no Plymouth Colony ?

  2. No Military Commission system- Bush admin decides to play by Geneva Conventions

    After readin Leigh Sales' DETAINEE OO2: THE CASE OF DAVID HICKS, detailing the entire saga of the Australian Taliban during his incarceration at Guantanamo & the complex Geneva Convention-defying procedures under the US Military Commission system- WI the Bush admin had actually decided not to...

  3. Different end to Hussite Wars: Taborites win Battle of Lipany 1434

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lipany OK, WI the Taborites under Prokop the Great hadn't grown over-confident when they saw their Bohemian league opponents' wagons withdraw, & decided to pursue so that they fell into the trap of a surprise cavalry attack ? Would the radical wing of...

  4. More post-ACW war crimes trials

    OK, how could the Union, after Appomattox, have instituted more war crimes trials for former Confederate officers, beyond Maj Henry Wirz as the CO of Andersonville POW camp ?

  5. Milosevic doesn't die mid-trial

    Just watched a documentary on the Milosevic trial on SBS TV last night- so WI he hadn't died just before he was concluding his defence in March 2006 ? Also, other related PODs: WI Arkan hadn't been assassinated in Belgrade Jan 2000 ? How would a surviving Zeljko Raznatovic have looked both...

  6. WWII- SIG assassination missions against high-ranking Nazis in Europe

    Just also saw the 1967 war movie TOBRUK last night (starring Rock Hudson & George Peppard- before his fame as Hannibal of the A-TEAM)- which featured a covert mission to infiltrate & commit sabotga in Tobruk by British Commandos of the LRDG & German-speaking Jewish volunteers from the Special...

  7. International Criminal Court in mid-19th C ?

    When I did some research on the ICRC last wk, there was 1 reference to how, during the inception of the 1st Geneva Convention in 1864, Gustave Moynier IIRC had proposed even back then, a permanent intl crim ct to prosecure the most egregious violations of the laws & customs of war, together with...

  8. Allied occupation of Germany post-WWI leads to MAN WITH THE IRON HEART scenario

    OK, could the Allies- with the US as Associated Power- have ended up with a guerilla war quagmire similar to the MAN IN THE IRON HEART, had they occupied defeated Germany in force from 1918 ? How would things like the LOTN, the rise of Communism (incl intervention in the Russian CW), the rise...

  9. Other joint Allied units in WWII

    OK, again casting my mind back to INGLORIOUS BASTERDS & the 1st SSF- WI US servicemen had been banded together in the same unit as soldiers from other Allied countries a la the Americans & Canadians in the Devil's Bde ? How bout any of the following interesting combos: US & Australian soldiers...

  10. No battle fought at Gettysburg

    Just started watchin the 4 hr epic of GETTYSBURG again- alongside 1 of my mates who's neevr sseen it before- which has led me to think, WI there hadn't been a shoe factory located at gettysburg, which caused the leading Confederate formations to gravitate there since they were so short of proper...

  11. Earlier successful Irish War of Independence before 1900

    Is there any way that an irish Free State could've been etsablished before 1900, whether by diplomacy or force of arms ? What'd be the best POD for such a scenario to arise ?

  12. WWII- USAAF/USN/USMC uses more British planes

    OK, how could the various US air services have been in the position to operate more British or other foreign designs ? OTL, the 4th Ftr Group initially flew Spitfires, from among the Eagle Sqn pilots, while the Beaufighter was operated by USAAF nightfighter sqns- but what other non-US warplanes...

  13. Butterfly effect in popular culture

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect_in_popular_culture Wow, I never knew the Butterfly effect has been so prominently discussed in so many different movies, TV series, etc- so, would that 1946 movie A WONDERFUL LIFE have been the very 1st representation of the concept on the big...

  14. Op GOLDEN PHEASANT turns hot March 1988

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Golden_Pheasant WI the deployed elements of the 82nd Airborne & 7th Lt Inf (BAYONET) Divs, 7th SFG & supporting units airlifted into Honduras on this military exercise, had ended up shootin it out with the SANDANISTA elements who'd crossed into Honduran...

  15. AH challenge- Russia pre-1900 with substantial black African population

    OK, the thread on Russian colonies in Africa got me thinkin- how could there have been created in Russia from say Ottoman times, a substantial population of Afro-Russians- say, if the experience of Peter Gannbial being sent from Ethiopia/Eritrea to St Petersburg was repeated many times over ...

  16. USMC abolished by 1840 ?

    Again, in reading the USMC Handbook, I came across another interesting WI- that during the early 1830s, there was discussion of abolishing the USMC as a separate force on the grounds of cutting expenses, which however didn't eventuate due to the success of US Marines in undertaking punitive...

  17. American colonial amphibious ops which were successful instead...

    Also just read the USMC handbook at the library today, which described certain amphibious actions conducted by American colonial forces that ended seriously fouled-up, such as the attacks on Cartegan de Indias (1741), & Penobscot Bay (1779). WI these actions had actually gone right ?

  18. Inspired by Son Tay- US invasion of PRVN to liberate POWS, 1972

    Just read in a new mil hist mag article on the 7 most successful raids in mil hist- which included the Son Tay raid in 1970- which noted that there was actually a plan proposed to the JCS, inspired by the success of Op KINGPIN, for a full-scale US invasion of PRVN in 1972- involving 1 Marine & 2...

  19. Greater American terror attack scenarios

    Just read bout the following proposed terrorist incidents today, from a book on US counter-terrorist forces- neither of which OTL eventuated- but WI such nightmare scenarios had occurred ? -1975- a ransom note was sent to the US govt stating threatening to detonate a nuke in Boston unless $100m...

  20. OAS with greater peacekeeping role after Op POWER PACK

    Is there any way that OAS forces could've had a more substantial peacekeeping role in other Latin American conflicts after DomRep in 1965 ? WI the OAS had sent unarmed observers and/or peacekeeping troops to other conflict zones such as El Salvador/Honduras 1969, Guatemala/Belize 1981, Grenada...
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