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  1. Up With the Cross:

    From Up With the Cross: The Tragic History of the Confederate States of America, by Albert Samuels: Later generations of historians universally agree on the ultimate cause of the temporary collapse of the United States of America into two separate states in the 19th and part of the 20th...

  2. AHC/CHC: A competent PLO leader:

    The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to find a leader of the PLO or an equivalent movement to represent Palestine during and after the Cold War who is competent in either the military or the political senses, preferably both. This man has to rise by skill in things other than...

  3. AHC: PLO as a US proxy:

    The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the USA in the Cold War embrace a variant of the Palestine Liberation Organization as a proxy. How this happens is up to you, and what happens to the PLO in this situation is also up to you. Maximum points if this PLO remains led by Ahmad...

  4. Why did Austria-Hungary have such a terrible WWI record?

    Most WWI CP victory scenarios focus for very good reason on the Germans, who did at least overrun entire countries in this war when nobody else managed that. This thread, however, concerns the other German monarchy of WWI, namely Austria-Hungary. IOTL Austria-Hungary had its military strength...

  5. AHC: Kaiser Wilhelm I assassinated in 1878:

    While Alexander II may be the most famous 19th Century monarch to be assassinated, his uncle Wilhelm I of Germany had two assassination attempts on his life in 1878. What happens if either of these attempts succeed in killing him and thus propel Frederick III to the position of German Emperor 10...

  6. AHC: Muhammad has no living descendants:

    The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the rise of the Ummayyads be concurrent with Muhammad leaving no living descendants ala Ali and Hussein. Without living descendants, how does Islam develop in terms of challenges to the Caliphate, as such challenges will inevitably...

  7. ATL possibilities for Russia in WWI:

    I've mentioned before that there are some wars whose outcomes are very difficult to alter in terms of AH potential, at least as I see it. One of these to me is the situation of Imperial Russia in any WWI scenario. To me the reason for this has very little to do with any military decisions Tsar...

  8. Der Gute Kaiser Fritz:

    I've sometimes seen books reference Kaiser Friedrich III as somehow bringing into the German Empire a culture of liberalism on the Western European model as a road not traveled by said Empire. But in looking both at Germany and the Kaiser I'm not entirely sure he would. There are plenty of...

  9. DBWI: The War of the Jewels trilogy has been confirmed for 2013:

    At least the release of the first installment. Evidently after the success of The Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson has decided to turn Tolkien's second trilogy into a work of film also. Unfortunately he didn't adhere to Tolkien's original wishes and include the Downfall of Numenor as a part of...

  10. The reality behind Deep Operations and ATL Barbarossas:

    Let us say for the purpose of the thread that the Soviets still wind up with a variant of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939. Let us say that for the purposes of this scenario the greater strength of an ATL Soviet Union lead the British and French to try to exclude it lest the Soviets start...

  11. AHC: Operation Mars breaks through, how plausible is this:

    In reading about Operation Mars, I tend to see two relatively conflicting analyses of it. One would indicate that the offensive was a narrow failure, albeit a very bloody narrow failure, where the Soviet Western and Kalinin Fronts came within a whisker of winning but the USSR reinforced failure...

  12. AHC: Soviets take Narva earlier in 1944:

    One of the more interesting set of Forgotten Battles of the WWII Axis-Soviet War are the Battles of Narva in the spring to summer of 1944 IOTL. Here Army Group North repeatedly defeated various Soviet attacks aimed at the city, to a point that it fell relatively late in 1944, with all kinds of...

  13. AHC Challenge: Judaism is Sephardic, not Ashkenazic:

    The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to alter Jewish history so that the Sephardi strand of Jewish culture/traditions is more prevalent and influential than the Ashkenazic. What kind of changes would be necessary to bring this about? What would a greater in size and influence...

  14. AHC: A realistic CP victory scenario:

    By realistic I mean that handwavium of the Wilson Administration as part of the Allied coalition is not part of the overall potential PODs. Germany has all its naval weaknesses of OTL, the Allies have Russia the ticking Time Bomb just as per OTL. The alliance systems are the same as OTL, the war...

  15. Cultural History Challenge: The War of the Jewels & LOTR:

    Suppose that in the 1960s-1970s, after publication of The Lord of the Rings Tolkien ITTL actually publishes a trilogy in like fashion based on that era's version of The Silmarillion. What would have been the results of publishing the original and rather darker backstory to the LOTR universe...

  16. Russian strategic victory at Lodz, 1914:

    In November and December of 1914 the Russians fought the Battle of Lodz with the Germans, one of the largest WWI battles in terms of numbers of troops involved that wasn't a trench fight. Both Germany and Russia had opportunities to decisively win the battle, so what if the Russians encircle and...

  17. AHC: No Sengoku Era:

    In medieval times Japan had about a century's worth of sustained, endemic warfare that Japanese sources call the Sengoku Era. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to avert the Sengoku period. What kind of ramifications would actually exist, if any?

  18. AHC: Yasser Arafat killed at Karameh:

    While a tactical Israeli victory the Battle of Karameh, for evil and morally ambiguous, launched Yasser Arafat on his career to become leader of the PLO. If Arafat dies in the battle, and someone else takes over Fatah, what happens to the PLO and to Palestinian nationalism's more militarized...

  19. Anzio AHC:

    Is there any realistic means the Nazis had of throwing the Allies altogether into the sea at Anzio? Was the weight of firepower on land, sea, and air irresistible to a point where there might be worse reverses but not a total German victory? If, and the first question is the decisive one here...

  20. Why did the Allies win WWI?

    On the surface of it WWI at least looks like an instance of the Central Powers giving more than they got. The Russian Empire IMHO was in trouble if its war lasted more than three months regardless of what it did or did not do on the battlefield, but the Central Powers were the ones in that war...
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