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  1. Gunpowder Empires, an exhaustive definition and list

    Typically we consider the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires to be the Gunpowder Empires, empowered and emboldened by their ability to manufacture firearms. The Golden Horde is sometimes correctly included. But could we expand it out and say that Mali was a Gunpowder Empire, just in Africa...

  2. Alternatives to the Nation-State paradigm?

    I don't have many scenarios prepared, I'm just looking for the collective wisdom of AH.com on this. China could be said to be a 'hydraulic empire', but this state is highly specific to geography. South-East Asia's 'mandala' system, power defined by it's center rather than it's borders...

  3. MicroFighter/Airborne Aircraft Carrier

    http://www.vectorsite.net/avparsit.html#m5 The question here isn't, how could this be built? Let's assume it was built, operational around 1985, and it operates pretty much as proposed, give or take. Stranger procurement decisions have been made. Is there any mission for it...

  4. Battle Boxes -or- the Containerised Military

    Could we see a military start to extensively use standard containers in their logistics? There's a few sources online for this, http://www.combatreform.org/STRATEGICMANEUVER/index.htm (long). It seems like the idea could have been implemented any time after containers. Are there any...

  5. AH Challenge: Reverse American and French Revolutions

    This seems like an obvious one, but my google-fu failed to find it discussed earlier. Have the American Revolution result in an American Directory proto-fascism, possibly followed by the rise of a Napoleon. And the French Revolution result in a liberal, egalitarian French Republic, one that...

  6. Operation Desert Thunder, Desert Thunder II and Desert Viper

    So, in 1997-98, Saddam made a few risky moves against the United Nations inspectors and the United States no fly zone. Plans for an invasion were drawn up, and forces were even deployed to the region. The build-up was enough to make Saddam back down and comply, but what if it wasn't? According...

  7. States with their Capital in the America's, and territory in Europe

    This is probably most likely with a PoD before 1900, so I stuck it here. From reality, we have the capital of the Portuguese Empire in Rio de Janeiro during the Napoleonic Wars. The return to Lisbon likely contributed to the desire for independence in Brazil, so I can imagine that remaining...

  8. Peaceful and Lasting Anschluss's of Alternate History

    Just as Germany and Austria in '38, East and West Germany, as well as Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic in '90, the United Arab Republic of Syria and Egypt in '58, are there any possible or near-miss peaceful national unions from this century?

  9. 1984 Map Thread

    In this thread, we post our maps which are based on 1984. There seems to have been a few of them in the main map thread lately, and so here is a good place for people who love such maps to find them. To kick off, here is the world of the original, standard 1984, as portrayed in the novel. This...
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