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  1. European-style ethnic unification movements in the Third World?

    Just because you're Arabic-speaking does't make you Arab. Never mind that Maghreb Arabic is worlds apart from Gulf Arabic or peninsula Arabic or Levantine Arabic...who are all quite unlike each other as well in their own quirky ways. If language is your means of collecting people together...you...

  2. What would a Zhukov lead USSR look like?

    Could work. Stalin dies early, and infighting is so bad trying to figure out a successor a second civil war seems to threaten. The military steps in. And, yes, Zhukov was (to quote David T): These very qualifications make him a viable candidate, when you add on his war hero status. He's...

  3. WI: Chinese and US go to war in Summer of '58?

    What's the disposition of US naval forces at the time in and around Taiwan? Could Chinese shells/rockets in the bombardment severely damaging a major warship or killing enough Americans be enough of a reason for the US to take such a hard line stance that sets Beijing and Washington on a...

  4. Españoles en Vietnam: Franco's last war.

    Sounds like Franco's gonna try to trade offering help with bomb recovery for a free hand in sending what forces he sees fit to Vietnam, and the US, unwilling to deal with the fiasco of loose nukes says "whatever you want, just don't let this situation get even more out of hand!"

  5. Castle Side Gate Assault

    I'd agree. Generally speaking I've found that a good rule of thumb when spit balling numbers like the topic starter had...is to generally take the numbers you think are reasonable, and then divide by 10. A castle of 300 men would be about average I'd say, with 1,000-1,200 being a pretty average...

  6. What if the German U203 sunk the Battleship USS Texas in June 1941?

    I thought the premise stated that the Texas was being chased by the U-203...not the other way around.

  7. WI: Dubya won the Electoral College vote clearly, but Gore still won the popular vote

    I think it might depend on what the margins are. Is the extra vote coming from extreme bloat and super-wide margins in deep blue states for Gore, or by even more by-a-bit-more-than-a-hair states where Bush wins by 0.9-1.1% across the board where/whenever he takes the lead in states that go for...

  8. Could anyone have beaten Eisenhower in '52?

    But which Ike wins then in that case? Ike-D or Ike-R?

  9. The "Where has AH.com gone?" Map Thread

    I've visited Haiti, Tunisia, Sochi, and Estonia. Made the appropriate adjustments. Hopefully I'm

  10. The Man in the High Castle on Amazon Prime

    And while a minor matter at hand, as I recall, Smith was serving in the Pacific and that is where he distinguished himself. He wasn't engaged in the European or American fronts. It is there, in the Pacific (as I recall from a discussion he had with Tagomi, where he intentionally displayed his...

  11. Heil Herr Präsident: Alternate Third Reich

    An image-search says that it's Heider Heydrich, Heydrich's second son.

  12. AHC/WI Leonardo's Legacy

    I think that's the thing though. He was building practical things, weapons, fortifications for those people; not hsi inventions, and I think the suggestion behind the WI is that, if in addition to those forts and weaponry he designed, he also had an opportunity to properly build his various...

  13. Some post-American Civil War Confederacy questions?

    OTL, wasn't California, up to roughly Los Angeles, or perhaps a touch further north, actually pro-Southern? Sure they may not have had slaves, but I know that several pro-Confederacy raiding companies were raised (mostly Mounted Rifles) from that southern third or so of the state...not too much...

  14. Is artillery too ordinary and boring?

    Precisely. It'd be used to pin the defenders, fix them in place for the infantry to clear them out of those initial trench lines. And if that's done quick enough, as we all know, then the rear lines fall apart a little easier too since you aren't basically driving the defenders of the first...

  15. Is artillery too ordinary and boring?

    That's true, but what about if it was developed late war (say second half of '16 or '17 to be deployed in late '17 or early '18)? This would go for either side since I doubt that Mark I (or even Mark IV or Mark V tanks in 1917 and beyond) would really be all that capable of exploiting the...

  16. Vichy Question - Meaningful Alliance/Collaboration Possible?

    Now, from our perspective, it seems obvious that French forces, even Vichy forces would not resist a 'liberation' army. Was the German refusal to bolster Vichy forces with a larger Army a matter of them truly believing that Vichy forces would be of sufficient quality to repel any invasion in...

  17. German Logistical/Strategic Bombing in Barbarossa: What Effect on Soviet Industry?

    I was reading over at another forum and came across this gem while they were discussing the Soviet movement of industrial equipment and entire factories west, into the Urals and beyond. I was wondering, assuming the Germans were much more familiar with the Soviet obsession with central control...

  18. Challenge: Nazism is stillborn, falangism becomes the most feared form of fascism

    Is there any way that the US could turn a blind eye towards it if Central or South America goes that way? I see that as a natural extension, where the nationalist conservatives in those countries take to it and twist it. Is there any way that it can, from there, spread to the rest of the...

  19. Vichy Question - Meaningful Alliance/Collaboration Possible?

    Hmm...and perhaps it is something I'll make a note of, and see what comes of it in sketches. Much research is ahead!

  20. Meji failure

    Basically, not much in the long-term as others have said. Japan was already on the path towards modernization. The only real change is what that modernization looks like. Yes, and perhaps a more devastating Boshin War or a more widespread series of rebellions could have delayed or even...
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