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  1. Saddam Hussein Does Not Invade Kuwait

    I don't see the US being all that interested in Saddam or Iraq if he doesn't invade, other than to make sure his army is well supplied and sitting on the border with Iran to keep the latter cowed. Once the Iran-Iraq war was over, the US had pretty much achieved what it wanted... basically...

  2. No Iran-Iraq war

    a side benefit for Iran is that there is no Tanker War, where it's navy was obliterated and the horrible shootdown of the airliner happened....

  3. Aftermath of Robert Conroy's "1901"

    I wonder if the biggest affect might not be on how the rest of the world sees the USA. I've always had a vague idea that before WW2, the USA was regarded overseas as 'rich, but insular and not all that powerful or important'. Now, the USA has just defeated a major power, has one of the bigger...

  4. Thoughts on the Population Reductions in Timeline 191?

    well, don't forget that a lot of what the CSA black population did was agricultural work, running small farms, working on big white owned farms, and a lot of those jobs went away with mechanization. And I'd think that even if the Freedomites knew about the ramifications of their genocidal...

  5. Thoughts on the Population Reductions in Timeline 191?

    it's been a while since I read the books, but weren't the Mexicans (both immigrants and native born) seen as the 'replacements' for the black population being slaughtered, in that they would take over the menial jobs the latter were doing? Also, weren't the men all allowed to vote? I had the...

  6. What if Horses Never Went Extinct in North America?

    now, that seems likely.... settling down starting in the better watered areas and spreading out into less suitable areas with modifications to the crop package. Which brings up the question of just which native plants would grow well in the dryer areas of the west...

  7. What if Horses Never Went Extinct in North America?

    having other animals for food would seem to depend a lot on just how settled they get to be. As noted earlier in the thread, maize would be hard to grow in a lot of places in the west due to lack of water, and there's not really a good substitute waiting in the ranks for it. Still, they could...

  8. What if Horses Never Went Extinct in North America?

    okay, hadn't read that. Were they truly domesticated like boars/pigs, or just confined and slaughtered when needed? If the horse is the only big domesticate they have though, I'd think 'reliable food source' would be a big role for them. True, bison would continue to be hunted, but relying on...

  9. What If the Royal Navy joined the Battle of Midway and after Campaign?

    a bit OT, but I can remember a 'battle replay' in an old General concerning some game set in the Pacific in WW2, where the Allied player slowly built up a considerable RN force somewhere on the map. And then rather ruthlessly sent them in to die valiantly in combat with the IJN, and taking out...

  10. What if Horses Never Went Extinct in North America?

    can peccaries be domesticated? Never read of anyone doing that. the subject of 'Native Americans domesticating horses that never died out' has come up on here before, and I'd point out that if it happened, the horse would basically be everything to them, as it's the one big native animal they...

  11. AHQ: Why did monotheism generally replace polytheism?

    I'd long thought it was because monotheism happened to combine with an aggressive 'go out and convert the heathen' attitude...

  12. 40 years since the Stanislav Petrov incident - where were you on Sept. 25/26, 1983? Would you have survived if the nukes were launched?

    I was still living in the small town in MT that I grew up in, near nothing important, so I would have survived the war, but not the aftermath. With the breakdown of supply routes, and the general lack of priority for the state, a lot of the population would be starving in the winter. About the...

  13. What if Melee cavalry was more common during the American civil war?

    this was my first thought as well... the US didn't have any real tradition of 'heavy shock cavalry', but the ACW saw uses for cavalry for other tasks that worked just fine. Raiding was about the one thing they could do that worked well in combat, and even that was more a matter of 'using lots...

  14. WI: 1980s Iran war

    going beyond the US/Iran conflict... what would this do to other nations who have embassies there? I'd wonder if just about all of them would either reduce or eliminate their presences there since Iran just showed it is more than willing to ignore diplomatic sovereignty and actually slaughter a...

  15. Mexican Army continues fighting after Battle of San Jacinto

    two things to consider: First, 'Mexico fights on' will happen only if Urrea takes charge... Filisola was a foreigner and didn't feel that he would be obeyed. Urrea was likely the best commander on either side, and would have trounced the Texans. Except... Apparently, the Mexicans were short on...

  16. How long Could the Alamo Defenders had hold out if not Assaulted

    SA didn't have to do all that much to get the Alamo defenders to surrender... they offered to surrender with terms on the first day, IIRC, but SA refused... and had loudly proclaimed how he was going to slaughter all the rebels when he caught them. SA didn't really need to offer all those...

  17. What if Iraq Won The Iran-Iraq War?

    a 'win' for Iraq could be as little as gaining control of both sides of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, which IIRC was Saddam's excuse for starting the war in the first place... this wouldn't have any vast affects other than the political/morale ones...

  18. How long Could the Alamo Defenders had hold out if not Assaulted

    water wasn't a problem (IIRC, they had a well inside the fort), but food would have been.... maybe another week? The Texans were willing to surrender right at the start, if SA had offered terms, but he insisted on unconditional surrender, so the Texans were decided on fighting to the bitter...

  19. WI: US Chilean War in 1885

    I think we had a discussion on this a few years back, so I did a quick Google search. The results were a bit confusing... a Wiki article calls it 'an American intervention in support of a rebellion in Panama', while the body of the article notes that Marines were suppressing rebels in Panama...

  20. Better names for US warships

    the Brits had (have?) a warship named Indefatigable. They deserve nothing but derision for that.
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