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  1. What if Carthage won the 2nd Punic war?

    That's a fair point but by the same token the Carthaginians would also have shorter and more secure supply lines in Spain than they did in Italy. Hannibal should be able to pretty much hold off the Romans in Spain indefinitely and certainly won't suffer a Dertosa style defeat, which would free...

  2. What if Carthage won the 2nd Punic war?

    I do wonder how much the lack of support from the Carthaginian government to Hannibal really hurt the Carthaginian war effort. While it's true Carthage didn't send much in the way of reinforcements to Hannibal, they did send several large armies to Spain and also launched campaigns against the...

  3. What really is the future of the CSA?

    In The Battle Cry of Freedom, James McPherson says that the slave states quadrupled their railroad mileage in the 1850s, so there definitely was significant interest in building railroads in the south at that time. McPherson also says that by the end of the 1850s the southern states had 16...

  4. AHC: Accelerate the Union conquest of Atlanta and march to the sea by a year

    Surely though the reason IOTL that it was relatively rare to see troops from the Army of the Potomac sent west was because the Army of Northern Virginia was still intact and Richmond was still in Confederate hands until the very end of the war and thus those Union troops were still needed in the...

  5. AHC: Accelerate the Union conquest of Atlanta and march to the sea by a year

    Correct. Stephen Sears suggests in his book, "Lincoln's Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac" that McClellan could have won a smashing defensive victory at Gaines's Mill that would have left Richmond in his grasp, if he had just refrained from countermanding his own order...

  6. What really is the future of the CSA?

    The fire-eaters were pretty marginalized in the Confederate States after 1861. And wouldn't the experience of a war with the United States show the Confederates just how important railroads, shipyards, and factories are? You're assuming the plantation elite will have no interest in...

  7. What really is the future of the CSA?

    The question is why would the United States even want reintegration? It's one thing to try and keep the existing Union from being broken, but what exactly is the benefit to the US of trying to reintegrate the Confederate States after 10/20/30 years of Confederate independence? (And especially...

  8. AHC: Accelerate the Union conquest of Atlanta and march to the sea by a year

    Fredericksburg started on December 11, 1862. However, Burnside's army reached the Rappahannock on November 19, so if the pontoons had been there when they were supposed to be the campaign would have started almost a month earlier. I would think so just because Virginia is so incredibly...

  9. WI John McCain wins 2000 nomination

    Bush wasn't seen as particularly radical in 2000 though. He campaigned as a "reformer with results", stressed his bipartisan credentials on how he had been able to work effectively as governor with the Democrats who controlled the Texas state legislature, and his platform called for adding a...

  10. AHC: Accelerate the Union conquest of Atlanta and march to the sea by a year

    Does the POD have to come in the Western Theater itself? It's easy enough to imagine scenarios where the Union wins a crushing victory against the Army of Northern Virginia in the Peninsula Campaign, at Antietam or even at Fredericksburg (if Halleck gets the pontoon bridges to the Army of...

  11. Would Sextus really be able to defeat Octavian AND Mark Antony just by keeping his naval blockade in Rome?

    I agree with EasternRomanEmpire that Sextus can't really win through the blockade alone since the blockade doesn't actually weaken Antonius (whose power base is in the east). Sextus can cause a lot of misery in Italy and might be able to stir up enough unrest there to get Octavian killed by the...

  12. WI: The battle of Gettysburg never starts, how does the rest of the campaign play out?

    Does Gettysburg play out any differently with Lee having his cavalry present right from the start of the battle?

  13. How to fix Rome - the republic - the imperial inflation?

    Good choice. It's an excellent book. Super detailed. Oh, Caesar absolutely could have been killed at Munda. I'm just skeptical that would be enough to change the outcome of the civil war, since by 45 BC the Caesarians had control over most of the Roman world. That's true, though arguably...

  14. How to fix Rome - the republic - the imperial inflation?

    I agree with this though the Optimate decision to push Caesar to the point where he felt he had no choice but to march on Rome if he wanted to survive would not have been suicidal for the Republic if Caesar hadn't been such a capable general with a large and loyal battle hardened army. (If...

  15. How to fix Rome - the republic - the imperial inflation?

    Why would the Republic be unable to maintain control over the Med? If anything Roman control over the Med was stronger than it had ever been by the last generation of the Republic as they had finally gotten the pirate problem under control and had ended the Mithridatic threat, and there was no...

  16. How to fix Rome - the republic - the imperial inflation?

    While the 50s saw several bribery scandals, those scandals led to the passage of a tougher anti-bribery law in 52 BC after which there were several successful bribery prosecutions. (With even Pompey, the most powerful man in the Republic at the time, being unable to prevent the successful...

  17. How to fix Rome - the republic - the imperial inflation?

    On the possibility of saving the Republic, I'll repost something I posted in another thread. Erich Gruen is his book “The Last Generation of the Roman Republic” makes a compelling case that the Late Republic was much more vibrant than is commonly thought and would have survived if not for the...

  18. effects of Coolidge running again in 1928 what comes after?

    Hoover did support some interventionist actions IOTL. He enacted the Agricultural Marketing Act in 1929, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, and a 2 billion dollar public works program in 1932. (He also pushed through a major tax hike in 1932.) These...

  19. effects of Coolidge running again in 1928 what comes after?

    Agreed. (The fact that Coolidge didn't stay in office until he died would also take away much of the perceived need for such an amendment as there would be no per Would Hoover be unsullied by the Depression though? He's been Secretary of Commerce since 1921, so he's bound to get some of the...

  20. TL-191: Postwar

    IOTL Russia basically collapsed twice in the 20th century (1971 and 1991) and on both occasions it had sufficiently recovered within 20 years to once again be a major threat to its neighbors. Thus even if TL-191 Russia collapses in 1944, that's no guarantee it won't be a major threat again by...
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