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Hi all, longtime lurker here. Thank you all for so much high quality content to enjoy. I am especially interested in 19th century warfare. And right now I am studying the 1866 war. Now it is well understood that benedek oscillated between staying defensive and attacking the two Prussian armies...

Reading Buttar's Collision of Empires, I learned Archduke Franz Ferdinand was to be the Commander-in-Chief of Austro-Hungarian forces. After his assassination, Conrad von Hötzendorf was left to take his place. Let's say the Archduchess Sophie is killed by Princip, but Franz Ferdinand is only...

What if at some point no later than the congress of Vienna (tough probably better much earlier), the Habsburg get the bavarian crown and made Bavaria part of their empire? Like Hungary it would be an integral part of the empire but its own crown, tough in the ausgleich it would be a...

World War 1 isn't called the "War of the Century" for a reason. It was a war that would determine which nation would be the superpower of the 20th century. We all know about the political effects of World War 1 and how it led the rise of the United States as a superpower. There are already many...

I’ve been pondering on whether or not a United Serbo-Montegrian state would be possible in a late CP victory. This expanded into how the Balkans as a whole would look. Typical late war victory scenario, US never joins, Russia folds, Spring offensive succeeds, BEF is badly depleted, if not...

Here's this alternate scenario: Franz Joseph is assassinated in 1853, and his Brother, Maximilian(OTL Maximilian I of Mexico), becomes emperor. He was Engaged to a wife that his Family picked, but after marrying Charlotte of Belgium, which made any children he would had, illegitimate, so his...

From my admittedly limited understanding, Habsburg Austria maintained a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-linguistic, and multi-religious empire for several hundred years starting from 1526 - with the death of the childless Louis of Hungary and Bohemia, and the succession of those realms to...

In an alternate scenario, where Charles I of Austria was allowed to stay in power, and he reforms the crumbling Austria-Hungary, into the United States of Greater Austria (Wilson is ignored even more ITTL). The New Federation has to pay a debt like Germany. (NOTE: Polish and Romanian territory...

So in most central powers victory scenarios floating around on the internet Austria Hungary still gets split up and Germany becomes the master of Europe. But that's boring. How could Austria Hungary be the main beneficiary of the Great War? How could it have a surviving Habsburg monarchy until...

So just another WW1 topic. If WW1 ends in 1917 because the german spring offensive works and the German Empire prposed acceptable terms fora peace treaty (i know both a close to ASB). There is a return to the 1914 western european borders, Belgium stays independed and the are no reparation...