military doctrine

For Byzantine timeline lovers, this one may be interesting. The date is not set and you can choose whatever POD from 532 to 1453 as long as its set on the Byzantine period. The typical roman legionary that lurks in the collective mindset is that of the Gladius wielding, Pilum throwing armored...

Hey guys, first of all I would like to say hello and it's a pleasure being on this site:D. History has always been a passion of mine and over the millennia there's has been events that could have possibly changed if a certain action was partaken, hence the unique field of alternate history:p...

OTL J. Walter Christie, a brialliant racecar engineer devised the M1928, which the US rejected, which lead him to go to the soviets where his designs then became the BT series of fast tanks with ridiculous speed, and pretty good firepower for an interwar tank (nd weakish armour), and then the bt...

*sarcastic mode on* You all guys know how the theory of the people's army go, with a huge mobilization of the population for the greater cause of the revolution by building the mythical doomstacks of militia. By disbanding all those worthless units with fancy 'oil' for cars and 'diesel' for...

Taking a POD of before 1900 but after 1750, what's the absolute earliest that a fully automatic machine gun based on the same or similar principles of the Maxim gun (or any other possible automatic loading mechanism) can be invented and soon after adopted by major militaries, mass produced, and...