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  1. McPherson

    What if Montgomery was wrong about Market Garden?

    What if it was not GEN Montgomery's plan (In my opinion, YMMV; faulty concept of operation.), but GEN Gavin at Nijmegen who screwed everything up with not immediately assaulting Nijmegen bridge at once, instead of concentrating on the Groesbeek Heights drop zones defense? Just where did that...
  2. RedTerra

    AHC: Better Strategy on the Western Front? [WWII]

    Lately I've been reading about military theories and strategists like Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, Jomini, Sherman, and so on, and I'd like to hear what the Allies could have done different or better? Whether when WWII started, or after Britain was ejected out of mainland Europe, D-Day, etc...

  3. WI: April 1944 Anvil

    What if the Allies could pull an April 1944 Anvil ? What would be the implications for a) D-Day, b) The subsequent campaign in NWE c) The Italian Campaign? Lets assume that there is enough amphibious capacity (No Anzio, MacArthur gets fewer landing craft, earlier turning point in the...

  4. Successful Market Garden: An Idea

    Recently I read Stephen E. Ambrose's brilliant book Pegasus Bridge. It is about the troops of D Company, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry who captured the two bridges on the Orne River on D-Day. After June 6th, D Company (a highly trained, specialist unit) was used as a regular infantry company and...

  5. WI American colonists took Quebec in the Revolutionary War

    If General Richard Montgomery doesn't die and wins the Battle of Quebec in 1775, then a few major changes happen: Francophone, Catholic Quebec likely becomes part of the early independent colonies. Would they be an independent state? Would they become part of the new Union? Would they be...

  6. Wavell Persuades Churchill Not to Intervene in Greece: Operation Lustre, March 1941

    It is, I think fairly well known that both Wavell and Jumbo Wilson were horrified at the orders from London to send 60,000 troops from North Africa to Greece to support the Greek army which had found the Italians less of a challenge than the Wehrmacht. I understand from family connections that...

  7. WI: Slim & Monty change places

    So instead of Having Slim in Burma and Monty in Africa->Italy->France we switch them around, Monty is now safely in Burma where he can't annoy that many Americans and the much more amiable and (almost definitely) more competent Slim is now working in the West, how would you expect WW2 to develop?
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