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For those who don't know General Maurice Rose commanded the 3rd armored division and was, to my recollection, both the highest ranking Jew in the US military and highest ranking American killed in action during the War. Before the UN Partition vote in 1948, David Ben-Gurion and the Haganah...

Exactly what it says on the tin. You’re free to decide whether you want to go with 1983 or 1989 as the year hostilities break out.

Looters in Toronto during the initial Imperial invasion, 2006-9 BBY. Crime waves were rampant in the four month period of the Empire's campaign to subdue Earth by force. A British resistance fighter in London during the assassination of a local Imperial official, April 2012-3 BBY. Russian...

Recently I've been reading about the particularly poor state of the Vietnam War era US Military and what seems to have been a particular low point in its history. It looks like at times the US Military was in danger of seeing a collapse of morale, order and discipline due to anti war sentiment...

When the US army wanted a replacement for the cobra attack helicopter, they looked towards the Lockheed cheyenne which caused a boo ha with the USAF resulting in an argument, whilst that was happening there were two contenders the bell super cobra and the Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk. All three...

I had this a bit of an interesting scenario, what if a conflict broke out between the world's greatest rivals before they were rivals? Let's say instead of WWI breaking out in 1914, you have a conflict somehow breaking out between the Russian Empire and United States for whatever reason. In...

inspired by this video but some background to get us up to speed in 1901 the us army tested luger in 7.65mm, but declined to adopt either pistol or cartridge in 1904 they tested the luger in 9mm, but declined in favor of a .45 cal round but wi: the 1904 luger and the 9x19mm cartridge are both...

US camel corps was an experiment done from 1856 to 66 testing out if camels could be used by the US military. They proved to be very good at their jobs and the enviroment suited them. However thr civil war stopped the experiment and the military declined them. If the experiment was done...

What POD is needed to make USA more like the European countries in late 18th and 19th centuries in terms of defence policy and make sure it has a standing, conscripted army instead of relying on militia and slow mobilization.

What if, after hearing about the German development of the Panzer VI Ausf. E Tiger Tank, the western Allies put more heavy tanks into production, and sooner than in OTL? Consider the following timeframe- -Variants of the M4 Sherman armed with the 76mm gun are put into production in early 1943...