Recent content by David Howery

?!?!?! why the hell would the US care in general about the alignment of Yugoslavia after the cold war ended? AFAIK, the US didn't bother much in Yugoslavia at all until the atrocities started up in Bosnia... I clearly recall quite a few people wanting us to get involved even though it really...

in answering the original question.... not much affect on history. The JW take a very specific point about staying out of politics of all kinds, and pretty much ignore governments in general. Thus, their absence will have little affect on the general course of history...

uh, the USA colluded in it?! What exactly does this mean? If you're saying we caused the breakup... wrong wrong wrong wrong. If you're saying we helped the new states stay independent... of course we did; so did most of Europe. As for 'punishing the Jugoslavs for being unaligned'... huh...

while it's not considered one of the great AH novels on this site, I think 1901 would make a good movie, at least for American audiences... it's a simple POD that could explained at the very beginning, it has lots of battles on land and sea, and it's a nice jingoistic 'America always wins' theme...

because the original question is about a TL that I want to live in... :)

nah. Let's have one where the US expanded to include Canada instead...

there would be a significant increase in firepower, as flintlocks are faster and more reliable than matchlocks. I'm not sure if caplocks would be invented any faster, as you have to have certain technological developments to make percussion caps. The minie ball was an idea that could have been...

Here's a weird twist on the idea. There was an oddball species of elephant in C. and S. America called Cuvieronius (IIRC) that survived until around 400 AD. Suppose it had been domesticable? Imagine Cortez running into an Aztec army that had an elephant contingent, with bowmen riding in...

Did we own Alaska during the ACW? Maybe he could threaten to send them to the middle of Arizona instead....

I always found the use of the word 'Aryan' by so many white supremecists as ironic, since it derives from an old Indian word for 'Lord'.... I wonder what those racist groups would say if they realized they were calling themselves Indian royalty... Anyway, isn't the Aryan theory still around in...

Dom> yeah, but horses went the opposite way (got bigger). I suppose it would depend on what they were bred for. If for meat, then no change in size or bigger. If for riding or plows, then smaller....

uh, don't you have to have an interest in regular history to be interested in AH? Otherwise, how would you even comprehend it? If you don't know how the ACW, WW1, and WW2 went, how could you ever appreciate what's happening in HT's How Few Remain/Great War/American Empire/Settling Accounts...

I'm not seeing the link on no communism leading to no WW1... didn't the war have to do with German and French rivalries, rather than world fear over Marxism?

the big problem with the OTL Norse colony in Vinland (the only one known for sure is the one found at L'Anse Aux Meadows.... the one storied about in the Viking sagas may be that one, or may be somewhere else, undiscovered yet) is that the Norse were too few. The colony was a private venture by...

What about the Balkans? After the fall of the USSR, that region could have blown up into a huge criss-cross of wars. From what I've read, damn near every nation in the Balkans has a grudge against at least one other Balkan nation; Albania/Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia/Hungary, Hungary/Romania...