Have Zimbabwe's collapse happen during the 80's causing large scale white flight to South Africa and scaring the South African and Foreign governments into thinking that majority rule could result in the same happening in South Africa.
If Apartheid can a few more years past the point where the...
While it's very tempting an SAS death squad hunting down the perpetrators (no doubt the Special Forces and Intelligence Services would be very busy attempting to identify and eliminate/apprehend the perpetrators) its equally possible that whoever was involved in the assassination would also be...
It would probably be a very bad time to be Irish and extremely bad and likely fatal to be in any way associated with the IRA.
It's worth bearing in mind that the IRA council were initially hesitant to carry out the Brighton Bombing in an attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher as they feared a...
If the Afghan monarchy was restored in around 2002 what form would it take (Absolute monarchy would almost certainly have been unacceptable to the US) and how might Zahir Shah have been able to avoid the image of being a foreign imposed ruler?
Mohammad Zahir Shah was the last King of Afghanistan, reigning for 40 years from 8 November 1933 until he was deposed in a coup in 1973.
Today Zahir Shah's long reign is remembered for the long period of peace and prosperity and modernisation that Afghanistan experienced before his overthrow...
Possibly if applied extremely broadly but even then it wouldn't be enough to be an absolute rule of thumb.
As mentioned earlier for most European militaries it will most likely be the point when ceremonial and practical uniforms began to diverge.
Making matters more complicated you have the US...
Nope otherwise the guards would be wearing coalscuttle helmets and field grey uniforms taken from the defeated Werhmacht.
If anything it's a strong sense of tradition.
Its more more a continuous series of circumstances than any explicit decision or rule.
In the case of the guards and other...
Tradition and pride. The Grenadier Guards defeated the French Imperial Guard at the battle of Waterloo and took the bearskins worn by the French guardsman as trophies and ended up incorporating them into their own uniforms.
In terms of practical benefits the hats were designed to make the wearer...
Apartheid not ending in 1994 leading to some sort of South African Bush war/civil war.
US/UK/France militarily intervening in Syria in 2013.
Russia mounting a full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2014.
The Dogger bank incident leading to something more than just angry letters
The US invading...
In terms of actual ships: Abandon the Yamato's in favour of more fleet carriers. Scrap existing older battleships if you have to in order to free up resources.
Build a lot more destroyers, escorts and ASW ships to protect convoys. Possibly (if resources allow) Build more cruisers geared towards...
In the aftermath of France's withdrawal from Algeria did the OAS really have much of a game plan following their historical intended assassination of De Gaulle?
Were they ever interested in trying to provoke some sort of uprising or staging a coup or anything of that nature?
What would have happened if the plot to kill then President of France Charles de Gaulle described in Fredrick Forsyth's 1971 political thriller The Day of The Jackal not actually occurred but also succeeded?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Jackal
In 1962 France was suffering from...
If the Eurofighter is stillborn then depending on how early in its development it is when this happens that might kill off the Rafale as we know it. The visible similarities between the Typhoon and Rafale are a result of the French dropping out of the Typhoon project and taking what had already...
An overheard conversation at an event frequented by various old ex army and military historian types that I thought would make an interesting What If scenario.
The story goes that it first emerged as someone's bright idea early in the war when the army was expanding massively and trying to...