Recently there has been quite a few Vietnam war threads but they've all been from the American perspective on not losing the war, and they are about what the US and sometimes South Vietnam did wrong. From the Northern perspective, what did they do right to win the war?
I was wondering why don’t you post Deep Night in ASB or on a general Science Fiction Fantasy site like SB or SV? You would get way more people reading and discussing it than in the Writers forum.
I've been reading through this thread without posting, but could you guys cite your sources for me to find? Your claims are so contrasting to each other that I would like to see where they come from.
Regarding a reason for making a secret base, is it possible to discover a source of oil in either the Arctic or Antarctica? That would be a good reason to build a base and it would be self-sufficient in fuel for power generation. Then you could have somesort of scheme to send the oil back to...
On this site there are several scenarios bandied around about nuclear weapons exploding accidentally based on real life incidents. All of these incidents caused very few deaths and generally had no impact on the Cold War. But would it have been possible for one side to intentionally sabotage a...
Why not make the tank out of wood? Defending against cannon fire seems like a hopeless cause at this stage. But if you had a bunch of wooden tanks that can survive shrapnel, and bullets it would be useful even as just a morale raiser. They could be armed with riflemen and light cannon.
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In our timeline the Tay Bridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Rail_Bridge , was built over the Firth of Tay. Shortly after its construction Queen Victoria traveled on it on June 20th, and then on December 28th it collapsed in high winds, killing 75 people.
Lets say that a combination of...
I have an alternate post 1900 idea. Have India be a weak and broken up nation with civil wars and such going on, maybe they tried to keep Pakistan as part of India. Enough violence going on that no one thinks India or its successor states are important powers. Then in the alternate 1980/90s a...