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  1. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    the italians had taken Menton? Luck or the French had made a serious mistake? Because i doubt Diaz had authorizated any serious offensive against France with the Austrian at the Piave line...even if the French had their breakthrough i expect the Germans asking the italian to put more pressure...

  2. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Well in OTL the relationship between the papacy and the italian government till the lateran pact were hardly good but ITTL things will be much more tense expecially with France and A-H being the CATHOLIC power so it's not really strange that both the italian and german government not consider...

  3. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    For all my disdain for the man and general that was Cadorna, even me must admit that when talking about logistic and organization Cadorna was a very capable general as his quick reequipment of the italian army and rapid redeployment from the French border to the Austrian border was hardly an...

  4. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    It will be more or less useless, the italian-french border is so easily defended (on both side) that a company can hold a couple of division and for even try a naval landing in Liguria to bypass them, you need first to eliminate Regia Marina and later deal with the fortification. Sure in the end...

  5. Cold War after WW2 w/o American Intervention

    Difficult to see the URSS stronger, no american direct intervention mean just the commonwealth and the UK so we can not only decide what campaign we can butterfly away, Italy or D-Day but also the bombing campaign campaign will be diminished all that mean more resources for the estern front and...

  6. WI: Kühlmann's "Peace Kite" Flies, a Negotiated End to WWI in 1917?

    Honestly trying a negotiation after Caporetto (that already was the most bestest sceanario possible for the CP) will be more difficult as any government know that if they don't get something there will be a revolution, so France peace feelers or not there is no incentive to negotiate behind...

  7. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    we can have a succesfull attack by the Austrian...or the italian command go for the original plan in case of (1 to 1) war with Wien aka let the austrian pass the border while simply harrasing them and holding the defense line of the Piave, letting the enemy spent themselfs in attack against her...

  8. WI: Kühlmann's "Peace Kite" Flies, a Negotiated End to WWI in 1917?

    This mean for A-H to give up territory and some other concession (it's pre Caporetto so it's Italy that hold Austrian territory and had still capacity for a big offensive aka the 11th the one that almost broke A-H). Probably Italy obtain little more than promised for neutrality, due to the terms...

  9. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    The big problem in yout entire argument is that well not even the USA is safe from being more illiberal and less democratic ITTL as unlike OTL they get first hand the nice full experience of a World War, followed by a nasty and troublesome period of occupation that looked more as a (relatively)...

  10. If the Russians had done better in ww1 to the extent that the february revolution was delayed by a dozen weeks, would Russia have won ww1?

    You are talking about two different offensive - The Battle of the Plateux or as it better know the Strafexpedition, that was were we were talking, happened between 15 May and 10 June 1916, Conrad main objective was to launch an offensive trough Trentino and cut Veneto trapping the italian army...

  11. If the Russians had done better in ww1 to the extent that the february revolution was delayed by a dozen weeks, would Russia have won ww1?

    Caporetto was late 17 (October) and it was possible even thanks to the transfers of some division from the eastern front to Italy so a better performing Russia throw all that to the dustbin

  12. Map Thread XXII

    Usually is an Italyscrew because it's absurd that the colossus of stability and military competence that was Hapsburg Empire is forced to concede even an hinch of territory, be gratefull that's unity has not be reversed and we are back to the pre-risorgimento situation. Edit: more precisely, A-H...

  13. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    I don't know, a much more limited and shorter WWI is an enormous plus for the old continent and the fact that Russia and UK happily commerce and not be involved it mean that the economic effect of the war will be also lessened and also the food problem...hell just in Italy we had 600.000 deaths...

  14. If the Russians had done better in ww1 to the extent that the february revolution was delayed by a dozen weeks, would Russia have won ww1?

    Yep, the Brusilov offensive helped the itlaian counteroffensive but by the time of the russian offensive, Cadorna already stabilized the front and there were no possibility of an austrian breackthrough

  15. REDUX: Place In The Sun: What If Italy Joined The Central Powers?

    The Royal Navy have now the same problem that she had in OTL 1940, sure it's the biggest one around but she had also a lot of commitment. In the med she need to face Regia Marina and an hostile Italy mean that Malta need to be abandoned and with control of Tunisia the italians can cut the med in...

  16. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Yep everyone in Rome will consider Montenegro in the italian sphere of influence so any Ottoman attempt to extend their influence there will not taken well and opposed immediately but increased influence in Serbia can be accepted more easily (nobody in Italy will be very happy but it will be...

  17. Sequel de Mayo (Cinco de Mayo, Vol. II)

    Add at this the extremely optimistic prediction to breach the italian alps and capture Turin in less than a month and with little more time basically conquer the rhineland and you realize that the French higher ups have the same attachment to reality of the Japanese government and military...

  18. REDUX: Place In The Sun: What If Italy Joined The Central Powers?

    So my two cents about the post war situation that can be summed this way: France: extremely bad, due to the loss both in blood, treasure and territory...revolution is basically a given and the outcome much depend on how the neighbourg (Germany and Italy) will react but i also expect that they...

  19. REDUX: Place In The Sun: What If Italy Joined The Central Powers?

    Not by that much, IRC the war will have been much shorter than OTL and we get the disputed zone from France (better if we get also Tunisia but the rest of the world is not showed) plus some piece from Austria IRC Albania is whole owned subsidiary of Italy

  20. Edifice: A History of the National Redoubt

    Italy will have not stopped Jugoslavia entering NATO, if the US pressure were also linked to some financial and military support and/or the Treaty of Osimo equivalent will have been less loopsided and more favorable to Italy in some terms. Sure the backlash will have still happened but it will...
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