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    No Naval treaty

    Assume for some reason there was no Washington and No London Naval treaties - they just could not all agree What might a non Treaty British light and Heavy cruiser look like??? Still 6" and 8"? Possibly 4 tripples? They still need long range for the world wide commitment The treasury will...
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    Better Gernan manpower usage WW2

    This is not a 'The Germans would have won if only...." thread but a thought experiment on better usage of German manpower in their military forces, I was watching a program on the waste of lives that were the SS divisions and the Luftwaffe field divisions. The SS divisions took higher...
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    Larger Panama Canal? Possibility and effects?

    Between 1904 and 1914 the Americans built the Panama Canal. The size of the Canal was one limiting factor on American Battleship / CV design. It seems to me that it is easier to build a bit bigger to start with than to try and enlarge later. How difficult would it be to make the Canal wider...
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    American and Russian Nuclear policy / reactions in 1979

    This will be for an ASB story line but the questions here are about American and Russian Nuclear reactions before anybody knows anything ASB has happened. What can happen in the first couple of hours at most. 9th of November 1979 is supposed to be about the closest we got to an American lauch...
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    Converting a 7.62mm weapon to .303 - Possible

    7.62 NATO is rimless .303 British is a rimmed cartridge For a weapon that used a 10 round magazine how easy would it be to convert it from 7.62 to .303 or is would it require so much work as to be impossible???
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    What really happened at Prokhorovka??

    The BBC recently published an item on Kursk which does seem to generally agree with the current state of wiki Some key bits being They also report that some Russian officials want the publishers of this information punished But that is fairly normal with Russia in these situations. The...
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    How could Siam become an ally of the British for December 1941?

    I was reading that after the Franco-Siamese War Phibun sought to court the British and Americans to ward off the Japanese who would invade Siam on the same day they invaded Malaya. Obviously the British were not able to show they would have the force to help defend Siam and the Americans seem...
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    ?? Luftwaffe May 1940

    I have found a source for the strength of the luftwaffe and where it was deployed here Before I spend forever cross refferencing what aircraft are at what airfield has anybody already done that? If not would it be worth my posting it once I have done it??
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    Would more realistic musket training have a significant effect on the battle field?

    I have read and heard a number of comments over the years that set me to thinking. The first was that until recently most infantry have not shot to hit their opponent - indeed for most people its a hard 'skill' to gain. More recently infantry have been being conditioned to shoot at people by...
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    Which actions would not happen and what would be the consequences if...

    .... from 1st January 1943 the Western Allies (so NOT Russia or China) start to fight under a 21st Century understanding of the rules of war?? They will not plan or conduct any operations that they now consider to be war crimes. They gain no future knowledge either of History or technology so...
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    A less rash Shah, a longer lasting Khwarezmid Empire, a different India??

    What if........ In OTL Shah Ala ad-Din Muhammad drew the wrath of Genghis Khan by how he treated the ambassadors sent to him and by ordering the execution of some 500 merchants. What might have happened if the visit of the Ambassadors went differently. Instead of insulting the mongol's and...
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    Earliest possible developments of the Musket/Rifle??

    Assuming Major Patrick Ferguson survives the Battle of Kings Mountain and the rest of the war what improvements might he have been able to make to his breech loading rifle design?? Minié ball - Does this have significant precursors or was it something that could have been developed easily at...
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    Different colonial frontiers

    I take in as given that one of the problems with C21 Africa is that the states that exist are often arbitrary collections of peoples within lines drawn on maps by officials thousands of miles away...... How might Africa have looked if boarders had been drawn such that ethnic groups were not...
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    Possible WW1 POD's

    This will be a series of possible POD's for WW1 1. 3rd August. Admiral de Lapeyrère, assumes that is the Goeben and Breslau will be dealt with by the British if they try and sail west. Thus he deploys "Groupe A" to the east of his area of operations. 2. 4th August. This is confirmed as...
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    Question about Cavalry vs Napoleonic square

    Its actually for an ASB plot but I thought I would ask it here were the experts live. Assuming that there are about 30,000 French at Agincourt.... And they are opposed by the British 3rd division from the Waterloo campaign Being 3rd Division Lieutenant-General Count Sir Charles Alten...
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    Argentine mainland Air Defences???

    Anybody know a source for the AA and SAM forces that defended the main land in 1982????
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    Non English speaking America

    If emigration from the British Isles after 1800 did not go to America with possibly increased immigration from Central Europe and Russia how might the use of language develop in the growing USA???
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    Space denial

    America quickly caught up with Russia and 'won' the space race. The American's also had the advantage in satellite technology and thus could spy from space on Russia and China etc What would happen if they decided to deny America access to space above their countries by seeding space with...
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    Continuity War - Did Finland have a viable alternative?

    I was doing some reading that suggested that the Finns thought engaging the Soviet Union in 1941 was the lesser of two evils rather than their preferred choice. Given; Finland had already suffered an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union. And The example of Soviet annexation of the...
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    German units September 1942

    Can anybody point me to a good source for the dispositions of German units in 1942? Who was defending Denmark for example? Who was in Czechoslovakia? I have pieced this together nut not sure how accurate it is West - not sure where at the minute 26th Pz Austria 187th...
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