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  1. Kien Kaije

    WI:The Greeks focused on Eastern Thrace in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922

    So neither by diplomatic ( I assume that the clauses of the Constantinople Agreement were secret?) nor by military means were the Greeks going to get Constantinople in 1915. I do not see conditions for getting The City improve during the following years up till 1919-1922 as shown in earlier...
  2. Kien Kaije

    WI:The Greeks focused on Eastern Thrace in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922

    I don’ t think I can can argue with that; and a well informed Greek in 1915 too must have realised that the Greeks didn’t have a realistic chance of taking The City by military means alone. The prospects of getting the City by diplomatic means may have looked better to him. The military...
  3. Kien Kaije

    WI:The Greeks focused on Eastern Thrace in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922

    You may be right. Politically Greece was not internally united enough to enter the war on the side of the Allies in 1915 Militarily there is quite a distance to cover from Kavala to Constantinople (approximately 500 KM) having to cross Bulgarian as well as Ottoman territory. Economically...
  4. Kien Kaije

    WI:The Greeks focused on Eastern Thrace in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922

    Perhaps if Greece had grasped the historic opportunity and joined the Entente as early as 1915, when the Gallipoli campaing was being launched, the plans of re-capturing The City could have worked.
  5. Kien Kaije

    The Dutch Seize Brazil

    I can see a Dutch Brazil flourish as part of a VOC run string of way stations to the ultimate prize in global colonialism: the very lucrative Spice Islands (Moluccas islands) and the internal Asian trade. Difference would be that the Dutch have Brasil run by the businesslike VOC instead of...
  6. Kien Kaije

    D-Day across the North Sea

    The landing itself on Dutch beaches would probably have gone like it happened in Normandy. Easy beaches, no strong currents like in the English Channel, even calmer waters, distance from East Anglia to Holland equal to South England - Normandy. Additionally there would have been a couple of big...
  7. Kien Kaije

    WWI without Trenches?

    Excellent advice from MrP or Matt. Wide spaces is the answer to your problem. At the Western Front there was a high density of troops per kilometer front line. Had their only been a quarter of the actual number present at the same stretch of front line it would have been maneuver warfare like...
  8. Kien Kaije

    New France and New Spain in the Age of Rail

    Nice railway map: makes French-America look like an inverted X-mas tree. :) Set-up makes perfect sense when coupled to other thread: 'What if France keeps New France'. (POD 1763). This could very well be what a 1863 railway network in New France would look like. IMO it would indeed follow the...
  9. Kien Kaije

    WI France keeps New France?

    Steve, Keegan was approaching the issue from a geopolitical point of view. He said that France had hit the jackpot for opening up the North American continent by exploring and establishing themselves along the Saint Lawrence, which leads deep into the continent. All other European nations who...
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    WI France keeps New France?

    The military historian John Keegan has very interesting views on this isssue in his 'Paths of War'. He would have preferred the French to hang on to their North American possessions in spite of the gushing cash Guadeloupe was churning out. If only the French could have populated Canada, the...
  11. Kien Kaije

    Billy Mitchell's Airborne...

    Band of 500 Brothers My first post here and chose this thread to start. Really like the idea of paratroops in WW1, but have to admit that I'm doubtful. Dropping a whole division behind enemy lines is clearly beyond the possibilities available in 1918 and dropping 500 men might be too little...
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