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  1. WW1 starts with Tanks

    I think the issue is that the utility of slow-moving armored vehicles (basically a very heavy train without the need for rails) is not obvious. Kind of like how the effectiveness of drones and glide bombs was only widely recognized a year or so into the Ukraine war.

  2. Xi'an Incident kills Chiang Kai-Shek

    There was and still is this perception in China that the Japanese, love them or hate them, got something right. A good deal of China's path to modernity was people studying in Japan and bringing back ideas from that country to implement at home. Wang's thinking was simply "if you can't beat...

  3. it’s a lovely day tomorrow by EBR

    I quite enjoyed EBR's TL on a realistic Drakia in 2020-2021. When re-reading a part of it earlier this year I noticed he had been banned and it took me some time to find the reason. Quite frankly it made me sad and angry as I reflected on the loss for AH.com in an age where big social media...

  4. Xi'an Incident kills Chiang Kai-Shek

    Yes, it seems that if CKS had died in 1936 Wang would've already been turned pro-Japan enough and be in the right place (Nanjing) to serve in the puppet KMT.

  5. AHC: better behaved Red Army

    Tough. About the best you might manage is to get the Red Army to commit fewer atrocities against liberated areas, but once they get to German territory itself then it will be hard to restrain the revenge-seeking Soviet soldiers. More atrocities are committed in desperate or existential...

  6. Was it possible that Prussia could continue to exist?

    Not sure whether this is feasible, but I for one think it would be kind of cool if Germany became a constitutional federal monarchy where all the local royalties keep their positions with varying (though minor) degrees of actual power. Naturally this would include Prussia. Alternatively, have...

  7. Xi'an Incident kills Chiang Kai-Shek

    My impression is that Wang Jingwei joined the Japanese out of a combination of desperation and bad blood with Chiang Kai-shek. I've always thought that in a TL where Chiang is dead or removed, he would easily become the leader of a left-wing KMT or at least serve as a senior cadre. EDIT: In...

  8. Indochina War if the KMT wins in the CCW

    Yeah but what I'm saying is there isn't a definite need or even benefit to stay communist. Like in the 1920s the KMT itself was socialist-leaning and had the post-Sun leadership been different it may have even ended up not so different from the OTL CCP. In fact you could say that by turning...

  9. Indochina War if the KMT wins in the CCW

    Hence the rationale for a rebranding, especially if the Vietminh is having trouble dealing with the French. If there isn't a Communist China to help and the USSR is far away, better to do some PR with the KMT and Americans, especially if Marxism isn't core to the Vietnamese nationalist movement...

  10. Operation Unthinkable goes ahead - how much longer does the war last?

    I think it would be a close fight but the Soviets are overall stronger IMO. They have the biggest army, better knowledge of how to use it, and better land-based weapons. Like ObsessedNuker mentioned they will suffer from food supply issues but that just means a new Holodomor on the territory of...

  11. Indochina War if the KMT wins in the CCW

    Is it possible that without the CCP in charge of China the Viet Minh changes its own ideology to be less communist and more nationalist? The KMT might support them in that case.

  12. Could the US have a strong Communist Party as the opposition?

    Maybe not full-on communist, but a socialist movement is probably viable if something like the New Deal is not implemented and crony capitalism gets worse during and after the 1930s. A widening gap between rich and poor and scandals involving blatant corruption of the monied elite could cause...

  13. Independent Manchuria

    It stopped being majority Manchu in around 1900. In the late 1800s the Qing dynasty opened it up to Han Chinese immigration to counter Russian attempts to take it over, and they came gushing in from the heavily overpopulated Yellow River valley. By 1930 most of its 30 million people were already...

  14. Independent Manchuria

    It's definitely possible for "Manchuria" to be independent in the sense that it's run by the Chinese Communists while the rest of China is under Nationalist control. But its formal name would likely just be the "People's Republic of China" and it wouldn't be Manchurian at all except for the...

  15. Xi'an Incident kills Chiang Kai-Shek

    I'm not as familiar with the warlord dynamics of the ROC as I would like to be, but that seems more or less plausible. Definitely the southern warlords would probably choose to split off rather than follow the Nanjing/Central Army clique of "traitors to the Chinese nation." Whether they would...

  16. Xi'an Incident kills Chiang Kai-Shek

    I think that puppeting the Nanjing government is easy enough. The book I'm reading now, The China Quagmire, portrays the central KMT leadership of this period as being willing to accede to most of the Japanese political demands; it's just that the Guandong Army kept undermining all efforts by...

  17. Would Asia/the world of the twentieth century have been better off if Japan lost the Russo-Japan War, was stalemated, or deterred from attacking?

    It probably wouldnt matter that much. But the Russians losing kept Manchuria out of the Russian empire. It might not become a Chinese territory by modern times if the tsars had been able to hold it after 1905. IOTL 20th century, around 50 million Chinese moved from China proper to Manchuria...

  18. Xi'an Incident kills Chiang Kai-Shek

    The main guy in the Chinese army after Chiang seemed to be He Yingqin. Probably him and a vaguely pro-Japan junta would take over, while the KMT in general would lose cohesion as the pro-communist elements leave to join the CCP and the warlord elements exercise even more autonomy than they did...

  19. What would a Communist Britain name things?

    Somewhat unrelated but what if the situation is like the United Kingdom still exists by virtue of the royal family escaping overseas, with Socialist Britain just running the main island? Kind of like Taiwan and mainland China except the "Taiwan" in this case encompasses a vast number of...

  20. Three Men, One Island - A Cuban Missile Crisis timeline

    It seems to me that the North Koreans, having experienced severe bombing just a few years before, would have contingencies in place to continue governance (if only via martial law) in the event of nuclear strike. Assuming the DPRK is still a thing, I would expect the Korean war to restart...
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