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  1. More military factions in Imperial Japan

    The latter faction is basically just the Toseiha. They didn't want to dismantle the Zaibatsu, of course, and increasing armaments production was their priority, so their anti-monopolism could never be all that effective. But they did use Manchukuo to sponsor rising companies (the most famous...

  2. More military factions in Imperial Japan

    Ugh, Twitter. So this is why I keep receiving notifications about my post. He's correct about Japan invading the Soviet Union being an insane idea, at least in the early 30s when Sadao Araki was pushing for it. It's far crazier than the modern political analogy he's making, at least if I have...

  3. More military factions in Imperial Japan

    Planning for War: Elite Staff Officers in the Imperial Japanese Army and the Road to World War II and Japanese Army Factionalism in the Early 1930's are the most important sources for my major conclusions.

  4. More military factions in Imperial Japan

    So have I answered all of your questions to satisfaction?

  5. More military factions in Imperial Japan

    Hate to necro a thread, but I have an answer. Before the Toseiha and the Kodoha, there was the Baden-Baden clique, which was started after WWI when all the Japanese military attaches in Europe got together at a spa in Germany. They decided that the Japanese army needed desperately to modernize...

  6. The Death of Russia - TL

    I just realized: Bin Laden's plan is highly similar to the plot of Tom Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears". That was written in 1991, pre-PoD. It's a similarity way more likely to be picked up on than the Turner Diaries, and Clancy will probably get praised for 'predicting' the nuclear war.

  7. The Death of Russia - TL

    It would have to be entirely the latter. Very, very few Iranians want the Qajars back because they were a huge failure that brought Iran to the heels of the foreign powers, while the Pahlavis made Iran somewhat of a strong, independent, modernized power. However, many Iranians won't want a Shah...

  8. The Death of Russia - TL

    1. The MEK is a terrible choice for the democratic vanguard of Iran. Namely because they are not democratic and incredibly unpopular in Iran due to fighting on the Iraqi side in the Iran-Iraq war. Organized groups that could be an Iranian democratic vanguard are few, but the most plausible to me...

  9. The Death of Russia - TL

    This is definitely embarrassing for the PLA. They've been pretty interventionist in these !90s, and while that worked well in Korea, it seems they'll have to go through another round of reforms after this. That's also pretty embarrassing for Deng Xiaoping, who doesn't formally lead the army...

  10. The Death of Russia - TL

    The retrenchment of '89-'92 had already proven very bad for the Chinese economy, and besides, China actually stepped up reform following the 1997 Asian financial crisis. So I don't think so.

  11. The Death of Russia - TL

    Doesn't sound likely to me. Li Peng had already pretty thoroughly lost the economic debate in 1993, capped with a heart attack. The most likely change is that the Chinese government starts looking askance at house churches and qigong cults sooner, and probably cracks down on Falun Gong well...

  12. The Death of Russia - TL

    Northern Buryatia is definitely outside Mongolian power projection. But Ulan-Ude is not far from Mongolia and is connected to Ulaanbaataar by both road and the Trans-Mongolian Railway.

  13. The Death of Russia - TL

    So, Mongolia has one winter to prepare to face off against both the FEK and Lebed. This is a serious juncture for the tiny nation, as well as the government. Mongolia has elections in June 1996, and OTL the MPRP government (same party that had led during the communist years) lost. The party...

  14. Malê Rising

    Thanks. Redistribution seems like something the Chinese peasants might do (several dynasties did land reform at the beginning of their tenures so there’s a precedent) if they were more politically conscious. The only question is why the traditionalist Gentry would aid the modernist Japanese. If...

  15. Malê Rising

    Hey, John. I was rereading some of the post-Great War stuff, specifically about China. It said that Chinese peasants created local self-defense societies that confiscated landlords' land and gave them to peasant collectives. That seems unusual, and out of character for 1890s China, for a few...

  16. AH Challenge: Make a dystopian Allied Victory

    Done! Proven up into paragraphs.

  17. AH Challenge: Make a dystopian Allied Victory

    Sorry. I was intending for it to be shorter, but I had idea after idea and I wanted to put them down somewhere.

  18. AH Challenge: Make a dystopian Allied Victory

    How about: Hitler listens to his generals; attacks through northern Belgium rather than take risky and likely logistically impossible route through Ardennes. Bogs down against French, English, and Belgian positions. For the next 3 years, there is a stalemate on the Western front, possibly with...

  19. WI Ukraine went the way of Occitania?

    Starting during the third republic, France severely discouraged the use of the Occitan language and as a result the native speakers of Occitan dropped from 39% of the French population in 1860 to 7% in 1993. At around the same time period, Tsarist Russia was cracking down on the use of the...

  20. Medieval America Tk II: Discussion Thread

    Actually, Louisiana only controls Santo Petersburg Territory (roughly equivalent to Pinellas County).
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