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  1. NoThymeToulouse

    AHC/Question - The USSR maintains technological parity with NATO

    So one common refrain I've seen when comparing the USSR with Western countries was its technological and scientific lag behind that of the West, particularly in the fields of computing and personal life standards(Don't know what else to call it). So, what PODs anywhere from the beginning of the...
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    Henry V Lives

    I've always wondered, how different would the Hundred Years War have gone had Henry V not died of dysentery in 1422? Charles VI died only a few weeks after his OTL death, so had he survived, Henry would have been crowned king of france. Could King Henry have been able to secure English control...
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    Could HMS Vanguard have been upgunned?

    I've read that Vanguard was built on a modified version of the Lion-Class hull. Obviously, there would be little reason to do this, but with the right drivers, could the Vanguard have later been refitted to accommodate the 16" guns the Lions were design for?
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    Make Gallipoli less prevalent in the Australian consciousness.

    As an Australian, I can say with certainty that we make way too many movies about the Gallipoli campaign. Is there a way, without changing the forces involved, to make said campaign less known within the Australian consciousness? Like making the campaign go better or worse, or having a different...
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    Could the Knights Templar have become a sovereign order?

    In 1191, Richard I of England sold the island of Cyprus to the Templar Order. Would it have been feasible for the Knights Templar to have turned the island into a stronghold like what the Hospitallers did with Malta/Teutonics did in Prussia?
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    AHQ: Royal Marines acting like USMC

    As I'm sure most of you know, the US Marines and the Royal Marines fulfill very different roles within their country's militaries, with the USMC as I understand acting as a quick-response force with their own integrated armour, artillery, and air support. Meanwhile, the British Royal Marines...
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    Further British Intervention in Africa after Sierra Leone

    Following the success of military intervention in Sierra Leone, then-UK prime minister Tony Blair was interested in further intervention in other African nations, namely Darfur and Zimbabwe. However, lack of political support and commitment to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan prevented any...
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    Edward as Prince of Wales sees action during WWI

    Chalk it up to idle curiosity on my part, but having read that the young Edward had been barred from frontline service during WWI by Lord Kitchener, who was worried about him getting captured. Were Kitchener's concerns founded? What potential consequences could have arisen due to this being...
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    Anglo-Japanese Alliance maintained?

    As per the title, what if the British and Japanese had renewed their alliance instead of breaking jt? I've heard it said that the alliance ending was one of the major reasons why Imperial Japan descended into militarism, could the maintained alliance have prevented or mitigated this?
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    What if the Joint Soviet American moon mission had gone ahead?

    How would the Space Race have developed if the joint Moon landing proposed by Kennedy had somehow been approved? Could it have had greater geopolitical knock on effects beyond the Space Race?
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    WI: Richard O'Connor doesn't get captured by the Germans

    Major General Richard O'Connor was the commander of the Western Desert Force during WW2, and masterminded the great success that was Operation Compass. However, when the Afrika Korps arrived in Libya, he and Lieutenant General Neame would end up being captured by a German reconnaissance patrol...
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    Cape to Cairo Railway completed.

    The Cape to Cairo Railway was an ambitious plan of connecting all of the British African territories with rail infrastructure. However, from what I've read, due to the Germans claiming East Africa and some other rival Empire's schemes, the project was unable to be completed. What kind of...
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    What made the Fairey Battle so ineffective?

    Question as in the title. Why does the Fairey Battle have such a poor service history? What design/doctrinal factors made it a poor choice? And could the design have been upgraded in some way to make it more effective?
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    AHC: Russia joins NATO after 1991 but before going Anti-West

    So I was reading around, and it seems that in 1991, Boris Yeltsin offered to join NATO, and later in 2000, Vladimir Putting made the same offer. The question is, what changes in Russia could have been made in this rough time frame that could lead to Russia joining NATO?
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    WI Alec Douglas-Home defeated Harold Wilson?

    So from what I read the 1964 General Election where Harold Wilson and the Labour Party won was actually incredibly close. What would change if Douglas-Home and the Conservatives won? Would the UK's situation be better or worse?
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    How much would it cost the modern UK to rebuild the Royal Navy to 1960s/70s levels of fleet strength?

    Question as in the title. Assuming that the British government suddenly decided that they had the political will to shell out the presumably huge cost of doing so, what would it cost to build and maintain a Royal Navy with numbers similar to that in the 1960s or 1970s with modern vessels?
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