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  1. AHC: With a POD after the Paris Peace Accords of 1973, how could South Vietnam survive?

    From my limited understanding, the OTL fall of South Vietnam was due to lack of American supplies and airpower. While they never quite ran out of ammunition completely, they certainly couldn't fight the highly resource intensive war they were used to. I think one obvious POD would be no...

  2. WI: The Dutch in 1940 hold out but France, Belgium collapse as OTL. What next?

    I was kind of curious about what exactly the Dutch would have done, if they managed to beat off the first Nazi attacks, but France falls as OTL. It just doesn't seem to be a good defensive position to hold. Once all German grounded forces are finished with France, I don't think you could...

  3. AHC: Purge the Japanese Army of disobedient officers in the 30s

    OTL Japanese army was completely out of control, to put it lightly. Political assassinations, starting wars without authority, etc etc. It could have used a lot of cleaning, but would it have been possible? Supposing the emperor gave such a purge (doesn't have to be executions, but could just...

  4. What would an unpurged Soviet military look like by 1941?

    I am somewhat familiar with Tukhachevsky's writings on deep battle. However I wonder how well he could actually have implemented his doctrine in practice, and what kind of force structure he envisioned for the Soviet army. Also I wonder if tactics would have been any better. It's one thing to...

  5. Would Slim have done any better in Monty's positions?

    While Montgomery comes in for a lot of criticism, Slim tends to be praised a lot, but I wondered if Slim would necessarily do a lot better against the Germans. For the sake of argument, let's temporarily ignore the feasibility of moving into these positions (Slim was quite junior and was...

  6. What effects would a long-lived Napoleon on St Helena have on French politics?

    Had Napoleon remained in exile on St Helena but lived a long life (maybe to 80-90? Not completely unreasonable) how would his existence have affected French politics? Historically he was pretty much cut off from communications during exile, so he really wouldn't have much of a direct effect. The...

  7. Soviet APC in WW2?

    Would it have been possible to convert T-34s, T-70s, or other tanks to APCs in a similar fashion to the Kangaroo? Would the conversion make sense given the physical limitations, or the institutional culture? It seems that Soviet tank brigades were quite lacking in infantry a lot of the time so...

  8. Could France have won/drawn the Franco-Prussian War with a better operational plan?

    From my understanding, although the French had several significant disadvantages in leadership and artillery tactics/technology, their infantry acquitted itself well at the beginning of the war, outshooting the Prussians. Later towards the war as the Prussians advanced on Paris the French were...

  9. How did European use of muzzle-loading rifles compare with that of the US?

    Much has been made of poor tactics and/or poor training of US armies, but did contemporary European armies do that much better? Prussian wars don't really seem a fair comparison since breech-loaders were in very widespread use, but how did battles in Europe between muzzle-loading rifle equipped...

  10. AHC: More effective Napoleonic Marshals

    When closely managed by the boss, most French marshals were competent. But outside Napoleon's direct supervision few of them really distinguished themselves. It seems that their performance dropped off considerably when their responsibilities increased. I can't really name one who did great...

  11. AHC: Hirohito "reeducated" by the Chinese Communists

    I've seen some threads speculating on the effects of a potential execution of Hirohito. I thought about something a bit different after reading of Pu Yi's treatment. Emperor Pu Yi was the last Qing emperor. After WW2 he was held in Fushun War Criminals Management Center by the Communist...

  12. Could early military defeat prevent Qing military complacency?

    I've recently been reading Tonio Andrade's "Gunpowder Age" and in the book he argues that one of the reasons the Qing dynasty fell behind militarily was a lack of opponents. After defeating it's nearby neighbors, China was never severely threatened by any outside opponents. So I wondered, could...

  13. Stable Communist Government in Afghanistan

    Most Afghanistan threads I've seen seem to focus on increasing Soviet conventional military strength, but I'm wondering what sort of policy compromises that the Soviets could have made so that the majority of Afghans would have accepted the rule of the government. Why exactly did the...
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