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  1. NORGCO

    A MARKET-GARDEN alternative: plausibility check

    Of course, all sorts of things look more sensible than IOTL. But seriously, I have always had the impression that Market Garden's most important assumption was that the German Army was broken in spirit, and had lost all will to fight. As it turned out, the only thing they had no shortage of...
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    Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    This looks like it would be worth watching. In my opinion, the original Mars Attacks was not, I would rather be dragged naked across a field of broken glass than see that film again. Words cannot describe how much I hated that movie, it made Plan 9 from Outer Space look like an epic example of...
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    What if Kennedy acceded to the (1961) Taylor-Rostow report, sent ground combat units to Vietnam in 1962?

    Wouldn't the type of force sent matter? As in the USMC apparently had(has?) an approach that is very different from the Search & Destroy//High Bodycounts and good Kill Ratio's will win the war approach Westmoreland used. As in an emphasis on building up a local government structure that...
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    Getting Ahead of Ourselves: A B-29 TL

    To take the three airfields out of play? After all the aircraft from Midway were important to the battle even though they don't seem to have done meaningful damage. They distracted the Japanese commander and his aircraft, maybe they don't want to risk that happening to them, or risk carrier...
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    WI the Dogger Bank incident resulted in the British Empire entering the Russo-Japanese war?

    Which might actually work out better for the Russians. The shame of the fleet's destruction OTL was partly from it being the Japanese who crushed them like bugs, racial theories of the time being what they were. A bunch of non-Europeans should not have beaten a European force, certainly not...
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    Earliest point of a North Vietnamese victory/Vietnamese reunification?

    Have the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) perform worse in its first encounter with the NVA in the Ia Drang Valley. That was very nearly a disaster, and it was part of an attempt by the NVA at exactly what won the war for them ten years later. ARVN morale was very poor, close to falling apart, which...
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    Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    A hint as to what is Alternate History about this would help. I was an adult at the time but not a Jackson fan, and only the cover in the lower right corner is vaguely familiar. What is changed?
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    Due Opposition - Capitulation Over Cuba

    I'm taking this bit to mean there IS no USA. As in Barry Goldwater being elected led to what people at the time said it would lead to, Global Thermonuclear War. I believe when he was running for president his slogan was "In your heart you know he's right!" which was met with the counter...
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    Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    Could someone explain what the issue is to those of us who are clueless here? why would changing from one cover photo to the other be a big deal?
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    Korean war if dewey wins

    Doesn't the question of whether he makes multiple statements that imply that the US will NOT defend South Korea influence the situation more? Because that has been the repeatedly stated trigger for the war in texts I have seen. For that matter, General Ridgeway's book states that pre-war US...
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    Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    The big problem being those of us who ONLY know Wierd Al's version. Apparently, this is still more understandable to those who only know English than the original.
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    How would a surviving South Vietnam look like today

    It would depend on the long-term effects of whatever political settlement ended the war. I clearly remember that the North Vietnamese spent the whole war denying that they had any troops in the RVN. They insisted that the VC were a spontaneous uprising and if they won there would still be two...
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    Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    If he was he would have used the polite term of the era, 'Negro'. Even Malcolm X used that term in speeches I have seen. No one would have recognised the term 'African American'.
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    America Be Watching With The Popcorn: A Sino-Soviet War TL

    Doesn't the President need two cabinet-level people to independently approve the use of nuclear weapons? That is always the way I have seen it explained in the past. I would think that it would be less than totally certain that he would get that under these circumstances. The US is not...
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    Have the PANAVIA Tornado ADV bought by RCAF instead of F-18 Hornet?

    What were the mission priorities? That aught to be the determining factor. Of course I know that Australia bought the F-18 because the politicians set the key requirements that the new plane "Be cheap, inexpensive, and not cost too much" so there is that to consider. I'm assuming defence...
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    ...Those Marvelous Tin Fish: The Great Torpedo Scandal Avoided

    As in these are the number for ships sunk by the Japanese?
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    Hitler is a train enthusiast

    Well if he could reduce the German military's demand for trucks down to what it actually had and could find fuel for that would be a help. My understanding is that a lot of the stop-start stop start nature of some offensives in the east - Sixth Army was stopped repeatedly on the way to...
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    Patton in Korea/MacArthur in the White House

    Depends if he learned anything from his experience ticking off the wrong people in WWII. Can he see that doing so would drive his commander into a rage? Does he see it would torpedo whatever is left of his career? Does he give a damn with only retirement to go to after the war is over?
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    WI: Kissinger dies in the Holocaust?

    As has been said before, that everything Henry Kissenger said was either blindingly obvious or midlessly stupid. Would someone who wasn't Kissenger realise that since the North Vietnamese were NOT going to budge on their demands - after four years arguing about the shape of the negotiating...
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    A world without the Soviet Union, will we still have decolonization?

    The Soviet Union WAS an empire, in the dictionary sense that it brought together under one government a set of peoples who would be free of that central government if given a choice. It was Imperial Russia under new management, with the Communist Party functioning as both priesthood and...
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