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What if post-Feb 1917 revolution/Provisional Government Russia is ISOT *forward* in time? Imagine if it is pretty much the entirety of Russia, those parts unoccupied by Central Powers, from May 1st 1917. The "governance" situation, such as it is, actually "dual power" between the Provisional...

What if Oppenheimer's consciousness from July 21, 1945 was transferred back to July 21st, 1943? How many months can this shave off getting to a bomb? July 21st 1945 was five days after the successful Trinity test in New Mexico. July 21st 1943 was the day after Leslie Groves gave Oppenheimer...

What if Japan had attacked the Dutch East Indies in 1936, based on lobbying from the Navy to gain the valuable archipelago located at the strategic maritime crossroads of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, offering Japan a position outflanking Singapore and Manila Bay, and providing already...

Could Japan have seized/kept Hainan island from 1931-33, without it turning into near-term all-out China War? Or more? Could that island have been an additional territorial morsel, seized for the glory of the Imperial Japanese Navy more than the Army, complementing the the contemporaneous...

Could Japan have had its carrier decks and carrier wings up to their Nov 1941 levels by Nov '40 or Nov '39 with earlier plausible investments? How far back would Japan had to have performed the designed work, allocated the steel, allocated the workers and engineers for the decks, the raw...

Why do Greater Mideast soldiers and leaders function and fight so much better in Party/Sect/Militia format than State/Army format? The combat record Arab armies in the 20th century was consistently poor despite individual instances of bravery, tenacity, and sometimes creativity. Very often...

What if an ASB genie granted Stalin in April 1944 acquired all the memories and historical and political knowledge of every Soviet or Russian leader until April 2024? The usual caveats apply, that this doesn't make him insane, say crazy things, have a nervous breakdown. He's able to appear to...

Here are some notable events in its 37 year history: 1988 - The covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement is published. The group presents itself as an alternative to the PLO. 1989 - An Israeli court convicts Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin of ordering Hamas members to kidnap and kill two...

When did Communist China surpass WWII Imperial Japan in quality/performance of various combat arms: infantry forces, cavalry FWIW, artillery forces, armor, fighter aircraft, air defenses, bomber aircraft, naval combatants, etc.? The Chinese Communist forces impressively showed an ability to...

With Japan not directly occupying Tonkin, northern Indochina as in OTL September 1940, but Thailand still invading French Indochina in October 1940, to reclaim lands lost in the early 1900s and 1890s, and Japan selling the Thai arms for influence, and not, like OTL, mediating an end to the...

Information borrowed heavily from wiki: Cambodian campaign - Wikipedia As of early 1970, Cambodian discontent with the heavy Vietnamese presence in the eastern portion of the country had built up to explosive levels, leading to mass demonstrations by urban and educated Cambodians. While...

In 1946, most Arab states, except the Republics of Lebanon and Syria, were monarchies, and some were still colonies. Monarchies rapidly grew increasingly unfashionable in the countries that came to comprise the Arab League, especially among intelligentsia, middle-class, and military service...

What would have happened differently in Europe and Russia between 1993 and 2000 if NATO had not expanded east of Germany? Here's my interpretation of how NATO expansion could have been avoided at the end of the first Cold War. [It is based on my interpretation of what ultimately drove the...

What if the Union forces under McClellan won the peninsula campaign in spring 1862, and took Richmond? I know, I know, it is hard to get past the threshold of suspending disbelief of infamously cautious slowpoke McClellan attacking with the persistence, speed, and alacrity to crush CSA forces...

In the absence of a Korean War, the major Communist powers may have been cooking up two other major fiestas for later in 1950 or 1951. The Chinese, planning an invasion of Taiwan, for which they were rapidly expanding their Navy and Air Force and massing troops in their southeastern Fujian...

Could India have kept fighting in 1962 and won all its border territory back from China (mainly the Aksai Chin in the northwest around Kashmir, because China yielded the Northeast frontier regions voluntarily) if offered US aid $, equipment advice in similar quantity to what the US was giving...

Laos was the last, least populous, and least valuable piece added to French Indochina, and had basically been tributary provinces of Siam beforehand. 1893 Franco-Siamese crisis - Wikipedia Before 1893 it was shown on maps as part of Siam, and French Indochina, at least since the French...

Operation Rösselsprung (1944) - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Operation Rösselsprung (German: Unternehmen Rösselsprung, lit. 'Knight's move') was a combined airborne and ground assault by the German XV Mountain Corps and collaborationist forces on the Supreme Headquarters of the Yugoslav...

In this alternate timeline (ATL), an androgynous ASB by the name of John Birch Ayn Rand F. Buckley Snuffaluffaguss, observing earth, notices the Soviet Union's first atomic device test on August 29th, and concludes: "Enough is enough, I do not want those Commies having this destructive nuclear...

Here is the basic background reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootka_Crisis Here is my question, and I have a poll attached: If the Nootka Crisis sparks an Anglo-Spanish war circa 1790-91, can UK and Spain still be co-belligerents against France by 1793? How I imagine an Anglo-Spanish War...