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  1. The most competent IJA and IJN officers

    Adding Mikawa for Savo Island

  2. 'the Victorious': Seleucus Nicator and the world after Alexander

    I am getting curious about the rise of Argeus here! His story sounds like a king beyond the water type of story.

  3. The second biggest one-hit wonder group or individual? (other than Zager & Evans or the Starland Vocal Band)

    The band can be found performing the song on youtube in Union style uniforms, so...

  4. Admiral turn POTUS

    Leahy?

  5. Was Albert Speer’s sentence at Nuremberg justified?

    In my opinion also Von Papen and others of his ilk should have been shot on general principle for their spectacular lack of judgement.

  6. Soviet low level air defense missiles: too little too late ?

    Soviet SAM systems seemed pretty effective in countering Israeli ground attack sorties in 1973. When properly employed of course, but that goes for every weapon system. The combination of SA-6 and ZSU 23-4 was apparently very complementary.

  7. Can a Fritz X sink an Illustrious class carrier?

    No armored deck is going to stop a Fritz-X. It was used to sink the Italian battleship Roma, significantly larger then Warspite, after it hit a main gun magazine. A similar hit on a carrier (munition's storage) would be just as crippling.

  8. Best late cold war era NATO tank?

    The Americans tried to find export countries among NATO allies for the Abrams during the late 1970s/early 1980s but at the time the Abrams in its M1 shape was clearly the inferior choice compared to the Leo2 due to its (by that time) rather anemic 105 mm tank gun.* When offered the M1, the...

  9. Name of a United France-Spain

    Would be confusing

  10. The Great stadholder, Dutch 18th century

    Nice TL! Is the title Great Stadtholder analogous to the Great Elector?

  11. Arab conquest of Spain was a failure

    The Visigoths were indeed not the posterboys of 'political stability'. If the Arab invasion would have been delayed by one reason or the other, the most likely result would be a Frankish takeover of the entire peninsula, which would have provided a much tougher nut to crack for the Arab/Moorish...

  12. Significant battles Middle Ages

    Fontenoy (841)

  13. Darius defends the Cilician gates against Alexander, what could happen?

    The Persian plateau is also very mountainous (it's in the name), so I don't see the Macedonians coming away with a massive advantage here. In fact, the Persians (remnants really, after Gaugamela) proved quite capable of holding up the entire Macedonian army at the Persian Gates several years...

  14. What Was Lost, and What Was Found Along the Way: A Timeline of Russia Since 1917

    Interesting...

  15. Fav small nation in history that had a chance for greatness but didnt

    While that's nice information, Sneek never had a major harbor, expect one suited for the lake it is situated on, perhaps.

  16. Fav small nation in history that had a chance for greatness but didnt

    Sneek is and always has been inland. The largest port in Friesland is Harlingen.

  17. TLIAPOT: Kingfinch

    Chapman? Lennon is still alive here...

  18. 1866,the worst scenario for Prussia.

    One of the reasons France did not intervere in the Seven Weeks' War was the ongoing intervention in Mexico.

  19. Kinetic ICBMs?

    That's unlikely. The V-2 was already supersonic. That was in fact what caused the initial British confusion as to why suddenly whole city blocks started exploding without the normal sounds of aircraft beforehand. According to a 1963 RAND study...

  20. AHC: Austria and Russia switch sides

    The Russians only had to look back 50 years to see how France and Britain really felt about Russia moving in on the Ottoman Empire. It was Britain, not Germany, who was concerned about Russian control over the Dardanelles. Due to the Suez Canal, this would be actually even more the case in 1914...
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