@RedSword12 is correct about the Entente not knowing how badly things were going inside the Central Powers but also if the French and British had just sat on the defensive in the west the Germans might have been able to conquer Ukraine much sooner and taking Ukraine in say 1916 would have solved...
The Allied blockade, the Central Power bloc has a whole had a calorie deficit of over 30% against peacetime demand and probably 10-15% against starvation* and shortages of pretty much every industrial input apart from coal. Winning battles doesn't matter if your family at home is starving to...
August 1918 is a good deadline. People are far too prone to looking at this as a military problem for Germany that can be solved by military means, which on one level is fair enough, that's how Hindenburg and the Kaiser thought but then again they lost. Somewhere between August and November 1918...
I think Niall Ferguson and others overemphasise the international and battlefield situation for the collapse of the German Army in the West in comparison to the home front. By autumn 1918 Germany was starving and by October 1918 the German Army knew about it, soldiers will fight on in seemingly...
No, WW1 logistics means the idea of splitting the British and French armies and driving to the coast is impossible. Even if it were possible it would not win Germany the war, the home front situation is too bad and US reinforcements coming in through the French Atlantic ports means even if the...
For an earlier Good Friday agreement you need to convince the IRA leadership that there is no military route to victory and I can't see that happening before the late eighties.
Unless you get a British government willing to walk away against the wishes of the majority of the population but that...
It took 3 revolutions to get the most extreme sect of the radical extreme into power. Even if you apply a tight butterfly net to Europe if Russia can make it to 1914, or any other alt Great War without a Revolution the likely result is an agrarian socialist government led by the SR's if the...
The big butterfly isn't Japan it's Russia. No defeat means no 1905 Revolution and almost certainly no 1917 Revolution. The October Revolution and the creation of the Soviet Union was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century. No Soviet Union not only saves tens of millions of Russians it also...
Putting a 10 year old plane back in production is also fairly unlikely but I can certainly see this world pushing more resources into short take off planes of all types including transport planes. For example here the USAF's Advanced Medium STOL Transport will almost certainly be carried through...
The Do-31 would need a lot more development before it would enter service, as it was at the time of cancellation it was a transport plane that couldn't carry a payload.
There is no scenario where this ends with an independent East Germany or anything other than the reimposition of a Soviet approved government. First of all the balance of military force is overwhelmingly on the Soviet side with about 600,000 troops in the occupation army (it didn't become the...
The M35 Stahlhelm and M36 Field uniforms were both the product of Weimar era programs and bar some minor details e.g. the Doppellitze (embroidered white parallel lines on the collar) will remain exclusive to the Prussian Guards are plausible developments of pre-PoD German military "fashion"...
Once again I think this is a somewhat implausibly successful result for the Iraqi's. The Iraqi's do have Frog-7 SRBM's which will get through but they are very inaccurate and while the Iraqi Air Force was better than the Syrians they did not perform very well in OTL against Iran considering the...