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  1. The Japanese Win the Carrier Battle at Midway-Then Land

    If the Japanese had won the carrier battle, they would've attempted an amphibious landing on Midway Atoll. Had they done so, they would've likely had a serious defeat.. The IJA unit (28th Infantry Regiment, or the Ichiki Detachment-the same guy who OTL led his men at Guadalcanal in August only...

  2. 1969 Brezhnev Assassination Attempt Succeeds: Who Replaces Him?

    The 1969 attempt on Brezhnev's life succeeded in killing a driver, lightly wounding several Cosmonauts (Alexi Leonov was in the car with Brezhnev when the attack happened-and Brezhnev apologized to Leonov for the affair), and had the shooter in a lunatic asylum until released in 1990. Now, What...

  3. Military Aircraft that should have entered service

    This thread is for military aircraft projects that should have been built and entered service, but were canceled for various reasons-whether political, financial, technical developments, or a war not going as expected. My choices: A-6F: This was the Navy's original choice for a viable medium...

  4. The Last Ship (TNT Series)

    Anyone here watching The Last Ship on TNT? Based on the novel by William Brinkley, it's the story of a USN destroyer during a mass pandemic, their efforts to find, and now, distribute, a cure for a virus that has killed four billion people. I'm not giving out spoilers just yet, but has anyone...

  5. The Fires of October: the U.S. Invasion of Cuba, 1962

    For anyone interested in the Cuban Missile Crisis, especially the "what if we had invaded Cuba?" school, there's a new book out by Blaine Pardoe which examines the plans for the attack on Cuba (JCS Op PLan 316-62) and the Soviet/Cuban plans to defend the island. It's on Amazon, so check it out...

  6. Tomorrow, When the War Began now airing in the U.S.

    For those of us with a Red Dawn bent, this Aussie invasion movie is now airing in the U.S.; it's currently on The Movie Channel and The Movie Channel Extreme (Dish Network chs. 327-330) this month. Best description I can give: Red Dawn lite. Some action, but mostly it's the experiences of the...

  7. WI: No Condon Report

    In 1968, the USAF received the Condon Report, which basically told the AF to get out of investigating UFOs-at least in public, though as one AF General remarked "UFO reports that can affect national security are not handled through the Blue Book System, and are dealt with in channels set up for...

  8. Red Dawn remake finally coming out?

    It took long enough, but the Red Dawn remake originally scheduled for last year is finally coming out, according to the Los Angeles Times. An independent studio called Film District will handle the distribution, not MGM. First MGM's financial woes prevented the film's release, then the studio...

  9. Post World War III: Red Storm Rising

    One thing about Red Storm Rising is that the postwar world isn't set up very much, mainly because Clancy intended it to be a one-off novel. So, any ideas about how the postwar world starts to develop? One thing that may happen: A Soviet division or Army commander comes home with a Soviet version...

  10. Plan Z Approved 1937 instead of '39?

    Here's another WI for WW II at sea: Raeder got approval for Plan Z from the Bohmemian Corporal in 1939, and apart from U-Boats and some destroyers, it was suspended almost immediately after war began (it was never formally cancelled). This would mean that Bismarck and Tirpitz would be started at...

  11. Manstein not fired by Hitler, 1944

    How would things on the Eastern Front developed in '44 if Manstein had not been fired by the Austrian Corporal in early '44? Would he have recognized the threat of BAGRATION in June '44, not to mention pushed for the withdrawal of Army Group North from the Baltic States once before they could be...

  12. Bismarck Escapes

    The title says it all: KMS Bismarck escapes the Royal Navy. Here, the final strike by Ark Royal's Swordfish hits her, but there is no rudder damage. Bismarck is able to get away in the night, and on the morning of 27 May 41, finds three Gruppen of Luftwaffe bombers overhead, along with...

  13. WI: Tojo Assassinated Spring or early Summer '44?

    Reading John Toland's The Rising Sun found a few interesting tidbits: that there were two plots to kill Japanese Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo in the Spring and Summer of 1944. One originated in the Japanese Navy, with RADM Sokichi Takagi (brother of VADM Takeo Takagi, who commanded the IJN's...

  14. By Dawn's Early Light (HBO movie)

    Anyone here seen this movie? It's the last of the World War III thrillers involving nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet, and aired on HBO in May, 1990. It was released on VHS in Aug '90, and is also on DVD. Stars Powers Boothe, Rebecca DeMornay (both B-52 pilots), Martin Landau (POTUS)...

  15. Red Storm Rising: the Aftermath

    One thing that Tom Clancy left open was the aftermath of the war in Red Storm Rising. He didn't detail the postwar world very much: just dropping hints as to what might happen: Mike Edwards, the USAF officer on Iceland, marrying the girl he and his four Marines rescued from a Russian patrol was...

  16. Operation KINGPIN: the Son Tay Raid succeeds

    Operation KINGPIN was the code name for the famous Son Tay Raid in NVN on 21 Nov 1970, with the objective of raiding the Son Tay Prison and freeing the 55 POWs held there. Although no prisoners were rescued (they had been moved several weeks earlier, and U.S. intelligence hadn't picked up the...

  17. WI: Women allowed in air combat by 1991 in the U.S. Military?

    One aspect of the 1989 Invasion of Panama was that several women in both the UH-60 and MP communities wound up seeing combat (as in actually pulling the trigger) during the takedown of the PDF. As a result, there were calls to get rid of the combat exclusion laws right then, but DOD refused to...

  18. WI: Heydrich not kicked out of the German Navy?

    What if Heinrich Himmler's right-hand, Reinhard Heydreich, hadn't been court-martialed and dismissed from the Reichsmarine? Would he have been a surface-ship or raider commander in WW II, or gone to U-Boats and served under Doenitz in some capacity instead? Which does beg the other question: who...

  19. Rommel not implicated in Valkyrie?

    Here's a WI to go along with the movie (which I haven't yet seen): WI Rommel wasn't implicated? IIRC some general who botched suicide kept repeating Rommel's name, the Gestapo started asking questions, and ultimately the Desert Fox wound up taking poison to avoid a trial for High Treason, and...

  20. Hitler brings back Von Manstein

    Perhaps the greatest strategist of all in WW II, and certainly the best one the Germans had, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein was fired by Hitler on 30 March 1944, and never again held a command for the remainder of the war. With the D-Day invasion and the disaster of BAGRATION-the Soviet Summer...
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