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  1. A Miss of Grapeshot: Suffren and the Tiger of Mysore
    Threadmarks: Chapter 1, Battle of Porto Praya

    Chapter 1, The Battle of Porto Praya Suffren’s Shadow: A History of the Naval War in the Indian Ocean, 1777-1783 The Battle of Porto Praya, for all of its diminutive size compared to other great naval battles of the American Revolution, compared to First Ushant, the Chesapeake, Grenada, the...

  2. Could a Soviet victory in the west in 1919-20 lead to a more genuinely pluralistic USSR?

    The Soviet Union seems like it fell into an awkward position in its ethnographic balance, the ~50% range of the main ethnic group, since it was too Russian dominated to be viewed as really pluralistic and multi-national, and yet not so much so that like China, the main ethnic population...

  3. What if the French Family Vote Model was passed in 1923?

    In 1916, French Féderation républicaine parliamentarian delegate Roulleaux-Dugage, building on French interest in improving the national birth rate and solidifying paternal authority in the family, proposed a family vote model which would give fathers a vote for every child they had, as well as...

  4. Why did Socialist Czechoslovakia's Economy perform worse than East Germany?

    Czechoslovakia was one of the world's most industrialized nations in the interwar, with economic performance and standards of living that were on par with the Western European nations. At the beginning of the Cold War it continued to be the most economically developed and productive Eastern Bloc...

  5. What if the French Navy used its explosive shells in 1798?

    As related in Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years, the French had a multi-year program for developing incendiary and explosive shells, principally intended for the navy. Extensive tests with the explosive shells in 1798 at Meudon, using 1794/95 produced ordinance...

  6. Preparing France for Fashoda?

    Most of the time Fashoda, the colonial crisis in Sudan, in alternate history is used as a way for the British to launch a desultory smack down of the French. To reverse that, with a POD of an intense colonial crisis which directs French attention towards Britain and unites French policies in...

  7. Ideologies and policies of Buddhist Communism?

    While Communism and religion have traditionally been opposed, this hasn't stopped there from being occasional Christian/Islamic socialist movements. Buddhism has similarly occasionally had its own socialist ideas, and furthermore enjoys the advantage that it does not inherently believe in a god...

  8. Alternate French diplomacy for the Interwar

    Historically, French diplomatic strategy in the Interwar period was based on two pillars: a)Attempting to contain Germany b)Preserving an alliance or at least entente with the United States and particularly the United Kingdom The end result of this was arguably successful, in that despite a...

  9. French Conquest of Sicily 1808

    In 1808 a French fleet was supposed to set out from Toulon (it was also joined by the Rochefort squadron, although the Cadiz and Lorient squadrons could not reach the sea, which brought it up to 10 ships of the line) with the objective of winning control of the Strait of Messina for the short...

  10. WI: Russian Malta

    During the negotiations for the Third Coalition in 1805, one of Russia's demands for entering the coalition was that Malta be evacuated by Britain. The British, desperate to have Russia as an ally, ultimately accepted to this, and prepared to seize Minorca from Spain instead as an alternative...

  11. WI: French Zeppelins and German Aeroplanes

    Historically the French ultimately gained the upper hand over the Germans in aeroplane production in WW1, producing far more aircraft and winning control of the skies. Meanwhile the Germans, although producing plenty of aircraft themselves, are most famous for their usage of lighter-than-air...

  12. WI: German conscript army from Versailles

    At the Treaty of Versailles there was a significant debate between the French and the Anglo-Americans over what sort of army the Germans should have. The French thought that a conscript army should be utilized by the Germans to constrain them, as a conscript army would preclude them from having...

  13. Improving French 1940 tanks materially

    While there is much discussion about what could be done for British tanks in the 1930s, there's less about the French, despite (or perhaps because of), the immeasurably superior position of French tank forces compared to the British ones. While, key point here, still preserving the essentials of...

  14. AHC: Switch Austro-Hungarian and German Military Effectiveness

    OTL during WW1 Germany widely overshadowed Austria-Hungary in the Central Powers and performed much better than them, becoming the dominant member and saving Austria-Hungary at critical points. Try to come up with a way to reverse this so that the Germans perform very badly and suffer heavily...

  15. Have airborne propaganda leaflets ever had a significant impact upon a conventional war?

    Air-dropped propaganda leaflets saw widespread usage in WW2, and to a lesser extent in WW1, and have been utilized in a host of other wars, but I don't recall ever reading of an incident where they had a decisive impact. Conversely most of the time it seems that their lack of impact is...

  16. Vichy 1941 expedition to New Caledonia

    I was reading Vichy sous les tropiques, La Révolution nationale à Madagascar, en Guadeloupe, en Indochine, 1940-1944, and there was apparently a proposal by Vichy to send military forces from French Indochina to retake New Caledonia in February 1941; "Fait incroyable, en février 1941, un haut...

  17. What might be the "universalities" of an alternate progenitor of a World System?

    Europe (or the "West" if we want to include European descended nations like the US), has been the hegemonic power that has largely imposed its system of institutions and certain "universal" beliefs during the last few centuries (some of which existing prior to the European world-system in...

  18. Earliest practical high speed rail?

    I had been reading on the wikipedia page about high-speed rail that initial experiments began in 1899, but it took several more decades until practical, scheduled rail travel began in 1933. At what date would it be somewhat commercially and technologically feasible to have high speed railroads...
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