A great opportunity was lost IMO with all those WWII surplus T-34s, which could have been transformed into APCs. The Israelis did convert captured T-55s into the Achzarit Heavy APC. In a similar vein, the Swedes converted their WWII Strv m/41, the licensed produced Czech TNH tank which the...
The character of Sherlock Holmes was supposed to be an all brains type, a human computer with no emotions or even need for female companionship. The problem with this is he doesn't fit the mold of the Westerner, who is a romantic and laconic man of action. Holmes was Captain Picard while Captain...
There was a TV show called "Have Gun-Will Travel", about a former West Point officer turned gunfighter/detective. The main character, played by Richard Boone, was a Shakespeare quoting dandy with expensive tastes in wine and women. He lived in the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco and took...
Cuirassier breast plate could not stop rifle bullets. They did stop sabre and bayonets and some early muskets. Though of limited use, it none the less had psychological value for the heavy cavalrymen. By WWI it was badly obsolete, kept around for the same reason as colorful uniforms still used...
Stalin couldn't have known about the operational details. The point of this exercise is not prescience and prevention, but how to respond more efficiently with more detailed, actionable intel.
We all know Stalin's spy rings informed him of the coming German invasion, which he dismissed as counter intel. He didn't believe them, and feared calling up reserves would be interpreted as an act of aggression by Hitler.
But what if a copy of the operational details of Barbarossa landed on...
I had a thread about this. My solution is to use brigandine armor with manganese steel plates.
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=190010&highlight=manganese
In 1837 the guy who who start the Taiping Rebellion had a vision that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ after reading the Bible and suffering from a fever. What if he was introduced to Mormonism at the same time?
Because they know North Korea is scared and cornered but not suicidal. Their nukes and their crazy antics are a form of deterrent. Unless South Korea invaded the north, there's little worry of Kim actually using a nuke.
I'm saying back then the people who lived in that era didn't make nationality distinctions like we do now. People didn't think of themselves as Korean or Chinese, or Vietnamese. They had a much more local identity. I'm from this town, village, etc. Korea had its own monarchs and the people there...