That's a good point, there was Communist activity in other European countries too. Both sides would have had to struggle to put down armed resistance movements behind their lines.
The Soviets had to deal with widespread guerrilla activity behind the Iron Curtain all the way into the 1950s anyway; it only tapered off when the insurgents realized the West wasn't coming east to liberate them. If war had broken out between the USSR and the West these uprisings would have...
The idea of a sovereign Corsica is interesting. What if Pascal Paoli had been able to withstand the French and Genoese (of course this could never have happened without continued British support) and maintain his island's independence? It's unfortunate that Corsica's more famous native son...
I've heard a lot of Republicans say they'd support Ron Paul if he'd bring his foreign policy views into alignment with the rest of the party. It's not his support for federalism that turns people off, it's his anti-interventionism.
If we no longer maintained fleets at sea or bases overseas, how...
It would be extremely hard. Maybe we could move up through Canada and leapfrog over to Greenland, and from there to Iceland, and from there to Ireland, and so one. I don't know, though - it's one hell of a long and vulnerable supply line.
Sadly, there was really nothing the West could do to protect the Poles, Finns, Estonians, Latvians or Lithuanians from aggression. They were entirely on their own, precariously caught between the talons of the black eagle and the claws of the big brown bear, a continent away from any help the...
If we'd never made it to the Moon, maybe there'd be a crazy conspiracy theory, with some people saying NASA really did put astronauts on the Moon, but covered the whole thing up!
What do you think about NBC's postapocalyptic "Revolution"? It takes place fifteen years after the end of the Age of Electricity. But don't worry - firearms still function!
I wonder what caused the loss of electricity? Unlike William R. Forstchen's "One Second After", this catastrophe doesn't...
There's been a proposal to introduce camels, elephants, and some other animals of the African plain to parts of the United States, which is kind of interesting.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0817_050817_animal_park.html
Maybe if North America had been colonized not by...
Of all the colonial powers, the Belgians in the Congo Free State certainly behaved the worst. Having known a few Belgians, it's hard to understand. They don't really seem like the kind of people who could have done the things that were done in the Congo, in the name of profit.
On the other hand...