Recent content by lycan

Regardless of how Midway and/or Ceylon went, Japan would sooner or later have lost the war with the United States. The US was not in a forgiving mood after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and would not have been after a Philippines-only attack once details of the Bataan Death March, etc. became...

Halifax was one of the biggest supporters of the British guarantee to Poland from what I've read. He really did feel they let Czechoslovakia down at Munich.

No Great Depression. Japan was taking steps toward Democracy during the Taisho period, and IIRC Hirohito initially followed those steps. The Great Depression screwed everything.

Would there be a Moscow for the Soviets to take back? I read that Hitler wanted to open some dams so that Moscow would get flooded. OTOH the Wehrmacht could find Typhoon a costly victory if they then freeze to death in the Russian Winter. I suspect they still would have had to follow with...

What's everyone's thoughts on the Peter Tsouras series of althist anthologies?

I like to think of Japan invading Australia as The Unmentionable Marsupial.

not sure whether that was an original condition, but I do know Canaris encouraged him to make exorbitant demands, so much so that Hitler remarked to Mussolini "I would rather have four of my teeth pulled out than have another meeting with that guy."

How viable are the electroboots?

Spain wanted to join the Axis right after France fell, which would have been a prelude to seizing Gibraltar. From there they might have been able to advance eastward to the Suez Canal, Iraq, and Southwest Iran. The Soviet Union had its own interest in Iran, and this might have led to a...

Can't think of anything, but there was for practical purposes a three-way war in China during that time.

The French government was sympathetic to Spain's Republican government, at least initially, but backed off full support. What do you think would have happened if France had supported the Republicans more aggressively?

If the Germans seize the oil fields at Baku it might force the Soviet counteroffensive there instead of Stalingrad. Turkish troops could be seen as liberators in Azerbaijan, but Georgia and Armenia would be another story. There could also be separatist sentiment in Central Asia.

Better collaboration with Germany. Under Hitler's orders Ribbentrop kept Japan in the dark about Barbarossa. IF there were better axis victories against the U.K. early on (and I don't mean THAT) I can see Japan adopting a "counterclockwise" strike in the East Indies, which is what the Army...

Would a northern advance to Archangelsk be possible in this scenario?

There are a few of his stories that have a Nazi conquest of India. Would they be considered ASB over the plausibility factor? Apart from how feasible that would have been, didn't Hitler have almost zero interest in India?