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  1. WW1 starts with Tanks

    Not when you consider that the alternative is the horse. While the horse can achieve a higher top speed it can't sustain it for very long. A tracked vehicle able to sustain 6-8 mph (Like the Whippet of 1918) for several hours at a time will soon outpace horse patrols.

  2. WW1 starts with Tanks

    Put a Rolls Royce Armoured Car body on the running gear of a Hornsby Artillery Tractor. Job done. However you're not going to get massed ranks of the things in 1914. At most you'd get a company per division for scouting and support. These things are expensive and as yet untested.

  3. DIXIE GOES DOWN!

    You might want a title that sounds less like a porn film.

  4. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    I'm just speculating on what if. I personally think it's far too open to abuse to work.

  5. What if Britain lost World War I.

    At which point the British Government gets off fairly lightly with the British population. They'll be saying at every chance "It's France and Russia that were beaten not Britain. Our armies were still building up and not in a position to do more than save themselves by withdrawing to the...

  6. The Germans build carriers, instead of battleships, prior to WW2

    That's not going to fool anyone, particularly the British who looked at the same idea.

  7. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    And in this system the abuse is not who get's to take part or not as the laws would specifically prevent that. Rather as the individual would have little choice as to what role they have to fill, who gets the most dangerous jobs with the highest risks to life and limb and who gets to sit in a...

  8. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    Every political system that's ever been tried has proved to be open to abuse.

  9. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    Even conscripts ultimately have to make the choice to serve rather than attempt to dodge the draft. For example in the US many draft dodgers went to Canada rather than serve.

  10. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    Limiting it to those willing to earn it, and having had earn it be less likely to take it for granted.

  11. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    This is why I'm modifying the idea so that you don't have to serve in the military, but can also do so in some government run program that benefits the nation as a whole. Conservation, Forestry, Nation infrastructure construction and maintenance, social health care ect. The point being you...

  12. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    That's true but in the book those tasks (even according to an example given in the book of counting the hair on a caterpillar) were performed while technically in the military.

  13. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    I want to speculate on a variation of something Robert Heinlein set out in his book Starship Troopers. (Note I mean the book itself not the terrible films). The basic idea is that in order to gain the Vote the citizen must undertake a term of National Service. Now in the book that's military...

  14. the best movies never made

    Every member of the armed forces gets knighted, problem solved.

  15. Alternate warships of nations

    The twin hangers allow light vehicles to be carried, the aircraft lighter derricks allow a landing craft to be carried and the extra workshop space can be converted to berthing for marines without causing overcrowding on the already existing mess decks. It's also a way to ty and mend fences...

  16. Alternate warships of nations

    I was tempted, but an old ship like her would be one of the first on the chopping block and besides can you imagine the language in the Navy as they assemble the task force knowing that just a couple of months earlier and they'd have had a proper commando carrier available if not for Bloody Nott.

  17. Alternate warships of nations

    In 1957 following the use of HMS Theseus and Ocean as commando carriers during the Suez crises HMS Unicorn is taken out of mothballs and lent to the USN for use as an experimental helicopter assault ship. She is returned to the RN after the USS Iwo Jima commissions in 1961. She was selected...

  18. Post 1905 Sanity Options For Czarist Russia

    For a start Nicholas must keep his word after 1905 revolution and not do everything he can to turn the clock back. It would help if read a few histories of the English Civil Wars in the 17th century and stopped acting like Charles I.

  19. Short Stirling used as Maritime Patrol Aircraft for Battle of Atlantic?

    Here's a nasty thought. That squadron of Lincolns dropping maximum loads of fuel air explosives in bombs the size if normal 1000lb's.

  20. Short Stirling used as Maritime Patrol Aircraft for Battle of Atlantic?

    A squadron of Lincoln's carpet bombing the Malayan Jungle is so much more intimidating to the ten hostiles in the square mile you're turning into matchsticks.
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