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  1. AHQ: How can Russia revitalize itself?

    I'm currently on a Russian history reading kick and working on an alternate history where I want to give Russia something of a redemption story, as it seems like Russia has kind of gotten the shit end of the stick throughout history. I believe there's something of a lens of historical...

  2. Without Sir Jackie Fisher would the battlecruiser still happen?

    I'm sure someone's asked this question at some point before, so feel free to link old answers or threads. From my reading of the Royal Navy's late nineteenth and early twentieth century history, while pretty much every major navy had an all big-gun warship ala dreadnought under-construction...

  3. Historiographical Impact of an Alternate Jutland

    One of my most favorite recent discoveries is Nicholas Sumner's Drake's Drum series, which is an amazing alternate history that sometimes feels just like a vehicle to write about aero-engine development and some dope-ass naval battles, which is honestly not something I am going to complain...

  4. Better names for US warships

    I'm never not going to be jealous of French and British ship names over American. Sure it's great for a state or a city to say they have a warship named after them, but I'm sorry, South Dakota, Augusta, and Idaho do not strike fear or evoke a great emotional response, let alone John C. Stennis...

  5. Plausibility Check: WI Earlier American ginseng trade

    While rereading Look to the West, a detail stood out to me, and that is the trade in American ginseng to China. In 1784, the first foreign trade mission of the United States in the form of the Empress of China left New York with a cargo of American ginseng and they returned with a 25% profit...

  6. CVA-58 NOT Cancelled

    In 1948, the US Navy ordered an 80,000-ton "supercarrier" called USS United States (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_United_States_(CVA-58). She was supposed to give the Navy its big leap into atomic arms. BUT, after James Forestall was forced to resign, the new SECDEF Louis A. Johnson...
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