Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Might.

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Concluding with the final list as extracted from "The Reader's Companion to Military History".

"Ten Military Might-Have-Beens"

* "Xerxes' Fleet Avoids the Athenians Trap at Salamis, and Greece becomes Part of the Persian Empire."

* "Alexander the Great lives to Old Age."

* "Mongol Khan Ogodei Lives to Old Age, and His Armies Conquer Western Europe Instead of Withdrawing to Elect a New Khan."

* "The Ottoman Empire Captures Vienna and Goes on to Conquer Western Europe for Islam."

* "The Wind Blows the Armada Back Into the English Channel."

* "Benedict Arnold Captures Quebec, and Canada Joins the Colonies in Revolt."

* "Napoleon Does Not Go To Moscow and Expels The British From the Iberian Peninsula."

* "The Schlieffen Plan Works." [WW1]

* "Successful Assassination of Adolf Hitler."

* "Operation Sealion Succeeds, and Germany Conquers England; Hitler Takes Moscow and the Caspian Oil Fields; Rommel Takes Cairo and Palestine, and Nazi Forces Join Hands in Iraq; Meanwhile the Japanese Navy Rules the Indian Ocean as Far as Africa."

ALSO AXIS EFFORTS SUCCESSFUL THE GERMANS AND JAPANESE HAVING ESTABLISHED UNDISPUTED CONTROL OF EUROPE AND ASIA RESPECTIVELY AS A CONSEQUENCE THE COMBINED FLEETS OF GERMANY, ITALY, VICHY FRANCE AND JAPAN BEGIN NAVAL OPERATIONS AGAINST THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

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