anotherlurker's latest activity

The US only really entered European power games with its unconditional loans in 1915 or so. Without them the war ends years earlier and...

They got some fighting experience out of all the rebellions in Namibia and Tanzania, without it they'd be in the same position as...

It's on par with a bunch of those inland states that no European can name.

Before the large scale military investments in the 30s and the Cold War California was an underpopulated strip of land at the wrong end...

Plenty of small states ran or are runnign militarized societies, most notable examples would be North Korea or Israel. And wanting to...

Salazars Portugal and Dollfuß's Austria didn't even have the militarism part.

A prolonged occupation of Europe by the Mongols should do the trick. Maybe by one of the Khans who converted to Islam or one of the...

Austria nearly went with "Noricum" after WW1. If you look up the etymologies of European rivers you quickly notice that it's all...

The premise of these kinds of threads are always flawed as they ignore lokal change of culture and customs. For Egypt we can easily...

"Industrial Revolution" also means that the state takes a firmer grip of the entire society, including its culture and religion. State...

The relevant part says "Also that the Russian Tsar in the year 1867 offered Liechtenstein Alaska for purchase is something known by few".

Take a look at google maps, the border is impassable, only a single gravel path at 4500m above sea level. Trying to move the border to...

Well, the French navy would be hopelessly outmatched by the combined Italo-Austro-Hungarian navy in size and possibly quality as well...

The job of the navy was to keep the Adriatic as Viennas personal bath tub as a fleet in being, which it did well enough. There's no...

The Italians did that despite winning. Stab in the back myths are fairly common, the French did that already for 2 Napoleons before, why...