History, Politics And Current Affairs

I don’t think there is much doubt about the Weidemann execution, or at least reason for doubt. Regarding his war record, Lee would never overtly claim certain things, but would obliquely imply the possibility and let that most scurrilous species of rodentia (journalists) fill in the gaps in a fashio...

Some little notes: Prologue and Errata - The resources outlined in the Prologue won't really be used or accessed for quite some time, or at least until Britain reaches the necessary level of advancement. At that point, they will have an effect something like the second stage of the Saturn V - As men...

Bernard, acknowledging when one has slipped up is a mark of character. Good show.

That isn’t what you said, though. I would again say that this is simply an announcement of his death. No one made it a discussion of his politics other than you, not simply saying that you may have disagreed with his politics, but that by holding the views he did, Forsyth was effectively a bad perso...

The man is barely cold, insofar as the public news of his passing goes, and there haven’t been any previous indications of personal character flaws or misdeeds. Such a damning judgement of him ‘as a person’ would then seem to be based entirely on his politics. He never held office or exercised power...

There will be a few more heavy chapters to come, with a lot of stuff to lay out on the table. Everything will ultimately be the choice of the 1794 powers that be, so that there will be the capacity for them to make mistakes in a variety of directions. It is further necessary to get a lot of the expo...

On the first query, it is a deliberate choice from an old comedy sketch: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/165650/the-man-was-either-mad-or-both At this point, there wasn't any formal prohibition on Indian manufacturing per se, but rather some regional approaches that later grew into somet...

The Cards Reshuffled 4 “Thank you. And now, Mr. Aubrey will present on foreign affairs.” “The French. Our traditional enemy and our current foe, revolutionaries and disturbers of the peace. The vast majority of England’s current foreign policy is based around defeating France, who time and again ha...

The next draft. The only things left to add to this now are bits on China and the Far East and South America, before a section on Imperial Development and colonisation, plus some Aubreyisms “Thank you. And now, Mr. Aubrey will present on foreign affairs.” “The French. Our traditional enemy and our ...

Home now, so more capacity to expand. The entire flow of the event can work, but perhaps just with a bit of tweaking: - Having ASIO (note that it is not 'the ASIO' anymore than it would be 'the MI5') get a further lead on a potential threat from a sleeper cell - Emphasise very heavy security of the...

Home now, so more capacity to expand. The entire flow of the event can work, but perhaps just with a bit of tweaking: - Having ASIO (note that it is not 'the ASIO' anymore than it would be 'the MI5') get a further lead on a potential threat from a sleeper cell - Emphasise very heavy security of the ...

I also see what you are saying, but the context is rather particular. Perhaps the only comparable event we can draw analogies from is the Menezes shooting on the Tube in 2005 so soon after the London bombings, but even that doesn’t compare to the level of the attack on Canberra. This wouldn’t just b...

Right, we have: 1.) An already militarised and partially mobilised Australia 2.) Followed by an epoch defining attack that essentially wipes Canberra off the map 3.) A mass mobilisation of 800,000+ on top of several hundred thousand already in service 4.) After this, chronologically, we have a doubl...

Some general musing: - Without Boney and a French victory in Italy, it will be difficult to see them try for Egypt, but not impossible - Following up a bigger victory at the Glorious First of June with a further blow to French numbers in the Atlantic would be of great utility - Their forces in the M...

Thank you kindly. There is a fair bit of meat in this briefing chapter, and in the next two to come, but then we get into the Scarlet Pimpernel rescuing the Dauphin and Richard Sharpe making sure that Napoleon is Blownapart. An absence of Boney doesn’t necessarily preclude the French from a mistake ...

The Cards Reshuffled 3 “Every day?” “Indeed, Mr. Steele.” “In these chests?” “Yes.” “May I look within them?” “I’m afraid not, sir. My instructions regarding them is that we are not to look behind the curtain during the night or day, save for the hour of dawn. The same goes for the other, smaller c...

Which is why it is a very long-term project. Plus, I don't have as much time for writing these days! Well you have given us so much already, but i do you think you finish the Last War before George R. R. Martin releases The Winds of Winter. Bernard is still writing TLW, and hasn't given up on it to...

Halfway Across the 1970s: The Last Bit - Africa is a fair bit better off in certain ways, such as the absence of particular dictators, oppressive regimes and outright wars, but that is counterbalanced in a certain sense by a lack of complete 'true' independence for the majority of her countries, at...

A Lil 1975 Military Overview - The Red Army remains the largest force in the world, with a 1975 strength of 324 divisions, comfortably ahead of the 296 divisions of the Imperial Chinese Army and the 72 divisions of the Indian Army. The armies of the Free World are rather smaller, with the US musteri...

Halfway Across the 1970s: The Middle Bit - Natural population increases continue across the West in the absence of the contraceptive pill, but this will eventually start to flatten down a bit more, with the circumstances of affluence to some extent, with some countries experiencing a less notable d...