The Strangest Analysis
By Colin Salt That the US was in a hesitant period in terms of defence planning in the 1990s is not a surprise. But one particular...
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Apr 28, 20222 min read
VTOLs and Airships
By Colin Salt So you have an Alternate history setting and you want to show the differences between this timeline and reality by showing...
Mar 18, 202212 min read
Panel Discussion: Guns and Butter - Part 2
By Alexander Wallace, Liam Connell, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Alison Morton This is an experiment: a panel discussion, modelled on...
Mar 16, 202217 min read
Panel Discussion: Guns and Butter - Part 1
By Alexander Wallace, Liam Connell, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Alison Morton This is an experiment: a panel discussion, modelled on...
Feb 24, 20222 min read
Formations in the Fog of War
By Colin Salt There are lots of rumors in warfare that later turn to be inaccurate. The existence of certain types of units is definitely...
Jan 28, 20222 min read
The Greatest Villain in Alternate History
By Colin Salt One of ways in which John Schettler's gargantuan (to put it mildly) Kirov series somehow works is by still having its plots...
Jan 7, 20222 min read
Red Hammer 1994 Review
By Colin Salt Robert Radcliffe's Red Hammer 1994 is an alternate history novel about a Russo-American World War III. Unlike some of the...
Dec 27, 20212 min read
The Making of a Division
By Colin Salt When making alternate armies that are far larger than their real life counterparts, it's important to note the important...
Nov 19, 20215 min read
Series Review: The Survivalist
By Colin Salt There is one plot element late in the either 27 or 29 book Survivalist series [depending on if you count the two...
Nov 1, 20212 min read
The Familiar Monster
By Colin Salt World War II Germany is infamous for producing a ton of paper wunderwaffe that its severely resource-constrained,...
Oct 22, 20212 min read
Leonid Kurchevsky Versus The Third Law Of Motion
By Colin Salt One of the most bizarre footnotes in military history is the tale of Leonid Kurchevsky, an interwar Soviet weapons...
Sep 24, 20214 min read
The Ballad Of Mike Sparks
By Colin Salt Mike Sparks is one of the most infamous internet commentators about military matters. He is known for his crazed...
Sep 10, 20213 min read
Review: Guns of the South
By Colin Salt Harry Turtledove's breakout novel, Guns of the South is the story of time travellers altering the American Civil War by...
Aug 27, 20212 min read
Review: Long Reach by Mike Lunnon-Wood
By Colin Salt Long Reach was a novel that I started off with iffy feelings towards, but which has grown on me as I recognized the rarity...
Jul 12, 20213 min read
The Wheeze Kids Model
By Colin Salt In 1950,the Philadelphia Phillies won the National League pennant on the strength of a talented, largely young roster. The...
May 31, 20213 min read
The Army of A Victorious Third Reich
By Colin Salt One of the most interesting gaps in alternate history fiction is the seeming lack of a Larry Bond-style serious look at a...
Mar 26, 20212 min read
Why Make A "Bad" Champion?
By Colin Salt There are many legendary championship teams in sports history. The 1927 Yankees. The 1996 Chicago Bulls, and many more. But...
Feb 8, 20215 min read
Review: The Big One Series
By Colin Salt Coming along at just the right time and place for me, the The Big One series by the recently deceased Stuart Slade has to...
Dec 14, 20203 min read
What World War III AH truly is:
By Colin Salt Having the chance to read a massive number of books, particularly after my initial writings, can cue one in on literary...
Dec 3, 20206 min read
Interviewing the AH Community: Colin Salt of Fuldapocalypse
Questions from Gary Oswald Counter factual and Alternate History discussion and fiction is a relatively tight-knit online community. Sea...
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