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Just wanted to add. Russians mostly stopped to train cavalry for white weapon melees in 1890s (Nicholas granted old historical names back to regiments in 1908, but it was purely symbolic, everyone, from hussars to cuirasseers, used same training manuals). Since then Russian (later Soviet) cav...

Once you overlay this map with terrain map, it becomes obvious that Czechoslovakia had main mountain passess covered. Speaking about Sudeten guerillas, my understanding is that they did try armed resistance but Czech security forces turned out to be much more effective than thought before, and...

Assuming this is truth (and this isn't whole truth, a lot of mountain passes had been adequately protected, and 88-mm had pretty miserable HE action), exactly how many 88-mm Germans had in 1938? Although there was no love lost between Sudeten Germans and Czechoslovakia, as well as Hungarians and...

Off the top of my head, Jordan is in most trouble. It is a very young kingdom, and one not united by anything more than king himself. Taking into account that "Little Hussein" is but a baby at this point, his father Talal has menthal issues and Talal's brothers is but a bunch of greedy and...

I may sound blunt, but you need to familiarize yourself with "Search" function of this forum. Trotskyite USSR is discussed on this board at least monthly. BTW, it is Trotsky, not Trodsky.

Well, Soviet vets always had opposite opinion. Most of them believed that majority of Eastern European units were "show troops", kept on quieter stretches of frontline and generally spared most dangerous assignments, which were left for regular Soviet troops. I'd say that truth is, most likely...

Shame on me :)

Up to mid-1944 USSR lacked what was by far the biggest area of employment for Russian collaborationist units on German service - occupied foreign territory, where collabortionist troops could be used to maintain orders (Vlasovites didn't enter frontline service until mid-1984). And even after...

If they did (or even if OTL carnage starts to tone down, while sides are still at war), Germany has enough forces to make any landing a new Dieppe (until Americans come up with the nuke, but this is another TL, isn't it).

Wow, are you proposing to let Communists control Lebanon in the middle of th Cold War? This is ASB of worst kind. Americans would support every tribal "political party" out there and every illegal militia not to let it happen. Just look at Afghanistan for inspiration. And we're supposed to...

Multiconfessional government with outlook changing after each elections. This is almost ASB, but not completely so, as people would most vote confessional in this setup, so government's makeup would reflect slowly changing numbers of each community. Cantonal idea, IMHO, is stillborn, as you need...

Look, I didn't suggest cleaning Shias out of Lebanon just for the sheer fun of doing it. It was just a cruel and inhumane mean to the end OP wanted (stable Lebanon). Exploring possible consequences, as you've said. And let's be truthful here, percentage-wise most cruel Middle Eastern ethnic...

Buddy, if this kind of game makes you uneasy, you've picked the wrong place to hang out. Every second thread here is aimed at finding PODs to rob the country I'd been born and raised in (x-USSR) of several millions people by killing them in most inhumane fashion (I mean all those "Germany won...

Look, not that advocate for or support such solution, but OP asked for a way to make stable Lebanon, not for a way which does not violate basic principles of humanity. Not I'm saying that this is the sole possibility.

Off the top of my head, the easiest way would be to kick Shiites out. It were wombs of Shia women, producing far more kids per womb than Druze or Maronite ladies did, which upset that fragile applecart of Lebanon's society. Maronites and Druzes have a history of feuds between themselves too, but...