Beneath the calm waters of Southeast Asia, WWII shipwrecks—resting places for thousands of sailors—are being looted for low-background steel. Illicit salvagers have stripped vessels like HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse. This ongoing crisis erases history, desecrates war graves, and fuels a secretive industry, highlighting the urgent need for international protection.

Force Z’s failed sortie in December 1941 is often remembered as a one-sided airpower tragedy. But the British fleet was poised to strike Japan’s Malaya invasion force—an action that could have disrupted early Japanese operations. This analysis reviews the real events, examines the logistical weaknesses at play, and explores how a successful interception might have altered Japan’s opening campaign.

Dawn breaks over Tarawa in November 1943, unleashing one of the Pacific War’s most brutal battles. Amid stalled landings, lethal reefs, and relentless Japanese fire, a single shell kills the atoll’s commander—preventing the night attack Marines feared most. But what if that shell had missed? This analysis explores an alternate timeline in which Betio’s fragile beachhead faces a coordinated banzai assault.

On 2 October 1941, Germany launched Operation Typhoon, aiming to capture Moscow. Despite massive troop concentrations and early encirclements, German forces stalled under brutal mud, harsh winter, and Soviet reinforcements. Explore how logistical breakdowns, the rasputitsa, and strategic miscalculations doomed the Wehrmacht, and imagine the “what if” of Moscow falling—symbolic victory, but would it have changed the war’s outcome?