If there is anywhere that the timeline needs a reboot its the whole idea of Yugoslavia and the US forces there and who they are allied with. Not sure how the GDW writers ever came up with the idea of the US being allied with the Serbs - that is an obvious not well researched idea.
Plus how are they supplying them - per multiple modules CivGov and the French are hostile to each other - so any supply ship has to run the gauntlet of the Med, get past French ships at Gib, then get past Italian and Greek ships as well (there have to be at least a few corvettes and patrol ships left) just to get there.
With Italy and Greece hostile, and the French situation with CivGov, those forces should have never even gotten there in the first place, let alone been able to be supported somehow for the last two years by a CivGov that at most has a few ships operating out of the Carolinas on the whole Atlantic Seaboard.
A much more likely scenario, if you want to keep US troops in Yugoslavia, is that they were originally sent by MilGov as part of an operation to seize Sicily, then after the split , declared for CivGov and they sent them from there to land in Yugoslavia and are using Sicily to draw supplies from, with Sicily being held by friendly Italian forces and at least some men from one of the three US units (or possibly units created from grounded airmen, stranded naval personnel and logistics personnel).
That is a much more plausible scenario for getting them there in the first place and keeping them supplied since then.
You still end up with three US divisions under CivGov control in Yugoslavia so the only change to the timeline and world situation would be US control of at least some of Sicily. As to when - the most obvious time to me would be after the Gib nuke strike to give the US some kind of base for operations in the Med and to support their allies there (which in the timeline would be pro-US Morocco, Tunisia, Yugoslavia, Israel and Egypt). Especially with Gib gone and probably Alexandria as well (the refineries there would be nuked for sure) and possibly the harbor facilities in Tunisia taken out too.
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