What if soldiers from Great Britain (not Australia) had fought in Vietnam alongside the Americans? The issues I would like to cover in this thread include the following:
1. How effective would SAS tactics and cleverness have proven against the Viet Cong?
2. Would there have been a draft in the UK like there was in the US? Would Oxford and Eton have erupted into antiwar riots like Columbia and Kent State in the US?
3. Would Great Britain have fought to win (a-la Margaret Thatcher's Falklands War)? Or would Harold Wilson's Vietnam policies mirrored that of the American president, Lyndon Johnson? (Guns and butter with no real mission objective)
4. What weapons would the British have used in Vietnam?
5. Would the Beatles have been peforming in Saigon?
NOTE: I'm thinking about writing an alternate history story about this, so I would appreciate answers to these questions as soon as possible.
1. How effective would SAS tactics and cleverness have proven against the Viet Cong?
2. Would there have been a draft in the UK like there was in the US? Would Oxford and Eton have erupted into antiwar riots like Columbia and Kent State in the US?
3. Would Great Britain have fought to win (a-la Margaret Thatcher's Falklands War)? Or would Harold Wilson's Vietnam policies mirrored that of the American president, Lyndon Johnson? (Guns and butter with no real mission objective)
4. What weapons would the British have used in Vietnam?
5. Would the Beatles have been peforming in Saigon?
NOTE: I'm thinking about writing an alternate history story about this, so I would appreciate answers to these questions as soon as possible.
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