Recent content by John O'Ryan

  1. WI: No Watergate, Nixon gives all possible aid to S. Vietnam *except* reintroducing ground troops

    Avoiding the million or so sent to "re-education" camps, the hundred-thousand or so who were outright executed, hordes of desperate people trying to flee in leaky boats, the economic chaos and near-starvation conditions of the late 70s due to forced collectivization. The pattern we've observed...
  2. WI: No Watergate, Nixon gives all possible aid to S. Vietnam *except* reintroducing ground troops

    The only thing off the table in this scenario is American ground troops. And even there, we could fudge a little bit...maybe some very limited, almost certainly secret, involvement by some special forces troops. Something like this for example...
  3. WI: No Watergate, Nixon gives all possible aid to S. Vietnam *except* reintroducing ground troops

    Assume this policy of "no ground troops" is informal. Nixon doesn't want the North to know it, but he's much too canny to risk the political backlash from such a move. How long can S. Vietnam hold on? I would guess, at least through the end of the Nixon administration, and that after that it...
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