vietnam

For the sake of a concrete POD, let's say around March 1965. Operation Rolling Thunder still commences, but LBJ decides against putting boots on the ground, instead sticking to the current policy of military "advisors" and slowly winding down the amount of US troops in the region over the next...

Like it says on the tin. Before its subjugation at the hands of France, Vietnam was an empire that was in the process of expanding its borders southward, in the Mekong Delta and Cambodia. So, was there any way it could've kept its independence? Is it a matter of not providing the French with a...

Recently I’ve became more interested in learning about the Vietnam war, and what a South Vietnamese victory or stalemate would mean for the Vietnamese Diaspora in the US. Without the North taking over the whole country it’s obvious that there won’t be as many people moving to the US to escape...

I suppose it would be more accurate to title this "Make the PRC and DPRK collapse at the same time as the Eastern Bloc" but this is easier to make into a shorter title. Basically what it says on the thread: The challenge is to find a way to make the Communist countries (or at least, countries...

I am curious about my own personal AH ideas and one dilema that came to me is which "anti-war" candidate would be more preferable. So, I wanted to ask on here which sounds like a more interesting anti-war candidate Eugene McCarty: The U.S. Senator with a massive following among the college...

The Yongle Emperor famously gained prestige by reverting a loss of the Tang Dynasty by conquering Vietnam and holding it during his reign. However Vietnam was extremely rebellious during his reign and once he dropped out, the region seceded almost immediately with the local Ming garrisons and...

Axis win WW2 Nazis conquer or puppetize Mainland Europe, Middle east, Central Asia, Africa and Japan puppetize China, Mongolia, Russian Far east due to US absolute neutrality i.e., no lend lease, no embargo. India,Oceania,French IndoChina and Dutch East Indies develop a siege mentality and join...

PoD no earlier than the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, raise up organized and visible conservative opposition in the US to the Vietnam War. Marches, signs in the streets, speaking out against the draft, etc., all done by 'conservatives', Democrat and/or Republican. It could be Dixiecratic 'no...

MEMORY AWAKE; OR: THE GHOSTS OF THANH PHONG I'm very excited to present you with a short story in alternate history, a timeline in a week: Memory Awake; or: The Ghosts of Thanh Phong. While in The Other Place, I was playing around with different lists of presidents, and I found myself...

Part I: The Hawk August 1964, Washington D.C: Lyndon Johnson was not a man for deep and introspective thought. He noticed the problems at hand, and acted against them with brutality and efficiency. Whether it was wrangling support for a bill when he was Senate Minority Leader, working...

For context (got from Wikipedia) operation duck hook was a plan the nixon administration had thought of to end Vietnam which involved possible-nuclear bombing of military and economic targets in and around Hanoi, the mining of Haiphong harbor and other ports, saturation bombing of Hanoi and...

Han Dynasty conquers Tibet as retaliation to raids and for more horses To alleviate famines Han wudi starts a policy of conscripting peasants under famine to conquer new territory and settling those peasants there To sustain this policy his successors continue conquering Korea Japan Southeast...

Recently I've been reading about the particularly poor state of the Vietnam War era US Military and what seems to have been a particular low point in its history. It looks like at times the US Military was in danger of seeing a collapse of morale, order and discipline due to anti war sentiment...

What do you all think would need to happen in the U.S government to allow this to happen? What would the war look like for all sides? And lastly how would the American public react?

Could Vietnam have pulled a Meiji and become a colonial power similar to Japan? If so, where do you think they would have gone? Southern China, Siam, the Philippines? Also, what do you think their interactions with China, Japan and the West would have been if they had managed this?

What it says in the tin. Just as long as the conflict in Afghanistan is today. What POD is needed and what will the butterflies be of the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s?

Just a question I've been pondering for a while, and wanted to get the wider forum's thoughts on this. If the United States, for whatever reason, "backs" Britain during the Suez Crisis (which in reality just means not taking an actively anti-British stance during the crisis), does this have any...

At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Johnson's team switched the schedule so that the JFK tribute film and RFK speech would occur following the vice presidential roll call as opposed to before it, as was originally planned. They believed the film would wash the delegates in a nostalgic...

What if Quang Trung hadn't died in 1792? How might it have affected history, in Vietnam and elsewhere?

I've done some research regarding South Vietnam in this forum, and while it seems that Ngo Dinh Diem was a "standard" right-wing dictator - a murderous, corrupt bastard as well as a French/American puppet - it looks as if it was his powerful younger brother Ngo Dinh Nhu and his wife Madame Nhu...