vietnam

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...

One of the worst decisions ever made by a television network was NBC's cancellation of Star Trek (the Original Series) after its third season in 1969. After two years of middling ratings placed Star Trek in the Friday Night death time slot, at 10:00 PM, so fewer fans would be able to watch the...

Indonesia and Indochina have both been host to major powers throughout history, and each others' biggest foreign rivals. No indochinese power was able to dominate major powers of Indonesia, however (unless you count Malaysia but that's well after the time frame of this forum). Your challenge is...

DESCENDANTS OF THE DRAGONS AND FAIRIES Prologue Vietnam as a country has quite a significant position in the history of the world, something that could be attributed to its geographic location, culture and proximity to many great powers. The South China Sea, where Vietnam is located west of...

This title is misleading. Context, through the 17th Century to 18th Century, Vietnam was ruled by the Lê dynasty, but it didn't actually have real power at the time, as it was ruled by the Trinh Lords in the Tonkin and the Nguyễn lords in Cochinchina, until the Tay Son Dynasty took over all of...

Recently there has been quite a few Vietnam war threads but they've all been from the American perspective on not losing the war, and they are about what the US and sometimes South Vietnam did wrong. From the Northern perspective, what did they do right to win the war?

Obviously Vietnam is a huge stain on LBJ’s legacy and casts a dark shadow on what imo is a pretty good domestic policy record at least based on what my politics are. How should LBJ have approached Vietnam so it wouldn’t become the disaster and presidency ender it was for LBJ

Since the start of the Cold War, Vietnam has been one of the United States' closest allies in Southeast Asia. This is remarkable in that it was probably the only communist nation friendly to the West, including France its former colonizer. How could we make Vietnam another communist nation...

What would a surviving South Vietnam look like? (I'm thinking a Korean War-esque situation developing?) Would it be like modern day South Korea? Or perhaps worse off, maybe like 90s Russia, or even worse than that?

Here are the events that lead up to it. If there's anything missing or needs to be expanded upon and/or added, please let me know. 1875: A month or so after the accession of the Guangxu Emperor, Dowager Empress Cixi dies of liver disease. Dowager Empress Ci'an continues to rule China by...

Prologue Harry’s Favorite President KENNEDY LOSES WEST VIRGINIA! - THE NEW YORK TIMES, 1960 “Of course Kennedy lost West Virginia! He ran as a Catholic in fu&@ing West Virginia!” - Senator Lyndon B. Johnson on Kennedy’s loss The loss of West Virginia for Senator Kennedy proved fatal as it...