AHC: Khmer Republic Survives

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Alright, so plenty of people on this site have played with the idea of South Vietnam surviving and whatnot over the years but to my knowlege no one ever aims for a different non-communist, Indochina nation's survival, so here goes:

With a POD no earlier then the 18 March 1970 overthrow of the Cambodian monarchy, have the Khmer Republic survive without the survival of Non-Communist governments in Laos and South Vietnam.
 
I'm going to call ASB. You can't have the Khmer Republic survive with a Commie Vietnam and Laos. This is one area where the domino theorists were right: Phnom Penh and Saigon fell within weeks of each other, and it was no accident. If SVN is in a better position, they might be able to spare a few units to help out the useless Khmer military.
 
Not likeyly but possible

If Lon Nol, cleaned out his dopey, inner circle, we might just have a fighting chance here folks. The lower level officers, Captains and such fought pretty well. Phenom Penh could easily have been stalingrad light.
 
This is one area where the domino theorists were right: Phnom Penh and Saigon fell within weeks of each other, and it was no accident.


Until, ironically enough, they started fighting each other. I'm still amazed the domino theorists didn't see that coming, given the historical animosity between the two states.
 
McGeorge Bundy once gave a Meet the Press interview where he, the NSA to the President of the United States, seemed not to realize that SVN had not been a country before 1955. :eek::rolleyes: When the #2 foreign policy adviser to the POTUS talks that way, there's little hope.
 
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