Alternate Locations for a Vietnam-style Conflict During the Cold War

Continuing the focus about a Vietnam-style conflict, how about guerilla warfare in South Korea or Taiwan? I know there were massacres in South Korea, but I'm not sure about Taiwan. Maybe Communist guerillas, whether supplied by tunnels from North Korea or boats from China, rise up and the US decides to send soldiers to support the RoK or RoC.

Just throwing out countries here, but what about US participation in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, or Malaysia too if a full Vietnam-style war were to break out in any one of them.

Guerilla warfare in Taiwan or South Korea sounds unlikely, as the latter would probably come about with a renewal of the Korean War itself.

What of the possibility of the US getting involved in the Middle East, deeming the Pan-Arab regimes to be pro-communist and needing to be overthrown as part of an escalated Suez Crisis/6 Day war scenario?

However, the US going in to aid the Apartheid South African regimes has the possibility of being the most toxic back home. The state of race-relations back home would be...yikes...

Another nightmare would be sending US troops to China during the Chinese Civil War. Coming right after WWII, when the US public is still basking in its victory, public will for that war would crumble quickly, no matter how much the China lobby would bleat and moan.
 
I have an Alt Nam for you,

Mexico.

The latin American states experience a sweep of bloshievek revolutions leading to an invasion of the Republic of Mexico and Mexico City SCREAMS, "HALP, THE COMMIES ARE GONNA GET US!"
 
The obvious example here is a Korean War that remains unsettled without an armistice and drags on into the 1960s. People were tired of Korea by 1952; indeed part of Eisenhower's appeal in 1952 was his stated intention of bringing the war to a close. A scenario where the peace talks fail to bring about a resolution and the war drags on isn't that far-fetched, and the social fallout from a long Korean War could bring about a determined anti-war movement by the mid 1950s which would change the mood of the decade significantly, as the "Silent Generation" that was too young for WW2 takes the place of the Boomers in pushing for social change and an end to the war.
 
Thanks Sergeant Heretic for a larf!

Communist revolutions in Central America while not ASB, would last about 5 min with an actively engaged Mexican Army deciding to roll them back using Kaibile tactics from the Guatemalan Special Forces. Of course, Mexico doing it on a wider scale would be a PR nightmare for the Mexican government but the effects would be telling. There's plenty of motivated, capable rightist Mexican, Salvadoran, Guetemalan, and Honduran forces to squish the insurgencies with minimal American support.
Cuba's nominal support for the Communist insurgencies would prompt a Mexican boycott of Cuban sugar, any help from Petromex to help develop their offshore oil, and leave the Cubans even more economically DIW than OTL etc.
What happens when the rightist forces have squashed the insurgents and find themselves working for the narco-barons or becoming narco-barons themselves as happened during the Colombian drug war?
 
Communist revolutions in Central America while not ASB, would last about 5 min with an actively engaged Mexican Army deciding to roll them back using Kaibile tactics from the Guatemalan Special Forces. Of course, Mexico doing it on a wider scale would be a PR nightmare for the Mexican government but the effects would be telling. There's plenty of motivated, capable rightist Mexican, Salvadoran, Guetemalan, and Honduran forces to squish the insurgencies with minimal American support.
Cuba's nominal support for the Communist insurgencies would prompt a Mexican boycott of Cuban sugar, any help from Petromex to help develop their offshore oil, and leave the Cubans even more economically DIW than OTL etc.
What happens when the rightist forces have squashed the insurgents and find themselves working for the narco-barons or becoming narco-barons themselves as happened during the Colombian drug war?
As I hope you detected, I was not being serious, rather I was lampooning the idea of a "Vietnam" style war happening anywhere but in Vietnam.
 
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