DBWI North Veitnam doesn't have the TK policy

North Vietnams policy towards all POW's during the vietnam war was to torture and killed any captured enemy combatants. They were very public about this policy and made a point of killing american servicemen and then sending the films of the excutions to american media outlets.

But what if they didn't have this policy how would that of changed the war.
 
North Vietnam would perhaps still exist today. Their attempt to scare the American people totally backfired on them, with everybody calling for revenge instead. As we all know, this gave the government carte blanche to pour men and materiel into Vietnam.
 
For starters, we won't get the situation today where Vietnam is an "apartheid state" where an elite of Catholics rule over a Buddhist peasantry.
 
North Vietnam would perhaps still exist today. Their attempt to scare the American people totally backfired on them, with everybody calling for revenge instead. As we all know, this gave the government carte blanche to pour men and materiel into Vietnam.

^This. I mean, the international outcry that came as a result of the Red Terror in Southeast Asia really tied Moscow's hands when it came to potentially intervening, especially when it came alongside the Revelations on the Khemar Rouge's activities. Barring that, you'd never have been able to launch a major campaign in the region due to Soviet stonewalling in the UN
 
As we all know, this gave the government carte blanche to pour men and materiel into Vietnam.
And the Soviets were so disgusted by said policy that they withdrew support for North Vietnam in 1968 with Liu Shaoqi's PRC following in 1969 as even Moscow and Beijing thought the Indochinese reds were crazy.
 
For starters, we won't get the situation today where Vietnam is an "apartheid state" where an elite of Catholics rule over a Buddhist peasantry.
OOC: Think of this as South Vietnam's historical pro-Catholic policies magnified by how they have to deal with a resentful North which is in near-constant rebellion and Americans being in a rage against the Vietnamese communists due to their atrocities.
 
Firstly you'd have to reverse the purges after the failed red river land redistribution campaign was halted by the "revisionists." Red guards in the party basically massacred all non-Maoists in extralegal acts. The 1959 anti-landlord campaign cemented the cultural revolution in the VWP (North).

At the same time the relatively tame*1 Diemist policies caused the VWP (South) to go to war or die. Their response to Diems laws escalated the system of political reprisals. However, it was PAVN units in 1962 that brought disproportionate political war to the south. Not surprisingly given Diems example of how enemy combatants would be treated, amplified by PLAF/PAVN acts against ARVN, and confirmed by Korean, Australian and US treatment of PLAF/PAVN combatants the Maoist inspired VWP rained TK on captured Americans and foreign allies.

So if you compare the reciprocal / reformist attitude of the VWP(s) to the ultra/"Maoist" attitude of the VWP(n) the solution is simple, stop the DRVN going Maoist.

Yours,
Sam R.


*1 very much IC
 
Maybe Hanoi Jane doesn't spend the rest of her life in a jail cell. Only reason she avoided the noose was her dad, Henry Fonda, practically begged.

Frankly, given she denies tortute happened, even to this day, I say let her rot.
 
Maybe Hanoi Jane doesn't spend the rest of her life in a jail cell. Only reason she avoided the noose was her dad, Henry Fonda, practically begged.

Frankly, given she denies tortute happened, even to this day, I say let her rot.

I still do not know what possessed her to go to NK in the first place much less pose for photos.
 
You knew things were going to get batshit crazy when they declared a national holiday to allow everyone watch the mock trial and public execution of LCDR John S. McCain III, son of CINCPAC Admiral John S. McCain Jr.

How crazy do you have to be to think that isn't going to backfire on you? They're lucky we stopped at only a massive conventional bombing of Haiphong instead of using a nuke like some in both the military and media were clamoring for.
 
Honestly South Vietnam took a very hard line stance in destroying communism after they managed to retake the north. If any member of a family was thought to have been in the communist insurgencies they were deported to the south. If they gave Any aid whatsoever to the insurgents even if they were forced at gun point the adults were sentenced to 20 years of hard labor and any child under the age of seven is sent to aCatholic orphanage. The retaliation is that what instituted that for every South Vietnamese soldier or American soldier killed in combat it by the insurgents 150 people from north Vietnam would be publicly executed.
 
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