DBWI Vietnam ends...

52 years

we have been fighting this war for 52 years now, three generation of americans have fought in the hot humid jungles of vietnam. I know people who are going to nam who's fathers and grandfathers fought in it.

The war has gone from desperate conventional attacks, high levels and low levels of insurgency. It has survived the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, the aught's and the new tens with no end in site.

The war continued after the opening of china, it continued after the collapse of the soviet union and its still going on. The vietcong may have been wiped out a long time ago but the north still sends down troops to fight, and dispite all our bombing raids, dispite our sanctions they are still fighting.

What would our world look like if it ended?
 
OOC: this is ASB. Support for the Vietnam War was drying up and the Tet Offensive in '68 was the death knell. If by some magical means the USA gets sufficient support (which they won't) and tries to win by any means possible, they win through sheer material superiority.
 

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52 years

we have been fighting this war for 52 years now, three generation of americans have fought in the hot humid jungles of vietnam. I know people who are going to nam who's fathers and grandfathers fought in it.

The war has gone from desperate conventional attacks, high levels and low levels of insurgency. It has survived the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, the aught's and the new tens with no end in site.

The war continued after the opening of china, it continued after the collapse of the soviet union and its still going on. The vietcong may have been wiped out a long time ago but the north still sends down troops to fight, and dispite all our bombing raids, dispite our sanctions they are still fighting.

What would our world look like if it ended?

Richard Nixon talked big about that 'Secret Plan' during his campaign in '68- had he and Kissinger, his preferred choice for National Security Adviser, not been killed in that plane crash, we might see some sort of end there. Even Vice President Humphrey's was on the verge of a breakthrough had he not been tragically gunned down; either of these men living and ascending to the Presidency could see a formal end to the conflict by 1970.
 
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OOC:Wwhat can we work with? Support for the war dropped off post-Tet, and Creighton Abrams, who focused more on pacification was supposed to take over in 67, yet Johnson was the only person who had faith in Westmorland, and kept him on till 68.

If we have Abrams in early he could turn around U.S conduct both morally and tactically that Vietnam might not be unpopular as it was. If your talking post Tet Offensive nothing can be done in that regard to make us stay in Vietnam.
 
OOC:Wwhat can we work with? Support for the war dropped off post-Tet, and Creighton Abrams, who focused more on pacification was supposed to take over in 67, yet Johnson was the only person who had faith in Westmorland, and kept him on till 68.

If we have Abrams in early he could turn around U.S conduct both morally and tactically that Vietnam might not be unpopular as it was. If your talking post Tet Offensive nothing can be done in that regard to make us stay in Vietnam.

OOC its stated that the war has gone through periods of low insurgency and high insurgency, and it was not stated how the war was continued. Any divergence is allowed if you think it makes sense OCC
 
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