This is not about a magic bullet scenario where Diem lives or Kennedy lives, or the Sino-Soviet war distracts resources from North Vietnam, or the US fully mobilizes for war, or where something was different in 1955, or anything like that.
With the original TL circumstances and pressures and problems all there, how long can the United States stay in Vietnam before it withdraws of its own accord or from overwhelming internal pressure? And what would the effects be in the United States and for Vietnam itself?
With the original TL circumstances and pressures and problems all there, how long can the United States stay in Vietnam before it withdraws of its own accord or from overwhelming internal pressure? And what would the effects be in the United States and for Vietnam itself?