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This came about as a random thought to help others looking for a Vietnam equivalent in a timeline where it never happens. PoD doesn't matter, just that America and its allies never get into a war with Vietnam in the mid-1960s-70s.
I've already talked with a couple friends, but we could only think of Angola. And justifying that would be hell of a lot harder, and probably see even more backlash, than Vietnam.
Any other proxy wars in Cold War battlegrounds that could see American involvement?
EDIT: Here's the criteria.
Has to have suitable terrain for a prolonged guerrilla conflict.
Allows for large supply of Soviet and Warsaw Pact aid.
Will have US involvement beginning in the 1960s and escalating until full-scale war by the start of the 1970s.
The US always has to withdraw by the mid-1970s, having lost the war at home.