Greetings all, noob here so please be kind.
I'm working up an alternate timeline concerning the conflicts in Southeast Asia during the 1950s to 1970s. The POD from our accepted-acknowledged waking world is the Korean Conflict continuing well past the three year duration as history records such.
The primary factor behind the prolonged engagement between the forces of North and South Korea, and their respective outside supporters, is a limited escalation of the weapons utilized on the battlefield.
In this scenario the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics abstains from direct involvement or support of North Korea, this role falls solely upon China to provide materials, weapons and troops to the conflict.
Taking a more 'pro-active' stance, the USSR offers it's military resources to the United Nations to 'quarantine' the hostilities to the Korean Peninsula and blockade shipments of prohibited items from entering use in said action.
With an 'Iron Ceiling' now in place, the skies over the battlefields are empty of combat support aircraft, strategic bombers or airborne troop delivery. Said hard-top also limiting reconnaissance, material resupply and personnel evacuation.
The battlefields now resembled more the No Man's Lands of WWI since neither side could field heavy armor or mechanized forces in large numbers. Seemingly endless tracks of land now carved into maze-like trenches and hardened redoubts have bogged the engagements to almost personal combat replacing swift movements of battalion-sized campaigns.
With such combat entering a more 'personal' level of contact, swords and pole-arms are becoming more common with both armies, small arms still available but infrequent resupply of ammunition and always in limited amounts have restricted such weapons to a 'last-resort' status.
I'm working up an alternate timeline concerning the conflicts in Southeast Asia during the 1950s to 1970s. The POD from our accepted-acknowledged waking world is the Korean Conflict continuing well past the three year duration as history records such.
The primary factor behind the prolonged engagement between the forces of North and South Korea, and their respective outside supporters, is a limited escalation of the weapons utilized on the battlefield.
In this scenario the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics abstains from direct involvement or support of North Korea, this role falls solely upon China to provide materials, weapons and troops to the conflict.
Taking a more 'pro-active' stance, the USSR offers it's military resources to the United Nations to 'quarantine' the hostilities to the Korean Peninsula and blockade shipments of prohibited items from entering use in said action.
With an 'Iron Ceiling' now in place, the skies over the battlefields are empty of combat support aircraft, strategic bombers or airborne troop delivery. Said hard-top also limiting reconnaissance, material resupply and personnel evacuation.
The battlefields now resembled more the No Man's Lands of WWI since neither side could field heavy armor or mechanized forces in large numbers. Seemingly endless tracks of land now carved into maze-like trenches and hardened redoubts have bogged the engagements to almost personal combat replacing swift movements of battalion-sized campaigns.
With such combat entering a more 'personal' level of contact, swords and pole-arms are becoming more common with both armies, small arms still available but infrequent resupply of ammunition and always in limited amounts have restricted such weapons to a 'last-resort' status.