Vietnam missile crisis

I just did a UN joint cabinet crisis on North Vietnam V.S. the U.S. right after the gulf of Tonkin incident…..us, the U.S., eventually ended up with a Cuban missile crisis like situation, with us stationing boomers in the South China Sea, and North Vietnam receiving Nuclear weapons and overrunning the South……but the game ended before we could nuke them:mad::mad:
My question to all of you is…..is this situation plausible????
What happened in the JCC was…..
1) Gulf of Tonkin Incident
2) We (U.S.) responded by stationing more ships near Vietnamese waters, demanding North Vietnam explain, threatened war.
3) North Vietnam responded by releasing a statement that it was a rogue group which conducted the attacks.
4) While that was happening, Tribesmen trained under CIA agents in NV massacred an entire village. We (U.S.) decided just to keep quiet about it….
5) However, NV soon released a documentary about the massacre (civilians escaped), and we also received word that some of our CIA operatives had been captured, and NV was moving troops to the border, as well as stepping up guerrilla ops.
6) We moved South Vietnamese troops to the border, as well as moving a boomer to the South China Sea.
7) NV got nukes from the USSR, and launched massive attacks against South Vietnam. SV president assassinated, SV government in chaos, we move more boomers to the region…….
8) The game ended at that point, but we were perfectly prepared to nuke the hell out of them:mad::mad::mad:
 

Sumeragi

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7) NV got nukes from the USSR, and launched massive attacks against South Vietnam. SV president assassinated, SV government in chaos, we move more boomers to the region…….

Why the USSR would do that is....... well, I don't need to say it, do I?
 
I'm not an expert on the war, but the USSR is just asking for trouble with both the US and China if they attempt to base nukes in Vietnam.
 
No the situation is not plausible. Even during the CMC the Soviets didn't relinquish control of nukes to Cuba, the Soviets never had a dual key setup like NATO, had they held full control.

Also the CMC was a crisis because of the direct threat to the US by the missiles. Nukes in NthV aren't a direct threat to the US, nor are US missiles in SthV or at sea in boomers a worse threat to the Soviets than they already faced daily.
 
3) North Vietnam responded by releasing a statement that it was a rogue group which conducted the attacks.

Why? This goes against the VWP's propaganda behaviour throughout the war.

6) We moved South Vietnamese troops to the border

How? The ARVN was deeply connected to local politics.

7) NV got nukes from the USSR

ASB

and launched massive attacks against South Vietnam.

This is ASB, the VWP doctrine (which the NFL concurred with) was of a general uprising/general offensive (with that emphasis) in this period. And they were winning in the RVN using predominantly Southern self-supplied PLAF forces. A PAVN assistance would occur if at all during a pacification phase after the NFL takes control of the RVN.

This isn't plausible. The key implausibility relates to an entirely fanciful understanding of Soviet and Vietnamese politics, strategy, doctrine and history.

There are excellent journal articles on the strategy and internal politics of the VWP in the early 1960s.

yours,
Sam R.
 
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