WI Different Vietnam

1. Draft is not ended after WWII.
2. Vietnam War heats up and instead of individuals being rotated in and out after a year, whole battalions are rotated in for two year tours of duty.

So what happens?
 
I think you'd see better unit cohesion, as with the ANZAC units which used the battalion rotation system.
I don't know if it would make much difference to the war, though, unless different politicians are in the White House and Congress.
 
1. Draft is not ended after WWII.
2. Vietnam War heats up and instead of individuals being rotated in and out after a year, whole battalions are rotated in for two year tours of duty.

So what happens?

Ummmm . . . OTL, the draft didn't end after WWII. It reduced in scale, but that's inevitably given the reduction in the size of the Army and the professionalization of the other branches. I think there was one year where no one was actually called up, but it never ended.

And unit rotation for two years is impossible when people are drafted for two years. You'd still have a constant turn-over of enlisted personnel. What you'd be doing is destroying the NCO and officer corps by forcing them into 2 year deployments. As it was, the NCO corps was effectivley destroyed by the war and the aftermath.

And none of it matters without the US Army developing and implementing simultaneously a worthwhile COIN doctrine AND a better plan for kicking the PAVN out of their base areas. And it would help if they got serious about fixing the ARVN earlier, didn't support a series of coups by military strongmen, etc.
 
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