WI JFK's advisory effort was kept on the scale and ROE of Ike's, when does SVN fall ?

When does South Vietnam fall without the Kennedy escalation?

  • 1962

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 1963

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 1964

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • 1965

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 1966

    Votes: 3 42.9%
  • 1967 or later

    Votes: 3 42.9%

  • Total voters
    7

raharris1973

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WI JFK's advisory effort in South Vietnam was kept on the scale and ROE of Ike's, when does SVN fall?

While insurgency and especially assassinations were growing problem when Kennedy took Ike's MAAG and enlarged and loosened its ROE with the creation of MACV, I don't think anybody in 61 was expecting the VC or North Vietnamese to hoist a red flag over Saigon imminently.

Would Saigon have faced a terminal crisis before Nov '63 in these circumstances?


 

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....bump....

the 1poll response says 1967 or later.

That's quite interesting, suggesting the US could have saved a lot of money and lives for that part of the decade, and the Soviets wouldn't even have anything to brag about on the map to show for it until years later.
 
well, I think that getting involved militarily also assures that the Soviets gain more interest. When the Soviets gain more interest, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong get funded and supplied. and when that happens America gets involved more, and on and on and on.
 
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