WI the US sent over an equivalent troop level of the European Theater of WW2 to Vietnam?

BigBlueBox

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IDK, 3 million GIs overseas when America is in civil war would be the biggest refugee crisis in human history. I doubt Japan, Taiwan, and the Phillipines can house them.
So South Vietnam in the middle of a real civil war can hold them, but Japan can’t hold them for a few months while they get deported to the USA after its “civil war”, which is really just a series of riots and surge in domestic terrorism, ends? Yeah no.
 
Well if they also shot the locals, and send the rest into reservations....sorry strategic hamlets, maybe Congress will be ok with the settler policy?

Most counteries are willing to tolerate others conducting policies that would be considered human rights violations as long as they are part of a broader war policy (at least to the point of not taking action against it: everybody understands the normal rules aren't fully in place during the war), but I'm less certain Plantation policy (In the British sense) would fly in the 1970's, especially since the Soviets would be able to wave it as a huge red flag in the Hearts and Minds fight for the rest of the 3rd World (Inviting American help is recipe for conquest and replacement)
 
The Vietnam War was a huge mistake for the US. We tend to look at it in isolation, but it was really just one battle in the larger conflict of the Cold War. While we were sinking vast amounts of blood and treasure into a war which was tearing our own country apart, the Soviets and Chinese were laughing at us. The war cost them virtually nothing, but it cost us dearly. Sending 3 million men there would have just made it all the worse for us and accomplished nothing.
 
So South Vietnam in the middle of a real civil war can hold them, but Japan can’t hold them for a few months while they get deported to the USA after its “civil war”, which is really just a series of riots and surge in domestic terrorism, ends? Yeah no.
I mean, they're already there with the infrastructure to house them (the bases).
 
The political will was never there for such a commitment. The USG never even federalized more than a few National Guard units for service in Vietnam.
 
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