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I am playing as Germany and have defeated the allies by October 1940, before America could join the war. I make sure to not take any of the dutch east indies or British Malaya to keep japan in cooperation with me. However, when 1941 comes around, Vichy France, now part of my faction, refuses the transfer of French Indochina to Japan, even with historical AI focuses on. What do I do to prevent this?
A grenade exploded in the street, echoing off the walls and breaking one of the few remaining windows. A few women in the market dove behind their carts, the fruits absorbing shrapnel in a technicolor cloud of juices and pulp.
"Bastards!" a man called, firing an old French rifle from a second story window. He wore the yellow armband denoting him as a member of God's Army, and his target was a column of policemen advancing up the street. The grenade-- who knew who threw it? Was it the Mongolian cavalrymen marching along with the police, or another member of God's Army? The militiaman's round slapped into the pockmarked wall near the police, sending one to the ground as fragments of wood and plaster cut up his cheek and eye.
A lucky miss, the rifleman thought.
Less lucky were the hail of bullets sent up to his window by the Mongolians. They were new, dangerous arrivals. God's Army was beginning to learn that. The fire slowed, then stopped. They came running towards the house and toward the devastated railway station... then stopped.
Deep, reverberating thuds echoed up the street. The rifleman looked up from his vantage on the floor, watching the black puffs of flack many thousands of feet above him exploding below the nearly-invisible American bombers trailing exhaust across the high atmosphere in neat rows as they flew in formation. Additional streaks of exhaust lead toward them, and more lead toward those. Overhead a massive war played out in silence, though the rifleman had learned that by the time the planes flew over Haiphong their bombs were already dropping toward it.
Sirens went off around the city, and the Mongolians packed into their armored car and sped off down the street, forgetting the single rifleman they were hunting. Haiphong's policemen scattered, running up the street after their Mongolian comrades under his window.
Then came the explosions. The rifleman was lifted from the ground, the house collapsing forward into the street. He watched as the walls buckled and gave way, the weight of the back half of the apartment pushing it forward. Beams snapped with the sound of rifle reports and wires sparked as they crossed and shorted. The whole room became darkness and the rifleman cringed as furniture and wall and the next apartment collapsed around him.
Then, at long last, there was silence.
A bureau saved him, somehow falling in a fashion that created a space he could survive in. In fact, he felt pavement when he stretched out h
... keep reading on reddit β‘Noam has written this.
>Sidney Schanberg says the government ought to finally have the honesty to say that it left Indochina without accounting for all the Americans. Of course, it wouldnβt occur to him to suggest that the government should also be honest enough to say that we killed a couple of million people and destroyed three countries and left them in total wreckage and have been strangling them ever since.
So noam says that 'a couple' million people died in the 2nd indochina war involving laos, cambodia and vietnam. I thought that the figures were much higher than two million.
Thoughts?
Notwithstanding China's official NFU (No First Use) policy, will China resort to using nuclear weapons if it loses a conventional war with a country other than the US over Taiwan/Indochina/South China Sea?
Many wargaming scenarios involve both China and the United States, but both are nuclear powers. MAD (Mutually assured destruction)
But assuming China's NFU is a piece of polite fiction and all rules goes out the window in actual wartime (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/16/china.jonathanwatts) , I am looking at a few of the following scenarios (t***his is a hypothetical scenario, so pls engage in a temporary suspension of belief***):
- Indochina war, aka Second Sinio-Vietnam War
- Taiwan War
- South China Sea War, possible participants include Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia.
My scenario assumes that the US is in an isolationist state, and there is no US intervention. (understandably, some redditors find this unlikely, this is a hypothetical scenario, so pls engage in a temporary suspension of belief), but Will China's nuclear doctrine change when dealing with a non-nuclear adversary?
I have seen similar discussion on Quora and the majority view is no, because China will lose prestige and credibility but........what if the Chinese leadership has a different perception of prestige and credibility? What if, to them, prestige and credibility means not losing a war with a "smaller country", even if it means using nuclear weapons?
To what degree did decisions made by individual commanders impact the course of events?
How did the varying doctrines stand up against eachother?
If y'all know any good books on the subject, please recommend. Thanks!
Just as title says. Currently reading a book on MACV-SOG and want to go even further back and read about Franceβs war in Indochina.
