Talk:Years of Blood: Cold War (Map Game)/@comment-5590986-20160918202347

South Vietnam (WIP)


 * Government: The events that led up to Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination in 1963 had resulted from his rapid decline in popularity from not only his favorability in Christianity over Buddhism, but also resulted in frustrated stalemate (despite mostly winning) in the Vietnam War. However, in this timeline, his immediate incursion into North Vietnamese territory in late 1962 with strong help from the Americans had resulted in him living for another day. Despite the controversial peace, that many historical critics will call that Ngo could have won the Vietnam War if given 3 to 4 more years of consolidation from the South's over 500,000 and growing standing military, along with American bombings and assistance, compared to the North and it's foreign military support. In any case, on the other hand however, the country was stable, but it began to fall apart into protests and that Ngo Dinh Diem, after pressure, had accepted North Vietnamese peace, despite it's march to Hanoi.


 * Military: After the peace from the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese standing military of 500,000 is reduced to 100,000. They start a program called "Revolving Reserves", this technique is to train all able bodied men through slowly pulling out experienced and put them into active reserves while putting in fresh men while maintaining over a standing army of 100,000 troops. By 1967, the South would have a reserve of over 1.5 Million men.


 * Economy: After much military expense on the Vietnam War, Ngo slowly transfers most of the expenditures and tries to move it to domestic and social affairs. But remains a good percentage with almost 15% spent on Military


 * Diplomacy:
 * North Vietnam: We may or may not regret this later on, but we accept a peace proposal, however we both know that we (South Vietnam) still have holdings around the Red River,  as you proposed our annexation of current occupied territory we hold .  To accommodate this;  we also will reveal a map to propose the annexation of the now occupied province of   Quang Binh  we recently acquired earlier this year. But as we aren't willing to have Enclaves and Exclaves, we propose to give land away we occupied surrounding Hanoi in exchange for   Ha Tinh (Trust me this is slightly less less land we probably have left, and significantly less population than the land we occupied as well).  We also would not leave the Americans out of this either as they had helped fought for us longer than Soviets and China, so they deserve to be at the negotiating table as well. Perhaps the few pockets of occupied territory that they helped us recieve could be temporarily occupied by them so they can slowly watch over and enforce this treaty, as well as slowly withdrawing once peace is solid. It's up to them for this case, though. (They occupy whats left of the land in Red River, or outside of it, after the next map comes out)
 * India: We seek a military alliance with your country, obviously both of us aren't in the safest position like our allies across the Pacific.
 * Australia:  We seek a military alliance with your country, we feel that Australia should at least help assist other nations in case of a common threat if other nations won't join them.