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  1. What if the UK had been involved militarily in Vietnam instead of Australia?

    Certainly seems that way.

  2. What if the UK had been involved militarily in Vietnam instead of Australia?

    Read the posts which follow yours. They mostly point out that the British did in fact have jungle fighting experience contrary to your nonsense statement. And I really don't think the US gave much consideration to Australian experiences in world war 2 when seeking allies prepared to deploy...

  3. What if the UK had been involved militarily in Vietnam instead of Australia?

    This is just nonsense. Australia became involved in Vietnam for political reasons not because Aussie soldiers were good jungle fighters and to claim this was a reason Australia deployed forces is naive and childish. Did Australia deploy forces to Afghanistan in 2001 because your soldiers were...

  4. What if the UK had been involved militarily in Vietnam instead of Australia?

    So now you have dialled down the crazy from your earlier posts can you explain why professional British soldiers with near identical training, equipment, doctrine, tactics and historical experience as their Australian counterparts would perform less well man for man? You know the Aussies took...

  5. What if the UK had been involved militarily in Vietnam instead of Australia?

    Malaya and Borneo.

  6. What if the UK had been involved militarily in Vietnam instead of Australia?

    Further to previous responses, what the hell are you talking about? Why do you think Britain was only experienced in peace keeping? You might want to read some stuff about post war conflicts. Britain fought in a couple.

  7. What if the UK had been involved militarily in Vietnam instead of Australia?

    1. See Australian SAS in Vietnam. See also SAS in Malaya and Borneo. 2. Can't imagine a draft, the UK had a sizeable professional military by the 1960s. There was already a substantial anti-war movement in Britain despite the country not being directly involved in the war. 3. Can't see...

  8. That Special Relationship

    Any discussions over Northern Ireland between these administrations would be a total shit fest: Teddy never sought to hide his partisanship in that particular conflict...

  9. What if Operation Léa successfully captured Ho Chi Minh and Giap?

    No doubt, but I wonder if removing Ho and Giap could alter the course of the French war and impact on US involvement.

  10. What if Operation Léa successfully captured Ho Chi Minh and Giap?

    Operation Léa was a French Union operation between 7 October and 22 December 1947. It was an attempt by the French to crush the Viet Minh, with airborne forces dropped with the intention of capturing the VM leadership. French armoured columns and a dinassaut force would then strike into the VM...

  11. 1980s integration of UK and NI?

    If the Tories took NI seriously as a place to win votes, they would have to organise on a large scale and could probably only do this with the complete support (ie integration with) the UUP. The DUP of the early 80s would react very badly to this I suspect... If this happened, the Tories...

  12. AHC: A Homosexual Homeland

    Britain before 2003? Do what now?

  13. Charlie dont Surf: The Atom in the First Indochina war?

    I don't believe the UK would have got involved in this to any extent; there was an influential school of thought in Whitehall that believed the French were handling the whole business badly and wanted nothing to do with it. No British PM of the period would have wanted to add yet another...

  14. Vietnam WI #2: U.S. leaves disposition of Indochina to France in 1950s

    Whilst Dien Bien Phu was a costly and devastating defeat in terms of both personnel and prestige, it didn't alter the strategic situation for CEFEO all that much. It's main impact was to tip the political balance in France from a position of grudging support for a very unpopular war to a place...

  15. Charlie dont Surf: The Atom in the First Indochina war?

    According to Martin Windrow and others there was some serious discussion in Paris and Washington about using USAF-dropped atomic weapons on the VM troop concentrations around DBP but there was a strong likelihood of even limited use damaging or potentially destroying the garrison itself. The...

  16. WI: Spain sends troops to French Algeria 1954-56

    I'm not sure that militarily this would have much difference: the French were pretty successful in their fight on the ground against the ALN and I don't know how much Spanish forces could have added to this. Politically I think the French were always looking for a settlement on the best...
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