Chapter 1266: Malaya Will Never Surrender

“Mr. President, at least one thing is true. The Chiefs of Staff are unanimous in their judgment that the loss of South Vietnam would mean the loss of all of Southeast Asia.” Maxwell Taylor informed the Pentagon’s professional opinion and emphasized emphatically that the Chiefs of Staff were unanimous in this judgment.

“I’ll talk to the services about that.” Lyndon Johnson nodded and reassured Maxwell Taylor.

A day apart, Lyndon Johnson called a meeting to discuss the situation in South Vietnam, a meeting that included officials from the CIA, the Pentagon, and the diplomatic field, which was a gold standard.

Maxwell Taylor was also present again, bringing out the Pentagon’s unaltered professional advice, both that the South Vietnamese regime could never be sustained once American troops were withdrawn. Retaining the existing size of the garrison would not stop infiltration from the North Vietnamese side, and it was necessary to increase the strength of the force to crush Hanoi completely, so that it would give up its ambitions for the South Vietnamese regime.

The CIA agreed with the view that “the present situation will continue to sap the will and efficiency of the South Vietnamese for weeks to come, and is sufficiently threatening to threaten the political basis of current U.S. policies and objectives in South Vietnam.”

And it was emphasized that since North Vietnam’s economy was largely dependent on agriculture and a large number of highly dispersed villages that could be self-sufficient, the bombing could neither create insurmountable economic difficulties for North Vietnam nor weaken Hanoi’s ability to provide sufficient manpower and material resources for guerrilla warfare in the South.

The CIA also noted that North Vietnamese leaders believed that the fall of the Saigon government was imminent, so they might tolerate massive bombing without changing their policies.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk also took his own advice and gave four solutions, saying before Lyndon Johnson, “One, continue the present course of action; two, take over the war; three, conduct air strikes against North Vietnam; and four, seek a political solution. Our present policy has resulted in the growing political and military weakness of South Vietnam. Direct participation in the war will result in a major loss of American lives in the jungles and rice paddies. Bombing North Vietnam will neither break its will nor seriously impair its ability to support the Viet Cong in the South.”

“To advocate a political settlement without effective means of securing it is to advocate unconditional withdrawal. We consider this possibility in light of its potential impact on U.S. global strategy. What we see happening is that Hanoi-backed forces continue to push forward in Laos, and once South Vietnam is overthrown, all of Southeast Asia will be left with only the Philippines as a foothold as far as the United States is concerned.”

“There was really only one option, to intensify plans for military action, including the bombing of North and South Vietnam by U.S. air forces. These proposals are made on the premise that a US withdrawal from South Vietnam or Southeast Asia is an absolutely unacceptable option. Don’t think that Southeast Asia has nothing to do with Europe, when in fact the British colony of Malaya was watching what we did with South Vietnam, and Thailand, Burma, and the surrounding countries were watching.”

Assessments and analyses by experts in the State Department, the CIA, the Defense Department and the National Security Council, gave Lyndon Johnson a broad but one-way option. That was that this battle was unavoidable, and even if they were to talk about it later, they had to fight a decent battle first, before talking to the Hanoi side.

“Admiral Taylor, you go to Saigon and get the most realistic situation.” Lyndon Johnson asked to Maxwell Taylor, requesting the other party to make a trip.

Maxwell Taylor was of course willing to go on a trip, as the leader of the U.S. military, he also had to survey the actual situation of the battlefield in order to be able to do so in his heart.

Allen Wilson to know the United States counterparts so rich in wisdom, will certainly shout out loud, the army this kind of thing spread out easily, you also want to let them forbid? As long as the fight starts, don’t think of pulling back.

The Vietnam War was just a concentrated manifestation of the fact that the U.S. military had begun to have its own ideas, and the U.S. military had already begun to disobey from this point on, who let the U.S. political structure is supported by a strong lobbying organization.

At the same time that Lyndon Johnson was choosing and choosing, choosing the only option offered by the establishment, the Republican Party’s home-stealing operation continued.

After McCarthy’s headlong rush into the Southern states, other Republican candidates recognized the breakthrough and followed McCarthy’s lead and began courting the white vote in the South.

From this point of view, McCarthy is simply the guiding light of the Republican Party, even if this election failed, it will not harm his status in the Republican Party. Maybe it will be the founder of the Republican turn.

Malaya High Commissioner Richard, this time returned to London to report on his duties, but also reported in detail on the progress of Malaya in accordance with the Cabinet Secretary General’s transition, although he did not know what the real purpose is.

The real purpose is, naturally, the use of Malaya’s colonial abundance of conditions, ready to eat a little blood buns in the U.S. Army is about to manifest the virtue of the time period, to say that may be a little less than kind, but is it possible that Japan and South Korea can eat, Malaya can not eat it?

Now the situation can be different from the situation in Alan Wilson’s mind, Malaya after so many years of development, with all the conditions of a logistics base. And North Vietnam, South Indonesia, do not eat some blood buns to say it? Britain is also helping the United States to suppress the French attempt to join the Communist Party, can benefit Japan and South Korea, can not benefit Britain?

“I heard that over the past few months, Malaya has seen an influx of 400,000 to 500,000 people from the colony?” Allen Wilson stood with his hands folded, asking with a pretentious look of turning his back on the crowd.

“Secretary General, it’s like this, there is indeed a wave of rich people emigrating from Indonesia, your previous judgment was right.” Richard didn’t think much of it, perhaps that was the style of the Supreme Authority.

He, the high commissioner, was completely unaware that the matter of the Indonesian incident, if Alan Wilson felt unable to eat, was to push him out to the top.

“There are still some Changgong people who are jumping for joy, aren’t they? This wave of immigration is over, send their heads back.”

Alan Wilson revealed a mouthful of white teeth, “Malaya is a British colony that cannot be disturbed by any foreign power, keeping them now is somewhat useful. The end of the immigration wave is the time to unload them. This kind of small thing you can just do it yourself when the time comes, the key is still to lay all the foundations for adapting to the change, you see the situation in South Vietnam is getting more and more rotten, if there is another Korean War, won’t Malaya take off?”

“Secretary General, will there be a fight?” Richard was shocked in his heart, although he is the emperor of Malaya, but after all, he is not in London, the judgment of the situation is all up to himself. Now Richard only knew that the political situation in South Vietnam was unstable, but South Vietnam itself had more than 10,000 U.S. troops stationed there, and controlling the situation was still not a problem.

“With North Vietnamese guerrillas taking out an American soldier every now and then, and American troops, killing and raping every now and then, the hatred will only grow deeper.” As he spoke, Allen Wilson handed Richard a piece of intelligence. The main religion in South Vietnam was Buddhism, while previously the Ngo Dinh Yen group was cohesive with Catholicism, and although Ngo Dinh Yen was dead, the attributes of the remaining forces had not changed.

Handed to Richard is a U.S. military persecution of Buddhists intelligence, if only the Buddhists would not be worth it to Alan Wilson to take out, it is well known that the U.S. military can not control the crotch anywhere on the planet, it is simply the same as the Latins.

The U.S. Army took advantage of a case of assault, captured a couple of nuns, and tortured them plus raped and dumped their bodies in one fell swoop.

“That’s appalling.” Richard took the intelligence and couldn’t help but sigh, he just knew that the US army’s military discipline was not good, but he didn’t expect it to be bad to this extent.

“So, the British army in Malaya, all right want to go to Thailand you give some convenience, this kind of thing is better to spend money than not. I used to have a subordinate who made this mistake.”

Alan Wilson long sigh, “With the current industrial base of the colony, coupled with convenient transportation, once the war breaks out, will get a lot of benefits, optimistically speaking this war can make Malaya develop smoothly for ten years. The colonial government has to do things, don’t be inspired by foreign ideas to anti-British wave, no matter which foreign idea this idea is, even if it is the United States. Stabilize the political situation and things will be fine.”

The Vietnam War, he remembered, had cost the United States two hundred and fifty billion dollars, a sum which, to varying degrees, had given several countries their first buckets of money in addition to the U.S. military itself, notably South Korea.

With an expenditure of this magnitude, even if ten billion dollars fell on Malaya, the economic miracle that stood side by side with Japan could still be in a scurry.

Pamela Mountbatten have been and Xiangjiang, Malaya several British banks to communicate ready, once the war began, will absorb the spillover of the dollar. At the same time by now in Southeast Asia within the scope of the cranes of the foundation, to complete the next ten years of development goals.

Called Richard nothing else, nothing more than Malaya must fight until the last U.S. soldiers withdrew from South Vietnam, “on the deepening of Malaya’s reforms, should also be on the agenda, always use administrative means to siphon off the funds is not working, taking the opportunity to change the approach, through intellectual property rights to build to achieve the purpose.”

This time and again, before the Malayan language a look to what nothing, the British transfer some industry to solve the problem of feeding the locals, the locals are grateful. After the problem of food and clothing is solved, for a long time the locals will still feel unfair, which requires a big filter constructed by intellectual property rights to replace the operation of the colonial government.

“Every year, the colonial government’s civil servants have to be reduced, attached to the major enterprises among them, carried out once before, change the business unit, just do it.” Alan Wilson said while thinking, “For the time being, there is no problem, give you a year to get it done.”

“A year?” Richard let out a bitter laugh, then nodded, “I’ll try my best, Cabinet Secretary.”

“As best as you can may not be enough, local and overseas civil servants are one and the same, failing to get it done your colleagues may question your reliability.” Alan Wilson sighed, “Richard, do you know how hard I fought to get your two terms? A lot of people were watching.”