American Strategic Deception Bureau

　After endless raids, counter-raids, assassinations, sneak attacks and negotiations, the Dutch could no longer bear the long-term and serious losses of the colonial war. At the same time, they were also under pressure from the Americans. Finally, in 194

　In December 9, the Japanese withdrew from Indonesia, ending more than 12 years of colonial rule. Sukarno then dispatched troops to the spice-rich Maluku Islands, suppressing the secessionist Ambonese there and temporarily unifying the country.

　However, after independence, Indonesia adopted a parliamentary democracy system that was not conducive to centralization, which led to the country being in a mess. Mutinies, riots, and ethnic conflicts were endless. Western European and American powers continued to intervene and support their agents, and Indonesia's national economy was even worse and hopeless.

　As Indonesia's founding father, Sukarno clearly couldn't bear to see his country in such disarray. So, like Charles de Gaulle in France, starting in the late 1950s, he attempted to reform the loosely structured Western-style parliamentary democracy and implement a system of authoritarian rule, where power could be concentrated to accomplish major tasks.

　But the problem is that this attempt to centralize power will inevitably infringe on the interests of local forces.

　Unfortunately, Sukarno was only a political leader and did not know how to fight. His control over the military was very weak, which led to the military being controlled by many interest groups.

　Therefore, in order to oppose Sukarno's reduction of feudal lords and consolidation of power, the armies of the outer islands, except Java Island where the capital Jakarta is located, rebelled.

　——Beginning in late 1956, Indonesian troops on the island of Sumatra rebelled one after another, demanding independence and openly engaging in separatist rebellion.

　By 1957, Sulawesi also declared independence from the central government in Jakarta, forming another center of rebellion.

　As for the armed riots in Borneo (Kalimantan), they have never stopped for a moment.

　In addition, West Irian Island (New Guinea Island) was still under Dutch colonial rule at the time...

　Sukarno, who was already deserted by his friends and relatives at this time, seemed to be in real danger of being downgraded from the President of Indonesia to the President of Java Island in one breath!

　Up to this point, the situation in Indonesia is still just a contradiction between the central and local governments, and a conflict between centralization and decentralization.

　At this time, Sukarno was not a leftist, but a neutral leader who advocated the Non-Aligned Movement. Compared with the Soviet Union, he was actually more pro-American.

　But the problem is that in the Cold War era of bipolar confrontation, maintaining neutrality also requires capital. In other words, not everyone is qualified to be neutral.

　In the eyes of the domineering US President Eisenhower, if loyalty is not absolute, then it is absolutely disloyal! The US will not allow Indonesia to be a fence-sitter!

　So, just like what happened in Cambodia during the same period, the US government, which was eager to create chaos in the world, quickly took the initiative to intervene in the Indonesian civil war, and ordered the CIA to do its utmost to support various rebel groups in an attempt to dismember the "oversized" Indonesia and turn it into a bunch of small and medium-sized countries that were easy to control.

　To this end, the CIA not only sent large sums of funds and weapons and ammunition to the Indonesian rebels in Sumatra and Sulawesi, but also dispatched American volunteers to directly participate in the war and fly planes for the rebels to counter the Indonesian central government's naval and air force advantages.

　As a result, Sukarno was forced to abandon his neutrality in the international arena, quickly turn left and jump into the Eastern Bloc, seeking help from China and the Soviet Union. At home, he relied on the left, put aside his past grudges with the communists, and desperately supported the Indonesian Communist Party to confront local warlords who had the support of the US CIA.

　The Indonesian army, which was originally generally pro-American, had no choice but to fight the US-backed rebels as the United States tried to split Indonesia.

　——Since the end of World War II, countless anti-American regimes and anti-American forces around the world have been forced to turn against the United States in this way.

　Unfortunately, despite the enormous sums of money and aid expended by the Eisenhower administration to dismember Indonesia, the rebels it fostered proved ineffective. The main force of the rebels on Sumatra was annihilated by government forces in the spring of 1958. The remaining rebels on Sulawesi, with direct support from Taiwan's navy and air force, managed to hold out a little longer, but only for a few months.

　After the civil war ended in 1958, Sukarno, having learned his lesson, turned completely to the left - who asked the United States to kill him for no reason?

　Over the next few years, relations between Indonesia and the United States continued to deteriorate, while the Indonesian Communist Party, with Sukarno's connivance and support, grew rapidly, becoming the world's third-largest communist party with 300 million members. At the same time, Sukarno also intervened in the Malaysian situation, supporting the Malayan Communist Party's guerrilla rebellion.

　Due to its hostility with the West and its attempt to unify Malaysia, Indonesia voluntarily withdrew from the United Nations in January 1965.

　—Voluntarily withdrawing from the United Nations! This is a unique case in the entire 20th century!

　Finally, although Sukarno had not yet publicly raised the red flag in Jakarta, he had already publicly stated that when he retired or died, he would directly hand over power to the Indonesian Communist Party! This would make Indonesia the third largest socialist country in the world in terms of population and area!

　Combined with the fact that the Viet Cong’s offensive in Indochina is now in full swing…if Indonesia also joins the war, can the US military still stay in Vietnam?

　I'm afraid we will have to flee thousands of miles away, just like General MacArthur in the early days of the Pacific War, and move to Brisbane to defend the Australian kangaroos!

　Obviously, neither the Pentagon nor the White House wants to see this happen. But the mistake has already been made, and regret is futile.

　In order to save Indonesia from being communist, the CIA could either use its secret intelligence station in Indonesia to spend a lot of money to sow discord, buy off and support pro-American right-wing officers in the Indonesian army, launch a military coup to overthrow Sukarno, and then bloodily purge the Indonesian Communist Party; or, like the previous Cuban strategy, send out aircraft carrier battle groups and marines to attack directly.

　In Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, force was used to replace Indonesia with a pro-American "free" government.

　The problem is that Indonesia is over ten times the size of Cuba. If the Indonesian right can't resolve the issue on its own, and instead relies on the US imperialist army to intervene, who knows if the Indonesian civil war will become a quagmire even larger and more devastating than the Vietnam War?

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　"From the Gulf of Thailand to Borneo, from the Mekong River to the Malay Peninsula, war is raging everywhere!"

　Looking at the battle lines marked on the map, and the vast territory of Indonesia, which was about to "turn red," Major Bill Lyle couldn't help but sigh in frustration. "The liberal camp is retreating step by step. Why does it feel like the Pacific War is about to be fought in vain?"

　"How could it be in vain? Even if the US loses its foothold in Indochina, it will at least have a firm grip on Japan and South Korea, which have a combined population of over 100 million. The labor force of such a large population, along with the corresponding market and productivity, is invaluable."

　Firi shrugged. "Besides, even if Southeast Asian countries become pro-China, they will still have to continue to trade with the free world. Neither China nor the Soviet Union can effectively control them—at least not yet. So, even if the dominoes in Southeast Asia fall, the losses will be limited."

　"But if possible, Washington certainly does not want to see any expansion of the Red forces."

　"You're right, but there are always many things in this world that are not as we wish."

　Fili sighed. "Look, this desert refugee camp here was originally only responsible for accepting Vietnamese refugees, but last year many Cambodian refugees arrived. Next, General Wang Bao, whom you are in charge of, and the Laotian Miao people under his command will probably have to come here to receive relief food."

　"Well, even if General Vang Pao's supply lines were cut off by the Thai communists, preventing him from defending Xayaburi Province, he could still retreat to Thailand and serve as a mercenary for the Thai government, assisting the Thai king in resisting the Viet Cong! His 10,000 Miao soldiers could still fight in Thailand."

　Major Bill Lyle questioned, "There seems to be no need to let them go into exile in the United States without fighting a single battle in Thailand, right?"

　"Believe me, Major Lyle, unless the country is on the verge of extinction, the Thai government will never want to see a Miao army staying on their territory. Because like the Vietnamese, the Thais also have the tradition of "driving the Miao to expand their business", and their relationship with the Miao is equally bad.

　For example, the leadership of the Red Guerrillas in Thailand today is made up of Chinese and Thai-Chinese, while the lower-level soldiers are mostly Miao people."

　Fili spread his hands. "You originally worked at the Thai intelligence station, so please tell me the truth - if General Wang Bao fled to Thailand with hundreds of thousands of Miao people, given Thailand's previous attitude towards the Miao people, what is the probability that they would defect to the Communists?"

　If Wang Bao's troops and subjects all go over to the Thai communists, what will become of you as the head of the CIA?"

　"Well, it seems that letting the Miao people come directly to the United States is actually the safest solution?" Major Lyle said dejectedly.

　"Yes, even if you still hope to let Wang Bao's soldiers fight the Vietcong, at least you have to settle the families of these Hmong mercenaries! If their families are left in the territory of the Vietcong or the Thai Communists, do you think they will turn their guns on the battlefield?

　If the Viet Cong can maintain their relentless offensive, I suspect Thai and Malaysian refugees will soon appear here. If the Pentagon decides to intervene militarily in Indonesia, Indonesian refugees will likely follow—assuming the White House hasn't changed its immigration policy by then, continuing to open the door to refugees from the war in Asia and allowing them to obtain green cards.

　Fili pointed to the endless rows of sheds and tents in the desert oasis refugee camp and continued, "What's even more troublesome is that, in addition to the increasing number of refugees from other countries, the number of Vietnamese refugees sent here every month has not decreased at all!

　Listen, the people singing over there are the boat people who just escaped from Vietnam in recent months..."

　Major Bill Lyle looked up and saw that these people were gathered in the open-air cafeteria, watching the images of the Vietnam War burning in the cities and countryside on TV, and singing sad songs in Vietnamese. The tunes were mournful and the voices were desolate.

　Firi translated the lyrics for him. The gist of the lyrics was: "Midnight rockets set the mountains on fire, cannons roar in the city every night, street sweepers put away their brooms and listen. Thousands of bombs fall on the village, thousands of bombs fall on the fields, the doors of the village houses burn, every night the explosions wake the children, every bright night is filled with the tears of the motherland..."

　Well, the local people during the Vietnam War did live in fear every day.

　"Oh, I understand. After the Hmong people in Laos lost their homeland, if we still want General Wang Bao's men to fight well, we do have an obligation to take care of their families and relatives. We can't let the soldiers' families live in the midst of gunfire."

　Major Lyle said with a dejected expression, "If General Wang Bao's men come here in a few months, I hope you can take care of them."

　"Don't worry, General Wang Bao and I are old friends. I still owe him a favor from the Battle of Haiyunling two years ago!"

　Ferry immediately

　He patted his chest and promised, "Everything will be arranged perfectly!"

　The author's words:

　In addition, many people later confirmed in their memoirs that Xunzong had threatened to assassinate Khrushchev. However, this did not affect Xunzong's magnanimous style. It can only be said that when people are under great mental pressure, they are prone to radical thoughts.

　Besides, Emperor Brezhnev just said it casually and had no specific plan at all. He did not continue after being dissuaded by others.

　In fact, given his temper, even if he had the support of his accomplices, he might suddenly back down once he was about to start planning something.

　Chapter 318: University Campus in the 1960s

　Just as Firi had predicted, after their supply lines were cut off by the Thai Communist guerrillas, General Vang Pao, isolated in Laos, and his hundreds of thousands of destitute and starving Hmong people, could not hold out for long on the Laotian-Thai border.

　By April 1965, Wang Bao's army of more than 4 soldiers and civilians had abandoned Xayaburi Province and retreated into Thailand with their entire clan.

　At this point, the entire Laos changed its flag and became communist, and the "Pathet Lao", which was deeply manipulated by Vietnam, successfully unified the entire country.

　On the other hand, the Miao soldiers who retreated into Thailand had run out of supplies, and more than 100,000 of them had no food or water. In addition, the military discipline of the Miao mercenaries was not very good to begin with, and the Thai side was so stingy that they did not give them a penny, as if they were waiting for them to starve to death.

　As a result, Wang Bao's Miao soldiers, desperate to find food, resorted to self-reliance, plundering and pillaging like bandits. They not only engaged in countless clashes with Thai landlord militias and village police, but also defeated five Thai army regiments and killed numerous Thai police chiefs. The number of Thai villages and towns plundered was so numerous that it resembled a swarm of locusts, forcing the Thais to flee to the mountains.

　As a result, this battle-hardened Miao mountain army not only failed to become an ally of the Thai government in resisting the "Red Bandits," but instead caused chaos in the Thai hinterland and tied up a large number of Thai troops. Major Bill Lyle, who had hurriedly returned to Southeast Asia to mediate between the US, Miao, and Thai forces, was caught in a dilemma, caught between two sides, and his hair turned white with worry in just a few days.

　To make matters worse, the Thai Communist Party's red guerrillas, following the Miao soldiers' lead, continued to mobilize the people and grow stronger. Coupled with the massive amount of weapons and ammunition supplied to them by the entire socialist camp via Vietnam and Laos, Thailand's rural areas quickly became communist.

　At the same time, two Vietnamese divisions and a small number of Khmer Rouge guerrillas, under the command of the fierce general Le Zhongxun, attacked from the city of Aranyaprathet on the Thai-Cambodian border, easily broke through the Thai army's hastily deployed defense line, and then marched hundreds of miles all the way, reaching as far as Prachinburi Province, only 100 kilometers away from the Thai capital Bangkok.

　For a time, hearing that the Miao bandits and the Vietnamese army were approaching at the same time, the Thai capital was shaken, and King Rama IX of Thailand was even so scared that he almost fled Bangkok.

　However, compared to his son, a street-slicker and eccentric who would later travel abroad in a floral tank top and spend years in Europe "remotely claiming the throne," the current Thai king is somewhat more responsible. After calming down, he quickly mobilized his troops and prepared for the defense of the capital.

　The US troops stationed in Thailand, after suffering repeated defeats, were so furious that they launched more than 300 attack aircraft from U-Tapao Airport in one day, repeatedly bombing the Vietnamese vanguard and rear supply lines to hinder the Vietnamese advance.

　Two US aircraft carrier battle groups were also ordered to urgently enter the Gulf of Thailand and dispatch aircraft to provide air fire cover for the Thai army, which was suffering repeated defeats.

　At this time, the Vietnamese army that had reached Prachinburi Province was already at the end of its strength. Seeing that Thailand's counterattack was still powerful, it took the initiative to retreat back to Cambodia.

　The Thais who subsequently recovered their lost territory also faced countless troubles and chaos, and did not have the strength to cross the border again in the short term.

　By this point, the fighting on the western front of the Indochina Peninsula had essentially concluded for the year. However, the eastern front saw a series of disastrous battles in the Central Highlands. General Westmoreland, commander of the US forces in Vietnam, deployed his elite 1st Cavalry Division to the Central Highlands battlefield, hoping to achieve a decisive victory in one decisive battle.

　——At this time, the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army was no longer the cowboy-style cavalry at the beginning of the century, nor was it the mechanized force of steel on the Korean battlefield, but an "Air Cavalry Division" using helicopters as mounts, abbreviated as "1st Air Cavalry Division".

　In order to verify the new military concept, the Pentagon spared no expense and equipped the 1st Cavalry Division with a large number of Chinook helicopters and Huey helicopters, making the 1st Cavalry Division not only the world's earliest air mobile force, but also the most expensive star unit in the US Army.

　Now that the priceless sword has been forged, the next step is to test it and see blood.

　While the main force of the Viet Cong was advancing rapidly on the Cambodian battlefield, the 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army in Vietnam also went to the Central Highlands Mountains. Relying on the high mobility of helicopters, they carried out a series of operations like butchering an ox to remove the Viet Cong bases scattered among the mountains and ravines.

　No matter how strategic the terrain or how secretive the passages, the Vietcong base areas were, they were meaningless in the face of these roaring death gods descending from the sky. The Vietcong guerrillas, with only a few anti-aircraft machine guns, were no match for the attack helicopters.

　--now

　At this time, individual air defense missiles were still a relatively sci-fi concept, and the Viet Cong guerrillas could not use them for the time being: the Afghan "Mujahideen" in the 1980s could use "Stinger" individual air defense missiles to attack Soviet helicopters, but the Viet Cong guerrillas in the 1960s did not have the conditions for this.

　In addition, the 1st Cavalry Division learned the "advanced experience" of the 25th Division in Hawaii, "Tropic Lightning", and always adhered to the concept of "those who run when facing bullets are the Viet Cong, and those who don't run are well-trained Viet Cong" in combat. Wherever they went, they wiped out the Viet Cong and killed countless Viet Cong heads.

　The indigenous barbarians of the Western Highlands, who collaborated with the US military in the war, also practiced customs similar to those of the Taiwanese mountain tribes, such as headhunting and herding. They traditionally exterminated the Viet Cong in distress, highlighting their primitive simplicity, their fear of future troubles, and their ignorance of humanitarianism.

　Under such a combination of advanced and brutal tactics, the infiltrating Viet Cong guerrillas were unable to gain a foothold in the hostile Central Highlands region. No matter how hard they struggled, they were forced to withdraw from the Central Highlands once again and retreat into Laos, relying on supplies transported along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to recover.

　But the problem is that the Central Highlands mountainous area is too small and the geographical location is too harsh to support an independent country surrounded by powerful enemies in the long term.

　Even if the Viet Cong temporarily withdrew from the border, as long as the US military retreated, they could infiltrate again from Laos at any time.

　It is impossible for the US military to keep chasing the Viet Cong guerrillas. This "firepower" army has always lacked the tenacity and perseverance to pursue the enemy relentlessly and fight to the death, and even more so the spirit of sacrifice to exchange life for life. It cannot withstand too many casualties in overseas wars.

　——After World War II, when major industrial countries around the world were experiencing overcapacity, heavy industry was generally making little profit and struggling to survive, mere military weapons and ammunition were not that valuable, but loyal and righteous warriors who dared to fight and would never turn back were the truly priceless treasures.

　As long as the Viet Cong are not afraid of the blood and fire of war, are willing to pay the price of "sacrificing a generation of the entire nation", and die bravely year after year, relying on mountains of corpses to fill the military gap between them and the imperialist invaders, they will eventually be able to wear down the seemingly invincible US military!

　In short, although the Pentagon tried its best to control the scale of the war from the beginning, it could only watch the Vietnam War turn into a meat grinder.

　At the same time, millions of refugees are heading towards the US mainland from the war-torn Southeast Asia, in the opposite direction of the US military's advance.

　Across the ocean in the United States, Fieri's old acquaintance, former Attorney General Robert Kennedy, relied on his family's influence and the influence of his brother, President Kennedy, to be successfully elected as a senator from New York in the spring of 1965, taking the first step on his own road to the presidency.

　Fieri's eldest brother Bernard also won the general election at the same time with great difficulty and was re-elected as a member of the California State Assembly, allowing the Kim family to maintain its status as "more than a poor family, but not yet a wealthy family."

　As for Firi himself, in addition to being responsible for the population transportation of various refugee camps in Los Angeles, allowing war refugees from Southeast Asia to continuously enter American society, thereby changing the racial demographic structure of the United States, he also began to tinker with some even more unethical and outrageous things.

　For example, selling a wider variety of anesthetics to American college students in the 1960s...

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　University of Southern California, Los Angeles

　This is the cradle of Hollywood and the filming location of the horror comedy "Happy Death Day". Many celebrities in the American entertainment industry have studied here.

　Most entertainment novels that start from a campus will mention this school.

　Of course, in addition to the Film School, other departments of USC are also first-class, and it is not just an art school.

　In the hot wind of early summer, Fili drove Marita slowly into this world-renowned California university, observing the lively and energetic college students around them, or those who were playing guitar and singing in the arts, as well as the red brick buildings with a strong sense of history under the bright sunshine.

　"What energetic young people! But the school spirit here doesn't seem too serious!"

　Marita, who is only 25 years old this year, looked at the laughing and playing college students and said with emotion, "Smoking and drinking is fine, but they even dare to take out a magazine like this and read it in public? Aren't they afraid of bumping into the professor and getting embarrassed?"

　She pointed at a long-haired boy who was looking at a Playboy poster of nude women with his girlfriend and asked curiously.

　——Although she had long been tamed by Fili into a very qualified harem slave, Marita's moral values ​​were still relatively conservative: no matter how promiscuous she was at home, she still had to respect public order and morality outside...

　Therefore, she couldn't help but feel a little surprised that college students were reading pornographic books in public on campus.

　"Ah, they probably won't feel embarrassed at all. After all, the current trend is that the more rebellious, the more fashionable."

　Fili parked the car in the parking lot and pointed to a female college student not far away. She was topless, wearing only a garland to slightly cover her breasts, and wearing a miniskirt with even her underwear showing. "Look, compared to going out dressed like this, reading porn doesn't seem like a big deal, right?"

　In certain eras, the speed at which social trends change is often astonishingly fast, almost turning the world upside down in the blink of an eye.

　——When President Kennedy first took office, the American people were generally conservative and still emphasized the Puritan spirit of hardship and simplicity.

　At that time, strange customs were suspected, and strange clothing was also despised - masquerade was another matter. Young people smoking marijuana was considered to be unimaginably bad, and girls who wore smoky makeup to show their unique style were ridiculed as female raccoons.

　As for unmarried men and women secretly having affairs, it was something that could not be spoken of. A high school girl giving birth out of wedlock was big news at the time.

　However, after only four or five years, the American people's customs suddenly became bold and unrestrained, or even degenerate to a great extent.

　The girls' skirts became shorter and shorter until miniskirts appeared, showing off their entire beautiful legs, as well as their underwear and half of their buttocks.