American Strategic Deception Bureau

　At that time, China was poor and weak and did not have the strength to lead the Eastern Bloc. However, Mao's personal qualifications could temporarily suppress the world's heroes.

　As a result, Khrushchev, this reckless man, later thought that China had exploited him too much, and after exerting extreme pressure, he messed up everything.

　Next, both sides tried several times to repair the relationship, but they were talking at cross purposes, just like the Sino-US trade war in the 21st century, the more they talked, the worse it got.

　Neither of them understood the other's bottom line and core demands, and they just threatened and argued with each other, which eventually made it impossible to talk.

　To rival the Soviet Union, China unrealistically aspired to lead the international communist movement. However, its industrial productivity and financial resources were far from sufficient, resulting in a wasteful spending spree, widespread exploitation, and the emergence of a group of ungrateful individuals. By 1979, when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge was crushed by the Vietnamese army, no country in the entire socialist camp still recognized China as its leader. Even Albania, which had received massive aid, fell out with China.

　This is also the reason why China in the 1980s was completely pro-American and anti-Soviet, and even madly supported various reactionary remnants.

　——Because they have completely lost the struggle for leadership of the Eastern Bloc, they can only defect to the West!

　Of course, China in the 1960s had not yet realized this and was still squeezing out limited resources to support anti-imperialist struggles around the world. This approach was not wrong, but it was not within its means and the goals set were too ambitious, exceeding the limits of the country's ability to bear.

　Seeing that China was increasing its ammunition aid, the Soviet Union also increased its arms aid - no matter how poor the Russians were, they never lacked bullets!

　Anyway, these bullets, artillery shells and missiles will eventually hit the Americans and their running dogs, which can be regarded as a form of hot war in the Cold War.

　Thanks to the generous assistance from China and the Soviet Union, the red armed forces in Southeast Asian countries were always able to fight without a shortage of guns and ammunition.

　Thus, over 300,000 American troops were thrown into this giant chess game of blood and fire, like a torpedo boat struggling to rise and fall in the turbulent waves of the North Atlantic, unable to control the situation at all. Instead, it was like stepping on a watermelon rind, with no one knowing where it would slide to, and they could only leave it to fate.

　What’s even worse is that due to insufficient manpower, the casualties of the US military have increased significantly.

　In the history of another dimension, from the time the US military participated in the Vietnam War to the time it withdrew from Vietnam, a total of 58,000 soldiers were killed and more than 300,000 were injured.

　But in this dimension, because the Vietnam War began with the collapse of South Vietnam, a former US military commander in Vietnam and over 10,000 Americans were taken prisoner before the fighting even officially began. The subsequent blitzkrieg of Saigon, the Battle of Kampot, and the recapture of Bangkok were all bloody battles.

　Adding to the casualties on the Indonesian battlefield, by the end of May 1966, the number of US military deaths had reached 100,000, the number of prisoners exceeded 40,000, and the number of wounded was over 700,000. It can be said that the US military was truly devastated.

　Although the Vietnamese army suffered even more horrific casualties, with over 50 dead, they had already publicly promoted the slogan "Sacrifice a generation for the motherland." The entire Vietnamese people, from top to bottom, were determined to wipe out a generation of young people, so this casualty figure was still bearable.

　There's no other way. The cost of war is one generation, the cost of slavery is generations! Back when Vietnam was under French colonial rule, millions of people starved to death each year even during peacetime. Compared to that, the deaths of hundreds of thousands in battle are nothing—at least a little more respectable than starving to death.

　But Americans can't do that. Who of those young men would be willing to go to a strange country to fight and die?

　So, when the Vietnam War just broke out, the Pentagon was able to mobilize a group of young people to fight for their country across the ocean by relying on mindless patriotic propaganda. But as the war lasted for three years, all kinds of bloody and cruel war scenes appeared on TV without being censored. At that time, the US officials did not know how to censor TV scenes. The American people already knew what a terrible battlefield the Vietnam battlefield was.

　Fear of the bloody and fiery purgatory.

　So, by 1966, few young Americans wanted to go to Vietnam, and everyone was trying their best to avoid military service.

　Under the US draft rules of the period, college students and fathers of children were exempt from military service. This led to a surge in the number of college students in the US, and those unable to attend university desperately sought marriage and childbearing. Men who couldn't find a partner resorted to feigning madness, self-harm, and other extremes.

　As for the children from wealthy families, they simply ran away to a foreign country - mainly Canada, hiding there for several years until they were over the conscription age and returned.

　Ordinary young people who had no money and fled abroad began to burn their draft cards to express their opposition to the war and protest. Although Congress soon made burning draft cards a crime punishable by a fine of $1 and five years in prison, the practice remained popular.

　Of course, pro-war conservatives also took countermeasures. They hired many girls in New York and marched around holding placards that read, "I wish I had a draft card." They wanted to make those cowards who didn't dare to serve feel ashamed because they found that their courage was not as good as women's. The result was useless. The draft dodgers cursed these women for saying such things because they didn't have to serve.

　Year-round, antiwar protesters surrounded the draft headquarters in Washington, D.C., carrying portraits of Gandhi and staging "non-violent civil disobedience." They littered the streets with debris, abandoned cars on major thoroughfares, and lay in front of them, suffocating the capital with a smoky haze.

　President Johnson was obviously not President Hoover of thirty years ago. He did not have the courage to crush the protesters with cavalry and tanks, and could only sit in despair.

　In this way, the rear was full of draft dodgers, but the front was a sea of ​​blood and corpses, with a shortage of soldiers and generals everywhere, and an urgent need for reinforcements.

　It just so happened that the United States was still implementing the conscription system at that time, rather than the later recruitment system, and those who could be mobilized to join the army were all good families, not thieves.

　Under current laws, the Pentagon cannot hire soldiers through salaries or recruit people from prisons to fill the gaps.

　How to do it?

　The Pentagon decided to lower the conscription requirements and force even idiots with lower than average IQs to join the military.

　This project is called the "100,000 Plan", which means that 100,000 soldiers with intellectual disabilities and the IQ of a 5-year-old child will be forcibly recruited every year.

　When explaining to the media why the military was recruiting idiots, Secretary of Defense McNamara said: "This is to rescue these intellectually retarded individuals. Most of them currently live in the slums of major American cities. The military can teach them life skills and make them useful to society."

　But in fact, these guys were collectively called "McNamara's 100,000 idiots" in the army and were widely ridiculed by frontline soldiers.

　As expected, these intellectually disabled soldiers could not learn anything after arriving at the boot camp.

　"You know, Mr. DiMaggio, those idiots in boot camp never learn how to throw a grenade.

　No matter how their instructors and comrades taught them to throw grenades high so they could go further, they always threw them straight because they couldn't understand why throwing them higher would allow them to go further.

　In addition, they were unable to pass the shooting test. It was no longer a matter of whether they could hit the target or not. The mere fact that they were holding guns was enough to make other officers and soldiers nervous. One idiot shot a visiting state legislator in the head as soon as he got a gun and bullets. When he was interrogated afterwards, he didn't even understand what he had done: after all, they were just a bunch of idiots!

　Almost every instructor reported to their superiors that these idiots were unsuitable for the military, let alone for combat. However, the Pentagon ignored them and even planned to double the number of idiots conscripted into the army. Next year, they would send 200,000 idiot American soldiers to Vietnam to embarrass themselves and die!

　The reason we haven't recruited more mentally retarded troops is because our country has a limited number of mentally retarded people, and we don't have enough idiots anymore!"

　At the tea table, Ferry was telling DiMaggio about the situation. "Why is the Department of Defense so determined to send idiots to the battlefield? Because those West Point-educated generals all stubbornly believe that soldiers don't need to be very smart, they just need to obey orders, so it's better for them to be a little stupid."

　But in reality, modern warfare is extremely demanding on a soldier's intelligence. You must react quickly, know how to use all kinds of equipment, and coordinate with your teammates... This is true for the Army's infantry, and the requirements for technical branches like artillery and armor are even higher, not to mention the Navy and Air Force!

　"That's exactly the point. Imagine leading a group of idiots to play baseball. You have to worry about them getting hurt, or hurting the spectators, not to mention fighting a war! Any normal parent knows not to let their children play with fire, but the Pentagon lets idiots with the IQ of a five-year-old play with guns!"

　Legendary retired baseball player Joe DiMaggio shook his head and agreed, "Maybe they're just other people's children. You wouldn't feel bad if they all died, right?"

　"Yes, if there is a teammate with low IQ in a real combat situation, then the others must always be on guard against him to prevent him from accidentally shooting. In the battle, they must also protect his safety at all times. Imagine sending a five-year-old child into the battlefield with a weapon!

　What’s even more outrageous is that because the front-line troops refused to mix idiots with ordinary soldiers, the Pentagon actually planned to let the idiots form a separate army, creating a “holy fool” army, or an “armed mental hospital”! They wanted to use battlefield performance art to make the Vietcong

　Are you dying of laughter?

　Fili shrugged and continued, "That's what Mr. McNamara did. He's gone completely crazy and possessed!"

　"Luckily, you're no longer the commander of the U.S. Army in Vietnam. Otherwise, these idiot soldiers would definitely give you a headache and insomnia every day!"

　DiMaggio said this with a smile, and Ferry nodded in agreement.

　——But what he had not thought of at this time was that as the recognized expert in cleaning up messes in Washington in recent years, how could the overwhelmed Secretary of Defense McNamara forget him and Kissinger, the "savior partners"?

　The author's words:

　A sudden thought occurred to me: in this time and space, would Che Guevara launch a surprise attack on Bali?

　Chapter 363: The King of Understanding’s Knees Cannot Bend

　However, before facing "McNamara's fool", Fieri had to face another troublesome matter first.

　——It was not until Marilyn Monroe and DiMaggio's family moved to San Francisco that the fortune teller Zoe quietly told Philly a secret: there was someone hiding in the basement of Monroe's manor!

　Well, of course not a naked beautiful girl, but a strong and handsome young man.

　To be precise, he is a psychic who dodged military service, a 19-year-old third-level Tantric master!

　"What on earth were you thinking? Hiding a man in Marilyn Monroe's estate? Are you trying to make Mr. DiMaggio think his wife is cheating on him? Or even make Mr. DiMaggio doubt whether the child Monroe is carrying is his own?"

　After learning about this, Fili immediately broke out in a cold sweat, "Can't you hide people somewhere else?"

　"But, sir, is there anywhere else as quiet as this?"

　Zoe, the witch, pointed at the desolate Malibu Beach. "Besides, he's not idle at the manor. He's responsible for taking care of the various 'special herbs' in the greenhouse and flower beds. From poisonous mushrooms to psychedelic cacti, he grows them better than I do..."

　I heard that this draft dodger named Myron Gallagher was not only Zoe's student at USC, but also a "horticultural poison master." He was currently the guest gardener for the various "hallucinatory herbs" cultivated at Monroe Manor, watering, fertilizing, and preparing the finished products every day...

　Fili hesitated for a while, but finally agreed to save the boy. But just in case, he still went to see the guy.

　Of course, Fili concealed his identity, used magic to change his appearance, and followed Zoe.

　Finally, in a nursery full of hemp, Fili saw Mailang, shirtless and barefoot, and took a closer look at him.

　Wow, what a nice piece of fresh meat!

　He is 1.9 meters tall, has six-pack abs, a handsome face, and wears only a pair of shorts. His body is as good as the statue of an ancient Greek athlete. In addition, he is a level 3 Tantric Master, and he possesses the "Touch of Joy" and various H skills. I am sure that he will definitely make all the aunties who sit on the ground and suck dirt drool.

　Well, I’m drooling both from the top and the bottom, my pants are soaked!

　No wonder Zoe and the female customers at the spa were willing to risk breaking the law by hiding this guy in the basement.

　I guess in order to stay here, Mai Lang must have done a lot of "plastic work" for all the ladies, right?

　Fili thought so quietly with his usual dark mentality.

　Then, Fili claimed to be Zoe's partner and started chatting with Mailang. He asked him a question: "Aren't college students temporarily exempt from military service? Why did you evade the military? Did you just graduate?"

　According to the draft law before the Vietnam War, American young men were required to serve in the military upon reaching a certain age. However, as long as they were married or in college, they did not have to serve: society generally believed that married men should support their families, and the draft should recruit unmarried men as much as possible.

　Of course, if it were a total war like World War II or the Civil War, even married men would have been drafted into the military. But the Vietnam War clearly didn't require a national mobilization—for European and American countries, mobilizing even for a colonial war would be the ultimate joke!

　As the Vietnam War grew in scale and brutality, the American people sat in front of their televisions every day, watching their own army being bombed to pieces and ripped to pieces. They were terrified, and many young people felt that joining the army meant death, and they had to find a way to avoid it.

　So, they rushed to get married while in college or even right after graduating from high school so that they would not be sent to the battlefield to die.

　To this end, President Johnson amended the law in 1965, declaring that married people could not be exempted from military service and had to join the army even if they were married.

　But until this time, college students can generally be exempted from military service unless they encounter special circumstances.

　Draft cards will not be mailed to them until after graduation.

　"No, I didn't graduate. I dropped out this spring," Mailang replied.

　"Why? Can't you afford the tuition?"

　Fili was baffled. USC wasn't some shabby community college. While it wasn't as good as Harvard and MIT on the East Coast, and a bit behind Stanford on the West Coast, it was still a world-class institution, and only top-tier students could get in.

　In the job market, a diploma from the University of Southern California is still very valuable and is by no means a useless thing that can be thrown away.

　According to Fili's mind, he thought about it and thought that ordinary people

　The only possible reason for dropping out of school is probably running out of money, right?

　"Of course it's not because of the money, because I've discovered that university is a cage. It imprisons people's minds. People have unlimited potential, but going to school only diminishes that potential, makes people dumber, makes them lose their emotions, and turns them into fools who are unconditionally exploited by capitalists."

　"And I met the love of my life at school. I will never forget the night she jumped naked into my arms. After that night, the clock of my life started moving and my potential was stimulated."

　"Have you ever heard the saying, 'Life is precious, but love is more precious. If it's for freedom, both can be abandoned.'"

　"For love and freedom, I left school, the cage that imprisoned me, and headed for a wider new world!"

　"Although my love and I are temporarily separated due to the tricks of fate, I believe that one day we will meet again and win a happy life together!" He said with emotion, gesticulating.

　Although the boy was talking nonsense, Fili still managed to understand a little bit. With the help of the fortune teller Zoe, he finally understood the whole story: it turned out that Mailang did not drop out of school, but was expelled!

　Mailan was born into a poor family in a small town, a farmer's family who farmed in the countryside of central Texas.

　Farming is a laborious endeavor no matter the country, even with the advent of agricultural machinery. Just because there are machines doesn't mean people don't have to work. At least that was the case before the advent of the internet and the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI).

　If it were a large farm, they might be able to hire workers to help with the farming. But Mailang's farm was small and couldn't afford the labor costs, so the whole family had to do the farm work. During the slack season, they had to go out and do odd jobs, and everyone was tanned to the typical red neck.

　To escape the drudgery and boredom of rural life, Mailang studied diligently from a young age, eventually gaining admission to the University of Southern California and moving to the big city of Los Angeles. However, his family couldn't afford the full tuition and living expenses, and Mailang wasn't bright enough to qualify for a scholarship. So, he struggled to make ends meet by working part-time, relying on his family's farming skills to grow and sell hallucinogenic plants in Zoe's "Herb Garden."

　Even though he hasn't graduated from university yet, he's forced himself to live like a office worker.

　Then, while he was studying and farming, Mailang's brother received the draft card and went to Vietnam. A month later, he disappeared on the battlefield, and no one knew whether he was dead or alive. Mailang's family lost a strong laborer, and the bank came to collect the debt, causing the farm to go bankrupt and be forced to sell.

　Mailang's father fell ill and died soon after. Mailang's mother went to live with her eldest daughter who was already married.

　Left alone in Los Angeles, Mailan, who had suffered a family upheaval, found himself suddenly homeless and emotionally devastated. He then gave up on himself and, somehow, hooked up with a hippie named Jenny, embarking on a decadent life of skipping classes and having sex in groups.

　Then, perhaps because of his strong body developed from doing farm work since childhood, he actually became a "Tantric Master".

　If he had continued on this path, Mailang might have achieved something great.

　However, in March 1966, he, Jenny, and several college students who participated in the anti-war movement got drunk one night and set fire to a nearby recruiting station. They also burned the garage of a nearby house and injured a middle-aged woman who tried to stop them.

　As a result, the gang was quickly arrested, and Jenny and others, the main culprits, were sentenced to prison. Although Mailang did not participate in the arson and beating, he also went to watch the fun and was sentenced to two weeks of community service. In addition, because of overdue tuition, he was directly expelled from USC.

　To make matters worse, on the same day he was expelled, Mailang was also drafted into the army: without the protection of his university student status, he had to go to the battlefield!

　Obviously, whether as a left-wing youth who hated the war or as a tantric master who would break his vows if he put on shoes, Mailang was absolutely unwilling to join the army. So he immediately begged the witch Zoe for help and hid him in the basement of a spa club on Malibu Beach.

　"Oh, it's such a pity for you. If you had stayed in college and gotten a diploma, you would have been able to find a much better job in the future, and you wouldn't have to serve in the military right away." After listening to the boy's experience, Fili looked at Mailan and couldn't help but sigh.

　"Work? Who wants to go to work? Fuck those bosses! Working is the most wasteful thing you can do. You live a precarious, high-pressure life, being exploited like cattle and horses by the capitalists, and you have to pay taxes to feed those fat pigs who only suck the blood of the poor. And when you're no longer useful, you're ruthlessly kicked out, all your belongings confiscated by the bank, and you're left sleeping on the streets, becoming a homeless person."

　Mailang is still full of cynicism. "Only people with no sense of value in life and no dreams would go to work."

　"Ah, then you can have your wish come true now. Draft dodging is a crime. Unless you get amnesty, you'll never be able to work as a corporate slave for a big company with this criminal record. You'll only be treated like an illegal immigrant in the job market."

　Fili curled his lips and said, "Your future is clear at a glance. Either you are a little timid and live a shameless life in the slums, living a life of drunkenness and debauchery; or you are a little bold and join a gang of criminals and become an accountant.

　A clerk or a military advisor, he eventually died of old age in prison."

　"Scared? Is it that serious? Just because I evaded military service? That's not fair!"

　Mai Lang, who thought he could just hide away for a while and avoid the spotlight, was suddenly shocked. "Which of those rich kids doesn't dodge military service these days? Why are they all fine, but I have to be stigmatized for the rest of my life?"

　"You also said that they are all children of rich people, how could they be the same as you?"

　Fili shrugged. "They can go abroad to study or travel, and not come back for years or even decades. They can ask doctors to falsify medical records, saying their knees can't bend. Even if they really come from a military family and want to improve their resume, they can work in domestic units and avoid going to the front lines."

　It's certainly very unfair, but what can we do? That's life!"

　--During the Vietnam War, both Clinton and Trump were of military service age and received draft notices after graduating from college.