Biggest challenge is protecting South Korea after the attack. Escalation as a strategy DOES NOT WORK! If Kennedy had kicked North Vietnam in the privates and then beat them into the dirt from the start we never would have lost 58K. Kind of like a toothache it hurts but you learn to live with it even as it gets worse. That’s what NVN did and what NK will do unless you go all in from the start.
“If Kennedy had kicked North Vietnam in the privates and then beat them into the dirt from the start we never would have lost 58K.”
An oft-forgotten truth. Have you read Stark, “Strategy for Defeat?”