It is 1965 and the US ground war in Vietnam is in full swing. As a US Army commander, wage a
counter-insurgency (COIN) war to secure the Ia Drang valley, on the border with Cambodia.
In order to win the
Hearts and Minds of the local population you will need to search for and destroy the
Vietcong (VC) insurgents, who infiltrate from the Ho Chi Minh trail and destabilize the province by intimidating the locals, laying mines and ambushing your forces.
The insurgents also have a bigger brother, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). This well trained, conventional army have much wider ambitions than the VC, they want to take total control of the valley, a stepping stone to unifying North Vietnam with the South under communist rule.
The NVA conducts operations from across the border, primarily aimed at supporting the insurgency and launching offensives when the time is right.
To carry out your COIN mission, co-ordinat...
