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The Siege of Khe Sahn by Kyle Lockwood PRESRT STD US POSTAGE DISPATCHES PAID BAKERSFIELD CA PERMIT NO 66 FROM DECISION GAMES #29 FALL 2015 (661) 587-9633 | (661) 587-5031 fax | P.O. Box 21598 | Bakersfield CA 93390 | DECISIONGAMES.COM SAMPLE FROM MODERN WAR #21 The Siege of Khe Sahn by Kyle Lockwood t dawn on 21 January 1968 a wave of North Vietnamese troops descended upon the American airbase at Khe Sahn. For weeks A the airfield had come under sporadic fire and bombardment from NVA artillery. US intelligence had been reporting that multiple regiments of North Vietnamese troops had penetrated into the region surrounding the airfield and were poised to strike at any time. For the next six months, American and South Vietnamese troops fought a vicious battle of attrition with the North Vietnamese defending the airfield, and nearly caused the United States to unleash its nuclear arsenal. The Khe Sahn airfield was located just below the DMZ between North and South Vietnam. It had served as a Special Forces outpost in the early phase of American operations in Vietnam before being established as an anchor point for US Marine operations in the northern part of South Vietnam. 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Following the Hill Battles, a decision was made to further strengthen American In the following pages, you see we have released three new boxed games: presence at the Khe Sahn airbase, in hopes that it would instigate Wellington’s Victory, Napoleon’s Last Battles (4th Edition), and D-Day at the North Vietnamese to fight a set piece battle with US forces. Peleliu. These games feature further improvements in the components (the When the NVA launched their full scale assault on the airbase in Wellington’s Victory counters were picked in a customer survey from several January 1968, Gen. Westmoreland was convinced a nuclear attack sample sets), and both WV and NLB include a full-color rules booklet with lavish would persuade the Communists to call off their attack. Fearing the examples of play and order of battle option illustrations. airbase would be overrun like the French airbase at Dien Bien Phu, Westmoreland pressed Pacific Command to use nuclear or chemical weapons to halt the assault. The effort failed, but not because Four folio games and eight minis are being released in this Dispatch. The folios are: of American refusal to use those types of weapons. Unclassified Alamein, Mortain Counterattack (during the Normandy Campaign), Shanghai documents report that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara sent a Incident (1932), and Battles for the Galactic Empire. The minis include: memo to President Lyndon B. 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