"Pentagon Rural counter insurgency game (1966)" Topic
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| Tango01 | 24 Oct 2019 10:26 p.m. PST |
"This is an example of an early professional counter insurgency game written for the Pentagon to explore a rural based insurgency through a wargame. America was engaged in a strategic counter insurgency in Vietnam. On one side was the government of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) supported by America and other Western Allies. On the other side was the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) supported by Russia, China and other communist countries. The stakes could not have been higher. In America, every effort was being made to wage war more effectively in the conflict. One of the tools applied was wargaming, such as this game…"
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 Legion 4  | 25 Oct 2019 6:42 a.m. PST |
SPI released a very good COIN game called "Grunt" in the 60s too. That is about ops in Vietnam. I still have it. |
| Tango01 | 25 Oct 2019 11:47 a.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement
Armand |
| zardoz1957 | 25 Oct 2019 7:10 p.m. PST |
Grunt was very good. Iirc it came out in an issue of S&T. I have a slightly enhanced version they issued a bit later as an independent release. I believe they changed the title but I can't remember it at the senior moment. |
| Legion 4 | 26 Oct 2019 7:27 a.m. PST |
I think you are correct … yes it did come out in an SPI S&T issue. But yes I believe there was a second version made too. |
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