The French Indochina war
Strategic planning
Researching jet turbine helicopters(we hear it may be useful in Indochina).
Bought C47 design from the USA to supply troops in the jungles of Indochina.
Building supply depots all over Indochina. The main hinderance to warfare there is supply.
The war
In the North our encircled forces near Hanoi got completely wiped out under massive artillery bombardment.
Laos is being slowly infiltrated and French forces have fallen back tpo Hue city, where with the help of massed air power and artillery held the Vietminh back.
That is the current situation in January 1950.
Reinforcements have arrived in Indochina, but are largely armored, which other than around the main roadways cannot fight the Vietminh in the jungles for supply and terrain reasons.
I am in the process of ferrying French infantrymen to reinforce the Area, in large numbers. Bringing the French forces in Indochina up from now a depleted 10,000 to 100,000 men.
The forces in IC consist mainly of Diesel Sherman tanks and Motorised infantry, on the way are Paratroopers, Marines, halftracks and other mechanised forces.
Copious artillery is also on the way, along with self propelled artillery such as M7 Priests.
Air forces are depleted in IC so I am going to build several air fabs and land fabs in Saigon to produce troops directly in IC.
One issue with Guerillas is that they are very good vs low air forces, I'm hoping to make strategic bombers to compensate for this.