It’s the summer of 1990 and America has just won the Cold War and finds itself the last superpower. As Iraqi tanks roll into Kuwait the world calls for action. The coalition is short one major player as America is distracted by an old nemesis. Out of Vietnam, hard evidence of hundreds of surviving American prisoners of war has been made public. With a Vietnam War veteran and former POW sitting in the oval office and overwhelming public outrage the country has only one choice:
The American military is going back to Vietnam.
And this time they are going to win.
In this episode the Vietnam crisis escalates as the USS Missouri sails for the Gulf of Tonkin to enforce an embargo, Special Forces sneak across the Vietnam border looking for POWs and fighters and bombers move into the Pacific preparing for the air campaign. Meanwhile a new joint command center is stood up in Hawaii to oversee the campaign as Vietnam II, also known as Operation Jungle Storm, becomes the first US military joint operation. For the first time in the history of the Department of Defense interservice rivalries will be pushed aside and all four branches will be working as one.
As the January 16th, 1991 deadline approaches and the POWs are not released the American military prepares for precision strikes against Vietnam.