Indochina War (Land of Empires)

The Indochina War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Đông Dương, Lao: ແຫຼັມອິນດູຈີນສົງຄາມ, Khmer: សង្គ្រាមឥណ្ឌូចិន), also known as the War of Liberation (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Giải phóng, Lao: ສົງຄາມຂອງການເປີດເສລີ, Khmer: សង្រ្គាមនៃការរំដោះ) in Lang Xang and Vietnam, and known as the Traitor's War (French: Guerre des Traîtres) in France, was a Cold War-era proxy war that took place in French Indochina and southern China from the Tết Revolt on 17 February 1950 until the Fall of Diện Biên Phủ on 30 April 1970. This war was fought between the World Defense Federation-supported Indochinese rebels and the Greater French Republic and their loyalist armies. The Kingdom of Vietnam, Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Republic of Lan Xang were Chinese and Thai established nations, respectively, with indigenous leaders who fought on the side of the Viet Mihn rebels against the French and French Indochinese governments. The Japanese, Siamese and Republic Chinese Empires also committed a large amount of troops, rations, equipment, and other supplies to help the Indochinese rebels against the French.

During the course of the war, the Indochinese loyalists began to lose faith in the French government and began defecting to the Viet Mihn and/or Kingdom of Vietnam and Vietnamese DR. The World Defense Federation and their allies relied largely on search-and-destroy operations, carpet bombing, aerial assaults, as well as guerilla warfare to push the French out of Indochina.

The Empire of Japan and most of the other WDF members viewed their involvement in the Indochina War as a way to prevent the spread of facist, ultra-nationalist ideologies throughout the world. The Republican Chinese Empire and Siamese Empire viewed their involvement as a way to spread their influence and eventually take over Indochina. The French viewed the war as a "traitorous move" by their former allies and were trying to preserve their territorial integrity and glory.