 Analysis of Mission Command Within the Battle of Ia Drang Dave Maxwell Sat, 01142023 - 11:13am The battle at the landing zone X-RAY LZ X-RAY in the Ia Drang River Valley occurred from 14 November to 16 November 1965. Lieutenant Colonel LTC Harold Moore led the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, against numerically superior elements of the North Vietnamese Army NVA led by General Chu Huy Man Builder et al., 1999. This operation responded to the NVA attack on an American compound that... 