Hotel Constellation : Notes from America’s Secret War in Laos
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Undercover Armies – CIA and Surrogate warfare in Laos
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Kennedy and Khrushchev agree on neutrality for Laos
1961-06-04 President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, meeting in Vienna, strike a bargain to support a neutral and independent Laos. Laos had been the scene of an ongoing communist insurgency by the Pathet Lao guerrillas. In July 1959, the…
Laotian Hmong Fighter Bomber Pilots
Laotian Hmong Fighter Bomber Pilots
Invasion of Laos 1971 by Robert D. Sander
In 1971, while U.S. ground forces were prohibited from crossing the Laotian border, a South Vietnamese Army corps, with U.S. air support, launched the largest airmobile operation in the history of warfare, Lam Son 719. The objective: to sever the…