For years, Cambodians, Vietnamese and Lao people in Minnesota have said they’ve struggled to get specific recognition in ...
Since neither the U.S. military nor the North Vietnamese forces were supposed to be in Laos, neither side publicly discussed the fighting, which came to be known as the “Secret War.” ...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the commencement of a major strand in the US’s secret war, Operation Barrel Roll – a nine-year US bombing campaign that would see Laos becoming the most ...
The secret war in Laos created a CIA that fights with real paramilitary forces and weapons as much as it gathers secrets, contends Kurlantzick. The war became a template for CIA proxy wars all ...
During that time, the United States dropped more than 270 million bombs as part of the American Secret War when it became involved in the Laotian Civil War by supporting the existing government ...
How could seemingly rational people—Americans like me—imagine they could win the war in Vietnam by subjecting Laos to such indiscriminate destruction? When I wrote that a secret war was being ...
VIENTIANE (Laotian Times): Laos government's promise to fight against the many corruption issues in the country is picking up steam. Recentlt, the Oudomxay Criminal Court handed jail sentences to ...
Service members and military officials gathered Friday morning at Hickam Airfield to welcome a Hawaii National Guard C-17 airplane arriving with precious cargo.