American Forces Had Good Reason to Be in Laos during the Vietnam War
In order to suppress the liberation movement in South Vietnam and perpetuate the split of Vietnam, the USA worked out plans of “special war,” including the Staley-Taylor plan (1961), which envisioned the “pacification” of South Vietnam, primarily by the military forces of the Saigon regi...
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The Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, passed on May 23, 1975, under President Gerald Ford, was a response to the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. Under this act, approximately 130,000 refugees from South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were allowed to enter the Un...
War in Laos While America’s attention was tuned in on North and South Vietnam, the largest U.S. covert operation prior to the war in Afghanistan took place in Laos between 1962 and 1975. Laos was subjected to three million tons of bombing, which represented the heaviest U.S. bombing ...
Half a century after the CIA’s Secret War in Laos—the largest bombing campaign in history—explosive remnants of war continue to be part of people’s everyday lives. InBomb ChildrenLeah Zani offers a perceptive analysis of the long-term, often subtle, and unintended effects of massive air...
800,000 in Laos, and another 800,000 in Cambodia. A million in Iraq Before I was born, the U.S. played a significant role in unnecessarily killing tens of millions of people in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. None of those wars were "just wars." The United States...
During the war, this country is more poor, there is no railway and Port Road, and the road is the main road traffic of the mule. The first time I stepped into the land from Laos Mohan border, is a logistics transportation vehicle, in order to prevent the United States aircraft air ...
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