Courtesy of Legacies of War This year marks the 50th year since the last American bombs were dropped on Laos and Cambodia, as well as the 50th year since the Paris Peace Accords was signed.
For years, Cambodians, Vietnamese and Lao people in Minnesota have said they’ve struggled to get specific recognition in ...
records to give a definitive account of the secret war in the tiny Southeast Asian nation of Laos, which lasted from 1961 to 1973, and was the largest covert operation in U.S. history. The ...
is a remembrance of Operation Barrel Roll and the start of the darkest chapter in Laos’s modern history. Operation Barrel Roll formed a key component of the Secret War on Laos, so-called because ...
The Mekong still flows past Vientiane broad as history, but the riverfront ... like me—imagine they could win the war in Vietnam by subjecting Laos to such indiscriminate destruction?
An international effort is underway in rural areas of Laos, where 80 percent of the population lives, to remove the bombs.
The plane was flying in from Laos with what the military believes could be the remains of Americans killed in a secret battle during the Vietnam War. Service members wearing white gloves carefully ...
Since the last American soldier left South Vietnam in 1975, the history of Special Operations has become its own niche in the wider history of the war. If the reader is familiar with the genre ...
Many Hmong people fought for the U.S. during the “Secret War,” a CIA ... to honor Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese Minnesotans’ contributions to state and national history by specifically ...
VIENTIANE: The governments of Laos and Thailand will work more closely in joint efforts to quash the burgeoning drug trade across their shared border. The nature of this collaboration was ...
Three homeless teenagers in war-wracked Laos in 1969 find shelter in a once-grand farm manor that has been turned into a crumbling, makeshift hospital. Cries of patients are echoed by the scream of ...