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The Laotian Civil War was waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December 1975. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater during the Vietnam War with both sides receiving heavy external support in a proxy war between the global Cold War superpowers.
- CIA activities in Laos
The CIA-organized group of Hmong tribesmen fighting in the...
- CIA activities in Laos
The CIA-organized group of Hmong tribesmen fighting in the Vietnam War is known as the "Secret Army", and their participation was called the Secret War, where the Secret War is meant to denote the Laotian Civil War (1960–1975) and the Laotian front of the Vietnam War.
W ciągu niemal 10 lat (1964–1973) prowadzenia przez Stany Zjednoczone misji obserwacyjnych i bombardowań, Laos zyskał tytuł najbardziej zbombardowanego państwa (w przeliczeniu na jednego mieszkańca) w historii działań wojennych.
Barrel Roll and the "Secret Army" attempted to stem an increasing tide of People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Pathet Lao offensives. Barrel Roll was one of the most closely held secrets and one of the most unknown components of the American military commitment in Southeast Asia.
W sierpniu 1950 roku Souphanouvong został przywódcą ruchu Pathet Lao i jego politycznego skrzydła Neo Lao Hat Sat (Laotański Front Patriotyczny). W kwietniu 1953 roku żołnierze północnowietnamscy i znajdujący się w Wietnamie partyzanci laotańscy dokonali interwencji zbrojnej w Laosie.
19 godz. temu · Only revealed to the US public in 1971, the military campaign in Laos was one of the most closely held secrets in the US’s long, disastrous and ultimately unsuccessful Cold War-era, anti ...
The largest paramilitary operations ever undertaken by CIA up to this writing took place in the small Southeast Asian Kingdom of Laos. For more than 13 years, the Agency directed native forces that fought major North Vietnamese units to a standstill.
