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.

Between 1950 and early 1954 the Pathet Lao gained strength in northeastern Laos, and it had a firm grip on two of the country’s provinces when the peace conference in Geneva brought the First Indochina War to an end.

Jan 22, 2022 · Laos, an officially neutral state, became a battleground of the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. From 1964 to 1973, the US Air Surveillance dropped two million tons of ordnance on Laos- more than all the bombs dropped during World War Two combined.

May 16, 2022 · Nearly half a century later, most Americans — and even many young Laotian Americans — know little about the clandestine, nine-year, CIA-led military campaign informally called the “secret war.”...

The insurgency in Laos is a low-intensity conflict between the Laotian government on one side and former members of the Secret Army, Laotian royalists, and rebels from the Hmong and lowland Lao ethnic minorities on the other.

Dec 5, 2019 · The secret war in Laos, or the Laos Civil War to many who lived through it, set a precedent for a more militarized CIA with the power to engage in covert conflicts around the world.

From 1964-1973, the United States conducted a secretive bombing campaign that razed vast swathes of the country, killed tens of thousands, and continues to cause death and destruction today. The Secret War in Laos is forgotten to most people in the United States today.

Sep 19, 2024 · Untangle this complex conflict in Asia. The Laotian Civil War is often referred to as a “secret war,” because of the covert involvement of foreign powers.

The Laotian Civil War (1962-1975) was an internal fight between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government in which both the political rightists and leftists received heavy external support for a proxy war from the global Cold War superpowers.

May 30, 2017 · The Laotian Civil War was a covert theater among belligerents in the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Indochina War lasting from November 9, 1953, up to December 2, 1973. Communists, loyalists, right-wingers, and neutralists fought for the control of Laos.