Asia Society Northern California and the Japan Policy Research Institute hosted veteran journalists Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern for a program on November 12 looking at the “secret” U.S. bombing of ...
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.
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 ...
Large swaths of land in Southeast Asia are littered with unexploded bombs dropped by American forces during the Vietnam 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 ...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton views an exhibit on Vietnam War bombing in Vientiane, Laos. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) No country in world history has been bombed more on a per ...
Wisconsin Public Radio During the Vietnam War, the American military secretly recruited fighters in Laos to aid in a fight ...