Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clandestine Laotian and South Viet namese commando teams led by U.S. Green Berets have stepped up the number of their covert forays into Laos. But the bulk of the U.S. presence in Laos, open and covert, is aimed at maintaining the uneasy balance of forces in Laos. To that end, the U.S. provides most of the money for the government's budget, and enough military aid to keep the 70,000-man Laotian forces equipped to fight...
There is still considerable irony in one 1958 episode in which the North Vietnamese and Poles opposed the dissolution of the Laotian ICC. The ICC claimed its job was finished, but the Communists disagreed. They were afraid a more effective supervisory force--namely the new Laotian government--would replace...
...Green Berets and 225 of the irregulars, all presumed dead. Its loss did not materially affect the defense of Khe Sanh itself, said a top U.S. officer, but "it is crucial to us in the sense that we want to know what's coming over the Laotian border." And he added: "We thought we could hang onto...
...where it can defend itself. Around Khe Sanh he has ringed 40,000 troops. Northward is grouped his 325C Division, to the south lies the 304. To the east lies the 324B and another division, and to the southeast there are elements of a fifth division. Across the Laotian border and north of the 17th parallel are Giap's Russian-made 152-mm. howitzers...
Symbolically Vital. Khe Sanh is eminently worth holding?and defending. It is a major point on the DMZ defense line, the barrier that U.S. forces have sought to string from the sea below the DMZ to the Laotian border. It now blocks off the easiest supply line that Giap has into South Viet Nam. By taking Khe Sanh, the Communists would outflank all the allied forces in Quang Tri province and part of Thua Thien province as well, probably forcing a fallback to a new defense line?perhaps as far back at Hué. As Giap well knows, Khe Sanh...