Word: laotians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calling the incursion "a rather dubious type of operation," Huntington said, "If South Vietnam gets bogged down in the Laotian panhandle, this could put strong pressure on us to become involved in Laos, which I don't think would be good...
...Thus the Laotian experience suggests one important element of U.S. strategy for the whole of the Indochina war: as public pressure at home forces further troop reductions, air power is the one cheap and reasonably effective way of stemming the revolutionary tide in the countryside...
...trail is the main route for reinforcements and supplies being transmitted from North to South Vietnam. An additional objective would be to relieve the forces of Premier Souvanna Phouma in Laos, Souvanna said on Sunday that he was convinced that the North Vietnamese are planning a general offensive against Laotian government positions, weakened by constant warfare with Pathet Lao forces since...
...United States is using rocket-firing helicopter gunships in Laos in direct support of Laotian ground fighting North Vietnamese and Pathet Laos sources," the Globe revealed...
...State Department, did the American public learn in detail how U.S. aircraft based in Thailand were bombing northern Laos, the CIA was guiding the operations of Meo tribesmen, and the U.S. was providing millions in military assistance to Souvanna Phouma-all clear violations of the 1962 Geneva accords on Laotian neutrality...