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 ...

When Lee Po Cha traveled to Laos in November 2022, he was given the opportunity to detonate a bomb. It was the first time in 48 years he had been back to his birth country. It became the most ...

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 ...

Though Hmong and Laotian soldiers still won't have access to many federal benefits, a new bill would recognize them as ...

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 ...

The Laos war wasn’t completely separate — there was some overlap — but it was largely separate. Why was this kept secret? Do you think that Congress would have balked at this operation? Why was the ...

Obama has an opportunity to address the past by stepping up U.S. efforts to remove unexploded ordnance in Laos.

For the Hmong ethnic group, the New Year festival in northern Laos’ Phonsavan is the perfect time to don your finest, honour ...

The neutralization and partition of the kingdom of Laos stipulated by the Geneva Accords of 1962 has served Hanoi’s war against South Viet Nam admirably. Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail through the ...

In the shadows of the Vietnam War, the CIA organized a secret war in neighboring Laos to prevent communism from spreading deeper into Southeast Asia. The Hmong fought for the U.S. — and for ...

After 30 years of conspiracy theories and myth making, this film uncovers the story of the CIA's most extensive clandestine operation in the history of modern warfare: The Secret War in Laos ...