Each day a woman hangs out her wash to dry alongside one of the myriad branches of the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. This innocent-looking domestic scene is of particular interest to U.S. reconnaissance ...

You know, the Vietnam war looms pretty large in modern American history and in the consciousness of a lot of Americans. Laos, which was an adjacent country in Southeast Asia, is far less known. Let's ...

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 ...

Most Americans learn something about the Vietnam War at school. Fewer learn about the shadow war that was being fought alongside it. From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs ...

Its origins lay in the immediate aftermath of World War II when the Japanese were forced to surrender the French colony of Laos to its former masters. But France’s empire in Indochina was finished and ...

A new initiative is aimed at raising awareness about a dark and often forgotten chapter of U.S. history: the secret bombing of Laos during the Vietnam War. Nearly half a century later, most Americans ...