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 ...

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 ...

Since neither the U.S. military nor the North Vietnamese forces were supposed to be in Laos, neither side publicly discussed the fighting, which came to be known as the “Secret War.” ...

The SOG unit is facing extinction. During the secret war in Laos, it is common practice for Air Force B-52s to destroy downed American pilots and trapped reconnaissance forces by “arc lighting ...

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 ...

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 ...

The crash site is located in Laos’ Saravan province, one of the most heavily littered areas with remaining unexploded bombs dropped by the U.S. during the secret war in Laos. DPAA needs the land ...

During a remembrance ceremony Wednesday in Vientiane, Laos, the agency received remains that might be those of U.S. personnel lost there during the Vietnam War. On Jan. 28, the agency conducted an ...

Since the last American soldier left South Vietnam in 1975, the history of Special Operations has become its own niche in the wider history of the war. If the reader is familiar ... interdict the Ho ...

Service members and military officials gathered Friday morning at Hickam Airfield to welcome a Hawaii National Guard C-17 ...