Allan Stanton, the author's father, in a photo dated April 1969 Peter Lang-Stanton set out to make a radio documentary about the truth of his father's role in one of the largest clandestine ...

Authorised by then-President John F. Kennedy, the Central Intelligence Agency ran the war in secret which obliterated Laos, killing tens of thousands of people from 1964 to 1973. Using ...

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 ...

In Laos last week everything was quiet except the guns. In accordance with the 14-nation Geneva agreement last July, the Communist Pathet Lao has released five U.S. and one Filipino prisoner ...

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 ...

I'm not talking about clandestine and covert actions, sending guerrillas into remote corners of the world, or the running of the secret wars in Laos. I'm talking about understanding the war.

From Laos to America” is home to the country’s largest collection of Lao and Hmong Cultural artifacts. Currently, it’s ...

Their own perceptions of their membership of the nation have been overlooked.Post-War Laos is a set to be a landmark study, and an original contribution which refines established theories of ...

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 ...

As cultural institutions face an existential crisis over who funds them and how, the 88-year-old artist Hans Haacke is still ...