For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics. Fifty ...
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 ...
Back in 1961, the rumbles of war could be heard in Laos, a former French colony that shared a border with North and South Vietnam and Cambodia. The stocking-shaped, landlocked kingdom was threatened ...
This September marks 80 years since the end of World War II. Even at that distance, we are still feeling its legacy. In August, authorities discovered a 250-kg World War II bomb during construction in ...
A U.S. Marine searches for UXO near the village of Ban Na Ngom, Savannakhet, Laos. Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Hernan Vidana On September 5, President Barack Obama will become the ...
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lao and Hmong veterans, and their U.S. Special Forces and clandestine advisors of the Vietnam War in Laos, are being honored on Memorial Day in a culmination of month-long ...
Katie Rubin, far right, with Mindy Simonson at her side, walk through a series of maps and documents to explain to the family ...
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In my new book, A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a ...
For generations, the women of rural Laos have told the stories of their lives through weaving, threading symbols like flowers, rainstorms and mythical serpents into everyday clothes and fabrics. Fifty ...
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