Tag: Indochina War
April 30, 2025 marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Indochina War, which lasted roughly from 1962 to 1975.
In the United States, a revisionism has long taken hold in which American soldiers have been imagined as victims of perfidious communist governments.
For the people of Indochina, however, the...
In the 1990 movie, Air America, Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr., play two Air America pilots who smuggle heroin while supporting U.S. proxies in the Vietnam War.
Air America was an airline run by the CIA previously called Civil Air Transport (CAT), which had been formed by General Claire...
Laotians continue to be crippled and maimed by unexploded ordnance left over from the Indochina War.
Because of the world’s indifference, only one percent of 80 million undetonated antipersonnel bombs have been cleared.
On a bright Saturday morning, August 2, 2008, Yae Li, a middle-aged rice farmer with six children,...
