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The Agreement radically changed the geography of Indochina, resulting in independence for Laos. On 1 August 1954 the French army withdrew from Laos declaring independence for the nation alongside North Vietnam, South Vietnam and Cambodia which ended the First Indochina War but the Laotian Civil War was still ongoing.
The Laotian Civil War was a military conflict of the Cold War in Asia that pitted the guerrilla forces of the Marxist-oriented Pathet Lao against the armed and security forces of the Kingdom of Laos (French: Royaume du Laos), led by the conservative Royal Lao Government, between 1960 and 1975. Main combatants comprised:
While all the operations listed were part of the Laotian Civil War, not all of them were combat operations or battles. Coups, invasions, civic action projects, military training and procurement, and an opium smuggling incursion are included among the operations.
The Royal Lao Army Airborne was composed of the élite paratrooper battalions of the Royal Lao Army (RLA), the land component of the Royal Lao Armed Forces (commonly known by its French acronym FAR), which operated during the First Indochina War and the Laotian Civil War from 1948 to 1975.
The conflict between Hmong militias and the Pathet Lao continued in isolated pockets following the end of the Civil War. The government of Laos has been accused of committing genocide against the Hmong in collaboration with the Vietnamese army, [5] [6] with up to 100,000 killed out of a population of 400,000.
Part of the Vietnam War and the Laotian Civil War North Vietnam Laos: 1958 1959 Mexico–Guatemala conflict Guatemala Mexico: 1959 1959 Spirit Soldier rebellion (1959) China: Regiment of Spirit Soldiers 1959 1959 1959 Tibetan uprising China Tibet. Chushi Gangdruk. 1959 1959 1959 Mosul uprising: Iraq: Arab nationalist rebels 1959 1975 Laotian ...
On January 1, 1953, the ANL had 13,420 officers and enlisted men [27] and on July 1, 1954, the 1er, 2e, 4e, 5e, 7e and 8e BCLs became the 12e, 9e, 10e, 7e and 8e Laotian Infantry Battalions; these were subsequently integrated with the FTL and the BCLs on July 16 into the new Laotian army, whose strength rose to 25,000 men.
The War in Northern Laos. Command for Air Force History. OCLC 232549943. Castle, Timothy N. (1993). At War in the Shadow of Vietnam: U.S. Military Aid to the Royal Lao Government 1955–1975. ISBN 0-231-07977-X. Conboy, Kenneth and James Morrison (1995). Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Laos. Paladin Press. ISBN 978-1-58160-535-8.