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20 January 1949; 76 years ago () Service branches: Lao People's Army Lao People's Navy Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force [1] Headquarters: Vientiane: Leadership; Governing body: Defence and Public Security Commission: DPSC Chairman, President and General Secretary: Thongloun Sisoulith: Minister of Defence: General Chansamone Chanyalath
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Operation Millpond, which operated from 13 March 1961 through August 1961, was an American covert operation designed to introduce air power into the Laotian Civil War.A force of 16 B26s, 16 Sikorsky H-34s, and other materiel were hastily shipped in from Okinawa and held ready to operate from the Kingdom of Thailand.
Under the terms of the armistice signed at the Geneva Conference on Indochina on July 20, 1954, by the French Union High Command and the Việt Minh, all Việt Minh troops had to withdraw from Laos within 120 days. Laos was prohibited from having foreign military bases or personnel on its soil and from joining any military alliance.
To meet the threat represented by the Pathet Lao insurgency, the Royal Lao Army depended on a small French military training mission (Mission Militaire Française près du Gouvernment Royale du Laos or MMF-GRL), [31] headed by a general officer, an exceptional arrangement permitted under the 1955 Geneva Accords, as well as covert assistance ...
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Lima Site 85 (LS-85 alphanumeric code of the phonetic 1st letter used to conceal this covert operation [3]) was a clandestine military installation in the Royal Kingdom of Laos guarded by the Hmong "Secret Army", the Central Intelligence Agency, and the United States Air Force used for Vietnam War covert operations against communist targets in ostensibly neutral Laos under attack by the ...
Covert sites of the Laotian Civil War were clandestine U.S. military installations for conducting covert paramilitary and combat operations in the Kingdom of Laos. Airstrips within the Kingdom of Laos were originally designated by Air America as "Site XX" (with XX being a number). In September 1961, the designation changed to "VS XX", meaning ...