Hmong News – Laos
Author analyzes how CIA in Laos changed the way U.S. wages war
The CIA was starting to arm Hmong hill tribe fighters to resist Vietnamese-led communist forces, but what began as a low-budget, guerrilla training mission morphed into a decade-long U.S. bombing campaign bigger than that unleashed on Japan and Germany in …
Thailand and Laos – day twenty (Chiang Mai, Tuesday)
Absurdly cheap. From there we went around the corner to the Hmong market. All the components for making traditional Hmong clothing can be found there, as well as clothing already made. It is where the locals shop. I am sure that we are charged farang …
Review: Book details how Laos changed America’s approach to war
The CIA was starting to arm Hmong hill tribe fighters to resist Vietnamese-led communist forces, but what began as a low-budget, guerrilla training mission morphed into a decade-long U.S. bombing campaign bigger than that unleashed on Japan and Germany in …
American Exceptionalism at the expense of Laos and elsewhere
Kurlantzick asserts that it began in 1961, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved Operation Momentum, a plan to create a proxy army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces in Laos, in order to minimize U.S. military involvement and keep the war …
The CIA in Laos changed the way America wages war
The CIA was starting to arm Hmong hill tribe fighters to resist Vietnamese-led communist forces, but what began as a low-budget, guerrilla training mission morphed into a decade-long U.S. bombing campaign bigger than that unleashed on Japan and Germany in …
The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2017
Afterland by Mai Der Vang (Graywolf, Apr.) – Vang, the 2016 Walt Whitman Award winner, tells the story of Hmong diaspora forced out of Laos and into exile as a result of the U.S.’s secret war. Vang’s unflinching poems address the status of refugees …
Annual Hmong festival a huge matchmaking party
LUANG PRABANG, Laos — An annual Hmong festival that takes place in a small Laotian village is also a huge matchmaking party. The festival, held on New Year’s Day according to the Hmong calendar, took place in early January this year in Phousang Kham …
Hmong: New Book Addresses US Legacy in Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam
The following article was published by Asian Review of Books: From 1961 to 1975, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) coordinated a proxy war in Laos as a part of America’s larger effort to prevent communism from overrunning all of Southeast Asia.
Kurlantzick Chronicles the U.S. Secret War in Laos and Creation of a Paramilitary CIA in New Book
Kurlantzick asserts that it began in 1961, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower approved Operation Momentum, a plan to create a proxy army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces in Laos, in order to minimize U.S. military involvement and keep the war …
Review: The CIA in Laos changed the way America wages war
The CIA was starting to arm Hmong hill tribe fighters to resist Vietnamese-led communist forces, but what began as a low-budget, guerrilla training mission morphed into a decade-long U.S. bombing campaign bigger than that unleashed on Japan and Germany in …
‘America In Laos’ Traces The Militarization Of The CIA
The CIA operatives turned to an ethnic group called the Hmong to do the bulk of the fighting. Their initial success led to a wider war in which heavy American bombing took a horrific toll on Laotian civilians. Kurlantzick says the practice of using CIA …
How a Tiny Southeast Asian Country Changed the CIA Forever
Kennedy decided to launch this covert operation in Laos. It started out with training and arming a small number of anti-communist fighters, mostly ethnic Hmong, and then grew into a massive operation that went on for years before the U.S. ever planned to …
‘America In Laos’ Traces The Militarization Of The CIA : NPR
The CIA operatives turned to an ethnic group called the Hmong to do the bulk of the fighting. Their initial success led to a wider war in which heavy American bombing took a horrific toll on Laotian civilians. Kurlantzick says the practice of using CIA …
New book exposes inner workings of the US’ ‘secret war’ in Laos
The area was a major theatre in the 1964-1973 secret war between the US and Hmong against the Pathet Lao and Vietnamese Communists. On average, a planeload of bombs was dropped every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day for nine years. Up to 30% of the bombs did not …
America’s secret war in Laos
A CIA operation then began to train and fight alongside an army taken mostly from the Hmong ethnic minority against the Pathet Lao—translated as “Lao Nation”—who were backed by North Vietnam. Hitting the Pathet Lao in the north and on the Ho Chi …
Thailand and Laos – day fifteen (Luang Prabang to Chiang Mai, Thursday)
Time for that last minute shopping! There was a small shop further up the road selling goods that were repurposed from Hmong clothing. Clare and I chose a wall hanging and some cushions covers, each with fabric that combined indigo batik and embroidery.
An odyssey with your future self: Singapore Art Biennale 2016
Aftermath ( 2016 ) by Pannaphan Yodmanee(JP/Rosa Connie Ladrido) Spirit of Sky and Earth 3 & 4, 2016 and Tree Spirit, 2012 by Tcheu Siong, Laos A refreshing change from all the techno-digital works, the traditional Hmong embroidery and “story cloths” of …
Thailand and Laos – day twelve (Luang Prabang, Monday)
While Stella continued to weave I was able to tour around the Centre and examine the exquisite batik being carried out by Mae, a Hmong woman. Wax is applied to hemp fabric in intricately detailed patterns, then the fabric dyed with indigo. It can then …
