Keywords
Loa, Battle Strategy, United States
Abstract
Summer 1963: Roger Hilsman's plane pierced the clouds to reveal the Plaines des Jarres, a flat area strewn with the remains of age-old rock jars. The plains below showed signs of the batterings of war: slit trenches, bunkers, and a network of roads. The weather was dry and arid, and the terrain resembled a ghost town in the American West more than the "land of a million elephants"-an allusion to the tremendous war machine of a medieval Lao king.
Recommended Citation
Stevenson, Russell
(2007)
"Eisenhower, Kennedy, and America's Covert Military Operations in Laos,"
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing: Vol. 36:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thetean/vol36/iss1/8
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