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> Between May 1964 and the summer of 1969, the Plain of Jars was heavily bombed by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) (see Secret War) operating against North Vietnamese
by pan69 5y ago
> Between May 1964 and the summer of 1969, the Plain of Jars was heavily bombed by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) (see Secret War) operating against North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao communist forces.[6] The USAF dropped more bombs on Laos, primarily the Plain of Jars, than it dropped during the whole of World War II. This included 262 million anti-personnel cluster bombs. An estimated 80 million of these did not explode and remain a deadly threat to the population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_of_Jars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_of_Jars
- ciguy 5y agoThe plain of jars area specifically was a dump site for bombers that could not drop their bombs over Hanoi due to weather. I believe that's partly why so many did not explode, they were not armed/activated prior to the drop. There are other parts of Laos where the USA essentially abandoned their Hmong alles in Laos leaving them to be slaughtered. There are generations of fighters living in the jungle to this day.
- Judgmentality 5y ago> This included 262 million anti-personnel cluster bombs. This is orders of magnitude more than I would have expected.
- 1cvmask 5y agoWe started our involvement in the “secret war” under President Eisenhower. - “In early 1955, a United States Operation Mission was set up in Laos. Its primary purpose was supply of military defense materials to the Royal Lao Government; 80% of its budget was dedicated to this purpose.[42] The United States paid 100% of the Lao military budget. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War - President Eisenhower pioneered the use of the CIA to perform coups. During the same period the CIA created and armed rebel groups in Indonesia to overthrow Sukarno. They even bombed ships and ports to destabilize the economy. A total of over 4 million people were killed to achieve the removal of Sukarno and installation of Suharto. 3 before Suharto and over 1 million killed after Suharto took over. This overthrow and political cleansing method was considered a major success and was subsequently named the Jakarta method. JFK then went on to employing the Jakarta Method everywhere he could. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Indonesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Indonesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jakarta_Method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965–66 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19... https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/indonesia-anti-communist-mass-murder-genocide https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/indonesia-anti-communist-mass...