Posted on 05/24/2014 11:11:46 PM PDT by mojito
I’m familiar with the history; the legacy states of French Indochina had their own Communist insurgencies: Pathet Lao in Laos, Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and Viet Minh (later the Viet Cong) in South Vietnam (North Vietnam was already communist). Our operations in Cambodia (used as a sanctuary by the Viet Cong, and a supply line from North Vietnam) were a “secret war” because of the neutrality.
Like Thailand, Cambodia was also a monarchy; I believe the same kind formed part of the coalition government after “The Killing Fields”.
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