Pathet Lao

In Laos, North Vietnamese battalions operated with Pathet Lao units in a battle against pro-Western forces for control of the strategic Plain of Jars.

Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010

If that failed to produce a cease-fire, Kennedy was advised to use tactical nuclear weapons and air strikes against the Pathet Lao.

Gordon Goldstein: Team of Rivals: JFK's Lessons for Commander-in-Chief Obama 2008

Pacific Command to prepare for potential air strikes against North Vietnam and perhaps southern China, all in response to new advances by the communist Pathet Lao insurgency in Laos.

Gordon Goldstein: Team of Rivals: JFK's Lessons for Commander-in-Chief Obama 2008

The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government.

George Bush's Samson Option 2007

The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government.

George Bush's Samson Option 2007

The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government.

George Bush's Samson Option 2007

The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government.

George Bush's Samson Option 2007

Between 1964 and 1973, the United States dumped four billion pounds of bombs on the country in a "secret war" against Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese communists.

Plain of Jars 2005

Villagers there, while fairly sympathetic to the leftist Pathet Lao and fairly disdainful of the right-wing National Union government that had won power in 1960 in an election rigged by the CIA, were less than fervently political.

Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003

Within weeks of that inconclusive but inferential conversation, during which time the airmen continued to enjoy the hospitality of Fan Nan Nan and to follow their nebulous pursuits, the Hanoi-backed Pathet Lao had seized control of most of Laos.

Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003