Guerrillas were trained to fight in this conflict as part of Operation Momentum, which funneled large amounts of money to Vang Pao's troops.
Joshua Kurlantzick's recent book about this conflict takes its name from Robert Amory Jr.'s quote about how the location in which this conflict occurred was a "great place to have a war". In 2007, Harrison Jack and a veteran of this conflict were arrested as part of the federal investigation Operation Tarnished Eagle. During this conflict, a strongman named Tony Poe mailed a bag of ears to an embassy to intimidate the opposing side. Guerrillas were trained to fight in this conflict as part of Operation Momentum, which funneled large amounts of money to Vang Pao's troops. This conflict ended with the abdication of Sisavang Vatthana, though numerous unexploded ordnance placed during it still threatens the land around the Plain of Jars. For 10 points, name this 20th-century civil war in Southeast Asia, which the CIA officially referred to as the "Secret War".
Joshua Kurlantzick's recent book about this conflict takes its name from Robert Amory Jr.'s quote about how the location in which this conflict occurred was a "great place to have a war".
Laotian Civil War [or Secret War before it is mentioned]