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Jan 1, 1971
This mathematical computer model provides a systematic approach for investigating route selection criteria and degree of randomness, provided some infiltration routes are known to the investigator.
Expert Insights
Jan 1, 1970
Rapidly being enlisted on one side or the other as a result of the Southeast Asian war, the minorities in Laos are briefly profiled in these notes dealing with the social, economic, and political effects of the conflict between the Royal Lao and Path...
Jan 1, 1969
An outline of the military, political, and economic situation in Laos and the implications for a settlement in Vietnam.
An analysis of the role of Vietnamese Communists in the Lao Communist (Pathet Lao) insurgency.
Jan 1, 1968
A comment prepared in lieu of a revision of the late Bernard Fall's study of the Pathet Lao movement in Robert A. Scalapino (ed.), [The Communist Revolution in Asia]. In 1965, the international relations of the Pathet Lao movement and the role playe...
An analysis of the North Vietnamese role in Laos.
Jan 1, 1967
A survey of political and economic developments in Laos during 1967.
Jan 1, 1964
A review of China's 1964 attitudes toward her Asian neighbors.
An examination of the role that North Vietnam is playing in the present struggle in South Vietnam. The Momorandum also discusses the function of Laos and Cambodia in providing passage and safe haven for the insurgents.
Jan 1, 1961
An outline of some of the outstanding characteristics of the Chinese as an urban ethnic group, and an assessment of their economic role in the Lao economy.
A discussion of cyclic regional revolution (defined as a conflict technique which, in accordance with international communism, exploits national liberation movements). This technique, better than any other, minimies the jeopardy to the Soviet Union's...
A review of the strategic value of Laos since the 19th century European struggle in Southeast Asia for balance of power. After the decline of French power in 1945, the Communist bloc and the JWestern alliance became the two contending powers in the a...
