Deep in the sweltering jungles of central Laos, Long Tieng played a central role in the United States’ fight to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. Fifty years after its fall, we ...

From the early 1960s to 1975, Long Tieng served as the headquarters of a clandestine war effort backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

The A-7E Corsair II wasn’t fast, but it was deadly accurate—and that made all the difference in Southeast Asia. While the Air Force’s A-7D brought precision to inland targets, it was the Navy’s ...

But they weren’t alone over the skies of Laos. Pilots from Air America, a secret CIA-owned airline, also operated in Long Tieng; they flew in crucial supplies to the base and conducted daring ...