The Erawan War: Volume 3: The Royal Lao Armed Forces 1961-1974
Best known by their French acronym for Forces Armes du Royaume - FAR - the Royal Lao Armed Forces were the official defense force of the Kingdom of Laos - what is now the Lao People's Democratic…
Specifikacia The Erawan War: Volume 3: The Royal Lao Armed Forces 1961-1974
Best known by their French acronym for Forces Armes du Royaume - FAR - the Royal Lao Armed Forces were the official defense force of the Kingdom of Laos - what is now the Lao People's Democratic Republic - from 1949 until 1975. Founded in 1947, when King Sisavang Vong declared Laos an independent nation (and a Kingdom from 1949), the FAR originally included a collection of pre-existing Lao police and militarized constabulary units, regular indigenous colonial troops and locally raised irregular auxiliaries. While the latter two were described in the first two volumes of this mini-series, the emphasis in The Erawan War, Volume 3 is on the FAR, the build-up of which was constantly hampered by the developments in the First Indochina War in neighboring Vietnam. Unsurprisingly, it was only in 1952 that the National Laotian Army - the predecessor of the Royal Lao Army - began to take
Erawan War Volume 2