Lower Laos and Northeast Cambodia campaign

Lower Laos and Northeast Cambodia campaign
Part of the First Indochina War

Viet Minh and allies extended controlled territories in early 1954
Date21 December 1953 – May 1954
Location
Result

Viet Minh-allied victory

Belligerents
Việt Minh
Pathet Lao
Khmer Issarak

French Union

Commanders and leaders
Ho Chi Minh
Võ Nguyên Giáp
Nguyễn Thanh Sơn
Souphanouvong
Tou Samouth
Henri Navarre
Nguyễn Ngọc Lễ
Sing Rattanasamai
Casualties and losses
unknown est. 2,000 dead

The Lower Laos and Northeast Cambodia campaign (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Hạ Lào và Đông Bắc Campuchia) was a military campaign of the People's Army of Vietnam military campaign aimed at spreading Vietnamese communist influence to Indochina in support of the Pathet Lao and Khmer Issarak.[1] It was the only military campaign that all the Communist forces in Indochina had participated in.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Đánh chia cắt chiến lược và phối hợp, hiệp đồng tác chiến chiến dịch".
  2. ^ "Đỉnh cao của liên minh chiến đấu Việt Nam - Lào - Campuchia trong kháng chiến chống Pháp".