Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I saw some videos on this and felt like they haven't extensively covered some thing so obvious.
Topics:
Black Ops 1: Russians in Laos
Black Ops Cold War: The CIA race to evacuate nuclear reactor in Da Lat before North Vietnam's Army reaches it first
Russia has uncovertly supplied air drops and air lifts to North Vietnam, Pathet Lao, and Neutralist Lao in their fight against the US-backed Royal Lao Army.
There were hardly Soviet combat troops in South Vietnam (or North Vietnam), but the idea that they were in Laos like in the Black Ops 1 campaign sounded ridiculous, but this real world parallel just made me think about it for a second.
Also Fractured Jaw plan wasn't that interesting, it was just Westmoreland spitballing a MacArthur type plan and had people in Congress think that's the dumbest thing in existence.
ON THE OTHER HAND, the race to evacuate Southeast Asia's first nuclear power plant's vital assets WHILE EVACUATING VIETNAMESE CIVILIANS before the NVA reach it first on March 30, 1975 with Kissinger's acknowledgment, is insanely more interesting.
It's not a nuclear bomb, but it's close haha, not sure if Treyarch got the idea from it but it's a very interesting parallel, I didn't even know South Vietnam had a nuclear powerplant.
Sources:
jfkjmn.com/new-page-80
pacificairlifter.com/years-gone-by/the-race-to-remove-the-nuclear-fuel-from-a-nuclear-reactor-in-vietnam-before-the-communist-got-there
At War in the Shadow of Vietnam by Castle, Timothy
CIA War in Laos 1955-1975 (CIA document)
Taiwan in the Vietnam War:
youtube.com/watch?v=CbZ5TS8mxI8&ab_channel=Kabutoes
Mil Mi 4 Hound in Vietnam War:
youtube.com/watch?v=TfKmyuMHt2w&ab_channel=Kabutoes
Pathet Lao Propaganda on Lam Son 719
youtu.be/DIZd8grlq-I
I saw some videos on this and felt like they haven't extensively covered some thing so obvious.
Topics:
Black Ops 1: Russians in Laos
Black Ops Cold War: The CIA race to evacuate nuclear reactor in Da Lat before North Vietnam's Army reaches it first
Russia has uncovertly supplied air drops and air lifts to North Vietnam, Pathet Lao, and Neutralist Lao in their fight against the US-backed Royal Lao Army.
There were hardly Soviet combat troops in South Vietnam (or North Vietnam), but the idea that they were in Laos like in the Black Ops 1 campaign sounded ridiculous, but this real world parallel just made me think about it for a second.
Also Fractured Jaw plan wasn't that interesting, it was just Westmoreland spitballing a MacArthur type plan and had people in Congress think that's the dumbest thing in existence.
ON THE OTHER HAND, the race to evacuate Southeast Asia's first nuclear power plant's vital assets WHILE EVACUATING VIETNAMESE CIVILIANS before the NVA reach it first on March 30, 1975 with Kissinger's acknowledgment, is insanely more interesting.
It's not a nuclear bomb, but it's close haha, not sure if Treyarch got the idea from it but it's a very interesting parallel, I didn't even know South Vietnam had a nuclear powerplant.
Sources:
jfkjmn.com/new-page-80
pacificairlifter.com/years-gone-by/the-race-to-remove-the-nuclear-fuel-from-a-nuclear-reactor-in-vietnam-before-the-communist-got-there
At War in the Shadow of Vietnam by Castle, Timothy
CIA War in Laos 1955-1975 (CIA document)
Taiwan in the Vietnam War:
youtube.com/watch?v=CbZ5TS8mxI8&ab_channel=Kabutoes
Mil Mi 4 Hound in Vietnam War:
youtube.com/watch?v=TfKmyuMHt2w&ab_channel=Kabutoes
Pathet Lao Propaganda on Lam Son 719
youtu.be/DIZd8grlq-I
