U.S. bombing of Laos averaged one attack every eight minutes for nearly a decade.
Notes on verification
Statistic widely corroborated across independent journalistic and historical sources, including book reviews of Kurlantzick's work, Legacies of War, ABC News, and others. Minor variation in phrasing ('nine years' vs 'decade') does not undermine the core claim. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- A Great Place to Have a War | Council on Foreign Relations (seed:military_and_intelligence)
- https://www.legaciesofwar.org/legacies-library (corroboration)
- https://www.startribune.com/review-a-great-place-to-have-a-war-america-in-laos-and-the-birth-of-a-military-cia-by-joshua-kurlant/416380444 (corroboration)
- https://abcnews.com/International/bombing-laos-numbers/story?id=41890565 (corroboration)
- https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2066808/history-laos-secret-war-and-way-it-transformed-cia (corroboration)