List of wars involving Laos

This is a list of wars involving Laos, Lan Xang, or the Kingdom of Vientiane

Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results Casualties
Vietnamese-Laotian War (1467–80)
(14671480)
Lan Xang Đại Việt Defeat
Unknown, but high
Burmese–Siamese War (1568–70)
(15681570)
Kingdom of Ayutthaya (Siam)
Kingdom of Lan Xang
Kingdom of Burma
Burmese Controlled Thai States including:
Defeat
?
Lao rebellion (1826–28)
(18261828)
Kingdom of Vientiane
Kingdom of Champasak
Rattanakosin Kingdom (Siam) Defeat
?
First Indochina War
(19461954)
North Vietnam Viet Minh

Laos Lao Issara (1945–1949)

Cambodia Khmer Issarak

Japan Japanese volunteers

French Fourth Republic France

Cambodia Kingdom of Cambodia
(1953–1954)
 Kingdom of Laos
(1953–1954)
South Vietnam State of Vietnam (1949–1954)


Supported by:
 United States (1950–1954)

Viet Minh victory
Viet Minh:

Regulars: 125,000 Regional: 75,000 Popular Forces/Irregulars: 250,000 Former Imperial Japanese Army volunteers: ~5,000 Total: ~450,000

France: Expeditionary Corps: 190,000 Local Auxiliary: 55,000 State of Vietnam: 150,000

Total: ~450,000
Vietnam War
(19551975)
Vietnam North Vietnam
Viet Cong
Khmer Rouge
Laos Pathet Lao
 China
 North Korea
South Vietnam
United States
 South Korea
 Australia
 New Zealand
 Thailand
Kingdom of Laos
Cambodia Khmer Republic
Victory of North Vietnam and allies
Pathet Lao: ?

Laos: 15,000 dead

Laotian Civil War
(19591975)
 Kingdom of Laos
Forces Armées Neutralistes (since 1962)
 United States
 South Vietnam
 Thailand
Supported by:
Philippines
 Republic of China
Laos Pathet Lao
Forces Armées Neutralistes (1960-1962)
Patriotic Neutralists (since 1963)
 North Vietnam
Supported by:
 Soviet Union
 People's Republic of China
Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese victory
20,000–62,000 total dead
1967 Opium War
(29 July 19671 August 1967)
Shan Burmese  Republic of China  Kingdom of Laos Victory for General Ouane Rattikone and attention from the battle forced the Thai government to crack down on the Chinese. Khun Sa was defeated and his army dispersed.
N/A
Third Indochina War
(19751991)
 Vietnam
Laos LPDR
People's Republic of Kampuchea PRK
CPT
  • Pak Mai

Supported by:
 Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries (Until 1991)

 China
Democratic Kampuchea

Lao royalists
Hmong insurgents
FULRO
 Thailand
Supported by:
 United States
 North Korea

* Removal of the Khmer Rouge from power
?
Thai–Laotian Border War
(19871988)
 Laos
 Vietnam
 Thailand Peace talks in Bangkok
~1,000 total casualties
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