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From Indochina to Iraq: At War With Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Noam Chomsky  and
K Hewison
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 11 , November 2007 , e18
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[1] At War With Asia was originally published in 1970, by Pantheon/Vintage. It was re-released in 2004 by AK. Press. The chapter on Laos was first published as “A Visit to Laos” in The New York Review of Books, 23 July 1970.

[2] These articles in Le Monde from 3 to 8 July 1968 reported on Decornoy's trip to Pathet Lao strongholds in northeastern Laos. Also see J. Decornoy (1970) “Laos: The Forgotten War,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 2, April-July, pp. 21-3.

[3] See T.D. Allman (1970) “Laos: the labyrinthine war,” Far Eastern Economic Review, 16, April and his articles in the New York Times, 25 August 1968, 18 September 1968, 28 September 1968, 17 October 1969, 26 October 1969, and 6 March 1970.

[4] See Chomsky's article, “In North Vietnam,” The New York Review of Books, 13 August 1970. The essay is also included in At War with Asia.

[5] New York: Quadrangle Books, 1971.

[6] Robert S. McNamara, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, New York: Times Books, 1995. See Chomsky's assessment of these memoirs in “Memories,” Z Magazine, July-August 1995.

[7] The article is “Bombs over Cambodia,” The Walrus (Canada), October 2006, pp. 62-9. The Yale University Genocide Studies Program is here and the Cambodia project is here.

[8] On 26 May 2004, the National Security Archive released a series of Kissinger telephone conversations, including Nixon's call to Kissinger ordering the bombing of Cambodia. Nixon stated, “… I want a plan where every goddamn thing that can fly goes into Cambodia and hits every target that is open.” He added, “I want everything that can fly to go in there and crack the hell out of them. There is no limitation on mileage and no limitation on budget.” (“Mr. Kissinger/President, December 9, 1970,” Box 29, File 2. See the Archive. According to Elizabeth Becker (New York Times, 27 May 2004), Kissinger transmitted this order as “A massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves.”

[9] New York Times, 22 December 1965, 17 February 1966 and 19 June 1966.

[10] See John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat. Japan in the Wake of World War II, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.

[11] See the organisation's website.

[12] For reports on the Asian energy grid, see Asia Times Online, 1 December 2005.

[13] Washington's China. The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006).

[14] See Martin van Creveld, “Iraq: a lost peace: When the Americans leave,” International Herald Tribune, 19 November 2003.

[15] See Cockburn's “How a bid to kidnap Iranian security officials sparked a diplomatic crisis,” The Independent (UK), 3 April 2007 and his reporting at Counterpunch, for example, “Behind the Denials: A De Facto Hostage Exchange,” 5 April 2007.

[16] See Noam Chomsky, “War on Terror,” Amnesty International Annual Lecture, Trinity College, Dublin, 18 January 2006.

[17] See here.