US Army Thailand 1971-1975

[Black Heart]

If we know anything today, Thailand [or the high elite and govt sectors] made quite a bundle as America's pimping-out process and underwriting took place from 1955 through 1975. Naturally, the hundreds of millions of dollars were welcome and changed the social landscape in those years as it had never been before [in comparative time measurements].

True, and there is a decent amount of information on this in the latest biography of Jim Thompson.

I read it but forgot the name.

[cambtek]

Great thread this.Just a bit of sad reality from me. My Thai wife was raped by Thai soldiers when walking home from school near Korat. She must have been about 15. Later her mother sold her to a black American with whom she had a baby. The baby boy was taken away as soon as he was born and she assumed that he was disposed of, as he was black.
This is a reminder of the reality for some Thais of the military occupation.