Operation Strength II

Operation Strength II
Part of Laotian Civil War, Vietnam War
Date 6–31 March 1972 Location Plain of Jars, Laos Result Diversion attempt by the Kingdom of Laos fails
Belligerents
Kingdom of Laos Supported by:  United States CIA	North Vietnam
Commanders and leaders
Vang Pao Bounphone Marthepharak	Unknown
Units involved
Mobile Group 21 Auto Defense Choc of Mobile Group 27 Mobile Group 22 Mobile Group 24 Pilatus PC-6 Porters	Unknown

Operation Strength II (6–31 March 1972) was a Royalist military offensive of the Laotian Civil War. It was devised as another diversion in the mode of the original Operation Strength. Planned as a pincer movement on the Plain of Jars, Operation Strength II's beginning was grossly hampered by combat refusals and desertions from one of its two task forces. Loss of tactical air support as the Easter Offensive began in South Vietnam also weakened the Laotian effort. In any event, neither pincer did much toward its goal of distracting the People's Army of Vietnam from its attempts to overrun the strategic guerrilla base at Long Tieng and end the war.