Phou Khao Kham

Phou Khai Kham
Part of Laotian Civil War; Vietnam War
Date5 August – 21 September 1971
Location
Sala Phou Khoun and Muang Soui in northern Laos
Result Royalists take Muang Soui, do not take Sala Phou Khoun
Belligerents
 Kingdom of Laos
Supported by
 United States
Laos Pathet Lao
Supported by
 North Vietnam

 Soviet Union
 People's Republic of China
Units involved
Bataillon Commando 206
Bataillon Infanterie 6
Commando Raiders
21st Special Operations Squadron
Royal Lao Air Force
U.S. Air Force A-1 Skyraiders
At least one battalion
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown

Phou Khao Kham (Gold Mountain), (5 August – 25 September 1971) was a Royal Lao Government military offensive operation of the Laotian Civil War designed to clear Communist forces off Routes 13 and 7 north of the administrative capital of Vientiane. Its end objective was the capture of the forward fighter base at Muang Soui on the Plain of Jars. Although it succeeded in taking the air base, it failed to remove a concentration of Communist troops at the Sala Phou Khoun intersection of Routes 7 and 13.