1. MacAlister Brown and Joseph J. Zasloff (1986) Apprentice Revolutionaries: The Communist Movement in Laos, 1930–1985 (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press), p. 11.
2. Martin Stuart-Fox (1986) Laos: Politics, Economics and Society (London and Boulde: Frances Pinter and Lynne Rienner), p. 44.
3. Arthur J. Dommen (1971) Conflict in Laos: The Politics of Neutralization (New York: Praeger), second edition, p. 17.