| Operation Bedrock | |||||||||
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| Part of Laotian Civil War; Vietnam War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Kingdom of LaosSupported by &sq=Albert Einstein&lang=en&file=File:Flag_of_the_U.S._Central_Intelligence_Agency.svg){kind=small} CIA of the United States |
 North VietnamSupported by:  Soviet Union People's Republic of China | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
| Groupement Mobile 41 | 46th Battalion | ||||||||
Operation Bedrock (Laos) (1–9 November 1971) was a military offensive staged by the Royal Lao Armed Forces against the People's Army of Vietnam in Military Region 4 of the Kingdom of Laos. Its purpose was disruption of the supply of rice to Communist forces occupying the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It was successful.