Army Day poster, This Is Your Army (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
A Lao-language Army Day poster built from about a dozen photographs: jeeps and a tank on parade, parachutes and aircraft overhead, marching soldiers with colours, and a uniformed officer on a reviewing stand. The headline calls the army 'your army' and its foot line calls it the keeper of peace and fighter for freedom. The tell is glittering generalities, with the parade imagery lending the army's ceremony to those abstractions.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- May 27, 1958
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America, Middle East (NAID 5051202), retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, May 27, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948898, 306-PPB-75).
Text on the object
ນີ້ແມ່ນກອງທັບຂອງທ່ານ ຜູ້ຮັກສາຄວາມສງົບແລະຕໍ່ສູ້ເພື່ອເສລີພາບຂອງທ່ານ [small Lao caption under the photographs, about three lines: illegible]
This is your army The keeper of your peace and fighter for your freedom [small caption: illegible]
Lao script read by eye from the scan; the three-line photograph caption is too small to read reliably.
