How did the CPK develop their plan to genuinely start a war in Cambodia?

Why did Sihanouk seek rapprochment with the United States?

How did the bombing of Cambodia begin?

Time Period Covered 1967-1968

January 1968 will prove to be a pivotal month for the Vietnamese, Cambodian and American interests in the war. This episode details how the Cambodian communist movement finally began an armed struggle against the Sihanouk government. How the United States negotiated a deal to bomb Cambodia, and how the Vietnamese began a counter attack against the Saigon regime.

Sources

Philip Short Pol Pot: History of a Nightmare

David Chandler The Tragedy of Cambodian History & Brother Number One

Ben Kiernan How Pol Pot Came to Power and Peasants & Politics in Kampuchea

Milton Osbourne Sihanouk

Steve Heder Cambodian Communism and the Vietnamese Model

Elizabeth Becker When the War was Over

Nic Dunlop Lost Executioner

ECCC Case 001 Witness Testimony 2009

Shawcross Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia

CIA FOIA