> Not quite to the same extent, or nearly as late. China's Four Pests campaign, for instance, ran from 1958 to 1962 and was ecologically disastrous.
Operation Ranch Hand ran 1962-1972, so that's a pretty lazy snipe.
Operation Ranch Hand ran 1962-1972, so that's a pretty lazy snipe.
While Ranch Hand was indefensible and US leaders should have been prosecuted for it, the scale of it is minuscule compared to the ecological damage of the Four Pests campaign.