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- President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation. Washington feared the country would fall to communism, triggering a domino effect in the rest of Southeast Asia. In January 1961, Eisenhower approved the CIA's Operation Momentum, a plan to create a proxy army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces in Laos. Kurlantzick shows how the brutal war lasted nearly two decades, killed one-tenth of Laos's total population, and changed the nature of the CIA forever.
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United States, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Campaigns, Secret service, History, New York Times reviewed, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, United states, central intelligence agency, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, campaignsPlaces
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A great place to have a war: America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA
2017
in English
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Table of Contents
Baci
The CIA's first war
Vang Pao, Bill Lair, Tony Poe, and Bill Sullivan
Laos before the CIA, and the CIA before Laos
The CIA meets Laos
Operation Momentum begins
Kennedy expands Momentum
The not-so-secret secret: keeping a growing operation hidden
Enter the bombers
The wider war
Massacre
Going for broke
The victory and the loss
The secret war becomes public
Defeat and retreat
Skyline Ridge
Final days
Laos and the CIA: the legacy
Aftermath.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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