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A great place to have a war

America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA

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An edition of A great place to have a war (2017)

A great place to have a war

America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

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  1. 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, campaigns

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United States, Laos

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20th century
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Titles
America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA
Copyright Date
2016

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
959.704/38
Library of Congress
DS557.8.L3 K87 2017, DS557.8.L3K87 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
323 pages
Number of pages
323

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OL27231083M
ISBN 10
1451667868, 1451667884
ISBN 13
9781451667868, 9781451667882
LCCN
2016005352
OCLC/WorldCat
948748112

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