A great place to have a war

America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA

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Joshua Kurlantzick: A great place to have a war (2017)

323 pages

English language

Published Nov. 3, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-4516-6786-8
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OCLC Number:
948748112

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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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Subjects

  • United States
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
  • Campaigns
  • Secret service
  • History

Places

  • United States
  • Laos