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A Great Place to Have a War - America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA (Paperback)
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A Great Place to Have a War - America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA (Paperback)
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The untold story of how America's secret war in Laos in the 1960s
transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a
military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.
January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of, is
at risk of falling to communism and triggering a domino effect
throughout Southeast Asia. This is what President Eisenhower
believed when he approved the CIA's Operation Momentum, creating an
army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces there. Largely
hidden from the American public-and most of Congress-Momentum
became the largest CIA paramilitary operation in the history of the
United States. The brutal war lasted more than a decade, left the
ground littered with thousands of unexploded bombs, and changed the
nature of the CIA forever. With "revelatory reporting" and "lucid
prose" (The Economist), Kurlantzick provides the definitive account
of the Laos war, focusing on the four key people who led the
operation: the CIA operative whose idea it was, the Hmong general
who led the proxy army in the field, the paramilitary specialist
who trained the Hmong forces, and the State Department careerist
who took control over the war as it grew. Using recently
declassified records and extensive interviews, Kurlantzick shows
for the first time how the CIA's clandestine adventures in one
small, Southeast Asian country became the template for how the
United States has conducted war ever since-all the way to today's
war on terrorism.
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