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A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
A Great Place to Have a War America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
In 1960, President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans had ever heard of. Washington feared the country would fall to communism, triggering a domino effect in the rest of Southeast Asia. So in January 1961, Eisenhower approved the CIA's Operation Momentum, a plan to create a proxy army of ethnic Hmong to f...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781515960393
ISBN-10: 1515960390
Publication Date: 1/24/2017
Edition: MP3 Una
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