A great place to have a war : America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA
1960. 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 eth...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster ,
c2017
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| Subjects: |
Badak General Collection
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DS557 8 L3 K87 2017 |
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| 1000171334 | OPEN SHELF (30 DAYS) | Book | Available |