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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Main Author: Kurlantzick, Joshua (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster , c2017
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