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|a Kurlantzick, Joshua ,
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|a A great place to have a war :
|b America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA
|c Joshua Kurlantzick
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|a America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA
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|a 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 ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces in Laos. Kurlantzick shows how the brutal war lasted nearly two decades, killed
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|a United States
|x Central Intelligence Agency
|x History
|x 20th century
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|a Vietnam War, 1961-1975
|x Campaigns
|z Laos
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|a Vietnam War, 1961-1975
|x Secret service
|z United States
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|c OPEN SHELF (30 DAYS)
|e Gong Badak Campus
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