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A great place to have a war : America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA / 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 fight communist forces in Laos. While remaining 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, which continued under Presidents Kennedy and Nixon, lasted nearly two decades, killed one-tenth of Laos's total population, left thousands of unexploded bombs in the ground, and changed the nature of the CIA forever.
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- ISBN: 1451667868
- ISBN: 9781451667868
- Physical Description: 323 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | United States. Central Intelligence Agency > History > 20th century. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Campaigns > Laos. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Secret service > United States. |
| Genre: | History. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Camden County Library District - Osage Beach | 959.704 Kurlantzick (Text) | 31320003423972 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| North Kansas City Public Library | 959.70438 KURLANTZICK 2017 (Text) | 0001002175469 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Scenic Regional-Sullivan | 959.7043 KUR (Text) | 3005536440 | NonFiction | Available | - |
