A Great Place to Have a War

Autori

• Joshua Kurlantzick

Parametri

• Narrativa
• Politica
• Saggistica
• Scienze politiche & Politica
• Storia

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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 one-tenth of Laos's total population, and changed the nature of the CIA forever

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2018

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