A Great Place to Have a War
| Author | : Joshua Kurlantzick |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2017-01-24 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781451667868 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1451667868 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (868 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis A Great Place to Have a War by : Joshua Kurlantzick
Download or read book A Great Place to Have a War written by Joshua Kurlantzick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
