[Get free] Astonishing Legends A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
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| #40348 in Books | Simon Schuster | 2017-01-24 | 2017-01-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,.0 | File Name: 1451667868 | 336 pages | Simon Schuster
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Outstanding Read, An Eyeopener|By Kug|One of the more interesting books I've read on the wars in Vietnam et al. It documents the beginnings of the CIA morphing from a purely clandestine intelligence agency to a paramilitary organization. Very well written, it tells a sad story of bureaucracy in and out of control. The saddest for me is the central figures are the Hmong tribesm||“Engrossing.... [Kurlantzick] argues persuasively that the so-called secret war in Laos — which eventually was discovered by the press — set a pattern for future conflicts.... His book shows how critical it is for American leaders to b
The untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy.
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 ...
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