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Category : Xiangkhoang (Laos : Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Socio-economic Profile of Xieng Khouang Province
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Category : Xiangkhoang (Laos : Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : Xiangkhoang (Laos : Province)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Socio-economic Profile of Oudomsay Province
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Category : Oudomxay (Laos)
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Category : Oudomxay (Laos)
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Socio-economic Profile of Savannakhet Province
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Category : Savannakhét (Laos)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Category : Savannakhét (Laos)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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CCA, Common Country Assessment
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Category : Economic indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Category : Economic indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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A Balanced Approach to Opium Elimination in Lao PDR.
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Category : Opium abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Category : Opium abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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The Rural Development Programme, 1998-2002
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Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Country Profile
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Category : Cambodia
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Category : Cambodia
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Fishbones and Glittering Emblems
Author: Östasiatiska museet
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ISBN: 9789197061605
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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ISBN: 9789197061605
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Socio-economic Transformation and Gender Relations in Lao PDR
Author: Damdouane Khouangvichit
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ISBN: 9789197834421
Category : Laos
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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ISBN: 9789197834421
Category : Laos
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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A Great Place to Have a War
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451667892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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. January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of, is at risk of falling to communism and triggering a domino effect throughout Southeast Asia. This is what President Eisenhower believed when he approved the CIA’s Operation Momentum, creating an army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces there. 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 lasted more than a decade, left the ground littered with thousands of unexploded bombs, and changed the nature of the CIA forever. With “revelatory reporting” and “lucid prose” (The Economist), Kurlantzick provides the definitive account of the Laos war, focusing on the four key people who led the operation: the CIA operative whose idea it was, the Hmong general who led the proxy army in the field, the paramilitary specialist who trained the Hmong forces, and the State Department careerist who took control over the war as it grew. Using recently declassified records and extensive interviews, Kurlantzick shows for the first time how the CIA’s clandestine adventures in one small, Southeast Asian country became the template for how the United States has conducted war ever since—all the way to today’s war on terrorism.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451667892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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. January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of, is at risk of falling to communism and triggering a domino effect throughout Southeast Asia. This is what President Eisenhower believed when he approved the CIA’s Operation Momentum, creating an army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces there. 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 lasted more than a decade, left the ground littered with thousands of unexploded bombs, and changed the nature of the CIA forever. With “revelatory reporting” and “lucid prose” (The Economist), Kurlantzick provides the definitive account of the Laos war, focusing on the four key people who led the operation: the CIA operative whose idea it was, the Hmong general who led the proxy army in the field, the paramilitary specialist who trained the Hmong forces, and the State Department careerist who took control over the war as it grew. Using recently declassified records and extensive interviews, Kurlantzick shows for the first time how the CIA’s clandestine adventures in one small, Southeast Asian country became the template for how the United States has conducted war ever since—all the way to today’s war on terrorism.