00847nam0-22003011i-450-99000384851040332120080109110717.00-297-76535-3000384851FED01000384851(Aleph)000384851FED0100038485120030910d--------km-y0itay50------baitaIT<<The >>Economics of DevelopmentProblems and PoliciesMatthew McQueen.LondonWeidenfeld & Nicolson1973.130 pag.ill.21 cmCrescita economica e politica economicaF/3.3McQueen,MatthewITUNINARICAUNIMARCBK990003848510403321F/3.3 MCQ6877/ISESSESEconomics of Development465475UNINA02471nim 2200445Ka 450 991015584690332120250925100012.61-5159-9039-7(CKB)3710000000976996(BIP)060405789(ODN)ODN0003116493(EXLCZ)99371000000097699620170131d2017 uy 0enguruna---|||||spwrdacontentsrdamediacrdamediacrrdacarrierA great place to have a war America in laos and the birth of a military cia. /Joshua KurlantzickUnabridged.Old Saybrook Tantor Media20171 online resource (9 audio files) digitalUnabridged.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. Joshua Kurlantzick gives us the definitive account of the Laos war and its central characters, including the four key people who led the operation—the CIA operative who came up with the idea, the Hmong general who led the proxy army in the field, the paramilitary specialist who trained the Hmong, and the State Department careerist who took control over the war as it grew.Great Place to Have a War, ANonfictionOverDriveHistoryOverDriveMilitaryOverDriveNonfiction.History.Military.959.704/38HIS000000HIS003000HIS027110bisacshKurlantzick Joshua712787Campbell Timothy JohnnrtAUDIO9910155846903321A great place to have a war4440617UNINA