LEADER 02471nim 2200445Ka 450 001 9910155846903321 005 20250925100012.6 010 $a1-5159-9039-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000976996 035 $a(BIP)060405789 035 $a(ODN)ODN0003116493 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000976996 100 $a20170131d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auruna---||||| 181 $cspw$2rdacontent 182 $cs$2rdamedia 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA great place to have a war $eAmerica in laos and the birth of a military cia. /$fJoshua Kurlantzick 205 $aUnabridged. 210 $aOld Saybrook $cTantor Media$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (9 audio files) $cdigital 300 $aUnabridged. 330 $aIn 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. 517 $aGreat Place to Have a War, A 606 $aNonfiction$2OverDrive 606 $aHistory$2OverDrive 606 $aMilitary$2OverDrive 615 17$aNonfiction. 615 7$aHistory. 615 7$aMilitary. 676 $a959.704/38 686 $aHIS000000$aHIS003000$aHIS027110$2bisacsh 700 $aKurlantzick$b Joshua$0712787 702 $aCampbell$b Timothy John$4nrt 906 $aAUDIO 912 $a9910155846903321 996 $aA great place to have a war$94440617 997 $aUNINA