A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA by Joshua Kurlantzick

A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA

Joshua Kurlantzick

336 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative slow-paced
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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 hea...

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