A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
(eAudiobook)
Description
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.
More Copies In LINK+
Subjects
More Details
Notes
Reviews from GoodReads
Citations
Kurlantzick, J., & Campbell, T. (2017). A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA. Unabridged. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kurlantzick, Joshua and Tim, Campbell. 2017. A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kurlantzick, Joshua and Tim, Campbell, A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kurlantzick, Joshua, and Tim Campbell. A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA. Unabridged. [United States], Tantor Media, Inc, 2017.
Staff View
QR Code
Hoopla Extract Information
hooplaId | 11809246 |
---|---|
title | A Great Place to Have a War |
language | |
kind | AUDIOBOOK |
series | |
season | |
publisher | |
price | 2.89 |
active | 1 |
pa | |
profanity | |
children | |
demo | |
duration | |
rating | |
abridged | |
fiction | |
purchaseModel | INSTANT |
dateLastUpdated | Sep 01, 2024 12:09:44 AM |
Record Information
Last File Modification Time | Sep 03, 2024 02:32:28 AM |
---|---|
Last Grouped Work Modification Time | Sep 07, 2024 02:15:45 AM |
MARC Record
LEADER | 02902nim a22004575a 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | MWT11809246 | ||
003 | MWT | ||
005 | 20240808111814.1 | ||
006 | m o h | ||
007 | sz zunnnnnuned | ||
007 | cr nnannnuuuua | ||
008 | 240808o2017 xxunnn eo z n eng d | ||
020 | |a 9781515990390 |q (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) | ||
020 | |a 1515990397 |q (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) | ||
028 | 4 | 2 | |a MWT11809246 |
029 | |a https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ttm_9781515990390_180.jpeg | ||
037 | |a 11809246 |b Midwest Tape, LLC |n http://www.midwesttapes.com | ||
040 | |a Midwest |e rda | ||
099 | |a eAudiobook hoopla | ||
100 | 1 | |a Kurlantzick, Joshua, |e author. | |
245 | 1 | 2 | |a A Great Place to Have a War : |b America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA |h [electronic resource] / |c Joshua Kurlantzick. |
250 | |a Unabridged. | ||
264 | 1 | |a [United States] : |b Tantor Media, Inc., |c 2017. | |
264 | 2 | |b Made available through hoopla | |
300 | |a 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 11 min.)) : |b digital. | ||
336 | |a spoken word |b spw |2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
344 | |a digital |h digital recording |2 rda | ||
347 | |a data file |2 rda | ||
506 | |a Instant title available through hoopla. | ||
511 | 1 | |a Read by Tim Campbell. | |
520 | |a 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. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: World Wide Web. | ||
650 | 0 | |a History. | |
651 | 7 | |a Asia. | |
651 | 7 | |a Southeast Asia. | |
700 | 1 | |a Campbell, Tim, |e reader. | |
710 | 2 | |a hoopla digital. | |
856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11809246?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435 |z Instantly available on hoopla. |
856 | 4 | 2 | |z Cover image |u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ttm_9781515990390_180.jpeg |