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

Author: Joshua Kurlantzick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 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. 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....Read more