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Title: A Great Place to Have a War
Subtitle: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
Narrator: Tim Campbell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-24-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 67 votes
Genres: History, Military
Publisher's Summary:
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' 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.
Critic Reviews:
"Superb!...
A Great Place to Have a War is rich and jarring in its historical insight, fast in its pacing, and gripping in its read. You won't want to put it down." (Douglas Waller, author of
Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan)
Members Reviews:
great history with a great narrative
This is a great CIA history of a little known war. The narrator does a good job.
Very interesting read
Definitely a worth-while read if you're into SE Asia or the evolution of the CIA. There's no one thing about this book that stands out but it's a good source of information to fold in with other works.
well-written but some reviews on Amazon dispute it
well-written but some reviews on Amazon dispute its version...other accounts should be on audible.com too
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Title: A Great Place to Have a War
Subtitle: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
Narrator: Tim Campbell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-24-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 67 votes
Genres: History, Military
Publisher's Summary:
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' 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.
Critic Reviews:
"Superb!...
A Great Place to Have a War is rich and jarring in its historical insight, fast in its pacing, and gripping in its read. You won't want to put it down." (Douglas Waller, author of
Disciples: The World War II Missions of the CIA Directors Who Fought for Wild Bill Donovan)
Members Reviews:
great history with a great narrative
This is a great CIA history of a little known war. The narrator does a good job.
Very interesting read
Definitely a worth-while read if you're into SE Asia or the evolution of the CIA. There's no one thing about this book that stands out but it's a good source of information to fold in with other works.
well-written but some reviews on Amazon dispute it
well-written but some reviews on Amazon dispute its version...other accounts should be on audible.com too