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Download or read book Codename Mule written by James E. Parker and published by Naval Inst Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the same time the Vietnam War was being broadcast into the living rooms of Americans across the country the CIA was conducting a large-scale secret war in northeastern Laos that few heard about. Agency case officer Jim Parker's five years of combat and immersion in Southeast Asian culture had a lasting influence on him and his family. His dramatic, provocative reminiscence of those years is the first account by a participant to portray America's involvement in Laos and the people who served there.

Download or read book A Great Place to Have a War written by Joshua Kurlantzick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 heard of, is at risk of falling to communism and triggering a domino effect throughout Southeast Asia. This is what President Eisenhower believed when he approved the CIA’s Operation Momentum, creating an army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces there. 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 lasted more than a decade, left the ground littered with thousands of unexploded bombs, and changed the nature of the CIA forever. With “revelatory reporting” and “lucid prose” (The Economist), Kurlantzick provides the definitive account of the Laos war, focusing on the four key people who led the operation: the CIA operative whose idea it was, the Hmong general who led the proxy army in the field, the paramilitary specialist who trained the Hmong forces, and the State Department careerist who took control over the war as it grew. Using recently declassified records and extensive interviews, Kurlantzick shows for the first time how the CIA’s clandestine adventures in one small, Southeast Asian country became the template for how the United States has conducted war ever since—all the way to today’s war on terrorism.

Download or read book Parameters written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hill 926: Stronghold written by John Hyland Iv and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After settling into their new home the small force of fifty-two began preparing. Their new mission was to learn all that they can about the enemy by deploying small teams out into the valley. Meanwhile others are preparing demolishing charge to hopefully slow down the enemy. After their first mission was completed they plan for more missions. They even discover that the enemy is constructing something very large and they devise an enormous plan to destroy it.

Download or read book Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stronghold written by John Hyland IV and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stronghold by John Hyland IV [--------------------------------------------]