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Author : Manich Jumsai (M.L.),Charlermnit Press correspondent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Laos
ISBN : UOM:39015065713771
Author : Marc Askew,Colin Long,William Logan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134323654
This book is a rich exploration of the country's political, social and cultural history and geo-political development from its creation to the present day.
Author : Seth Jacobs
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801464041
During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front in the Cold War. Yet American policymakers ultimately chose to resist communism in neighboring South Vietnam instead. Two generations of historians have explained this decision by citing logistical considerations. Laos's landlocked, mountainous terrain, they hold, made the kingdom an unpropitious place to fight, while South Vietnam-possessing a long coastline, navigable rivers, and all-weather roads-better accommodated America's military forces. The Universe Unraveling is a provocative reinterpretation of U.S.-Laos relations in the years leading up to the Vietnam War. Seth Jacobs argues that Laos boasted several advantages over South Vietnam as a battlefield, notably its thousand-mile border with Thailand, whose leader was willing to allow Washington to use his nation as a base from which to attack the communist Pathet Lao. More significant in determining U.S. policy in Southeast Asia than strategic appraisals of the Laotian landscape were cultural perceptions of the Lao people. Jacobs contends that U.S. policy toward Laos under Eisenhower and Kennedy cannot be understood apart from the traits Americans ascribed to their Lao allies. Drawing on diplomatic correspondence and the work of iconic figures like "celebrity saint" Tom Dooley, Jacobs finds that the characteristics American statesmen and the American media attributed to the Lao-laziness, immaturity, and cowardice-differed from the traits assigned the South Vietnamese, making Lao chances of withstanding communist aggression appear dubious. The Universe Unraveling combines diplomatic, cultural, and military history to provide a new perspective on how prejudice can shape policy decisions and even the course of history.
Author : Joshua Kurlantzick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451667899
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.
Author : Malcolm H. Murfett
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814382984
As World War II came to an end, a period of distrust settled over the world. Southeast Asia was no different. The spectre of Communism stalked the stage. The threat of a global nuclear war hung thick in the air. The struggle for domination between the Americans and the Russians came up against the burgeoning nationalism of the liberated states. In this highly combustible climate, what was to emerge? This book reveals in fascinating detail, country by country, how the Cold War shaped the destiny of Southeast Asia. The competition among the world powers – the USA, USSR, Britain, China – led to dramatically differing fates for the region. Vietnam was to be the worst affected, effectively destroyed in the clash between superpowers, at tremendous cost to all sides. In Malaya and Singapore, the British fought a long-drawn-out Communist insurgency that broke out in 1948 – an insurgency they saw as part of a consolidated Cold War movement inspired by Moscow or Beijing. But was it? As this volume shows, the states of Southeast Asia were never mere pawns in an international war of ideology. Many local players in fact strategically manipulated Cold War doctrines to their own political advantage – chief among them Indonesia’s Suharto, who played the anti-Communist card with aplomb. Till now, no book has examined this watershed era across the entire region. Cold War Southeast Asia in doing so not only offers a panoramic account of a turning point in SEA history, but also illuminates the global ramifications of the Cold War, and the makings of the world order as we know it today.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1538 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Censorship
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027086185
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Special Preparedness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1616 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Military education
ISBN : MINN:31951D020977482
Continuation of hearings on U.S. Cold War informational and educational programs for military personnel.
Author : East-West Center. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : East and West
ISBN : IND:30000114668092
Author : Cheng Guan Ang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136869747
Existing studies of the Vietnam War have been written mostly from an American perspective, using western sources, and viewing the conflict through western eyes. This book, based on extensive original research, including Vietnamese, Chinese and former Soviet sources, presents a history of the war from the perspective of the Vietnamese communists. It charts relations with Moscow and Beijing, showing how the involvement of the two major communist powers changed over time, and how the Vietnamese, despite their huge dependence on the Chinese and the Soviets, were most definitely in charge of their own decision making. Overall, it provides an important corrective to the many one-sided studies of the war, and presents a very interesting new perspective.
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D01274991E
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015053411826
Author : Cheng Guan Ang
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0786404043
According to the final declaration of the 1954 Geneva Conference regarding Vietnam, general elections were to be held in July 1956 that would lead to the reunification of North and South Vietnam. The Geneva Agreement, however, was doomed from the start, as the South Vietnamese leaders did not suscribe to it and the leaders of the Communist North saw its value as primarily a propaganda tool. By 1956 it was obvious to all that reunification in accordance with the agreement was impossible, and the North Vietnamese looked to China for advice and assistance. Based on Vietnamese, Chinese, American and British sources--many only recently made available--this work examines Sino-Vietnamese relations in the early stages of the second Indochina conflict. The progression of the Vietnamese Communists' goals from primarily political to essentially military is traced. The book shows that the Hanoi government was remarkably in control of its own decision-making.
Author : Joseph Jermiah Zasloff
Publisher : Lexington, Mass : Lexington Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015012164029
The report analyzes the Laotian revolutionary movement commonly known as the Pathet Lao--its leaders, commanding party (People's Party of Laos), the Lao Patriotic Front, its political and administrative organization, and its military forces. The document also presents biographical information on 12 'founding fathers' who are probably among the leading policymakers, and discusses their characteristics. Leadership continuity is remarkable, having lasted through 20 years of intermittent war and coalition with no evidence of major purges or defections. Eight appendixes include biographies, policy statements, a list of fronts, and brief profiles of 53 informants.