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The Battle for Laos

por Stephen Emerson
libro electrónico
A history of the “secret war” in Southeast Asia in which nearly three million tons of bombs decimated a newly independent nation.
 
By 1959 the newly independent Kingdom of Laos was transforming into a Cold War battleground for global superpower competition, having been born out of the chaos following the French military defeat and withdrawal from Indochina in 1954. The country was soon engulfed in a rapidly evolving civil war as rival forces jockeyed for power and swelling foreign intervention intensified the fighting.
 
Adding even more fuel to the fire, “neutral” Laos’s geographic entanglement in the war in neighboring South Vietnam deepened in the early 1960s as Hanoi’s reliance on the Ho Chi Minh Trail for moving men and matériel through the southern Laotian panhandle grew exponentially, making it a priority target of American interdiction efforts. For almost twenty years, the fighting between the Western-supported Royal Lao government and the communist-supported Pathet Lao would rage across the plains, jungles, and mountaintops largely unseen by most of the world. Thousands on each side would die and many more would be displaced as the conflict on the ground ebbed and flowed from season to season and year to year. And in the skies above, American and Royal Laotian aircraft would rain down their deadly payloads, decimating large swaths of the countryside in pursuit of victory. Nearly three million tons of bombs would be dropped on Laotian territory between 1965 and 1973, leaving a legacy of unexploded ordnance that lingers to this day. The battle for Laos is a tale of entire communities and generations caught up in a war seemingly without end, one that pitted competing foreign interests and their proxies against each other and was forever tied to Washington’s pursuit of victory in Vietnam. This book tells the story of this so-called “secret war.”

  • Autores

  • Serie

    Cold War, 1945–1991

  • Editorial

  • Fecha de lanzamiento

    12 de noviembre de 2020

  • Formatos

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781526757050

    • libro electrónico EPUB

      • ISBN: 9781526757050
      • Tamaño de archivo: 51229 KB

    • libro electrónico PDF

      • ISBN: 9781526757074
      • Tamaño de archivo: 4867 KB

  • Accesibilidad

  • Idiomas

    • Inglés

Formatos

  • OverDrive Read
  • libro electrónico EPUB
  • libro electrónico PDF

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Idiomas

  • Inglés