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Before the Quagmire: American Intervention in Laos, 1954-1961
by Rust, William J
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In the decade preceding the first U.S. combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in neighboring Laos. Although U.S. foreign policy in the 1950s focused primarily on threats posed by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the American engagement in Laos evolved from a small cold war skirmish into a superpower confrontation near the end of President Eisenhower's second term. Ultimately, the American experience in Laos fore
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- Jun 29, 2012 Pub Date:
- 0813135788 ISBN-10:
- 9780813135786 ISBN-13:
- English Language
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