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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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u80320 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20171208181009.0 |
| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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ta |
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171024s2017 nyu b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781451667868 |
| Qualifying information |
hardcover |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781451667882 |
| Qualifying information |
paperback |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
959.704 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kurlantzick, Joshua, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1976- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
110968 |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A great place to have a war : |
| Remainder of title |
America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Joshua Kurlantzick. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York ; |
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London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Simon & Schuster, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
323 pages |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
| Source |
rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
| Source |
rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
| Source |
rdacarrier |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
A Council on Foreign Relations book |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Baci -- The CIA's First war -- Vang Pao, Bill Lair, Tony Poe, and Bill Sullivan -- Laos Before the CIA, and the CIA Before Laos -- The CIA Meets Laos -- Operation Momentum Begins -- Kennedy Expands Momentum -- The Not-So-secret Secret: Keeping a Growing Operation Hidden -- Enter the Bombers -- The Wider War -- Massacre -- Going for Broke -- The Victory and the Loss -- The Secret War Becomes Public -- Defeat and Retreat -- Skyline Ridge -- Final Days -- Laos and the CIA: The Legacy -- Aftermath. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
The untold story of how America's secret war in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy. 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's 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. The Laos war created a CIA that fights with real soldiers and weapons as much as it gathers secrets. Laos became a template for CIA proxy wars all over the world, from Central America in the 1980s to today's war on terrorism, where the CIA has taken control with little oversight. Based on extensive interviews and CIA records only recently declassified, A Great Place to Have a War is a riveting, thought-provoking look at how Operation Momentum changed American foreign policy forever. |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
United States. |
| Subordinate unit |
Central Intelligence Agency |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
13036 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
| General subdivision |
Campaigns |
| Geographic subdivision |
Laos. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
60802 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
| General subdivision |
Secret service |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
60803 |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Council on Foreign Relations |
| Relator term |
sponsor. |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Council on Foreign Relations books. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
118089 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Suppress in OPAC |
Do not suppress in OPAC |