Before the Quagmire
This critical study of US intervention in the Laotian Civil War is “a major contribution to the literature on America's Southeast Asian involvement” (Publishers Weekly).
In the decade preceding the first US combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in neighboring Laos. Although US foreign policy in the 1950s focused primarily on threa...
This critical study of US intervention in the Laotian Civil War is “a major contribution to the literature on America's Southeast Asian involvement” (Publishers Weekly).
In the decade preceding the first US combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in neighboring Laos. Although US foreign policy in the 1950s focused primarily on threa...
