The Battle For Laos: Vietnam&Apos S Proxy War 1955-1975 Stephen Emerson Pen Sword Military Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

By 1959 The Newly Independent Kingdom Of Laos Was Being Transformed Into A Cold War Battleground For Global Superpower Competition Having Been Born Out Chaos Following French Military Defeat And Withdrawal From Indochina In 1954 Country Soon Engulfed Rapidly Evolving Civil As Rival Forces Jockeyed Power Swelling Foreign Intervention Further Fueled Fighting Adding Even More Fuel To Fire \ Neutral\ Laos\ S Geographic Entanglement Intensifying Neighboring South Vietnam Deepened Early 1960S Hanoi\ Reliance On Ho Chi Minh Trail Moving Men Material Through Southern Laotian Panhandle Grew Exponentially Became Priority Target American Interdiction Efforts Almost Twenty Years Between Western-Supported Royal Lao Government Communist-Supported Pathet Would Rage Across Plains Jungles Mountaintops Largely Unseen Most World This So-Called Secret Thousands Each Side Die Many Be Displaced Conflict Ground Ebbed Flowed Season Year Skies Above Aircraft Rain Down Their Deadly Payloads Decimating Large Swaths Countryside Pursuit Victory Nearly 3 Million Tons Bombs Dropped Territory 1965 1973 Leaving Legacy Unexploded Ordnance That Lingers Day Thus Battle Is Story Entire Communities Generations Caught Up Seemingly Without End One Pitted Competing Interests Proxies Against Other Forever Tied Washington\ Σελίδες: 136 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm