“A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA” (Simon & Schuster), by Joshua Kurlantzick Even with the hindsight of history, it’s mystifying that 56 years ago when John ...
LONG TIENG, LAOS – We met in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, not far from the spot on the Mekong River where the Xiong family fled to Thailand one night in May 1975. At the time of their escape, it ...
Loren Goldner reviews "A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA " by Joshua Kurlantzick. From Insurgent Notes #15, August 2017. Few people in America today know ...
Picture this scenario: It is September 11, 1970. American commandoes wearing nondescript fatigues devoid of insignia and dog tags and carrying weapons not made in the USA attack a North Vietnamese ...
Debra Morris vividly remembers the last time she saw her uncle, Air Force Master Sgt. James Henry Calfee.