“The CIA found in Laos a country where it already had amassed influence, in the heart of a Cold War battlefield, and which had been largely ignored by the American military. These CIA leaders saw that an inexpensive—in American money… — Joshua Kurlantzick Copy Share
“The foreign leaders with whom Nixon got along best, like President Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan of Pakistan, were almost always authoritarian strongmen.” — Joshua Kurlantzick Copy Share Image
“The CIA found in Laos a country where it already had amassed influence, in the heart of a Cold War battlefield, and which had been largely ignored by the American military. These CIA leaders saw that an inexpensive—in American money and lives, at least—proxy war could be a template for fights in other places around the world, at a time… — Joshua Kurlantzick Copy Share
“In the most heavily bombed part of the country—a high, strategically located plateau in the middle of Laos, called the Plain of Jars, the… — Joshua Kurlantzick Copy Share Image
