“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 American bombing runs almost never paused. Of the roughly 150,000 people who lived on the Plain… — Joshua Kurlantzick Copy Share Image
“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… — Joshua Kurlantzick Copy Share Image
“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
