Battle for Skyline Ridge the CIA secret war in Laos
Origins -- Enter Vang Pao -- Spanner in the works -- Test of concept -- Air America -- Geneva Accords, 1962 -- The secret war takes form -- Relegated to the shadows -- LS 36 and LS 85 -- The mighty ravens -- 1968 -- About face -- 1970 -- The Royal Thai Army's 13th Infantry Regiment -- The Tahan...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Havertown, PA
Casemate
2019
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Origins -- Enter Vang Pao -- Spanner in the works -- Test of concept -- Air America -- Geneva Accords, 1962 -- The secret war takes form -- Relegated to the shadows -- LS 36 and LS 85 -- The mighty ravens -- 1968 -- About face -- 1970 -- The Royal Thai Army's 13th Infantry Regiment -- The Tahan Sua Pran -- Campaign 74B -- St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the Thai Irregulars to the rescue -- Back to the PDJ -- PDJ fight -- Phase I Skyline -- January 14, 1972 -- Phase II Skyline -- VP's end-around -- Hill 1800 -- Sam Thong and CC Pad Falls -- Final showdown at CC and CB -- So what happened -- Epilogue -- Appendix: the aircraft over Northern Laos The first complete account of the secret battle of Skyline Ridge, 1972, when a ragtag Laos-Thai army supported by the CIA threw back a vast NVA army |
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| Beschreibung: | xvi, 200 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, maps 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781612007052 978-1-61200-705-2 |