Author: Great Britain. Diplomatic Service Administration Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, British
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Editors of Chase's
Publisher: Bernan Press
ISBN: 1598888080
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 753

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Chase's Calendar of Events is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference available on special events, holidays, federal and state observances, historic anniversaries, astronomical phenomena, and more. Published since 1957, Chase's is the only guide to special days, weeks, and months.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Author: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 720

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Author: West Point Association of Graduates (Organization).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 990

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Author: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Public Affairs
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160873614
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 796

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In general, information available as of January 1, 2008 was used in the preparation of this edition. Provides brief information on the geography, people, government, economy, communications, and defense of countries and regions around the world. Contains information on international organizations. Designed to meet the specific requirements of United States Government Officials in style, format, coverage, and content. Includes 3 unattached maps. Cover title reads: The 2008 World Factbook. Item 856-A-07.

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Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160873591
Category : Gazetteers
Languages : en
Pages : 816

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The ultimate authoritative source for information on all the nations of the world. Provides current data for more than 250 countries and territories.

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Publisher: Central Intelligence Agency
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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In general, information available as of January 1, 2009 was used in the preparation of this edition. Provides brief information on the geography, people, government, economy, communications, and defense of countries and regions around the world. Contains information on international organizations. Designed to meet the specific requirements of United States Government Officials in style, format, coverage, and content. Includes 3 unattached maps.

Author: Joshua Kurlantzick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451667892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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The untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy. January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of, is at risk of falling to communism and triggering a domino effect throughout Southeast Asia. This is what President Eisenhower believed when he approved the CIA’s Operation Momentum, creating an army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces there. Largely hidden from the American public—and most of Congress—Momentum became the largest CIA paramilitary operation in the history of the United States. The brutal war lasted more than a decade, left the ground littered with thousands of unexploded bombs, and changed the nature of the CIA forever. With “revelatory reporting” and “lucid prose” (The Economist), Kurlantzick provides the definitive account of the Laos war, focusing on the four key people who led the operation: the CIA operative whose idea it was, the Hmong general who led the proxy army in the field, the paramilitary specialist who trained the Hmong forces, and the State Department careerist who took control over the war as it grew. Using recently declassified records and extensive interviews, Kurlantzick shows for the first time how the CIA’s clandestine adventures in one small, Southeast Asian country became the template for how the United States has conducted war ever since—all the way to today’s war on terrorism.

Author: Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 9781602392823
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 868

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Republication of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency material in the public domain.