Before the Quagmire: American Intervention in Laos, 1954-1961

In the decade preceding the first U.S. combat operations in Vietnam, the Eisenhower administration sought to defeat a communist-led insurgency in neighboring Laos. Although U.S. foreign policy in the 1950s focused primarily on threats posed by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the American engagement in Laos evolved from a small cold war skirmish into a superpower confrontation near the end of President Eisenhower's second term. Ultimately, the American experience in Laos fore

Author: William J. Rust
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 06/29/2012
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.42w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780813135786

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/16/2012 pg. 55
Choice 11/01/2012

About the Author

William J. Rust, a former journalist and communications consultant, is the author of Kennedy in Vietnam: American Vietnam Policy, 1960--1963.

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