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In recent years, research on Laos has made great strides in several fields of human and social sciences. This collected volume with articles by Lao and Western scholars (sixteen written in English, eleven in French) reveals an expanded vision of Laos-a vision no longer confined by strict geographical, political, or cultural borders, but resituated within the overarching movement of regional history.

The book is divided into three major sections-the Making of History, Heritage Issues, and Social Dynamics-that provide readers with both a broad brushstroke of history and the micro-kinetics of modernday life in Lao PDR. The book contains numerous illustrations of archaeological excavation sites, documentary photos, architectural plans, and dozens of maps that together with the text bring to light new perspectives, problematics, and questions in the field of Lao studies. ... Read more

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This volume is divided into four sections: (1) State of theState, describing recent internal changes in Laotian society; (2)Tradition and Culture in the New Laos, discussing new developments inliterature, music, classical dance, religious organization, andeducation; (3) Laos and Its Place in the World Arena, exploring shiftsin Laos' foreign relations; and (4)Bibliographic Essays, including acomplete indexed guide to American research on Laos over the pastseveral decades. ... Read more

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The Taoteching, written some 2,500 years ago by a man known only as Lao-tzu ("the Old Master"), encapsulates the wisdom of Taoism. Red Pine's translation of this most revered of Chinese texts breathes new life into the poems and corrects errors in previous interpretations. This edition also includes the text in the original Chinese and selected commentaries by monks, priests, nuns, and philosophers over the last 2,000 years.Amazon.com Review
Red Pine (a.k.a. Bill Porter) offers a new perspective on theChinese classic Taoteching. A competent translator and interpreter ofChinese religion, he renders his work with an eye for detail and aspiritualism cultivated during years of Zen monastery living. It's oddthat many read translations of Chinese classics as bare-bones texts,whereas no Chinese would tackle such obscurity in the absence of ahelping hand from previous pundits. Fortunately, it is no longernecessary to rely on mystical insight in order to understand theTaoteching. Instead, we can look to the 12 or so commentators that RedPine resurrects from Chinese history. With its clarity and scholarlyrange, this version of the Taoteching works as both a readable textand a valuable resource of Taoist interpretation. ... Read more

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Red Pine's translation should buddy-team all other English versions
Years ago I heard that the Taoteching was the most translated Chinese text on the planet. For fun I started buying different English translations and thought I had a lot when I got 20 versions... That was ~80 books ago, each by a different translator. Line them all up and force me to choose one translation to take to the proverbial desert island and I'm packing Red Pine's version (the revised one from Copper Canyon Press). First, unlike so many "translators," Red Pine actually reads Chinese. Second, he has traveled extensively in China, including visits to Hanku Pass, so he has a feel for the place. Third, unlike any other version, his includes hundreds of brief commentaries from monks, nuns, hermits, poets, officials, and historians to create a multi-layered conversation about this enigmatic masterpiece. Included is the Chinese text, a great introduction by Red Pine, a glossary, and a cover that begs the question, "How does a rock do that?"

A New, Revised Edition is Available
Please not that a new, revised edition of the Tao Te Ching by Red Pine is now available at Amazon for $12.24. It was published in November of 2009. Don't pay $94 for the old edition!

Meaningful and Scholarly Take on Ancient Wisdom
Red Pine has captured a new vitality within the "original" Tao te Ching in his translation.His verse translations are clear and poetic, shying away from explanation in the poems.The accompanying commentaries are just enough to open the world of the verses beyond a literal interpretation.I purchased this paperback book used, knowing that it had some stains on the edges.It was well worth the price.Highest recommendation.

Easily my new favorite
I've been reading translations of the Taoteching since I was twelve years old. No text has resonated more with my intimate experience of the natural world. In the verses of the Taoteching I found a philosophy that matched the depth and wonder I experienced while wandering for uncounted hours through the countryside of my boyhood home. Red Pine revised in 2009 his translation of this ancient text, and what a revision! The small changes in phrasing throughout the text further clarify the spirit of the Taoteching and lend a universal resonance. One important change is a shift toward inclusive pronouns. Gone are the masculine references to sages, and in their stead sages are addressed in the plural, as a collective. This inclusiveness fits well with the spirit of the Taoteching. This subtle yet significant change needs to be considered in a larger context: This translation of the Taoteching has it all. Each verse includes its modern Chinese, lending an artful presence and a resource to those with a scholarly interest in the origins of the text. Each verse includes commentary from the past 2000 years that further illumines the spirit of the Taoteching. The simple and direct language of Red Pine's earlier translation remains and rings like timeless poetry. My one struggle is that I keep giving away my copy and have to buy it repeatedly. This book is too fine a gem to keep to oneself.

I guess I will be the naysayer.
First off I want to say that I am a fan of Bill Porter.I own, and have enjoyed, several of his translations, namely, The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a 14th Century Chinese Hermit by Red Pine.This is an incredible book and well worth owing, if you can get your hands on it.

However, I am sorry to say that I find this to be a rather poor version of the Tao Te Ching.Those of us who are not fortunate enough to be able to read Chinese have to rely on a translation, ..of course.There is a basic rule involving translation, and that is, it should read well in the language that it is translated to.Regrettably this translation misses the mark.The Tao Te Ching is poetry after all, poetry is a basic element to the text, and poetry is wholly missing from this edition.

Another problem with the text is that it seems to be lacking in common sence.


For example, in the 69th verse Porter translates,
"no fate is worse than to have no enemy
without an enemy we would loose our treasure."


Compare that to the Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English edition which reads,
"The is no greater catastrophe than underestimating the enemy.
By underestimating the enemy, I almost lose what I value."

This is a pretty major diversion, and this edition is chalked full of this type of miss-connect.There is also the matter of the use of the phrase "Dark Virtue."I'm not going to get too far into this, but basically Porter says that he agrees that the word "Tao" really means "moon" and in particular, the new "Dark" moon.He then takes every opportunity to translate in to the text his "Dark Virtue" so as to drive the point home.

"Dark Virtue" is a particularly nonsensical expression and it simply muddies up a muddy translation even further.

Again, I'm sorry to say it.I just feel that someone new to the Tao Te Ching needs to be warned off of this book.You have better options available to you.I do recommend this book to those looking for a second or third translation to explore, but certainly not to those looking for a first and only copy.


Best wishes.
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Telling the story of war with an artist's touch for the nuances of character--his portrait gallery includes soldiers and diplomats busy at war-making, and above all the Laotians themselves as they realize they have been led down the garden path. Tis book is about secrecy and its illusions, and about the cruel sacrifice of small countries for the convenience of large ones. Photos.Amazon.com Review
In Shooting at the Moon, Roger Warner chronicles acovert operation that used Hmong villagers as guerrilla fightersagainst the North during the Vietnamese War. Thought to be anexpendable resource by Central Intelligence Agency strategists, theHmong died by the thousands fighting the North Vietnamese. Those whosurvived were abandoned to their fate when the United States pulledout of the war.Warner's history is the moving and tragic story of howAmerica's "secret war" devastated its own allies in Southeast Asia. ... Read more

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Words out, Shooting at the moons tells all the secrets of Laos
"Shooting at the Moon" is a good book, very readable...
The winner of the overseas press club's award, "Shooting at the Moon", By Roger Warner is an interesting read. It was originally published under the title "Back Fire."
Warner has dedicated his life trying to tell the "super secret, clandestine war in Laos during the sixties. The main character of the book, Bill Lair was the architect of an efficient and effective approach to war. Along the lines of T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Lair was able to empower the native mountain tribes, by arming them and training them to fight their own war. However, the politicians had to get involved and screw up the whole thing by sending Americans in to fight, thereby a lot of American lives were lost.
Bill Lair, was the CIA operative who convinced the Hmong native General Pang Pao to fight the Pathet Lao and the North Vietnamese Communists. Bill Lair didn't want any Americans in the Laotian civil war. He was convinced if he armed the Hmong (Meo) and trained them, they could fight their own war. (They'd probably won if the U.S. Politicians hadn't grown the war to an outlandish scale).
Bill Lair had trained the national Thai police force response teams. He was very successful with his dealings with government and PARU (Police Aerial resupply Unit) in Thailand, before he moved on to Laos.
The secret war in Laos which was denied by the American government still gives the people who "weren't there", but actually were, heart burn. Many were killed and many still suffer from the deniability of the Armed Forces and politicians alike.
Shooting at the Moon is a real CIA spy operation. The Air America heroes should be recognized for what they did. But, in reality, they have been reduced to "denied old men" who still faithfully keep the secret.
This book brings an accurate account to the table for those who didn't know, and some satisfaction to those who knew the real story.
Roger Warner should be applauded for his effort and his dedication to the truth. Although the government, both ours and theirs (Laos). They continue to shush Roger Warner, but he also should be counted as a hero too. Trying to tell the story is like swimming upstream, or like shooting at the moon!
Shooting at the moon is a grand book. It is exciting and instructive. I recommend this book for those who still care about these secret heroes. Especially Bill Lair the CIA secret agent. By the way, our heroes are still denied some benefits. They weren't there remember?
JR Hafer [...]

Fascinating read!
One of the best Non-Fiction books I have read.Goo info ont eh secret war in Laos and some of the Characters who fought there. Is non-fiction, but reads like a novel!Very well written.

The Laos war from an american perspective
Shooting at the Moon is a book covering the US military war in Laos. Though some information is passed upon the war in Vietnam or Cambodia, the details are few and only mentioned when having an impact on the Laos war. Good descriptions are made on all the main characters involved and the war is covered both on the washington perspective and on the agents on the field. Only the effects on the civilian population is missing. A short summary is done on what happened after the war, on the further destinies on the peoples involved, on Laos and the refugees in Thailand. No real mention is done about the royalist puppet government of the US, other than a futile attempt to forbid US to do massive bombing flights. There is barely any mention on US activities apart from the military, such as factfinding, espionage and interrogation techniques.


Writing: 5/5

The book is an enjoyable read, well written with an easy to understand chronology. It is written not as an ordinary fact book, but more as a story about the americans involved in the secret wars of Laos. There are few direct quotes and the footnotes hardly points out which facts are received from whom. This is understandable, as many of the sources to the book are still working for CIA and don't want their names tied to some given fact. The the war in Laos is still a touchy subject. You get a feeling of all the main characters in the book, understanding why they took the decisions they did. Also, you get emotionally involved with the american allies in Laos, the Hmong people (in the book known as Meo), how they are used in the war and ultimately betrayed

as the US sees bigger gains to be had by abandoning the people that have been fighting for them.


Facts: 4/5

There is no doubt that this book has been well researched. There is a wealth of information on the persons involved, the most important events, which types of weapons were used, the strategies involved and on all things military. The problems comes

mostly when the author alleges things that aren't directly connected to the Laos wars. At one place he tells us that the CIA has never been involved in drug dealing, even if that has thoroughly documented in books like Alfred W. McCoys The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Columbia. He states that the US had little to with when in 1965, the military regime of Indonesia slaughtered 300 000 indonesians, even though CIA was largely involved in the overthrow of the left-wing government of Sukarno, compiling lists of dissidents and turning them over to the right-wing generals. At another time, the author chides the CIA:s excessive caution regarding the bloody regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia, but never mentions that the US supported the Khmer Rogue regime with food and medicines to be used as a buffer against the Vietnamese. These are details, but as all these details show a will to hide the dirtier side of the CIA war, one wonders what else has been missed in the book.


Balance: 3/5

This is a book purely from an american perspective, although their Hmong allies are covered quite well. No greater depth goes into anyone fighting on the enemy side, no commanders are mentioned and the civilians (apart from the Hmong) aren't mentioned more than perhaps 2-3 times. This onesidedness are displayed directly in the first chapter describing a coupe in 1960 against the american backed royalist government in favour for a more neutral government, somewhere between the americans and the vietnamese. No where is it mentioned that this was in fact a counter coupe to when general Phoumi, with US help, rigged the ballots in 1958 to throw out the 21 leftist candidates from the national assemby.

However, this bias is moslty in the selection of what to cover. No moral perspective is given on the use of Napalm, or bombing Laos with the equivalent of 25 Hiroshima bombs, as no moral judgement is passed on the vietnames disregard of peace treaties and borders. While the vietnamese recruiting to the army is called 'brainwashing', the Hmong side 'hard recruitment methods' are also mentioned. What is more suprising is when the author names the CIA officers involved as 'descent people', even though one of them collects the ears from dead enemies and thinks that the marines should be sent against antiwar protesters instead of national guard 'because the marines shot better' and another officer thinks that Vietnam, the country they suppousedly are helping, should be bombed into the stoneage.


The faults mentioned above do not, however, deduct from the generally good experience when reading the book, and the story is genuinely fascinating. I recommend everyone to read this book. One should complement this book with some on the rest of the vietnam war, mostly regarding the effects of the weapons used on the population, as those parts are severly lacking form this book.

The most amazing war story that's never been told
Warner's history of the Laotian conflict from 1960-1975 is an amazing story of a secret war run by secret agents working for a secret agency.

Hidden behind the Vietnam War, the author reveals facts about the "secret war" that was even more critical than Vietnam at top levels of government.This book will change your understanding of modern Southeast Asian history and the magnitude of the challenges the United States faced.

What makes this book engaging, and at times absolutely riveting, is that Warner gained full access to the hidden CIA operative, Mr. William Lair, who laid the foundation for this secret American paramilitary campaign.

December 7th, 1941 is the day Lair's life changed forever.He was a 17 year old student at Texas A&M University when America was attacked. He convinced his mother to allow her only son to join the army so he could defend the ideals he grew up with in America's heartland.

He landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy with the 3rd Armored Division and fought his way to the Elbe River. There, he came face to face with Stalin's troops.He and many of his partners in arms realized that the next war, with a more fearsome enemy, had already begun. Communism was about to become a rising tide that would cover nearly half the planet.

After the war, Lair returned to Texas A&M and completed his degree. A new government agency formed less than three years earlier was on campus interviewing. Lair and his friends had never heard of it. It was called the CIA. He signed up.

In March, 1951, the CIA sent Lair to Bangkok on a seemingly impossible mission reminiscent of the opening scene of Apocalypse Now.

Lair's first and only mission was to fight communist insurgency in Thailand and in surrounding countries. He would travel, alone, to a third world nation with few English speaking people. Once there, he must organize a cadre of local fighters by any means necessary and train them in guerilla warfare.The budget was slim. Some surplus WWII weapons were available.

Lair took the job and Warner takes us on his incredible adventure.

Warner paints a fair picture of the background, situations and players in the Laotian conflict. His individual portraits ring true but the characters worthy of respect in the book are few and far between.

The "secret war" was filled with bungling bureaucrats, deceptive diplomats, corrupt businessmen, Asian warlords, greedy opportunists and loose cannons. Warner's history of the Laos conflict accurately reads like a train that's out of control. Some mistakes seem obvious but it's hard to see exactly which things could have been done differently to shift the outcomes.

Lair, a quiet, soft spoken man, rises to his challenge to become an American Lawrence of Arabia.He raises a 30,000 man secret army of Laotian and Thai fighters that actually stops the communist war machine. Until decisions at high levels of government in the Soviet Union, Vietnam, China and the United States changed the course of history and the outcome.

Despite the fact that this war ended 30 years ago, Lair's methodology for fighting foreign conflicts holds great potential for America, even in 2005.

This book is a front row seat to an epic conflict that was all but invisible to the American public. Lair is a hidden American hero whose actions will earn your respect.

The Secret War in Laos
While the Vietnam war was played out on your television screens a related war in neighboring Laos took place outside the line of vision of most Americans. It was a different kind of war. In Vietnam hundreds of thousands of American soldiers tried to hold ground and kill the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops. In Laos, a few American civilians working mostly for the CIA helped the Hmong hill people fight a guerilla war against the North Vietnamese. The ragtag forces of the Hmong kept three top-notch North Vietnamese divisions tied down in Laos for more than a decade.

This unconventional war attracted unconventional people. Chief among them was Vang Pao, the charismatic Hmong general, who ranks with Massoud in Afghanistan as a genius in conducting a war on the cheap against a larger and better-armed force. The Americans helping the Hmong were a colorful lot. First and foremost was Bill Lair, the quiet, competent agent who organized the Hmong forces. Then, "Pop" Buell a middle aged Indiana farmer who came to Laos as an agricultural advisor making $75 per month and became a key figure in the war. Jerry "Hog" Daniels, a swashbucking Montana smokejumper was Vang Pao's trusted CIA case officer. Many other characters of rare quality dot the pages of this book. Laos in the 1960s and 1970s was a war that appealed to those who didn't fit into the conventional military mold.

"Shooting at the Moon" is the definitive account of the secret war in Laos which ended with the withdrawal of the US -- and some would say the abandonment of the Hmong --in 1975 and the flight of tens of thousands of them to Thailand, and subsequently to the United States. This is one of the essential books on the Indochinese conflict. "Shooting at the Moon" has also been published under the title "Backfire."

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This is the first comprehensive history of the CIA's largest paramilitary operation during the cold war. It took 10 years to write and involved interviews with 650 CIA case officers, U.S. military officials, and senior Lao, Thai and North Vietnamese officers. Includes outstanding photos and maps and never-before-reported details on the secret war in Laos. ... Read more

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Okay.......
Good read, I disagree with some of the characterizations,having been in Laos from 68 to 69,(Moung Soui, the PDJ etc) but then that's human nature. By the way David Pompelli's name is a misspelling. Should be Pompili, But then, what's in a name?

Incredible Book
I read this book, after returning from Laos recently on a visit with afellow veteran who almost died there in a terrible firefight in 1968. So Iread with keen interest Kenneth Conboys book, and it is most informative. Iread Shadow War recently after finishing several other somewhat relatedtitles ie."Tragedy in Paradise" by CharlesWeldon MD "A Code to Keep"by Ernest Bruce and "The Sorrow of War" by Bao Ninh"Hell in a Very small place"Mr Kenneth Conboyseries of books and these others should be required reading for allAmerican policy makers before they deploy Americans, Hmongs, Filipinos, orThais to project American policy abroad. Thx cousin

Incredible Book
I read this book, after returning from Laos recently on a visit with afellow veteran who almost died there in a terrible firefight in 1968. So Iread with keen interest Kenneth Conboys book, and it is most informative. Iread Shadow War recently after finishing several other somewhat relatedtitles ie."Tragedy in Paradise" by CharlesWeldon MD "A Code to Keep"by Ernest Bruce and "The Sorrow of War" by Bao Ninh"Hell in a Very small place"Mr Kenneth Conboyseries of books and these others should be required reading for allAmerican policy makers before they deploy Americans, Hmongs, Filipinos, orThais to project American policy abroad. Thx cousin

"THE BOOK" on the CIA and the war in Laos!
I was a CIA officer who fought in Laos from '70 to '72.This is, without a doubt, the best book on the war in Laos.It is not an "adventure" novel or a book of "I was there" like someother books on the war.It is a well researched and in depth account ofthe war and the CIA involvement.Ken Conboy went to great lengths toresearch and interview participants in the war, from all sides, and hisbook is a very detailed and accurate account of the US/CIA effort toprevent Laos from falling to the Communists.This is not, repeat not, abook for casual reading!Conboy has gone to into great detail about thewar and the people who fought it; it is, without a doubt, the best accountof a war that, to most, is still a "secret war."There are otherbooks about the war that are easier reads but none that is are moreaccurate or have more depth.This is a great reference book.If you are aserious student of the CIA effort in Southeast Asia during the 60's to thelate 70's then this is the book for you. ... Read more

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After decades of war, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia have once again opened their doors to visitors. They are becoming increasingly popular with all kinds of tourists, not least birdwatchers who are arriving in numbers to visit the many national parks and reserves that harbour a bounty of amazing species. This is not surprising since the three countries boast about 1,000 species of birds including such rarities as Bengal Florican, Giant Ibis, Green Peafowl and Vietnamese Cutia.Two hundred and fifty-two of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia's most interesting and spectacular birds are featured in this concise and easy-to-use guide, with each illustrated in full colour with key information on ID, habitat and distribution. ... Read more

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The humor and pathos of the chaotic years before the Communist takeover of the government in 1975 are chronicled by following one Lao family in Communist controlled re-education camps, to their eventual resettlement in the United States. ... Read more

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A fine, detailed account of a conflicted Laos in the 70s.
Judy Rantala's detailed memoir of being an American on a humanitarian mission in Laos during the early 70s gave me a solid understanding of the Lao people who, like the author, were "caught in the web" of conflicting powers such as the CIA, U.S. government bureaucracy, and the military and political influences of the SE Asian region.Her story is both wise and touching, an on-the-ground, with-the-people recounting of real Laotians and the human events that swept around them.

Loren Ekroth, Ph.D.
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The Taoist Classic, the Book of Lao Zi also known as Dao De Jing (The Way and Its Virtue), is said to have been written by Lao Zi in the late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.). The book contains a wealth of dialectic thinking. It interprets the changes of all things in the universe with its Tao (the Way). It advocates contentment with the existing status quo and holding few desires and 'a return of human society to the primeval state characterized by a small nation and a sparse population. The philosophy propounded in The Book of Lao Zi occupies an important position in the history of Chinese thought, for it has influenced Chinese philosophers of the succeeding periods to varying degrees. Since the Han Dynasty, well over a thousand scholars have made annotations to the work, which is very unusual for ancient Chinese books. The book consists of eighty-one chapters, each of which is preceded by a synopsis of its content, and an index of themes. ... Read more

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A mediocre treatment of this classic piece of world thought
As a student (among other things) of Chinese philosophy, I came across this translation/exegesis looking for a decent English translation. The translation itself is reasonable and accurate. If you read only this, you'll do fine. However, the explanations and introductory parts are very shallow and uninteresting (not to mention seriously lacking). If meant as a book for the general public, it does Lao Zi discredit. If meant as an academic publication, its treatment of the material is mediocre and unhelpful. My recommendation: find a copy without interpretation and figure it out yourself. It's beautiful and is meant to be understood intuitively to begin with! But the book itself (not this version) _is_ a must-read.

quite a book!this version is both strong and weak
this was the first version of the tao te ching i came across, and i bought it in china in 1994.it took me a while to make any sense of what lao zi was saying, and now i think it makes a little more sense to me...since then, i've gotten other translations of this book and have something to compare it to.

i've kept this version because i felt it was a pretty raw translation, and not overly interpretive or flowery, which can be good.i feel, however, that the English of the author was not too hot and at times comes across as painfully wooden.the poems themselves, however, retain their beauty and power, and sometimes i wonder if the poor English of the author might not be an advantage...

as for the author's explanatory writings about the poems, my lord, it's not even worth reading.it's like he's written a bad mini-book report on each poem, and when tries to make sense of what the poems are about, he doesn't convince me that he gets the point of it at all.i'd hate to sit in a classroom with him!and i have a distinct feeling lao zi would also! ... Read more

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After the Vietnam War, Laos experienced more than a decade of socialist reorganization, follow by economic liberalization in the late 1980s. Laotian women had traditionally sustained the household and local economy with their work in field, forest, and family, but these political and economic changes markedly affected the context of rural women's prevailing sources of power and subordination. In this richly detailed volume, Carol Ireson draws on ten years of fieldwork and research to explore this metamorphosis, focusing on the ways women from three major ethnic groups-the lowland Lao, the Khmu, and the Hmong-have responded differently to these changes. ... Read more

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An original, seminal, ground-breaking military history.
Most of the jet fighter/bomber pilots in northern Laos had no idea that the Forward Air Controllers calling in their airstrikes were non-rated or enlisted personnel until Jan Churchill interviewed them in 1998. The USAF had become involved in Vietnam as advisors following the Indochina War. Asan outgrowth of the Vietnam conflict, the U.S. had developed a secretAmerican military aid program for Laos, and in 1955 underwrote the entireLaotian defense budget. Laotian neutrality was routinely violated by boththe communists and the U.S. -- with U.S. violations being kept secret fromthe American public. in Classified Secret: Controlling Airstrikes In TheClandestine War In Laos, Jan Churchill not only reveals and documentsAmerican involvement, but exposes for the first time to general publicawareness that sergeants were controlling airstrikes in a total departurefrom the traditional Air Force chain of command and bureacratic allignment-- something even the combat pilots did not know until they were informedby Jan Churchill while interviewing them! ... Read more

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This book documents a series of community-based projects by Marina Abramovi? Janine Antoni, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ann Hamilton, Dinh Q. L', Shirin Neshat, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Allan Sekula, Shahzia Sikander and Rirkrit Tiravanija among others, realized in Luang Prabang, Laos, from 2004 to 2008. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on September 1, 2000. The length of the article is 3810 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Exploding the past.(Laos still littered with ordnance from Vietnam War)
Author: Daniel Lovering
Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2000
Publisher: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
Volume: 56Issue: 5Page: 28

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