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Jfks Forgotten Crisis Tibet, the CIA, and Sino-Indian War

Name: Jfks Forgotten Crisis
Author: Bruce Riedel

Auteur: Bruce Riedel

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Bruce Riedel

Engels
Hardcover
9780815726999
06 november 2015
231 pagina's

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Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights over Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war. The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But the same week the world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, Kennedy was also consumed by a war that has escaped history's attention, yet still reverberates significantly today: the Sino-Indian conflict. As well-armed and equipped troops from the People's Republic of China surged into Indian-held territory in October 1962, Kennedy ordered an emergency airlift of supplies to the Indian army. At the same time, he engaged in diplomatic talks that kept the neighboring Pakistanis out of the fighting. The conflict came to an end with a unilateral Chinese cease-fire, relieving Kennedy of a decision to intervene militarily in support of India.Bruce Riedel, a CIA and National Security Council veteran, provides the first full narrative of this crisis, which played out during the tense negotiations with Moscow over Cuba. He also includes another, nearly forgotten episode of US espionage during the war between India and China: covert US support of Tibetan opposition to Chinese occupation of Tibet. He details how the United States, beginning in 1957, trained and parachuted Tibetan guerrillas into Tibet to fight Chinese military forces. The covert operation to help precipitate the conflict but the United States did not end its support of it until relations between the United States and China were normalized in the 1970s. Riedel tells this story of war, diplomacy, and covert action with authority and perspective. He draws on newly declassified letters between Kennedy and Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru along with the diaries and memoirs of key players and other sources make this the definitive account of JFK's forgotten crisis. This is, Riedel writes, Kennedy's finest hour as you have never read it before.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 november 2015
Aantal pagina's: 231
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Hoofdauteur: Bruce Riedel
Hoofduitgeverij: Rowman & Littlefield

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Product breedte: 159 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 241 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 163 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 32 mm
Verpakking lengte: 236 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 578 g

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Politiek

Politieke wetenschap & Theorie

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