Secret War in Laos: Green Berets, CIA, and the Hmong
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Secret War in Laos: Green Berets, CIA, and the Hmong
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Steven Schofield
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The tale of a young Green Beret medic, Vietnam combat veteran with the top secret Studies and Observations Group (SOG) who was recruited by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
Schofield worked five and a half years providing medical support for the Hmong and other Hill Tribes who fought the CIA’s secret war in Northern Laos, and was among the last Americans to leave SE Asia in May 1975.
It was a surreal time and place that would be impossible to even imagine today.
“Schofiled’s book reflects a genuine love for the Hmong and their culture, as well as a vast knowledge of their efforts during our ‘secret war’ in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s. Read and learn some actual facts; not overblown rhetoric from another barstool hero.” (Stephen R. Leopold, colonel, SF, USA, ret.)
“Schofield’s book will be a welcome, informative addition to recent books released on the early days of Green Beret history in Southeast Asia. De Oppresso Liber." (John Stryker Meyer, author of SOG Chronicles, Across the Fence, and On the Ground)
©2019 Steven Schofield (P)2020 Steven Schofield
A near-complete lack of historical and non-partisan perspective permeates the account, in addition to poor editing. The writer claims his expatriate times to have been something completely unique, while in reality it was extraordinarily common over the past several centuries. The author conveniently leaving out the political "big picture" before, during and after ensures he sticks to historic fallacies and convenient half-truths.
He claims to be a great supporter of the people he was tasked with assisting. From a sober perspective, he simply does all he can to damage their position and his nations, while later in his book justifying everything and trying to act like a hero.
In closing, the speaker does an acceptable job reading the story. In addition, it is good that an account of the US's time in Laos has a personal account. The book would have been worlds above the current result- If the criminal mischief, drunkenness, political rhetoric and other unnecessary nonsense could have been dealt with otherwise.
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