The secret army: Chiang Kai-Shek and the drug warlords of the golden triangle

How Chiang Kai-sheks defeated Koumintang army secretly dominated the Asian drug trade Based on recently declassified government documents, this book reveals the shocking true story of what happened after the Chinese Nationalists lostthe revolution. Supported by Taiwan, the CIA, and the Thai government, the Koumintang reinvented itself as an anti-communist mercenary army fighting into the 1980s, before eventually becoming the drug lords who would make the Golden Triangle a household name. INDICE: Introduction: Two Young Chinese Soldiers Chapter 1: Retreat from Yunnan Facing Defeat (2), The Kunming Incident (5), The Road to Burma (9) Chapter 2: Refuge in Burmas Shan State A Troubled Union of Burma (17), Kengtung State -Backwater Flashpoint (20) Chapter 3: Sorting Things Out at Tachilek Battle of Tachilek (26), The Americans Reluctantly Get Involved (30) Chapter 4: Lieutenant General Li Mi Initiates His Enterprise (39), Seeking American Help (43), Li Mi Wins Command and Moves to Bangkok (44), Thai Friends (47), Finding Troops and Weapons (49) Chapter 5: Building a KMT Stronghold in Burma MöngHsat (55), Some Perspective in Retrospect (57) Chapter 6: American Cold Warriors Civil Air Transport, the CIAs Airline (62), The CIA in Thailand (64) Chapter 7: Li Mi Builds the Yunnan National Salvation Army Thai and American Help (69), Initial Weapons Deliveries (74) Rallying Troops at Möng Hsat (75), Li MisArmy of Questionable Allies (77) Chapter 8: Preparing to Invade Yunnan The Operations Plan (81), Moving to the Frontier (83), Mustering Newcomers (84), An Open Secret (86), Washington Rebuffs Rangoon (88) Chapter 9: Debacle in Yunnan, May-July 1951 Americans Deliver the Goods (90), Action on the Flanks (91), The Airfield at Mengsa (93), The PLA Counterattacks (96), The Southern Column (99), Back in Burma (100) Chapter 10: Washington Opts Out London Gets the Goodson Washington (105), Washington Decides to Cut its Losses (108), UK-US Joint Démarche Fiasco (110), More Failed Diplomacy (113) Chapter 11: Li Mis Army Takes Root in Burma Yunnan Anticommunist University (116), Taiwan to Möng Hsat Air Bridge (118), Allying With Burmas Karens (121), Li Mis International Press (123), Stirrings at the United Nations (126) Chapter 12: Opium: Mothers Milk for the KMT Governments as Opium Traders (132), The KMTs Opium Business (134), Thai Opium Laws and Practices (137), Opium, KMT, and the Thai Police (139) Chapter 13: Washington Decides to Remove the KMT Backing Away from Li Mi (144), Li Mi and the US Defense Department (147), Pressuring Chiang Kai-shek (148) Chapter 14: Southern Strategy and Karen Allies KMT - KNDO Cooperation (153), Increased KMT Aggressiveness (155), The SS Haitien Debacle (157), What Went Wrong?(159) Chapter 15: The Road to United Nations Action Operation Maha and the Battle of Wân Hsa-la (163), Washington Pressures Taipei (165), Rangoon Goes to the United Nations (168) Chapter 16: The United Nations vs. KMT Duplicity An Intransigent Li Mi (173), Operation Heaven (174), The Joint Military Committee Stalls (177), Burma Quits the Joint Military Committee (180) Chapter 17: FirstEvacuation from Burma Evacuation Phase I (186), Evacuation Phase II (189), Burmese Offensive of 1954 (193), Evacuation Phase III (194), Ending the Evacuation (195) Chapter 18: Liu Yuan-lin and the Yunnan Anticommunist Volunteer Army Reconsidering Thai Support for the KMT (200), Burmas Yangyiaung Offensive (202), Liu Yuan-lin and Taiwans Intelligence Se

• ISBN: 978-0-470-83018-5
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 384
• Fecha Publicación: 25/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés