RaveThe Financial TimesKurlantzick brings out the chaos wrought by a previous era of great power proxy struggles, civil war in Vietnam and genocide in Cambodia ... A Great Place to Have a War challenges the idea, articulated across the US political spectrum, that the country enjoys a status as a force for good in the world ... A Great Place to Have a War is pacy and its discussions of US intra-governmental conflict and the intricacies of Laos politics are leavened with vivid portraits of the main personalities ... a reminder of how much US history in this conflict-scarred region still bubbles beneath the surface — and awaits a proper reckoning.
