Asia@War

This volume describes the circumstances of the creation of the Civil Air Transport company, a paramilitary airline owned by the CIA, its participation in the Chinese Civil War, and the story of its founder, General Claire Lee Chennault of the famed Flying Tigers.

The aftermath of the Second World War saw many colonial empires in a state of upheaval. In South East Asia, what had been armed resistance against the Japanese invaders and occupiers was now often turned...

After the withdrawal of the USA and then the government and forces of the Kuomintang from the Mainland China, and the declaration of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) led by Mao Tse Tung, it appeared that the times of the Civil Air Transport would find an end. However, immediately after, new wars erupted in Korea and in the French Indochina.

This first volume of a three-part series on the First Indochina War centers on the period between 1946–1949. A time when tensions between East and West were on the rise, the Indochina War was a colonial conflict that laid the foundations for America’s war in Vietnam.

After an uneven start in 1966 by January 1967 General Westmoreland was finally ready to launch his own offensives in the area north of Saigon. What followed was a series of controversial battles. This book explores these battles and puts them in the larger context of US strategy in Vietnam.

In 2005-2006, widespread public anger with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra resulted in a crisis that formed the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD, so-called ‘Yellow Shirts’).

In 1947, India and Pakistan were partitioned by their former colonial ruler, Great Britain. A job that should have taken ten-years was done in a few months. Britain, drained by two world wars in 40-years no longer had the will or the money to guide the subcontinent to a peaceful partition by consensus.

The most complete and up-to-date work on all there is to know about the Korean People’s Army Ground Forces today. Sixteen unique artworks and well over 150 images that have been collected over a decade’s work complement painstaking analysis describing every detail of the North’s ‘Military First’ endeavors.