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The Secret Army: Chiang Kai-shek and the Drug Warlords of the Golden Triangle

ISBN: 978-0-470-83018-5
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384 pages
October 2011
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Introduction: Two Young Chinese Soldiers vii

Glossary of Key Players xiii

List of Abbreviations xvii

Chapter 1: Retreat from Yunnan 1

Chapter 2: Sorting Things Out in Tachilek 15

Chapter 3: Lieutenant General Li Mi 29

Chapter 4: Li Mi and His American Friends 45

Chapter 5: Li Mi's Yunnan Anticommunist National Salvation Army 57

Chapter 6: Attacking Yunnan 69

Chapter 7: Washington Opts Out 87

Chapter 8: Li Mi's Army Settles into Burma 97

Chapter 9: Washington Cuts Its Losses 113

Chapter 10: Southern Strategy and Karen Allies 121

Chapter 11: The Road to the United Nations 131

Chapter 12: The United Nations vs. KMT Duplicity 139

Chapter 13: First Evacuation from Burma 153

Chapter 14: Liu Yuan-lin's Yunnan Anticommunist Volunteer Army 165

Chapter 15: A Resurgent KMT 181

Chapter 16: Operation Mekong: Sino-Burmese Forces Rout the KMT 191

Chapter 17: Air Battle Over Burma and American Weapons 205

Chapter 18: The Second KMT Evacuation 213

Chapter 19: Removing KMT Remnants from Laos 225

Chapter 20: Nationalist Chinese Armies in Thailand 235

Chapter 21: Thailand’s Troublesome Guests 251

Chapter 22: Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense 265

Chapter 23: Resettlement in Thailand 281

Chapter 24: Soldiering on for Thailand 293

Chapter 25: Postscript 305

Bibliography 309

Index 329

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