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Index
Cover
Contents
Title
Copyright
Introduction: Two Young Chinese Soldiers
Glossary of Key Players
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Retreat from Yunnan
Collapsing Nationalist Armies
The Kunming Incident
Refuge in Burma’s Shan State
Birth of the Restoration Army
Notes
Chapter 2: Sorting Things Out in Tachilek
Kengtung State—Backwater Flashpoint
Li Kuo-hui Refuses to Leave Kengtung
The Battle of Tachilek
The Americans Reluctantly Get Involved
Notes
Chapter 3: Lieutenant General Li Mi
The Huaihai Campaign
Li Mi Initiates His Enterprise
Seeking American Help
Li Mi Wins Command and Moves to Bangkok
Thai Friends
Finding Troops and Weapons
Notes
Chapter 4: Li Mi and His American Friends
Möng Hsat
Some Perspective in Retrospect
American Cold Warriors
Civil Air Transport, the CIA’s Airline in East Asia
The CIA in Thailand
Notes
Chapter 5: Li Mi’s Yunnan Anticommunist National Salvation Army
Thai and American Help
Secrets, Evasions, and Operation Paper
Li Mi’s Initial Weapons Deliveries
Rallying the Troops at Möng Hsat
Li Mi’s Diverse Army
Notes
Chapter 6: Attacking Yunnan
The Operations Plan
Moving to the Frontier
An Open Secret
Americans Deliver the Goods
The Airfield at Mengsa
The PLA Counterattack
Back in Burma
Notes
Chapter 7: Washington Opts Out
London Gets the Goods on Washington
Washington Decides to Cut Its Losses
UK-US Démarche Fiasco
More Failed Diplomacy
Notes
Chapter 8: Li Mi’s Army Settles into Burma
Yunnan Anticommunist University
Taiwan to Möng Hsat Air Bridge
Allying With Burma’s Karens
Li Mi’s International Press
Stirrings at the United Nations
The Shan Opium Trade
The KMT’s Opium Business
Thai Opium Laws and Practices
Notes
Chapter 9: Washington Cuts Its Losses
Backing Away from Li Mi
The US Defense Department Cuts Funding
Pressuring Chiang Kai-shek to Remove His Army
Notes
Chapter 10: Southern Strategy and Karen Allies
YANSA—KNDO Cooperation
Operation Earth
The SS Haitien Debacle
What Went Wrong?
Notes
Chapter 11: The Road to the United Nations
Operation Maha and Battle of Wan Hsa-la
Washington Pressures Taipei
The Burmese Go to the United Nations
Notes
Chapter 12: The United Nations vs. KMT Duplicity
An Intransigent Li Mi
Operation Heaven
The Joint Military Committee Stalls
Burma Quits the Joint Military Committee
Chiang Kai-shek Grudgingly Acquiesces
Notes
Chapter 13: First Evacuation from Burma
Evacuation: Phase I
Evacuation Phase II
Evacuation Phase III
Ending the Evacuation
Notes
Chapter 14: Liu Yuan-lin’s Yunnan Anticommunist Volunteer Army
Burma’s Yangyiaung Offensive
Liu Yuan-lin and Taiwan’s Intelligence Services
Liu Yuan-lin Organizes His Army
A KMT-Burmese Truce
Tang-or Headquarters
Changes in Bangkok Affect the KMT
Notes
Chapter 15: A Resurgent KMT
Strengthening Liu Yuan-lin’s Army
An Ineffectual KMT Party 2nd Section
KMT-Laos Cooperation
Settling the Yunnan-Burma Border
Notes
Chapter 16: Operation Mekong: Sino-Burmese Forces Rout the KMT
Sino-Burmese Planning to Oust the KMT
Initial PLA Operations
Liu Yuan-lin and YAVA Regroup
Laos and KMT Aerial Supply Lines
Burmese Operations
The PLA Re-enter the Fight
Notes
Chapter 17: Air Battle Over Burma and American Weapons
The KMT’s American Weapons
Rangoon Protests, Washington Whitewashes
Notes
Chapter 18: The Second KMT Evacuation
Taipei-Vientiane Cooperation in Laos
Chiang Kai-shek Backs Down
Dealing with Complications
Withdrawing Taipei’s Troops
Notes
Chapter 19: Removing KMT Remnants from Laos
Vientiane Recruits the KMT
Stranded KMT Remnants in Laos
The KMT Finally Leave Laos
Notes
Chapter 20: Nationalist Chinese Armies in Thailand
Li Wen-huan’s Third Army
Tuan Hsi-wen’s Fifth Army
An Early Resettlement Effort
The KMT Fend for Themselves
KMT’s 2nd Section
Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense
Notes
Chapter 21: Thailand’s Troublesome Guests
Moving the KMT Off the Laos Border
Thailand’s Troubled Borders
The 1967 Opium War
What to Do With the KMT in Thailand?
Notes
Chapter 22: Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense
Ma Chün-kuo’s Interim IBMND Presence
IBMND Zone 1920 Takes Shape
A More Aggressive Zone 1920
IBMND Narcotics Trafficking
Shuttering the KMT Party 2nd Section
Disbanding IBMND Zone 1920
Notes
Chapter 23: Resettlement in Thailand
Negotiating Resettlement
Securing New Settlements
Opium for Resettlement
Notes
Chapter 24: Soldiering on for Thailand
Guarding The Roads
A Last Hurrah at Khao Ya
Notes
Chapter 25: Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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