The strategic lessons unlearned from Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan : why the Afghan National Security Forces will not hold, and the implications for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan /

"The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields, where the United States won every tactical engagement, but at the strategic level of war. In each case, the U.S. Government attempted to create a Western-style democracy in countries which were dec...

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Main Author:	Mason, M. Chris (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Afghanistan National Security Forces > Forecasting. Nation-building > Case studies. Insurgency > Case studies. Strategy. Afghanistan > Forecasting. Afghanistan National Security Forces. Forecasting. Insurgency. Nation-building. Afghanistan. Case studies.
Online Access:	http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/download.cfm?q=1269