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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 / M. Chris Mason.
By: Mason, M. Chris [author.]
.Contributor(s): Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute [publisher.] | Army War College (U.S.). Press [publisher.].Publisher: Carlisle, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2015Description: x, 222 pages : illustrations, maps.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781584876830.Other title: Why the Afghan National Security Forces will not hold, and the implications for the United States Army in Afghanistan.Subject(s): Afghanistan National Security Forces | Afghanistan National Security Forces -- Forecasting | Nation-building -- Case studies | Insurgency -- Case studies | Strategy | Afghanistan -- ForecastingAlso available online.Summary: The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields but at the strategic level. In each case, the U.S. Government attempted to create a Western-style democracy in countries which were decades away from being nations with the sociopolitical capital necessary to sustain democracy and accept it as a legitimate source of governance. This book examines the Afghan National Security Forces in historical and political contexts.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | Offsite Offsite Deepstore | Pamphlets | PAM 2015/078 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 010243 |
"June 2015."
The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields but at the strategic level. In each case, the U.S. Government attempted to create a Western-style democracy in countries which were decades away from being nations with the sociopolitical capital necessary to sustain democracy and accept it as a legitimate source of governance. This book examines the Afghan National Security Forces in historical and political contexts.
Also available online.