Mason, M. Chris <br/><br/>
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 / 
 Why the Afghan National Security Forces will not hold, and the implications for the United States Army in Afghanistan 
M. Chris Mason. 
 - x, 222 pages :  illustrations, maps. 
<br/><br/> "June 2015." 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781584876830 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Afghanistan National Security Forces.<br/>Afghanistan National Security Forces--Forecasting.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nation-building--Case studies.<br/>Insurgency--Case studies.<br/>Strategy.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Afghanistan--Forecasting.