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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 (Paperback)
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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 (Paperback)
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Military personnel who have experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, or
Vietnam, as well as senior leaders and military historians alike,
will find this book by Dr. Chris Mason thought-provoking and
useful. Dr. Mason examines indigenous personnel issues at the
tactical, operational, and strategic levels of war and uses
empirical data and exhaustive research to argue that all three wars
were lost before the first shots were fired-not on the battlefield,
but at the strategic level of war. The United States interpreted
all three conflicts as insurgencies, Mason writes, when in fact all
three were civil wars in which the United States took a side.
Success was never possible from the outset, his provocative thesis
argues, because none of the three countries were nations for which
the majority of their citizens were willing to fight and die.
Nation-building is a slow, evolutionary, internal process through
which the political identity of the peoples within a country's
borders matures over centuries...
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