The Strategic Lessons Unlearned from Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan: Why the ANSF Will Not Hold, and the Implications for the U.S. Army in Afghanistan

by U.S. Army War College, Chris Mason, U.S. Army War College Press

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 decades at least away from being nations with the sociopolitical capital necessary to sustain democracy and, most importantly, accept it as a legitimate source...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1098969456
• ISBN13: 9781098969455
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"