It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read The Strategic Lessons Unlearned from Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan by M. Chris Mason
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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...
The Strategic Lessons Unlearned from Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan by M. Chris Mason is 236 pages long, and a total of 60,416 words.
This makes it 80% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read The Strategic Lessons Unlearned from Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan aloud.
The Strategic Lessons Unlearned from Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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