Building the Nation: Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan

by Heather Selma Gregg

Building the Nation draws from foreign-policy reports and interviews with U.S. military officers to investigate recent U.S.-led efforts to "nation-build" in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heather Selma Gregg argues that efforts to nation-build in both countries mistakenly focused more on what should be called state-building, or how to establish a government, rule of law, security forces, and a viable economy. Considerably less attention was paid to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640120874
• ISBN13: 9781640120877
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"