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Army. Moore10 has described the history of American post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction, which has been done almost exclusively by military personnel exercising governance functions. Patterson11 has addressed some of the issues involved and lessons learned in military governance. Her paper uses the military government schools created during World War II as a potential model for training and education programs for contemporary military nation builders. She provides a useful summary of the historical data from the principal sources about American military government in World War I and World War II. One fact that needs to be recognized is that the military’s primary interest in an occupation or liberation scenario is not primarily to suppor BFWfV