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
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