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- Title
Nation-Building is an Oxymoron.
- Authors
Mason, M. Chris
- Abstract
Nations are not built. They form almost imperceptibly from within over long spans of historical time. Since the end of World War II, no country that was not a nation has ever won a counterinsurgency or suppressed a civil war. Field Manual 3-24 Counterinsurgency is wrong because it is premised on the false assumption that support for an existing government can be increased during a civil war/ insurgency as a result of the counterinsurgents' actions. There is no historical evidence to support this assumption.
- Subjects
NATION building; OXYMORON; WORLD War II; COUNTERINSURGENCY; CIVIL war
- Publication
Parameters: U.S. Army War College, 2016, Vol 46, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
0031-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.55540/0031-1723.2825