Building Armies, Building Nations: Toward a New Approach to Security Force Assistance

by Michael Shurkin, John Gordon IV, Bryan Frederick

This report explores the relationship between armies and nation-building and argues that U.S.-sponsored Security Force Assistance (SFA) could become more effective by focusing less on force structure, military capabilities, and readiness, and focusing more on ideology and the extent to which a client army complements a host nation's larger nation-building project.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0833097415
• ISBN13: 9780833097415
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"