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Why Does Nation-Building Fail? – LewRockwell

Posted by M. C. on March 24, 2017

https://lewrockwell.com/2017/03/michael-s-rozeff/nation-building-fail/

Nation-building usually fails. It failed in at least 73% of cases in a study by James L. Payne that examined 51 instances of attempted nation-building in the past 150 years or so. This included 24 U.S. attempts and 27 British attempts. A study of 12 cases of U.S. interventions produced a similar finding: 4 success and 8 failures.
Our nation builders for the most part consists of the CIA and special forces. That should tell us something.

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