TY - BOOK AU - Patterson,Rebecca TI - The Challenge of Nation-Building: Implementing Effective Innovation in the U. S. Army from World War II to the Iraq War SN - 9781442236950 AV - JZ6300 -- .P38 2014eb U1 - 327.73 PY - 2014/// CY - Blue Ridge Summit PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated KW - Nation-building - United States - History KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acronyms -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Nation-Building and Its Cousins: Choosing Cases -- Chapter Three: Effective Innovations for the Nation-Building of Post-World War II Germany -- Chapter Four: Ineffective Innovations in Operation Iraqi Freedom -- Chapter Five: Explaining the Absence of Innovation in Korea and Vietnam -- Chapter Six: Conclusion and Policy Implications -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - The Challenge of Nation-Building examines the conditions that have allowed or prevented the U.S. Army to innovate for nation-building effectively. By doing so, it shows how military leadership and civil-military relations have changed UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1798293 ER -