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Building Militaries in Fragile StatesChallenges for the United States\nAuthor(s): Mara E. Karlin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812249262, 978-0812249262\nSynopsis\nCombining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key national security issue of our time: how to effectively build partner militaries. Given the complex and complicated global security environment, declining [url] defense budgets, and an increasingly connected (and often unstable) world, the United States has an ever-deepening interest in strengthening fragile states. Particularly since World War II, it has often chosen to do so by strengthening partner militaries. It will continue to do so, Karlin predicts, given [url] sensitivity to casualties, a constrained fiscal environment, the nature of modern nationalism, increasing transnational security t.