National Security: Nation Building

Most great nations throughout history, like the United States, have engaged in one form or another of nation-building. As a rule, it has not gone well. During his recent trip to the Middle East, President Trump addresses this. "The so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand, themselves. In recent years, far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that