... (1980, p. 149).xxviii After the War: Nation-Building from FDR to George W. Bushrequirement one that requires greater consistency of method and transmission of expertise from one administration ... time before or since. At war s end, 1.7 million U.S. soldiers were garrisoned in the American sector of Germany, in which there were only 17 mil-lion Germans—a ratio of one foreign soldier to ... Japan at the conclusion of World War II. e next major spate of nation-building came at the end of the Cold War, in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. Finally, in the aftermath of the September...