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Dr. Mara Karlin spoke to cadets (here) and faculty at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point about the challenges of building military forces in fragile states. Dr. Karlin is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institute, and is Associate Professor of the Practice of Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she also serves as acting director of the school’s Strategic Studies Program and as executive director of the Merrill Center for Strategic Studies. Dr. Karlin has served in national security roles for five US secretaries of defense, advising on policies spanning strategic planning, defense budgeting, future wars and the evolving security environment, and regional affairs involving the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.
She principally focused on three past partnerships between the U.S. Military and post-war or at-war fragile states in the cases of Lebanon in the 1980s, Greece, and South Vietnam while also touching on lessons learned from failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
You can read excerpts from the book on Task & Purpose (here) and Amazon (here) as well as Dr. Joseph Collins' (NDU) review for PRISM here.
She also contributed to a recent Brookings report on a city-based strategy for rebuilding Libya.
For more on this subject, I'd also suggest checking out Sean McFate's 2013 book on Building Better Armies: An Insider’s Account of Liberia (PDF).