Efforts to improve security sector assistance have foundered for years due to fractured responsibility and focusing on the urgent over the important. Yet American security requires building effective partnerships in fragile states. The next administration should prioritize SSA improvements. The United States cannot reform countries that do not wish to change. Yet successes are real and meaningful. Improving strategy and implementation will allow the United States to deprioritize countries where its effects will be minimal, prioritize potentially significant successes, and focus senior offcials on the areas with the hardest choices so they can avoid making the situation worse
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"September 2016."
Bibliography
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Online resource; title from PDF caption (USIP, viewed September 30, 2016)
