How the US Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II

Guest: Grant Madsen, PhD, Professor of History, Brigham Young University, Author, "Sovereign Soldiers" War destroys infrastructure and upends economies, and for a decade the US has been trying to get Iraq and Afghanistan back on solid footing after our invasion. How well a country and its economy are rebuilt when the fighting stops is crucial to making sure peace lasts, and making sure we don’t end up in, for instance, a second World War just twenty years after fighting World War I. What can we learn from how America’s military generals patched things up in Germany and Japan after World War II?