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This model did work in Japan and Germany after the war. If anything, we are moving much faster than in those situations (too fast in my opinion). Yes, we still do have a military presence in both of those countries, but we are no longer the power behind the throne, if you will, in either of those countries.

One disadvantage to our overwhelmining military superiority is that we can win conflicts so quickly that the populace never becomes sick of war. I believe a key reason our occupations in Germany and Japan when relatively smoothly was because the people there just wanted the war to end after years of fighting and millions of lives lost.