>As far as post-war governance, I suggest the Marshall plan. Japan and Germany are models for how to occupy a country with great results. They tried something

>As far as post-war governance, I suggest the Marshall plan. Japan and Germany are models for how to occupy a country with great results. They tried something like that in Afghanistan, and it was a complete disaster. ~1945 Japan and Germany were completely different countries from Saudi Arabia or any other country you're proposing an invasion of; attempting to set up a friendly government in those places is likely to be about as successful as Afghanistan was.