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The instability of the Haitian political and governmental system is often blamed on the army, which has been seen as a destabilizing force throughout the history of the nation. This general opinion has been held by both the Haitian populace and foreign analysts. It was partly with a view to restraining a pro-Kako (members of revolutionary bands who later engaged the US Marines in guerilla warfare) faction of the army from playing a ‘director role’ in Haitian politics that the United States intervened militarily in Haiti from 1915 to 1934, dismantled the old guard and replaced it with a professional army. The professionalization of the army, however, has not solved the problem of political instability. It has simply cast it in a different mode.
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Laguerre, M.S. (1993). Civil-Military Relations. In: The Military and Society in Haiti. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13046-7_2
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