In the modern world, with democracy on the rise in countries like ours, the world is a huge battlefield. The people of countries around the world are in turmoil, looking at the free society of the United States and using it as a beacon, pointing it in the right direction, with their own inputs and ideals. These riots are commonly known as revolutions, which usually end in the death of many thousands of innocent lives fighting for their right to govern themselves. These rebellions happen because of the way the previous government handled issues related to the people, such as in communist or socialist governments. People in these cases are stuck where they were born, without any increase in social class or professional title, they are put where the states require them to be. In a Federal Republic, like that of the United States, people have the ability to choose what they want to do with their lives and they have the power to do it. This is the characteristic of a government that all people want, they want to be able to have complete control over their lives, so they are willing to incur great expenses to achieve it, even war. When a revolution is won and the old government is reined in, there is one question that must be resolved: what to do with the old standing army. The solution is security sector reform, although this is not the only use of this practice, it is the most common. Initially, security sector reform can come in many different policies, which deal with the different situations at hand, and what the scale of people are rooting for. First we need to define the topic of security sector reform: “Strengthening the institutional framework for the management of the security sector entails three major challenges: (a...... middle of paper ......r new democratic countries to be formed out of governments that have been overthrown, to push the expansion of democracy and crush that of communism Works Cited Hänggi, Heiner "Conceptualizing Security Sector Reform and Reconstruction" 6 (2004). Dylan and Andrzej Karkoszka. “The Challenges of Security Sector Reform.” SIPRI YEARBOOK (2002): 175-202. Brumberg, Daniel and Hesham Sallam ." Security Sector Reform: Potential and Challenges for Conflict Transformation, Berghof Handbook Dialogue Series 2 (2004): 16-17. Sedra, Mark in Post-Taliban Afghanistan." (2009).