Where Are the Civilians?

How to Rebuild the U.S. Foreign Service

Author: J. Anthony Holmes, Cyrus Vance Fellow in Diplomatic Studies
January/February 2009
Foreign Affairs

The Bush administration has undermined U.S. diplomacy by starving the State Department and USAID of resources and politicizing the Foreign Service. For the Obama administration to achieve its ambitious foreign policy objectives, it must rebuild and expand the government's crucial civilian capacity.

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