by Zoe Pollock
James Gibney reviews Armed Humanitarians, by Nathan Hodge and the future of foreign aid funneled through the military:
The enduring legacy of our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan may well be better, but not more, armed humanitarianism, as when the Pentagon swiftly mobilized aid after Haiti’s earthquake last year and then withdrew once the immediate crisis eased, leaving the Haitians to make their own choices. As Hodge takes pains to show, in nation-building, less is often more.
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