Military Deep Into Civilian Duties (Boston Globe)

December 3, 2007

A recent front page Boston Globe article sites CGD Program Associate, Kaysie Brown, discussing the Pentagon's increasing role in U.S. development efforts.

From the article:

"Kaysie Brown, coauthor of the Center for Global Development study on the Pentagon and global development, said that nongovernmental organizations' concerns of the military expansion include that they could be targets of attacks in areas where the US military operates and that local people might wrongly believe they are connected to the military.

She said that the creation of the US Africa Command, or Africom, will be a test ground for how the military and civilians work together.

'The concern is that when the DOD finds religion, it really finds religion, and could overshadow the other development efforts,' Brown said. 'The question is when there's an inter-agency effort in an area where there's lots of instability, who holds the ultimate authority?'"