REPORT: Civil-Military Relations, Fostering Development, and Expanding Civilian Capacity, By Frederick Barton and Noam Unger, Center for Strategic and International Studies, April 21, 2009

Worth a look. Nobody smarter or more reasonable on the subject than Rick Barton at CSIS (except maybe Patrick Cronin, cited here).

Some quick gists: we need some new agency focused on this realm, and maybe it could be USAID freed from State (or part of it), the State office for reconstruction should probably go to any such new agency, and we should have a National Strategy for Global Development.

Baby steps all right, but all in the right direction.

Smart piece of work.