POST: USAID challenges reflect greater problems at the State Department, By Matt Armstrong, MountainRunner, August 18, 2009

Great post on USAID's recent decline. If not rebuilt and freed from State, DoD will get stuck with more and more aid in its SysAdmin.

Eventually, the USG needs to create an alternative bureaucratic center of gravity, or what I dubbed the Department of Everything Else in BFA.

And USAID should be the anchor.