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Informationen zum Autor Mark Moyar is the author of numerous books and articles on national security and capacity building, including Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965 and A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq. He has been a professor at the US Marine Corps University, where he held the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism, and, most recently, at the Joint Special Operations University. A frequent visitor to foreign conflict zones, he has served as a consultant to the senior leadership of several US military commands. Klappentext Foreign aid can be made much more effective by shifting emphasis from poverty alleviation to leadership cultivation and cultural transformation. Zusammenfassung This book provides politicians! aid organizations! and taxpayers a compelling argument for fundamentally changing foreign aid. Foreign aid has been ineffective because it has been based upon flawed assumptions about national development. Aid can be made effective by shifting emphasis from poverty alleviation to leadership cultivation and cultural transformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Pathways to development; 2. How governments work; 3. Civilization; 4. Human capital development; 5. Human capital and national security; 6. Training; 7. Militarization; 8. Education in the third world; 9. Education in the United States; 10. Support; 11. Measurement; 12. Conclusion: a new foreign assistance strategy.
