It’s time to get the Pentagon out of the business of administering U.S. foreign aid
Authors Max Bergmann and Alex Schmitt discuss the current structure of U.S. security assistance programs and explain why the United States should shift its priorities away from the Pentagon and toward the State Department.
By law, foreign aid, which includes assistance to foreign militaries, is the responsibility of the State Department. This is for the simple reason that providing arms to another country is fundamentally an act of foreign policy. The State Department’s foreign military financing program has provided roughly $6 billion aid annually to foreign military partners, such as Israel and Egypt, for a half-century.
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Authors

Max Bergmann
Senior Fellow

Alexandra Schmitt
Senior Policy Analyst