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U.S. Military by Ava Patricia Avila is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses the increasing role of the U.S. military in providing humanitarian assistance and development aid abroad. It uses the example of U.S. Navy Seabees drilling wells in Kenya to provide clean water to nomadic communities, noting that while an expensive endeavor, it also served strategic security objectives by building goodwill in a volatile region near Somalia. The military is pursuing more "non-kinetic" assistance programs as a way to counter threats like militant extremism when direct m
- Author
- Ava Patricia Avila
- Language
- EN