The July/August 2025 issue of the Foreign Service Journal contains an article titled "USAID Is Vanishing" by Jim Bever, 35-year veteran of USAID.
This is an account by a former USAID mission director (4 times) on the impact of dismantling the US foreign aid organization. He emphasizes that no national security strategy has been offered to explain or justify this decision.
The Diplomatic Courier published on 23 April 2025 a commentary titled "In Memoriam: USAID (1948-2025)" by Steven E. Hendrix, former senior USAID official.
USAID died quietly in February 2025 undone by political bureaucratic suffocation and homicidal strategic confusion. What follows the death of USAID will be repackaged into State Department public diplomacy toolkits or crisis response units. Private contractors will fill the void. Multilateral organizations will pick up the slack. But in death USAID leaves behind a legacy of people trained, systems built, and crises averted.
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