Whether DOGE's motivations were reform, political theater, or budget slashing is irrelevant to whether the underlying problem – IC integration into civilian development infrastructure – is a legitimate issue worth addressing.

For people with operational experience, the concern is real and predates DOGE by decades – USAID cover compromised actual development workers, created force protection problems, and poisoned the well for legitimate civilian programs.

But they aren't addressing it. They just outright ended USAID without any regard for any of the things you continue to type.

Addressing it would be to provide the functions without the IC.

There is no un-poisoning of this well unfortunately. Whatever benefit USAID was offering should have been put under State long ago.

They did not put it under state. The issue you are talking about has nothing to do with DOGE and the actions they took.

You’re right! Who needs soft power when we have hard power!