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Why does it need to be military? IIRC, Australia sent police, specialists as part of post Iraq war efforts. US could send in fact send non military; engineers,
by Joakal 8y ago
Why does it need to be military? IIRC, Australia sent police, specialists as part of post Iraq war efforts.
US could send in fact send non military; engineers, etc, but it will viewed with local suspicion and may make things worst (assaults, sabotage by either side or third party). Even US is suspicious of foreigners building US infrastructure (ie Huawei).
When there's so much distrust of US by Haitians and US likewise doesn't trust Haitian government with funds, there are quasi government organisations such as UN: https://www.un.org/un70/en/content/70ways/index.html https://www.un.org/un70/en/content/70ways/index.html
Even they have had issues in Haiti.
- tialaramex 8y agoArmies are portable civilisation. If you task most civilian forces with going somewhere that has disaster level problems there will be blockers. Oh, we can't go there until they have: power, clean water, working telecoms, physical security, etc. In contrast your military forces can, if necessary, bring everything. A US army deployment can make its own electrical power, make water safe, deploy radio communications, and of course it can provide its own physical security. It is not cheap, but it works.
- kaybe 8y agoIs there something like THW in the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technisches_Hilfswerk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technisches_Hilfswerk The only thing they don't do is the physical security.
- CydeWeys 8y agoWe have FEMA, which is similar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Emergency_Management_Agency https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Emergency_Management... They did a pretty shit job managing Hurricane Katrina though. Bush's political appointee to run FEMA had no relevant experience, and Trump now also has a variety of incompetents running various agencies. The military is bigger, better funded, and most importantly, more competent. A lot of people in a disaster in the US, upon hearing that FEMA is coming, would rather wish it were the military (just based on track record).
- mjevans 8y agoVery much this. It's like with data-recovery. If things are extra-broken you don't try to fix the problem from within; you bring external order (A rescue disk, taking out the problem storage disk and mounting it to another system) and then fix the problem from a working host environment.