American universities are another instrument of power through the foreign students they educate here and through the hundreds of thousands of U.S. students who go abroad to study. Beyond this, thousands of faculty specializing in agriculture, human and veterinary medicine, the environment, hydrology, education, and countless other fields work in developing countries not just doing research but helping to improve lives. I will refer repeatedly to the extraordinary contribution such civilian expertise could make by augmenting and improving government development assistance programs.
