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53. Telephone interview with Joseph Hewitt, USAID Office of
Conflict Management and Mitigation, February 25, 2016.
54. Department of State Bureau for Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO), “Operations Sub-IPC Meeting Minutes,”
memorandum, Washington, DC, Department of State/CSO, June
1, 2011.
55. Thomas R. Nides, Introducing New Strategic Planning and
Budgeting Processes, State Department Unclassified Cable 124737
(Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, December 2011),
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/Pdact135.pdf (accessed March 20,
2016).
56. Thomas S. Szayna et al., Integrating Civilian Agencies in Stability Operations (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Arroyo Center, 2009),
xviii.
57. These included the Departments of State, Agriculture,
Commerce, Justice, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Treasury, and Transportation, as well as USAID. Serafino,
Peacekeeping/Stabilization, 15.
58. Telephone interview with a former USAID CRC-A member, January 12, 2016.
59. U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of
Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), USAID Office of Foreign
Disaster Assistance (Washington, DC: OFDA, January 21, 2016).
https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1866/OFDA_fact_
sheet_01-21-2016.pdf (accessed March 19, 2016).
60. During the Obama Administration, both agencies succeeded in increasing their direct-hire staff across the board by
several hundred new foreign service officers, as well as bringing
aboard hundreds of others using term-limited personnel appointments known as “foreign service limited” positions. Many of the
latter positions have expired since the build-up of civilian staff in
Iraq and Afghanistan that accompanied the expanded coalition
military presence in the region. Telephone interview with Michael Hryshchyshyn, February 25, 2016.

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