NSAC on the Hill
A senior delegation of USGLC’s National Security Advisory Council representing more than 50 retired flag officers were in Washington yesterday for briefings and meetings with Members of Congress and policymakers in the Administration. Led by co-Chairs General Michael Hagee and Admiral James Loy, the delegation met with senior members of the Budget and Appropriations Committees in the House and Senate and with officials at the Pentagon to discuss the importance of increased funding for the International Affairs Budget and building civilian capacities. “With all the challenges our nation presently faces, our civilian tools of development and diplomacy have never been more vital to our national security,” Hagee and Loy wrote on the USGLC website yesterday. In an interview with Foreign Policy’s “The Cable” blog, Loy said that the delegation supports Secretary Gates’s pledge to rebalance the tools of American statecraft “because using the military to do development is just not the right way to do business.”
