Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges: How Foreign Aid Became a Casualty of War

Penetrating beyond its original strategy, the “war on terror” has even extended its reach to foreign aid—politicizing aid efforts to an unprecedented level with devastating consequences. Aid workers are being killed at an alarming rate, leaving their beneficiaries unprotected in volatile countries. With Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges, Peter Gill asks the crucial question: can Western nations fight in a country and aid it effectively at the same time? 
 
Overcrowded refugee camps in Pakistan; the ravaged streets of Mogadishu; a tensely militant Turkey-Syria border—Gill has traveled to some of the most war-torn areas in the world, in order to provide incredible on-the-ground reporting from the world’s most troubled zones, as well as extensive, enlightening interviews with several senior NGO insiders. With his findings, Gill is able to thoroughly examine the true relationship between aid agencies and the Western military today. He reveals that while some agencies cling to their neutrality, many others—such as Oxfam and Save the Children­—have compromised their crucial impartiality in order to secure greater government funding.
 
A provocative critique of high-profile charities, Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges is essential reading for anyone interested in the contentious debates currently surrounding foreign aid or the realities of how NGOs truly use taxpayer money and charitable donations.