View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by DigitalCommons@Macalester College Macalester College DigitalCommons@Macalester College Political Science Honors Projects Political Science Department Spring 5-2015 Swords into Stethoscopes: How the U.S. Military Could Conduct Medical Diplomacy Oliver Kendall Macalester College,
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[email protected]. Swords into Stethoscopes: How the U.S. Military Could Conduct Medical Diplomacy Oliver Kendall Project Advisor: Professor David Blaney, Department of Political Science Submitted April 29, 2015 Since the early 1960’s, Cuba and China have won international appreciation by sending doctors abroad to help where they are needed. While there was surprise in some quarters when U.S. military personnel were deployed to combat Ebola in the last months of 2014, the Department of Defense actually has a long history of medical activity. In its current form, DoD medical outreach cannot likely garner soft power in the way that the Chinese and Cuban programs can, but with a few modifications, the U.S.