Colorful Maps: The Military's Costly Weapon in the War in Afghanistan by Joshua Foust, The Atlantic. BLUF: “USAID has more fundamental problems than a lack of geospatial analysis that is mostly done by the intelligence community already. Rather than creating its own duplicate GIS system, USAID could instead try liaising with these agencies (many of which, like the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, have scads of unclassified GIS data to use) to see what's available before they go dropping cash they really can't afford…”