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The US Department of Defense has several regional military headquarters whose mission is to partner with allies in the region for mutual security. In this role, each headquarters’ staff is reaching out to allied countries and their military forces through health programs, which are often perceived as unthreatening to the host nation. Some of these partnership activities involve direct provision of health care by US military medical personnel, but the trend is away from that unsustainable, Cold War era model. Increasingly, facilitation of health programs to build capacity can be done by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as the model. Nongovernmental organizations often remain in a country continuously for many years, developing host nation capacity in ways that a short-term military mission could not. Interventions by NGOs that are intermittent, but long-term, can also encourage the host nation to take ownership and …