Why couldn’t the diplomatic corps be privatized?
Mostly due to direct accountability although that has not kept the ongoing disasters in check anyway. I think the diplomats should be assigned directly to working under the various Secretaries of the issues at hand. None should be assigned to the Pentagon however as when they need to step in negiotations should have already failed. The State Departments management of the Armed Forces Missions Post WW2 has been a disaster.
“Why couldn’t the diplomatic corps be privatized?”
Way back when, if I recall correctly, there was an issue with refugees from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The State Department was in charge, but they subbed out the day-to-day work of interviewing and processing refugees to private concerns. So it was we young folks (ex-Peace Corps, world-travelers, whatnot) who could speak the language and put up with the daily grind and danger in the boondocks who did the grunt work for about 20 percent of what a State Department employee would make.