Institutionalizing Adaptation: It’s Time for a Permanent Army Advisor Corps
by John A. Nagl
Date: June 11, 2007
Series: The Future of the U.S. Military
Synopsis:
The most important military component of the Long War will not be the fighting we do ourselves, but how well we enable and empower our allies to fight with us.
After describing the many complicated, interrelated, and simultaneous tasks that must be conducted to defeat an insurgency, the new Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual notes “Key to all these tasks is developing an effective host-nation (HN)
security force.”
Indeed, it has been argued that foreign forces cannot defeat an insurgency; the best they can hope for is to create the conditions that will enable local forces to win for them. [We] will need far more urgently in years to come — an Army that includes a standing Advisor Corps organized, designed, trained, and equipped to develop professional host nation security forces that can build freedom abroad.
http://www.newamericansecurity.org/publications/Nagl_AdvisoryCorp_June07.pdf
