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Advising Indigenous Forces: American Advisors in Korea, Vietnam, and El Salvador (Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper) by Robert D Ramsey, III; Combat Studies Institute (U.S.) is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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The Army has recently embarked on massive advisory missions with foreign militaries in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the globe. We are simultaneously engaged in a huge effort to learn how to conduct those missions for which we do not consistently prepare. Mr. Robert Ramseys historical study examines three cases where the US Army has performed this same mission in the last half of the 20th century. In Korea during the 1950s, in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, and in El Salvador in the 1980s the Army was tasked to build and advise host nation armies during a time of war. The author makes several key arguments about the lessons the Army thought it learned at the time. Among the key points Mr. Ramsey makes are the need for US advisors to have extensive language and cultural training, the lesser importance for them of technical and tactical skills training, and the need to adapt US organizational concepts, training techniques, and tactics to local conditions. Accordingly, he also notes the great importance of the host nations leadership buying into and actively supporting the development of a performance-based selection, training, and promotion system. To its credit, the insti

Author

Robert D Ramsey, III; Combat Studies Institute (U.S.)

Publisher

Fort Leavenworth, Kan.: Combat Studies Institute Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780160767227

Subjects

Military, Government_military