Papers & Pubs on Advising
"From the standpoint of America's
national security, the most important assignment in your military career
may not necessarily be commanding U.S. Soldiers, but advising or
mentoring the troops of other nations as they battle the forces of
terror and instability within their own borders."
The above quote from
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
addressing the Cadets at West Point in 2008.
2020
Byrd, Aaron R., Ph.D., PE and Mechille Braden, "A Culture-Independent
Conceptual Model of Organizational Leadership for Advisors", Small
Wars Journal, October 22, 2020.
https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/culture-independent-conceptual-model-organizational-leadership-advisors
Waxler, SFC Michael, "Emotional Intelligence and the Modern Military
Advisor", NCO Journal, Army University Press, April 24, 2020.
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archives/2020/April/Emotional-Intelligence-and-the-Modern-Military-Advisor/
Grazier, Dan, Preventing Train and Defeat in Future Conflicts.
Institutionalizing the lessons learned during Afghanistan to
prevent another two-decade exercise in futility. POGO, April 8, 2020.
https://www.pogo.org/report/2020/04/preventing-train-and-defeat-in-future-conflicts/
Murray, Michael G. II and Major Kirk Johnson, Information Paper:
The Application of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences in Advising,
January 2020. Two members of the Marine Corps Security Cooperation
Group (MCSCG) co-authored a 7-page paper that explores a change in
training of advisors that will produce better critical thinkers.
https://sof.news/pubs/Application-Psychology-Behavioral-Science-in-Advising-Murray-Johnson-Jan-2020.pdf
2019
Calhoun, George,
"Speak Fluently and Carry a Big Stick: Strengthening Language Training
to Enhance Capability", Modern War Institute at West Point,
September 4, 2019.
2018
Brown, Edward E., "The Definition of Advisor: Comprehending the
Mission to Advise Foreign Security Forces", Small Wars Journal.
An Army officer with significant advisor experience defines the roll of
an advisor.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/definition-advisor-comprehending-mission-advise-foreign-security-forces
2017
King, James, "New Rules for Advisers: Lessons From a Year With the
Iraqi Army", Small Wars Journal, May 2, 2017. An Intelligence
Officer assigned to a Military Transition Team (MiTT) in Iraq provides
insight on how to do military advising.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/new-rules-for-advisers-lessons-from-a-year-with-the-iraqi-army
Griffiths, Zachary, "Advising in Small Wars", Small Wars Journal,
April 12, 2017. A Special Forces ODA commander writes on the
challenges of advising a Provincial Response Company (PRC) in Nangarhar
province, Afghanistan in the 2013 timeframe.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/advising-in-small-wars
Lewis, Angela M. et al, "Joint Regional Experts: We Can Do Better",
Small Wars Journal, April 7, 2017. Three military officers
write how DoD should select, train, and assign joint regional experts.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/joint-regional-experts-we-can-do-better
2016
Stringer, Lieutenant Colonel Kevin D., "The
Missing Lever: A Joint Military Advisory Command for Partner-Nation
Engagement", Joint Force Quarterly, JFQ 81, 2nd Quarter 2016,
pages 86-91. Stringer argues that a joint military advisory command is
needed to make the advising mission joint, specialized, and
institutionally mainstream.
www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jfq/jfq-81.pdf
Healey, 1st Lt. Dominick, "Building Rapport: The
History and Near Future of Combat Advising", Army Press, 2016.
http://armypress.dodlive.mil/2016/05/31/building-rapport-the-history-and-near-future-of-combat-advising/
2015
Hooker, Jr, Richard D. and Joseph J. Collins, "Raising and Mentoring
Security Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq", Lessons Encountered:
Learning from the Long War, National Defense University, Fort
McNair, DC. ADA621797, September 2015.
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA621797
2014
Hajjar, Lt. Col. Remi, U.S. Army, "What Lessons
Did We Learn (or Re-Learn) About Military Advising After 9/11?",
Military Review, November-December 2014, pages 63-75.
http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_20141231_art013.pdf
2009
Brooks, Michael G., General Editor,
Eyewitness to War Volume III: US Army Advisors in Afghanistan,
Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center, Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, 2009.
http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/EyewitnessToWar_VolumeIII_Brooks.pdf
2008
Grdovic, LTC Mark, "The Advisory Challenge",
Special Warfare Magazine, Jan/Feb 2008, Vol. 21, Issue 1, pages
22-28. The author discusses the critical skills an advisor should have
to include the importance of getting to know the counterpart, trust,
respect, credibility and how to establish a relationship.
www.dvidshub.net/publication/issues/8250
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