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Ministry Advising in Afghanistan

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Ministry Advising in Afghanistan

There has been a continous effort to advise and assist the Afghan ministries ever since they were established in the early 2000s. This advisory effort has been hindered in part by the improper selection of ministry level advisors, inadequate training of these advisors, abbreviated deployment times of advisors (6 months in some cases), incompetent senior level officers of the MoI and MoD, an ineffective Afghan government, and massive corruption at all levels of the Afghan army and police. Efforts to reduce the corruption and increase the effectiveness of the MoI and MoD with tools such as commitment letters have thus far yielded less than satisfactory results.


Websites with Info on Ministry Advising

Ministry Level Advisors Community of Interest (CoI) on JCISFA Portal
https://143.84.167.180/Members/Portal/MODA.aspx

Ministry of Defense Advisors Program (MoDA)
https://modaprogram.org/organization/ministry-defense-advisors-program

U.S. Army Security Assistance Training Management Organization (USASATMO). The USA SATMO is located at Fort Bragg, NC and conducts the Security Assistance Team Training Orientation Course (SATTOC). The course info is available at
https://www.atrrs.army.mil/atrrscc/

ISAF, Security Force Assistance Guide 2.0, January 2014. This guide, version 2, was published to assist SFA advisors deploying to Afghanistan - to include those advisors who will be working at the ministry level. The guide also has a number of Process Maps invaluable to ministry level advisors. Learn more about the Process Maps and the SFA Guide 2.0.


Government and Military References about Ministry Advising

2016

January 2016. DoDD 5205.82, Defense Institution Building (DIB), Department of Defense Directive, January 27, 2016. Establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides direction regarding the planning, managment, and conduct of DIB by DoD; and establishes the DIB Coordination Board.
www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/520582p.pdf

2015

February 2015. Building Partner Capacity: DoD Should Improve its Reporting to Congress on Challenges to Expanding Ministry of Defense Advisors Program, Government Accountability Office (GAO). Posted on PKSOI website.
www.pksoi.org/ . . . BPC_MoDA_Reporting_11Feb2015 . . .

2014

March 24, 2014. "Government in a Box", Small Wars Journal. A former Senior Advisor to the First Duputy Minister of Defense in Afghanistan provides recommendations on the ministry-level advisor effort.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/government-in-a-box

January 2014. Security Force Assistance Guide 2.0, ISAF. This guide by ISAF contains information of value to advisors who work at the ministerial level.
www.afghanwarnews.info/sfa/ISAF-SFA-Guide.htm

2012

October 23, 2012. Performance Framework and Better Management of Resources Needed for the Ministry of Defense Advisors Program, Inspector General United States Department of Defense, Report No. DODIG-2013-005.
www.dodig.mil/pubs/documents/DODIG-2013-005.pdf

2011

May 2011. ISAF Afghan Ministry of Interior Advisor Guide, Version 1.0. JCISFA.
https://jcisfa.jcs.mil/Public/Index.aspx

March 14, 2011. Afghan Ministry of Defense and Afghan National Army General Staff Master Ministerial Development Plan, CY 2013/SY 1392, Revised December 28, 2012. NTM-A/CSTC-A.

March 2011. "Ministerial Advisors: Developing Capacity for an Endurring Security Force", Prism 2, No. 2., pages 135-144 by LTG William Caldwell, Dr. James A. Schear, and Frank C. Digiovanni.
www.pksoi.org/document_repository/Lessons/MoDA_Prism_Schear-Caldwell-DiGiovanni_Mar_2011-LMS-712.pdf

2010

October 2010. Ministerial-Level Advisor Training Effectiveness Study: Phase I Initial Impressions October 2010. (U//FOUO), Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance (JCISFA).
https://jcisfa.jcs.mil/Public/Index.aspx

2008

June 2008. United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces, DoD report to Congress in accordance with the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 1231, Public Law 110-181).
http://www.defense.gov/pubs/US_plan_for_sustaining_the_ANSF_1231.pdf


Papers, Articles, and Pubs about Advising at the Ministry Level

Newton, Dr. Richard D, Defense Institution Building . . . By Design, Joint Special Operations University Press (JSOU), December 2019.
https://jsou.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=51643902

Putz, Catherine. "SIGAR's Advice on Afghanistan Advisors: Please Track and Train", The Diplomat. The Pentagon doesn't know how well its advisors are advising in part because it keeps moving the goalposts.

SOF News, SIGAR Report on DoD Efforts to Advise the Afghan MoD and MoI, October 31, 2018.
www.sof.news/afghanistan/sigar-report-on-advising-afghan-ministries/

Donnelly, Edward P., "New Rules for Advisers at the Strategic and Institutional Levels", Small Wars Journal. Eleven best practices identified for military advisors.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/new-rules-for-advisers-at-the-strategic-and-institutional-levels

Chase, Michael B., "Our Own Worst Enemy", Small Wars Journal, August 16, 2014. A former ministry-level advisor to the MoD provides insight on advisor selection and "leverage" of money to "help" Afghans accomplish MoD goals.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/our-own-worst-enemy

Armstrong, Nicholas J. "Afghanistan 2014-2024: Advising for Sustainability", Small Wars Journal, May 4, 2012.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/afghanistan-2014-2024-advising-for-sustainability

Armstrong, Nicholas J. A day Late and Many Advisors Short: The Uncertain Future for Afghan Minsterial Development, Security Sector Reform Resource Centre, December 17, 2012.
http://www.ssrresourcecentre.org/2012/12/17/a-day-late-and-many-advisors-short-the-uncertain-future-for-afghan-ministerial-development/

Friberg, John. "Learning From Our Mistakes in Selection and Training of Military Advisors", SOFREP. Two of the most important factors are personnel selection and pre-deployment training.

Lubold, Gordon. Training U.S. Advisors, Building Afghan Ministries. United States Institute of Peace (USIP), April 7, 2011.
http://www.usip.org/publications/training-us-advisers-building-afghan-ministries

Metrinko, Michael J. The American Military Advisor: Dealing with Senior Foreign Officials in the Islamic World, Peacekeeping & Stablity Operations Institute, Carlisle, PA: 8 August 2008.
http://pksoi.army.mil/PKM/publications/papers/paperreview.cfm?paperID=1

Millen, Professor Raymond A., Professionalizing Ministerial Advising, United States Army War College Press, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI), June 3, 2015.
www.pksoi.org/index.cfm?disp=cdrview.cfm&cdrid=1334


Bibliography for Resolute Support

Afghan War News has compiled a "Resolute Support Annotated Bibliography" for the use of ISAF staff and SFA advisors participating in the NATO mission in Afghanistan. It is an Adobe Acrobat PDF, over 200 pages long, and less than 3 MBs big. Click on the topic "Ministries" in the table of contents for info on advising the Afghan security minitries. Easy to read online or download and it is available at the link below:
www.afghanwarnews.info/pubs/RSM-Bibliography.htm


News Stories and Articles about Afghan Ministry Advising

November 18, 2014. "Future Resolute Support Members Train in Bydgoszcz". NATO. New release provides information about the training for RS personnel at the Joint Forces Training Center in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

April 18, 2011. "Pentagon program has U.S. civilians advising Afghan ministries to improve cooperation, security". The Washington Post. Ministry of Defense Advisors (MoDA) is explained.


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