Download or read book Military Assistance Training Advisors written by Francis C. Vossen and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem: To determine if the Military Assistance Training Advisor (MATA) Department of the United States Army Special Warfare School prepares Army members for work with the South Vietnamese army at battalion level.
Download or read book Military Assistance Training Advisors written by Edwin H. J. Carns (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem: To determine if the Military Assistance Training Advisor Sector/Unit Course of the United States Army Special Warfare School adequately prepare U.S. Army Officers for duty as advisors to South Vietnamese Army battalions.
Download or read book Advising Indigenous Forces written by Robert D. Ramsey and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army has recently embarked on massive advisory missions with foreign militaries in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the globe. This historical study examines three cases in which the U.S. 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 thought it learned: The need for U.S. advisors to have extensive language and cultural training, the lesser importance for them of technical and tactical skills training, and the need to adapt U.S. organizational concepts, training techniques, and tactics to local conditions. These lessons are still important and relevant today. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book American Advisors written by Lieutenant Colonel Joshua J., Lieutenant Joshua Potter, US Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manuscript describes how US military advisors prepare for and conduct operations in war. Through two separate year-long combat tours as a military advisor in Iraq, the author brings true vignettes into modern military strategy and operational art. Further, the author provides multiple perspectives in command relationships. Through years of personal experience, direct interviews, and Warfighting knowledge, the author challenges conventionally accepted truths and establishes a new standard for understanding the impact of American advisors on the modern battleground.
Download or read book Military Assistance Training written by United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Assistance Training written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enhancing Security Force Assistance written by Marc D. Axelberg and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has employed military advisors since our founding as a nation. The U.S. military may have captured the lessons learned from throughout its history of association with advisory missions, but mismatches remain in our current Department of Defense (DoD) directives, doctrine, and guidance regarding the execution of Security Force Assistance (SFA) operations -- specifically in relation to the selection, training, and employment of advisors, a key executor of this strategic mission. The U.S. experience in Vietnam and resulting lessons learned (or not learned) from contemporary SFA operations form a basis for improvements for the current identification, preparation, and utilization of advisors serving in overseas contingency operations (OCO). This research project then recommends how the military should select and assess advisors. It further recommends a training program for them and proposes they can be best employed as part of a unified, well-coordinated contingency operation.
Download or read book Advising Success written by Bryan K. Batson and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-08-25 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global War on Terror brought about several military assistance efforts that include the training and development of foreign security forces. The United States has been providing advisors to foreign security forces around the world for over 120 years. Security force advising maintains a long history within U.S. doctrinal discussions on key components of developing safe and secure environments. Recent changes in military advising doctrine resulted from efforts to make modern military advising more effective. Analysis of multiple cases from the U.S. advisory experience shows that successful advisory efforts share some common approaches. Regardless of the size of the mission, four factors trend toward success when applied in advisory efforts. The advisor needs to account for local political and cultural limitations on the overall effort. The location of the training area needs to provide the ability to minimalize interactions between the host nation's population and the advisors and the elements receiving assistance. The advisory effort needs to include professionalization of other security forces inside a state beyond just the military. Finally, the duration of the mission and the term of individual assignments need to provide the ability to maintain long-term relationships between the advisors and their counterparts.
Download or read book Advisor and Counterpart Activities in the Military Assistance Program in the Republic of China written by Dean K. Froehlich and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of an exploratory study to obtain information on human factors training problems in the Military Assistance Program, a questionnaire was sent to 115 advisors and 115 counterparts in one country (Republic of China), asking about the most important problems they have encountered, obstacles to solution of these problems, sources of information that led to action on the problems, and degree of satisfaction with progress. Questionnaires were returned by 77 advisors and 77 counterparts. Advisors reported that their most important problems were in the areas of command responsibility, maintenance, and supply, and the commonest obstacle to solution of problems was the difference in values between themselves ad their counterparts. Counterpart statements about problems and obstacles most often dealt with shortages of equipment and supplies. In general, advisors indicated more satisfaction than dissatisfaction with their progress. Counterparts expressed slightly more satisfaction with progress than advisors did. Personal observation constituted the primary source of information leading advisors to attempt changes, while counterparts were influenced in this respect by their advisors and their superior officers. (Author).
Download or read book Lessons Learned From Advising And Training The Republic Of South Vietnam s Armed Forces written by Major Thomas E. Clinton Jr. USMC and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States (US) has a long history of employing military advisors, from the American military occupation of the Philippines throughout the 19th century, and the Korea War in the 1950s, the Vietnam War 1950 to 1973, El Salvador 1984 to 1992, to current efforts in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). A strong Iraqi military is needed to support the future democratic government of Iraq. This will allow the US to disengage a large portion of its combat units from Iraq. The US must train the present Iraqi military to successfully take over responsibility for Iraq’s security and combat the current insurgency. The US Army and Marine Corps combat advisors will play a key role in ensuring the Iraqi military is properly organized, trained, and equipped to provide for a secure Iraq. There are lessons learned from training and advising the Republic of South Vietnam’s Armed Forces (RVNAF) during the Vietnam War 1950 to 1973 that could be applied in the ongoing advisory effort in Iraq. The focus of this thesis is to determine the lessons learned from selecting, training, and the organization of US Army and Marine Corps advisors during the Vietnam War.
Download or read book The United States Army and Security Force Assistance written by Burton H. Milnor (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United States government, the Department of Defense and other entities have a long history of providing advisory aid to foreign governments and militaries. Aid has been accompanied by advisors used for Foreign Internal Defense and Security Force Assistance missions for militaries and governments struggling against domestic unrest. Military advisors, however, have often been assigned to advising on an ad hoc basis or haphazard manner and deployed with little or no relevant training. The Army has recently recognized the need for more advisors as this type of aid is growing in importance within the U.S. government and Department of Defense. The Army has designed a program to institute six new brigades called Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFAB). Do the SFABs point to the future of Army advising and has the program learned from past mistakes? Empirical case studies of Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq provide a benchmark against which the new SFABs can be compared and contrasted. The central argument of this thesis is that the United States has not put an emphasis on Security Force Assistance, particularly as it pertains to conventional forces executing the mission. This will be established by examining the advisory efforts in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq. By identifying the good and bad from each theater, it will provide a baseline to examine the new SFABs. In examining the new SFABs, it will look at where they have learned from past mistakes and where they are making the same mistakes."--Abstract.
Download or read book Work Program written by George Washington University. Human Resources Research Office and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conflicts of Culture and the Military Advisor written by George M. Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The person-to-person components of military assistance programs, the misunderstandings which can develop in the collaborative efforts of American advisors and foreign personnel, are among the more perplexing elements in our attempts to help friendly countries increase their ability to defend themselves. Developing nations need not only equipment but also training and improved organization. We have undertaken a program of supplying men to work with counterparts from the host country, sharing the benefit of our experience, and training others to use and maintain new weapons. In the encounter between an American and a foreign officer there is a need for close understanding and extensive give-and-take of ideas. This paper, concerned with this crucial element of assistance programs, attempts to provide an analysis of recurrent problems, and of attempts to reduce difficulties by selection and orientation of advisors. Some concepts are offered which may be useful in understanding cross- cultural confusions and a number of lines of research are proposed.
Download or read book MATT written by U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Center for Military Assistance and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Advisors with the Vietnamese Marine Corps Selected Documents prepared by the U S Marine Advisory Unit Naval Advisory Group written by U.S. Marine Corps History Office and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Marines as advisors have a long history, from Presley O'Bannon atTripoli through Iraq and Afghanistan via Haiti, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, and Vietnam. While most Marines think of the Vietnamese Marine Corps as the primary advisory experience during that conflict, others served with various other advisory programs with the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Joint Special Operations, and U.S. Civil Operations and Rural Development Support. One of these is the subject of this study: Marine advisors with the Vietnamese Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs). This narrative is a combination of experience, research, and reflection. While other journalistic or academic accounts have been published, this is a narrative of participants. Many historians consider the two most effective counterinsurgency organizations employed during the Vietnam War to have been the PRU and USMC Combined Action Platoons (CAP)
Download or read book Special Operations Association written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Filling the Toolkits The Case for a Joint Military Advisor Training Course written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military advisors, a vital part of the geographic combatant commander's overall theater plan, produce impacts at all three levels of warfare. Their challenging duties are influenced by many factors, both within and outside of the individual's span of control. Thus, it is imperative that advisor personnel be provided all the tools necessary to succeed, which is accomplished primarily via pre-deployment training. Unfortunately, the current separate approaches the Services take to deliver this training are insufficient. This paper examines past and current advisor training methodologies of each Service, identifying key shortfalls in three main areas: language training, cultural familiarization, and an understanding of how to influence. Finally, the paper draws conclusions about the future course of training and recommends the creation of a joint military advisor training course that primarily focuses on the three critical mental skills necessary for advisor success.
