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(Photo by Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division PAO)

Sgt. Jeremiah Walden, an infantry trainer assigned to 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st
Infantry Division, adjusts an Iraqi trainee’s weapon 7 January 2015 to ensure he’s covering the correct sector of fire during infantry squad
tactical training lanes at Camp Taji, Iraq.

The Ignorant
Counterinsurgent

Rethinking the Traditional
Teacher-Student Relationship
in Conflicts
Maj. Ben Zweibelson, U.S. Army
He had only given them the order to pass through a forest whose openings and clearings he himself had not discovered.
—Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

More than anything else, professional knowledge and competence win the respect of [host-nation] troops. Effective advisors
develop a healthy rapport with [host-nation] personnel but avoid the temptation to adopt [host-nation] positions contrary
to the U.S. or multinational values or policy.
—U.S. Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency (2006)
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