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MILITARY ADVISING AFTER 9/11

Sgt. Thomas Cook provides medical training 19 March 2011 to Iraqi soldiers of the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Iraqi Army Division, at the Field Engineer Regiment compound. Cook is a combat medic with 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery
Regiment, 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, 25th Infantry Division.
(Photo by Sgt. Coltin Heller, 109th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)

What Lessons Did We
Learn (or Re-Learn)
About Military Advising
After 9/11?
Lt. Col. Remi Hajjar, U.S. Army

A

s military operations in Afghanistan
continue to wind down in 2014, the U.S.
military and international partner armed
forces need to codify lessons learned on military
advising from 9/11 to the present, with special
emphasis on capturing insights from the two major
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counterinsurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan. A
compendium of lessons should include answers to
certain essential questions. What major advising
lessons did the U.S. military learn since 9/11? What
current advising lessons parallel previously gleaned
insights from historic advising missions? How should
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