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MILITARY ADVISING AFTER 9/11
26. Grdovic, 28; Moerbe, 29.
27. Bing West, “The Way Out of Afghanistan,” Military Review
(March-April 2011): 95.
28. FM 3-07.10, 99. This doctrine recognizes that when U.S.
military units send their “undesirable” (e.g., troops with behavioral problems) to advisory units, this constitutes “what wrong
looks like.”
29. West, 95; Keith W. Norris, “The Afghan National Army:
Has Capacity Building Become Culture Building?,” Military
Review (November-December 2012): 31-39. Norris talks about
the need to develop a competent NCO corps in Afghanistan;
this lesson also pertains to Iraq and many other foreign security
forces that the U.S. and coalition forces advise.
30. Metrinko, 63.
31. Potter. Potter discusses the value of advisors sharing
intelligence with counterparts as one example.
32. Athanasia Austin, “Female Advisor Primer” ( Joint Center
for International Security Force Assistance, 2009), https://jcisfa.
jcs.mil/jcisfa/documents/public/Female%20Advisor%20Primer%20pub%20final%2010_09.pdf.
33. Metrinko, 19-20.
34. Wesley Moerbe, 24-29.

35. Deady, 43-55; William H. Riley, Jr., “Challenges of a
Military Advisor,” Military Review (November 1988): 34-42. Riley
reinforces the “Iraqi (counterpart) Good Enough” theme through
a discussion of his experiences as an advisor in Saudi Arabia.
36. Battaglia and Taylor, 9.
37. U.S. Army Regulation 600-100, Army Leadership (Washington, DC: U.S. GPO, 8 March 2007): 1.
38. Seagrist, 66.
39. David S. Miguel, “Army Drawdown Forces Tightening of
Retention Standards,” army.mil website, 4 April 2012, http://www.
army.mil/article/77210.
40. Nagl, 21-26; Michael D. Jason, “Integrating the Advisory
Effort in the Army: a Full-Spectrum Solution,” Military Review
(September-October 2008): 27-32. Nagl and Jason argue that
the U.S. Army needs an enduring military advisor command.
41. P.K. Keen et. al, “Relationships Matter: Humanitarian
Assistance and Disaster Relief in Haiti,” Military Review (May-June
2010): 11-12. This article extols the virtues of the International
Military Education Training (IMET) Program, and Keen argues
the U.S. government should invest any extra funding slated to
support foreign security assistance in cultural initiatives similar to
IMET instead of buying new hardware.

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