The Army needs to step up training on foreign arms

摘要

It's time the Army started providing soldiers with formal training on the foreign weapons most commonly used either by the enemy or by friendly host-nation military and police forces. Nearly every conflict in which the Army has participated — including present-day operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Africa — has included some mission requiring soldiers to train host-nation forces. Yet we as an Army fail to adequately prepare today's trainers on how to conduct foreign-weapons instruction to foreign militaries should the need arise.