Improving SSTR Operations through a Permanent Joint Advisory Corps; Final rept

摘要

A Joint Advisory Corps (JAdC) that incorporates all service capabilities would bring greater cohesion and unity of effort to future American-led stability, security, transition, and reconstruction (SSTR) missions. U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, recognizing the need to improve SSTR operations, is advocating for a permanent U.S. Army Advisory Corps (AAC), an entity designed to train foreign security services in national defense and counterinsurgency. Nagl argues that the U. S. military requires a separate force dedicated to SSTR operations because it would facilitate transitions and reconstruction along the lower end of the combat spectrum. The AAC has its merits, but it is Army-centric and a JAdC would spread SSTR burdens across the services and leverage all component capabilities. The United States military over the past two centuries has fought on foreign soil countless times to protect American interests, and spread and uphold its values. Overwhelming U.S. military victories and technological superiority have underscored many of these conflicts and has emboldened U.S. leaders to embark on increasingly ambitious nation-building projects. Yet despite America's comparative military advantages, U.S. forces struggled to restore security and order in several of the nations they have occupied in the aftermath of war or following a military intervention. The U.S. military has only recently begun to seriously address the inadequacies inherent to its math capabilities such as restoring security in a country following regime change. A permanent JAdC is required for sustaining and executing successful SSTR operations in the future, and although such a force may not be sufficient, the convergence of multiple service capabilities would likely lead to substantial improvements in U.S. SSTR operational effectiveness.