Effects of Culture on Training Foreign Security Forces

Abstract

The Problem: Beginning just a few years after World War II with the passage of the Greece-Turkey Security Act of 1947, the DoD has been in the business of training and advising foreign security forces with the purpose of increasing their capacity to provide for their own security. However, DoDs approach to these efforts is largely premised on management theories grounded in Western cultural norms of interpersonal interactioncharacteristics not present in the Near East, Central and Southeast Asia, or across the Maghreb and the Horn of Africa where post-9/11 U.S. Security sector assistance focuses. Further, the focus has been at the tactical level, which has proven to be unsustainable. DoDs success rate in its capacity building efforts would improve by incorporating an understanding of how to account for host nation cultural norms prior to any capacity building initiative.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Jan 01, 2015
• Accession Number: AD1124095

Entities

People

• Aaron Taliaferro
• Alexander O. Gallo
• Wade P. Hinkle

Organizations

• Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Asia
• Best Practices
• Business Administration
• Central Asia
• Department Of Defense
• Human Resources
• Knowledge Management
• Leadership
• Management Personnel
• Military Capabilities
• Military Education
• National Security
• Organization Theory
• Organizational Structure
• Personnel Management
• Physicians
• Security
• Students
• Training
• United States
• Universities

Readers

• International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
• Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
• Strategic Security Studies