The Effectiveness of Training International Military Students in Internal Defense and Development

Abstract

Training foreign militaries continues to be considered one of the most cost-effective and successful means of achieving a broad range of American political and military goals in the developing world. In some host nations, U.S. military training places particular emphasis on those skills that are relevant to internal defense and development (IDAD), either as a means of countering insurgency-as in Honduras and El Salvador-or simply to foster economic development, as in Senegal. There is no 'IDAD package' of courses offered by the U.S. military, however; there is no 'IDAD skills training' per se. There are simply courses-such as engineering, communications, transportation, and medical courses-that may be relevant to a foreign nation's IDAD strategy and that may or may not be provided in deliberate support of such a strategy

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA282360

Entities

People

  • Jennifer M. Taw

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Civic Action
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • Military Education
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • National Governments
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Political Systems
  • Public Policy
  • Students
  • United States
  • Warfare

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