Marine Advisor Advantage: Institutionalizing Security Force Assistance

Abstract

The strategic imperative of institutionalizing Security Force Assistance (SFA) capabilities requires the U.S Marine Corps (USMC) to further professionalize SFA efforts across planning, training, education, and execution. To best meet this requirement the service should establish a Marine Advisor Unit (MAU) at each Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) that provides regional combatant commanders with a scalable cadre of screened, trained, and regionally-oriented Marine advisors. The brand name recognition, focus on small-unit tactics, and low-cost habits, of the USMC uniquely position s the service with a competitive advantage to meet the growing demand for SFA expertise. To fully leverage the USMC advantage in advising FSFs will require institutionalizing the long-term capacity to train, educate, equip, and professionalize a dedicated cadre of regionally-oriented Marine advisors formed in dedicated advisor units at each MEF.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 16, 2013
Accession Number
ADA601625

Entities

People

  • Arlon D. Smith

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Lessons Learned
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Education
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Students
  • Training
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.