Advising Indigenous Forces: American Advisors in Korea, Vietnam, and El Salvador (Global War on Terrorism Occasional Paper)

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The Army has recently embarked on massive advisory missions with foreign militaries in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere world wide. We are concurrently engaged in a huge effort to discover ways to conduct those missions for which we do not consistently prepare. Mr. Robert Ramsey’s historical study examines three cases where the US Army has performed this same mission in the last half of the 20th century. In Korea all the way through the 1950s, in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, and in El Salvador in the 1980s the Army was tasked to build and advise host nation armies all the way through a time of war. The creator makes several key arguments about the lessons the Army thought it learned at the time.
 
Among the key points Mr. Ramsey makes are the need for US advisors to have extensive language and cultural training, the lesser importance for them of technical and tactical skills training, and the wish to adapt US organizational concepts, training techniques, and tactics to local conditions. Accordingly, he also notes the great importance of the host nation’s leadership buying into and actively supporting the development of a performance-based selection, training, and promotion system. To its credit, the institutional Army learned these hard lessons, from successes and failures, all the way through and after each of the cases examined in this study. Then again, they were steadily forgotten as the Army prepared for the next major conventional conflict.

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