National_Catalogues: Commander's Handbook for Security Force Assistance
Title:
Commander's Handbook for Security Force Assistance
Identifier:
ADA500747
STOAbstractExternal:
Current military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and many future operations will center on developing capability and capacity of host nation (HN) or other foreign security forces. In February 07, the U.S. Army stated in a message to all Army activities "the mission of the transition teams (security force assistance) is the Army's top priority." Similarly, the U. S. Marine Corps stated in a January 2007 Lessons Learned report, "this mission must be treated as the main effort." This handbook focuses on principles applicable to all Security Force Assistance (SFA) missions, but draws on current scenario information in Iraq and Afghanistan. Security Force Assistance (SFA) is defined as unified action to generate, employ, and sustain local, host nation or regional security forces in support of a legitimate authority. 1. Unified action comprises joint, interagency, intergovernmental and multinational community activity in cooperative effort with non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and private companies to ensure and support unity of effort in SFA. 2. Security forces include not only military forces, but also police, border forces, and other paramilitary organizations at all levels of government within a nation state, as well as other local and regional forces. 3. Forces are developed to operate across the spectrum of conflict -- combating internal threats such as insurgency, subversion and lawlessness (FID), defending against external threats, or serving as coalition partners/peacekeepers in other areas. 4. To be successful, SFA must be based on solid, continuing assessment and include the organizing, training, equipping, rebuilding and advising of the forces involved. It is critical to develop the institutional infrastructure to sustain SFA gains. 5. The resulting forces must possess the capability to accomplish the variety of required missions, with sufficient capacity to be successful and with the ability to sustain themselves.
STOAuthorExternal:
JOINT CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
STOClassificationExternal:
N
STOKeywordsExternal:
*SFA(SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE), COMBAT ADVISORS
STOPublisher:
USA
Language:
English
STOReportSource:
http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA500747
Published:
7/14/2008
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