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January 27, 2009 | Posted by Abu Muqawama - 9:27am | 34 Comments
A smart friend of mine said yesterday that Obama's problem in Afghanistan is not that he has too few brigades but that the advisory mission there is so woefully understaffed. (I'm talking, like, just 40% of capacity, folks.)
Tom Ricks takes up the question of advisers with his office buddy, John Nagl, in this post on Foreign Policy. John notes we have embraced COIN doctrine to a large degree but still do not reward officers for serving as advisers in their career paths. This just goes to show that it's easier to change doctrine than it is to change institutions. Can anyone, honestly, see the U.S. Army re-writing the career paths of its combat arms officers to reward them for service as advisers? Honestly?
Tom Ricks takes up the question of advisers with his office buddy, John Nagl, in this post on Foreign Policy. John notes we have embraced COIN doctrine to a large degree but still do not reward officers for serving as advisers in their career paths. This just goes to show that it's easier to change doctrine than it is to change institutions. Can anyone, honestly, see the U.S. Army re-writing the career paths of its combat arms officers to reward them for service as advisers? Honestly?
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