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DTIC ADA484253: Improving SSTR Operations through a Permanent Joint Advisory Corps

A Joint Advisory Corps (JAdC) that incorporates all service capabilities would bring greater cohesion and unity of effort to future American-led stability, security, transition, and reconstruction (SSTR) missions. U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, recognizing the need to improve SSTR operations, is advocating for a permanent U.S. Army Advisory Corps (AAC), an entity designed to train foreign security services in national defense and counterinsurgency. Nagl argues that the U. S. military requires a separate force dedicated to SSTR operations because it would facilitate transitions and reconstruction along the lower end of the combat spectrum. The AAC has its merits, but it is Army-centric and a JAdC would spread SSTR burdens across the services and leverage all component capabilities. The United States military over the past two centuries has fought on foreign soil countless times to protect American interests, and spread and uphold its values. Overwhelming U.S. military victories and technological superiority have underscored many of these conflicts and has emboldened U.S. leaders to embark on increasingly ambitious nation-building projects. Yet despite America's comparative

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