Summary
In the post-9/11 world, an advisory position at the political and strategic level in the Islamic world can have great and immediate consequence for US interests and can make the American advisor a prime figure in the decision-making process of foreign leaders. The position has become a critical one in today's world where stability, peacekeeping, and obtaining civil support are considered equally important to kinetic offensive and defensive operations.
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'The American Military Advisor'
Published in the Spring 2009 Middle East Quarterly, pp. 70-74.
In August 2008, the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute and the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, jointly published a manual entitled, The American Military Advisor: Dealing with Senior Foreign Officials in the Islamic World.1 Authored by Michael J. Metrinko, a leading U.S. government expert on the eastern Islamic world, the 95-page manual is a refreshing and blunt how-to guide for civil affairs and political affairs officers, excerpts from which follow. Metrinko brings to bear considerable experience. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey and Iran and spent fourteen...See the full content of this document
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