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Mission Essential Tasks for SFA Advisor Teams
Department of Defense. Guidance on Common Training Standards for
Security Force Assistance (SFA). Office of the Under Secretary of
Defense for Personnel and Readiness, January 2014.
Five Mission Essential Tasks are specified as
the brigade SFA tasks of Organize, Train, Equip, Rebuild and Build, and
Advise and assist (see para 4-72, section VI – Security Force Assistance,
Chapter 4 Stability Operations to FM 3-90.6, Brigade Combat Team,
September 14, 2010 accessed at the link below:
Author Unknown. Advisor Core
Universal METL. Author unknown.
Access
here. Department of the Army, FM 7-15, The Army Universal Task List, February 27, 2009. Accessed here on armypubs.army.mil. The AUTL can help commanders develop a mission-essential task list (METL). It (the AUTL) provides tasks, missions and operations or capabilities for a unit, company-sized and above, and staffs. Commanders should use the AUTL as a cross-reference for tasks. Commanders may use the AUTL to supplement their core training focused METL or the directed training focused METL as required. FM 7-0 and FM 7-1 discuss in detail METL development and requirements. The Army has identified 9 critical tasks for the Security Force Assistance Brigades or SFABs now deploying to Afghanistan. These tasks (called Articles) are listed in FM 7-15, Change 9, Army Universal Task List). Read more about SFABs and the SFAB critical tasks here - SFAB. DoD, Universal Joint Task List FORSCOM, US Forces Command (FORSCOM) PreDeployment Training Guidance in Support of Combatant Commands, 121909ZAPR12. Joint Security Force Assistance Proponent Office,
Guidance on Joint Standards for Security Force Assistance (SFA) Training,
Version 8.2 (Draft), July 18, 2012. JSFAPO is a subordinate element of the
U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). RC (SW) - C10, Advisor Guidance, 10 Dec 2011 (FOUO). Accessed on USMC ATG website here (CAC required).
USCENTCOM. Fragmentary Order (FRAGO) 09-1700 (USCENTCOM Theater
Training Requirements).
USCENTCOM. Fragmentary Order (FRAGO) 11-026 (Delineates RSOI Training
Requirements and Directs JRSOI Hubs to Facilitate Training Requirements).
USFOR-A (ISAF). FRAGO 11-371 (Implements Language Training for USFOR-A
and DoD Personnel).
USFOR-A (ISAF). Minimum Training
Requirements for Deploying Security Force Assistance Teams, CDR
USFOR-A (ISAF), February 14, 2012. This memo has three Enclosures.
Enclosure 1 (Minimum Essential Training Requirements) was developed
with the assistance of the U.S. Joint Center for International Security
Force Assistance (JCISFA) and U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).
USMC. Advisor Team METL.
NAVMC 3500.59, Chapter 3.
Access
here. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
COMISAF, COIN Qualification
Standards, 23 October 2011.
COMISAF.
COMISAF Tactical Directives. ISAF memo to Joint Forces Command - Brunsumm detailing Minimum Training Requirements for Deploying SFAATs, February 14, 2012. ISAF Joint Command (IJC), Operations Plan 1391, Annex F - Security Force Assistance, 10 April 2012. Four appendices of this annex provide info on the mission and structure of SFAATs, US and coalition deployment and RSOI, and the assignment of Embedded Police Mentors (EPMs). Congressional Research Service, "Leahy Law" Human Rights Provisions and Security Assistance: Issue Overview", January 29, 2014. Access the PDF here. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
DA, Security Force Assistance Deployment Handbook, TC 3-05.3, May
22, 2015. Requires CAC login.
DA, Advising Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for
Advising Foreign Security Forces, ATP 3-07.10, November 2014. Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL), Combat Advisors Handbook, Fort Leavenworth, KS, Department of the Army, 2008.
Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) Publications
ISAF Security Force Assistance Guide 2.0, January 2014.
International Security Force Assistance Force (ISAF), ISAF SFA Guide,
May 2013.
Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) Advisor Guide, Joint
Center for International Security Assistance, May 2014 CALL, Security Force Assistance: Shaping and Mentoring Afghan Police, Center for Army Lessons Learned Newsletter No. 11-18, March 2011, (FOUO). Observations, Insights and Lessons.
C (SW) – C10,
Advisor Guidance, 10 Dec 2011 (FOUO). On USMC ATG website
(CAC required).
US Air Force Warfare
Center.
Air Advisor Handbook. Coalition
and Irregular Warfare Center of Excellence, April 27, 2009. Handbook
available on NATO HQs site.
www.nshq.nato.int/NSHQ/GetFile/?File_ID=31.
U.S. Army Special Forces
Command, Special Forces Advisor's Reference Book, October 2001. USAJFKSWCS. Special Forces Advisor Techniques, TC 31-71, July 2008.
USAJFKSWCS. Special
Forces Advisor Guide, TC 31-73, July 2, 2008.
USMC Advisor Training Group
(ATG). ATG Advisor SOP. (CAC
required). USMC, Tentative Manual for Partnering Operations, (FOUO), April 12, 2010. USSOCOM, Security Force Assistance Introductory Guide, 28 July 2011.
DoDD 1322.18,
Military Training, January 13,
2009. This document directs USSOCOM to establish training standards for
general purpose forces to train to the security force assistance mission.
See page 10, para 12. DoDD 3000.05, Military Support for Stability,
Security, Transition, and Reconstruction (SSTR) Operations, November
28, 2005. Accessed
here
on army.mil. DoDD 3000.07,
Irregular Warfare, December 1, 2008. DoDD 5132.03, DoD Policy and Responsibilities Relating to Security Cooperation. 24 October 2008. DoDD 5205.82, Defense Institution Building
(DIB), Department of Defense Directive, January 27, 2016. Establishes
policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides direction regarding the
planning, managment, and conduct of DIB by DoD; and establishes the DIB
Coordination Board. DTM 11-002,
Counterinsurgency (COIN) Training and Reporting Guidance for Preparing
U.S. Forces to Succeed in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Under Secretary of
Defense, December 9, 2010 (with Change 1, May 18, 2011). This DTM directs
USSOCOM to assist USCENTCOM in the development of SFA and COIN training
and education programs. See Para 13(a).
A listing of DoD Instructions (DoDI) about
Security Force Assistance can be found here.
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AR 12-15, Joint Security
Cooperation Education and Training, January 3, 2011.
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Department of Army, Foreign
Internal Defense, August 19, 2015. ------------------------------------------------
US Army, Advise Foreign Forces, ARTEP 31-807-33, Mission Training Plan, Washington, DC: Department of the army, 1984.
FM 3-05.2, Foreign Internal Defense, September 1, 2011. Accessed here on armypubs.army.mil. FM 3-05.137, Army Special Operations Forces Foreign Internal Defense Operations, (June 2008). FM 3-05.202, Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Operations. February 2007. FM 3-05.230, Special Forces Tactical Facilities, February 2009. FM 3-05.401, Civil Affairs Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures. July 2007. FM 3-07, Stability Operations, May 1, 2009. Accessed here on armypubs.army.mil. FM 3-07.1, Security Force Assistance. Washington, DC: US Army, May 2009. Accessed here on armypubs.army.mil. Also accessed here on University of Michigan Press. FM 3-07.10, Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Advising Foreign Forces, September 10, 2009. Accessed here on armypubs.army.mil. Also entitled MCRP 3-33.8A by the USMC. FM 3-18,
Special Forces Operations (ID), December 2009. FM 3-22, Army Support to Security Cooperation, January 2013. Accessed here on armypubs.army.mil. FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency, December 15, 2006. Accessed here on armypubs.army.mil. FM 3-24.2, Tactics in Counterinsurgency, April 21, 2009. Accessed here on armypubs.army.mil. FM 31-20-3,
Foreign Internal Defense: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Special
Forces, September 1994. FM 3-50.1, Army Personnel Recovery, November 21, 2011. Accessed here on armypubs.army.mil. FM 3-57, Civil Affairs Operations,
October 31, 2011. See Chapter 4, page 4-3 for an pre-deployment Area
Assessment format.
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TC 18-01,
Unconventional Warfare, January 28, 2011. TC 31-73,
Special
Forces Advisor Guide, Washington, DC: Department of the Army, July 2, 2008.
U.S. Army Infantry School, The Modular Brigade Augmented for Security Force Assistance Handbook (June 2009). Handbook. ----------------------------------------------
Joint Doctrine Note 1-13, Security Force
Assistance, April 29, 2013. JP 3-05, Special Operations (April 19, 2011). JP 3-07.1, Joint Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Foreign Internal Defense (FID). 30 April 2004. JP 3-22, Foreign Internal Defense (July 12 2010). JP 3-24, Counterinsurgency Operations (October 5, 2009). JP 3-36, Counterterrorism (November 13, 2009). --------------------------------------------
The Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance has an abundance of documents relating to SFA on its website. A registration account is required to download documents (getting the account is problematic due to website errors but if you are successful it is worth it). Many of these references for Security Force Assistance (SFA) can be accessed here. Some of these pubs are listed below. JCISFA, Afghan National Army (ANA) Mentor Guide, Joint Center International Security Force Assistance, March 2011, (FOUO). JCISFA, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) Advisor Guide. Accessed here. JCISFA, Commander's Handbook for Security Force Assistance. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 14 July 2008. Provides doctrinal view, best practices, and lessons learned on Security Force Assistance (SFA) operations at Brigade level. Accessed here. JCISFA, Ministerial-Level Advisor Training Effectiveness Study: Phase I Initial Impressions, Joint Center for International Security Assistance, October 2010, (FOUO). JCISFA, Roles and Functions of Senior Advisors: Perspectives on Institutional Level Advising, February 2012. Accessed here. JCISFA, SFA Assessment Handbook, July 1, 2015, Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance. This handbook describes the fundatmental theoretical and practical conceptes to tmeet the complex challenges of assessing SFA operations at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. https://jcisfa.jcs.mil JCISFA, Security Force Assistance Handbook. Accessed here. JCISFA, Security Force Assistance Planners
Guide, (Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combined Arms Center, 15 January 2016). JCISFA, Security Force Assistance Planners Guide, (Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combined Arms Center, 14 February 2008). Accessed here. JCISFA, SFA Facilities and Infrastructure Guide. Accessed here. JCISFA, Security Force Assistance Planners Guide, 01 January 2016. JCISFA, SFA Planner's Guide: FSF Force Development (December 2009). Accessed here. ---------------------------------------------------
ALSA, Military Advisors: Working with Foreign
Forces, Air Land Sea Bulletin, Issue No. 2008-2, Air Land Sea
Application (ALSA) Center, May 2008. CJCSI 3210.06, Irregular Warfare, June 10, 2010. COMISAF, 15 Principles of SFA. In early 2012 General John Allen, COMISAF, released a memorandum listing SFA principles that provide sound advice on the SFA advisor mindset. See Principles of SFA. CAC, Eyewitness to War: Volume III - US Army
Advisors in Afghanistan, Michael G. Brooks - General Editor, Combat
Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas. A 440-page document consisting of 12 interviews of people who
served in an advisory capacity in Afghanistan, 2007. Department of Defense, Security Force Assistance Lexicon Framework, November 11, 2011. Deputy Secretary of Defense Memorandum, Security Force Assistance, September 9, 2008. Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) Memorandum 050-11, Security Force Assistance DOTMLPF Change Recommendation, April 19, 2011. Joint Security Force Assistance Proponent Office, Guidance on Joint Standards for Security Force Assistance (SFA) Training, , Version 8.2 (Draft), June 13, 2012. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness - Training Readiness and Strategy, Ministry of Defense Advisors Training Program (MoDA) (Fiscal Year 2012). U.S. Army Special Forces Command, Special Forces Advisor's Reference Book, (October 2001). USSOCOM Manual 350-35, Special Operations Forces Baseline Interoperable Security Force Assistance Training Standards, (May 31, 2012). USSOCOM Publication 3-3, Special Operations Forces Security Force Assistance (Draft). USSOCOM, Security Force Assistance "Introductory Guide", (July 28, 2011). ----------------------------------------------
Security & Stability - ANSF Development, Volume 1, Issue 2, December 2011, TF Arctic Wolves. Accessed here on DVIDS. Security & Stability - ANSF Development, Volume 1, Issue 1, November 2011, TF Arctic Wolves, SFAT 1,3,5,6, and 7. Accessed here on DVIDS. -------------------------------------------------
Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC). Best practices for SFAATs. A wealth of documents of value to SFAATs while conducting pre-deployment and while deployed to Afghanistan. The JRTC SFAAT Best Practices website can be accessed here. USMC Advisor Training Group. MAGTFTC and
MCAGCC at Twentynine Palms, California.
Peace Support Training Centre. The Canadian Forces Centre of Excellence
for Peace Support Operations Training.
Official Department of the Army Publications and
Forms Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Small Wars Center for Irregular Warfare Army Knowledge Online (AKO) Army Training (and Education) Network ATN Federation of American Scientists (FAS) –
Intelligence Resource Program U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Army Security Force Assistance Proponency Office. U.S. Army Combined Arms Center. www.usacac.army.mil/cac2/sfa/ Counterinsurgency Pre-Certification Training. Access the J30 P-US624 COIN online course here. ----------------------------------------------------
Department of the Army,
AR 11-6 Army Foreign Language
Program, 31 Aug 2009, Washington, D.C. DoDI 5160.71,
DoD Language Testing Program,
January 26, 2009. FM 3-07.1,
Security Force Assistance, 1 May 2009.
See Chapter 8 “Culture and Communication”, section 8-9 “Language”,
page 8-2; section 10-44 “Language”, page 10-8;
Defense Language Institute (DLI).
A website providing documents and training aids for learning a
foreign language. Accessed
here at
http://www.dliflc.edu/index.html. ILR Website.
Interagency Language Roundtable.
www.govtilr.org
Bond, Levon “Speaking the Language: Cultural and Linguistic Fluency in COIN,”
Canadian Army Journal, Volume 12 Number 3, Winter 2010, pp. 69-84.
Outzen, Richard. “Language, Culture, and Army Culture: Failing Transformation”, Small Wars Journal, March 20, 2012.
Smiley, Morgan. “Overcoming Our
Dearth of Language Skills”, Small
Wars Journal, August 23, 2011.
Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC /
T3C).
Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA) Special Forces SERE Training
DoD
Directive 1300.7, Training and Education Measures Necessary to Support
the Code of Conduct (CoC), December 8, 2000.
Survival
Evasion Resistance Escape (SERE) Level A Training in support of the Code
of Conduct (CoC). SERE 100.1 computer-based training satisfies the level A
requirement. Training can be found on Joint Knowledge Online (JKO) page
http://jko.jfcom.mil, course number “J3T A-US022” or on AKO at
www.us.army.mil/suite/page/650428. -----------------------------------------------
Personnel
Recovery Proponent Office (PRPO) website (CAC Accessible only). Army
Learning Management System (ALMS). Defense
Imagery CD/DVD Courses. Joint
Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA)
DoD
Directive 2310.2, Personnel Recovery, December 22, 2000.
JP 3-50, Personnel Recovery, January 5, 2007.
AR 525-28,
Personnel Recovery, March 6, 2010.
HQs Department of the Army, Army Personnel Recovery, FM 3-50.1,
November 21, 2011.
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