Military Advising and Assistance: From Mercenaries to Privatization, 1815-2007 (Cass Military Studiesá)

This volume presents a number of case studies of military advisors and missions in order to provide clear historical examples of the evolution, functioning and motives of foreign military advising in the modern era. Containing essays by US contributors covering a wide range of countries and spanning nearly 200 years of history, the case studies show the evolution of foreign military advising from ill-organized mercenary units, to professional, government-sponsored teams driven by a desire to cultivate political and economic influence, to Cold War tools for pursuing ideological aims, nation building, and modernization, to post-Cold War elements of alliance integration. Finally, the book highlights the increasing present-day role of private corporations, some of which provide complete military forces, thereby bringing the evolution of foreign military advising full circle. This book will be of interest to students of military history, civil-military relations, peacekeeping, security studies and political science in general. -- Publisher's Description Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Dedication......Page 8 Contents......Page 10 Contributors......Page 12 1 The history and evolution of foreign military advising and assistance, 1815–2007......Page 16 2 Missions or mercenaries?: European military advisors in Mehmed Ali’s Egypt, 1815–1848......Page 26 3 The impact of foreign advisors on Chile’s armed forces, 1810–2005......Page 41 4 Buying influence, selling arms, undermining a friend: The French naval mission to Poland and the development of the Polish Navy, 1923–1932......Page 57 5 Uneasy intelligence collaboration, genuine ill will, with an admixture of ideology: The British Military Mission to the Soviet Union, 1941–1945......Page 76 6 American advisors to the Republic of Korea: America’s first commitment in the Cold War, 1946–1950......Page 96 7 The French–Algerian War, 1954–1962: Communist China’s support for Algerian independence......Page 126 8 Relegated to the backseat: Farm Gate and the failure of the US air advisory effort in South Vietnam, 1961–1963......Page 142 9 Ruminations of a wooly mammoth, or training and advising in counterinsurgency and elsewhere during the Cold War......Page 166 10 “Imperial grunts” revisited: The US advisory mission in Colombia......Page 183 11 Training the new Afghan tank force: A multi-national advisory mission, 2 June 2003 to 3 December 2003......Page 207 12 The evolution of combined USMC/Iraqi army operations: A company commander’s perspective, Fallujah, Iraq, September 2005 to April 2006......Page 225 13 A justified heaping of the blame?: An assessment of privately supplied security sector training and reform in Iraq – 2003–2005 and beyond......Page 239 14 The transformation of private military training......Page 254 Select bibliography......Page 268 Index......Page 273