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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Military advisors"”.
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Complexity, Conflict, and Cooperation: The Micropolitics of American Civil-Military Relations in Small Wars, 1945-Present
<p>This dissertation examines the political-military effectiveness of U.S. small-scale, long-duration military advisory missions focused upon the mission of foreign internal defense within the subset of so-called "small wars." Why focus on this issue? First, an explicit assumption of the …
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How was Richard Haldane able to reform the British Army? An historical assessment using a contemporary change management model
… how political expediency, foreign policy and military strategy influenced Haldane and why his nation in arms concept did not improve the public’s perception of the regular and auxiliary forces. The dissertation concludes that Haldane understood the intellectual complexities of institutional …
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Advising Student Veterans in Higher Education
… The second phase consisted of interviews with military and college advisors to determine methodological differences used to advise student veterans. The third phase involved a survey to obtain student veteran perceptions of academic advising on campus. The data analysis reviewed quantitative …
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The Cult of the Persuasive: The U.S. Military’s Aversion to Coercion in Security Assistance
… is that of influencing recipient political-military decision-making. How does the United States aim to influence recipient leaders? Which strategies of influence work best? Why does the United States choose the strategies of influence it chooses? I conceptualize U.S. influence strategies in …
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Building partner armies : US lessons for an era of strategic competition
Why has the United States struggled to build effective militaries in partner states? Current research delineates two predominant strategies employed by the United States when developing foreign security forces: the Rapport Building Approach and the Pressure-Based Approach. Both camps reveal …