Military Advising and Assistance

'A readable and informative book that . . . is a welcome addition to a sparse collection of works on foreign military advising.' Walter E. Kretchik, Journal of Military History, Vol. 72, 4, October 2008

Donald Stoker is Professor of Strategy and Policy for the US Naval War College's Monterey Program. He is the author of Britain, France, and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 1919-1939: Grand Strategy and Failure (Frank Cass, 2003).

1. The History and Evolution of Foreign Military Advising and Assistance, 1815-2007 Donald Stoker 2. Missions or Mercenaries? European Military Advisors in Mehmed Ali's Egypt, 1815-1848 John Dunn 3. The Impact of Foreign Advisors on Chile's Armed Forces, 1810-2005 William F. Sater 4. Buying Influence, Selling Arms, Undermining a Friend: The French Naval Mission to Poland and the Development of the Polish Navy, 1923-32 Donald Stoker 5. Uneasy Intelligence Collaboration, Genuine Ill Will, with an Admixture of Ideology: The British Military Mission to the Soviet Union, 1941-45 Alaric Searle 6. American Advisors to the Republic of Korea: America's First Commitment in the Cold War, 1946-1950 Bryan Gibby 7. The French-Algerian War: Communist China's Support for Algerian Independence Donovan Chau 8. Relegated to the Backseat: Farm Gate and the Failure of the Air Advisory Effort in South Vietnam, 1961-1963 Edward B. Westermann 9. Ruminations of a Woolly Mammoth, or Training and Advising in Counterinsurgency and Elsewhere during the Cold War John D. Waghelstein 10. "Imperial Grunts" Revisited: The US Advisory Effort in Columbia Douglas Porch and Christopher Muller 11. 'Training the New Afghan Tank Force - A Multi-National Advisory Mission, 2 June 2003 - 3 December 2003 Jon Byrom 12. The Evolution of Combined USMC/Iraqi Army (IA) Operations: A Company Commander's Perspective, Fallujah, Iraq, September 2005 - April 2006 William Grube 13. A Justified Heaping of the Blame? An Assessment of Privately Supplied Security Sector Training and Reform in Iraq - 2003-2005 and Beyond Christopher Spearin 14. The Transformation of Private Military Training Patrick Cullen