SFA in the Pacific
Help Others, Help Ourselves. A better strategy for security force assistance in the Pacific by Lt. Gen. Robert B. Brown and Maj. Brennan F. Cook, Armed Forces Journal.
The Army, with its long history of security force assistance to Pacific Rim nations and a wealth of new knowledge born of war in the Middle East, should improve and increase SFA operations as part of the nation’s strategic rebalance to the Pacific. Such missions allow the Army to build partner nation capacity while honing its own readiness, an efficient approach well-suited to today’s fiscal and strategic imperatives…