Major General Karim and I worked together on two separate deployments.

In this paper examining US efforts in El Salvador, Colombia, and Vietnam I tried to distill lessons for military advisers working with foreign militaries. I earned a runner-up cash award in the 2017 Small Wars Journal/Military Writer’s Guild Essay Contest. SWJ changed the title on me, so I stuck it back in here.

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/us-foreign-advisory-missions-rich-history-mixed-results