Military Advising and Assistance

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>This book will be of interest to students of military history civil-military relations peacekeeping security studies and political science in general.</p>