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Afghanistan
From the very beginning of the U.S. involvement in the Afghanistan conflict the U.S. used military advisors to train and advise Afghanistan police and military units. There were various names for these advising entities and organizations - Embedded Training Teams (ETTs), CATs, Task Force Phoenix, SFABs, and SFAATs.
During the U.S. 20-year-long involvement in the Afghan conflict a new term emerged - Security Force Assistance or SFA. This term and acronym are now a significant part of U.S. military docrrine. Click here for more information about SFA during the Afghan conflict.
References
Afghanistan: Annotated Bibliography for Resolute
Support, Afghan War News, updated February 2020, PDF, 230
pages.
An Adobe Acrobat PDF with over 200 pages filled with links to
websites, documents, and publications about the Resolute
Support Mission in Afghanistan. This document covers the many
aspects of Security Force Assistance (SFA) in Afghanistan,
documenting how advisors performed the 'Train, Advise, and
Assist' mission.
https://militaryadvisor.info/docs/BibliographyResoluteSupport-2020.pdf
RS Security Force Assistance Guide 3.0,
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), July 2014.
https://afghanwarnews.info/sfa/ISAF-SFA-Guide.htm
Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) Advisor Guide,
JCISFA, May 2014.
https://afghanwarnews.info/sfa/ANSF-Advisor-Guide.htm
Videos
Functional SFA Brief, Afghan Report, 2014, YouTube,
46 minutes. This briefing provides an explanation of the shift
in focus for the ISAF mission to Functionally-based Security
Force Assistance in late 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfwHQiKyxVs
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