Korean Military Advisory Group: Insights For Future Security Force Assistance Efforts

This book aims to identify lessons learned for future Security Force Assistance efforts by studying America's advisory mission in South Korea. After the invasion of South Korea by North Korea on 25 June 1950, the Republic of Korea (R.O.K.) Army lay shattered and dispersed across South Korea. Embedded Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG) advisers salvaged remnants of the R.O.K. Army from total defeat and from 1950-1953 KMAG worked diligently to recruit, train, and equip a twenty-division army comprising 576,000 personnel capable of modern combined arms warfare. South Korea served as the United States' first large scale advisory mission and may provide lessons learned for future Security Force Assistance efforts. Fifty years after the Korean War, America finds itself in another large-scale Security Force Assistance mission in Iraq. The insights gained from comparing KMAG and the Iraq advisory mission may provide the current force a better appreciation of the intricacies involved with advising foreign forces in the future.

Author: U S Army Command and General Staff Coll, Penny Hill Press Inc

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jan 03, 2016

Number of Pages: 108 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1523224568

ISBN-13: 9781523224562