COIN Training Center Increases NATO SOF Capacity in Afghanistan

"The Counterinsurgency Training Center – Afghanistan taught a five day Train the Trainer Course for NATO Special Operations Force instructors at Chievers Air Base, Belgium, 7-11 February 2011.  The purpose of the Train the Trainer Course was to show the NATO SOF instructors how to teach the Advanced COIN Leader Course to NATO SOF deploying to Afghanistan.  The Advanced COIN Leader Course is the same curriculum that is taught to senior Afghan Army and Police leadership, and coalition battalion and brigade commanders and staff at Camp Julien, Kabul.  This will enable NATO SOF to deploy into theater with the requisite COIN training to ensure success." 

Source: "COIN Training Center Increases NATO SOF Capacity", NTM-A, February 15, 2011.